(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UK worker numbers have return to normal to pre-pandemic levels after the biggest jump in employment since 2014, new figures showed. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the number of UK workers on payrolls rose by 241,000 between July and August to move 1,000 above levels before the Coronavirus outbreak. It […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Israeli army has begun sealing off the Palestinian territories ahead of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the holiest holiday on the Jewish calendar, which will begin at sunset on Wednesday, according to the military. The West Bank and Gaza border crossings would be opened only to Palestinians in certain medical […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has resolved that the people of the Middle Belt Region should rise up and defend themselves against ethnic cleansing being waged by Fulani terrorists in their communities, if the Federal Government fails in its Constitutional responsibility to defend them or seeming complicity. The Forum said an attack on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – CHAIRMAN of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, NINAS, Professor Banji Akintoye, has urged the United Nations to declare Miyetti Allah a terrorist organization. He also promised to organise a one million-man freedom march at the UN Headquarters in New York, the United States of America for 11 days, saying the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions have arrested 56 suspected fraudsters in a tickle operation at the Ogun State Government’s hotel, the Mitros Residences Annex, and two other hotels in Abeokuta. Mitros Residences Annex, a 59-room hotel was constructed by the administration of former governor Ibikunle Amosun and was taken […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said the advertisement in circulation linking his boss to 2023 presidential ambition is fake. Adisa who disclaimed the advertisement in a statement in Ibadan , described it as one of the antics of fake news promoters. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Controller General, Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS,) Mr Haliru Nababa, has ordered the activation of the immediate recapture procedure and detailed investigation to be carried out on the Kogi jailbreak. The NCoS Public Relations Officer, Controller of Corrections (CC) Francis Enobore said this in a statement in Abuja. African Examiner reports that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe has emerged winner of the 2020 Leadership Awards’ ‘Banker of the Year’. This award was bestowed on him at the Leadership Conference and Awards ceremony which was held in Abuja on Thursday, in recognition of his stellar leadership […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Nweze Umahi, has stylishly challenged his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike of the opposition people’s Democratic party PDP to a debate over a recent comment by Wike that a Psychiatric check- up should be carried on a Governor who said God will give Nigeria another President like […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State have been attacked by unknown gun men after the declaration of sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The armed men reportedly attacked the school premises when some students were participating in the present 2021 West African […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security forces have launched a manhunt for the yet to be identified gunmen who attacked the Kabba Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kogi at midnight on Sunday. Mr Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Fasure said that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo has urged residents of the state to ignore the sit-at-home rumour. Uzodinma made the call while addressing the congregation after Church Service on Sunday at the Government House Chapel, Owerri. He called on residents to go about their normal businesses, adding that those behind the order and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two soldiers at a checkpoint before Kabba Correctional Centre in Kogi State have been reportedly killed and another seriously injured when gunmen attacked the facility in the early hours of Monday. Over 100 prisoners were said to have been freed during the attack on the facility. The soldiers were said to have […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 75 students kidnapped from Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, have regained freedom, 12 days after their abduction. African Examiner reported how an unspecified number of students were abducted in the home town of the governor of the state, Bello Matawalle. Following their release […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Jennifer Madueke, the 29-year-old woman arrested over the missing pistol of a Lagos Divisional Police Officer, CSP Adegoke Atilade, has been released. The police also removed Atilade as the DPO of the Denton Police Station, Ebute Meta. PUNCH Metro had exclusively reported that the police officer and Madueke were in a romantic […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A popular music promoter, Ola Ibironke, popularly known as Dudu Heritage is dead. The socialite, a prominent golfer in Ibadan, and husband to top actress, Bimbo Oshin reportedly died some few hours ago. ‘Dudu’ lived in the United States some years ago where he was a music promoter before relocating to Nigeria […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Encomiums from some notable sports groups in Oyo State have continued to trail Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) on its promotion to the Nigeria Professional Football League(NPFL). The groups showered the encomiums on the Oluyole Warriors in separate statements made available to newsmen in Ibadan. African Examiner reports that 3SC, on Saturday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two Moroccan truck drivers were killed and another injured by armed men in Didieni commune, 300 km from Malian capital Bamako, Moroccan official news agency MAP reported on Sunday. The truck drivers were heading towards Bamako carrying goods before they were attacked on Saturday afternoon by a group of armed men hiding […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani, (PDP-Enugu), Chairman, Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa, has called for an end to the ‘sit-at-home’ order, by the proscribed IPOB in the South East. Nnamani, who made the call in a statement he issued to newsmen, on Sunday, in Abuja, noted that the order had brought […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment on Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo at the meeting with South East Leaders has been quoted out of context. Buhari wss quoted as saying that “I’ll be careful with your future invitations” at end of his speech at the occasion. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s […]
