Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A religious organization, the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS) Sunday concluded its 7-day International Peace Conference held in Enugu, with a declaration that peace, love, forgiveness and total reconciliation remains the panacea for the development of the South East region. It said with the conference, peace has come to the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Office Monday arraigned one Odejobi Temitope Michael before Justice E.N Alukwu of the State High Court sitting in Enugu on one count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of N2,000,000 (Two Million Naira only). The said sum was inadvertently paid into the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Kingsley Moghalu, says former president Olusegun Obasanjo is Nigeria’s best president since 1999. Moghalu, who was a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria disclosed this on Monday saying that irrespective of the flaws of the former president, he was a […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mahamadou Issoufou, who is stepping down as president of coup-prone Niger after two terms in office, on Monday won Africa’s top prize for leadership. He was awarded the 2020 Mo Ibrahim Prize for facing “seemingly insurmountable challenges”, ranging from deep poverty to jihadism and desertification. Despite these enduring problems, “Issoufou has led […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has denied claims that there is a zoning arrangement by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Governor Bello disclosed this over the weekend while speaking with reporters saying that anyone from any zone was free to contest the presidency as […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, Matthew Kukah, says nobody will gain anything if Nigeria breaks up. Kukah disclosed this during a virtual interview on Sunday. According to him, Nigerians are bound together and nobody should pretend about it. “I don’t think any Nigerian, in his right sense, should pretend nothing binds us […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Activist-lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has denied ownership of a property at 42, Gana Street, Maitama District in Abuja. He said there was no truth in the story that he bought the property from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The lawyer made the clarifications in a statement yesterday in Lagos, titled: […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Aare Ona Kankanfo of Yorubaland, Ganiyu Adams, has expressed disapproval over the arrest of Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) members involved in capturing the suspected kidnap suspect, Iskilu Wakilu, by the police. He said the arrest was unfortunate, recalling that major breakthroughs recorded by the police in Oyo State were through the […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has urged Christians in Nigeria to stop being sectional, and take the moral high ground. Pope Francis, who took a swipe at churches that had opposed the appointment of Most Revd. Peter Okpalaeke as Bishop on the basis of his dialect, urged Christian communities in the country to […]
Posted by African Examiner
Europe, Featured, Latest Headlines
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, accused the British royal family of racism, lying and pushing her to the brink of suicide, in an explosive televised interview that looks set to shake the monarchy to its core. The 39-year-old, whose mother is Black and father is white, said she had been naive […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, National News, News Across Nigeria
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he is proud to have picked Yemi Osinbajo as his running mate in 2015. Buhari disclosed this in a congratulatory message to celebrate the vice-president’s 64th birthday. This was contained in a statement by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman. Buhari stated that Osinbajo is “a reliable and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Entertainment News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In solidarity with the United Nations International Women’s Day 2021 (IWD 2021) themed as “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 World” and the offshoot #ChooseToChallenge campaign, the All African Music Awards, AFRIMA, on Monday, March 8, is joining the rest of the world to honour the strength of […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Political leaders and other Stakeholders in South East Nigeria, on Sunday shunned the widely publicized bi- partisan regional meeting convened by Senate Chief Whip, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu in Enugu. It reports that notice of the failed meeting has been running in several Nigeria’s National Dailies as paid advertisement in the last […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Imo, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Contrary to some media reports that the two students of the Federal university of Science and Technology (FUTO) Owerri, Imo state, who died weekend in their hostel room passed on as a result generator fume, police in the state has said only medical autopsy would reveal the actual cause of their deaths. […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News Around Africa
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has enjoined the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to review the protocol on free movement so that the influx of foreign herders into Nigeria will be curtailed. Tambuwal disclosed this on Saturday when he appeared on Television Continental Programme on Saturday saying that […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A shooting on Saturday night in Minneapolis has left one person dead. The incident unfolded at the same site where black U.S. citizen George Floyd died last May while being apprehended by white police officers, Minneapolis Police Department spokesman John Elder said. “The victim and the suspect had a verbal disagreement, and […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has sealed 11 facilities including Event Centres, Lounges and Night Clubs among others for contravening COVID-19 directives. The Director General of the Lagos State Safety Commission (LSC) Mr Lanre Mojola made this disclosure after the sealing exercise in Lagos Mojola said though the affected event centers originally informed […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has advised Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to surrender himself and his ample talents to the advancement of the nation and its people as he turns 64 on Monday. Tinubu, in a congratulatory message by his Media Aide, Mr Tunde Rahman, […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has denied reported fire incident in Aso Rock Villa as fake news Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, dismissed the report, saying there was no fire breakout inside the Presidential Villa. He, however, stated that on March […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ms Zainab Mohammed, Adviser to Sen. Rochas Okorocha on Public Affairs, has appealed to agent of Imo state Government not to demolish properties belonging to the family of Okorocha. She made the call on Sunday while speaking with journalists in Abuja. Mohammed said the call followed the court order stopping the agent […]
