(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A newly recruited soldier, Dauda Dedan, has allegedly stabbed a police constable, Aaron John, of the Taraba State Command to death in Jalingo, the state capital. Confirming the incident to newsmen in Jalingo on Wednesday, James Lashen, the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, said that the unfortunate incident occurred at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, sentenced a 33-year-old man, Ige Bola, to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour for stealing cooking pots valued at N100,000. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Bankole Oluwasanmi, sentenced Bola following his guilty plea and facts of the case. Delivering Judgment, Oluwasanmi found the convict guilty and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Wednesday, inaugurated a committee to foresee the process of admissions for under-aged candidates. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed at the side line of the inaugural meeting of the committee members in Bwari, FCT. Oloyede said that the committee would decide modalities for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Chief magistrates’s Court Sitting in Enugu North District on Wednesday remanded a popular native Doctor, Levi Obieze popularly known as Edey Play Edey Show at the Correctional Service Center for alleged murder and kidnapping. He was remanded alongside two other suspects in the case identified as Sebastian Emeka Offor and Odinamkpa […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians on social media are frowning at the poor performance of students in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). The African Examiner recalled that the results released yesterday showed that out of the 1,969,313 candidates who wrote the examination, only 754,545 candidates, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana’s defence and environment ministers were killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, the Ghanaian presidency said, hours after the armed forces reported a chopper carrying three crew and five passengers dropped off the radar. Edward Omane Boamah became President John Mahama’s defence minister earlier this year, shortly after Mahama’s swearing-in in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State Government said it has banned the activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) over the illegal collection of revenue in the state. It said this followed the alarming resurgence of illegal revenue collection by certain unions and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)– No fewer than six persons have died after a building collapsed during a heavy downpour in Dankama Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Tuesday while the victims were asleep, claiming the lives of a mother and five of her children. The victims’ husband and father, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WhatsApp says it has banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam centres and introduced new safety features to protect users and prevent fraud on the platform. The Vice President of Public Policy for Africa, Middle East and Türkiye at Meta, Mr Kojo Boakye, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, says the newly formed African Democratic Congress, ADC-led coalition, is a journey heading to nowhere. Keyamo stated this when he appeared on Arise News on Tuesday, saying that the coalition is shallow and is set up to fail from the outset. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has stated that his name has never been connected with thuggery, rigging or any form of electoral malpractice. Obi, in a statement on his X page on Tuesday, challenged Nigerians to look into his record, insisting that none of his political contests […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anambra State Chapter of apex Igbo socio cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide has cautioned Mr Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, VDM, over his alleged inciting comments regarding the insecurity in South East and burial of an Anambra-based entrepreneur, Martins Onyekesi, who was recently murdered by gunmen. The deceased who was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, says that the South-East will produce Nigeria’s President one day but not in the 2027 elections. Umahi, who stated this in a statement, appealed to people of the zone to rally around President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid. He was reacting to an online publication titled, ‘The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian billionaire, Femi Otedola, has opened up about his experience in the business world revealing that banks became hostile to him after his fortune decreased in 2009. It is worth recalling that Otedola came into the Nigerian mega business scene with Zenon Petroleum, which increased from selling diesel in drums to acquiring […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ethiopia’s Government Communication Service said that as of July 31, it had planted more than 103 tree seedlings across the country in a single day’s Green Legacy Initiative campaign. ENA, a partner of TV BRICS, reported that in the early hours of the morning, Ethiopia had witnessed millions of nationwide turnouts to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On the surface, it is another exam season in Nigeria — the stress, the supervision, the silence in classrooms. But beneath that surface lies a digital underworld of leaked questions, fintech-fueled payments, and WhatsApp groups selling success to the highest bidder. Investigations show that there are WhatsApp groups where National Examinations Council […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – How long can the euphoria that greeted the recent official adoption of African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the platform for the 2027 general elections by some key opposition figures in Nigeria last? This is the germane question agitating the minds of some analysts and watchers of the unfolding political events in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many retired soldiers have protested over unpaid entitlements, demanding for the immediate payment of outstanding shortfalls in their gratuity, parking allowance ans Security Debarment Allowance (SDA, The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the First and second quarter voluntary discharged soldiers of 2023, who disengaged from the army in February, 2024, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos based Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the closure of Badegi 90.1 FM, a private radio station based in Minna, Niger State, on the orders of the state Governor, Mr. Mohammed Umaru Bago, describing the action as illegal, arbitrary and a dangerous assault on broadcasting freedom. It therefore called on the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Oyo State Governor, Rashidi Ladoja, has been nominated as the 44th Olubadan of Ibadan land. Ladoja was nominated by the Olubadan-In-Council on Monday, in a meeting at the Olubadan Palace in Oke-Aremo, Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State. The meeting was chaired by the Balogun Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba […]
