(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed 13 people and sacked two villages overnight in the restive town of Konduga in Borno, North East Nigeria. The Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Brig.-Gen. Bulama Biu, confirmed the attack Thursday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Biu however, […]
KANO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The alleged bribery scandal against Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has assumed more critical dimension as the seven-man panel, of the State’s House of Assembly probing the allegation, has summoned him to appear before it Friday- November 2, 2018. Gaduje’s summon is contained in a letter, dated Wednesday, October 31, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Publicity Secretary of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) North West, Alhaji Yusuf Babura has resigned his position. Babura announced his resignation Thursday in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital. He explained that he left the PDP out of his personal desire and he is presently consulting with his supporters on […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the Nigeria prepares for the 2019 general elections, a popular Enugu-based prophet, Anthony Nwoko has descended on President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the All progressive congress APC candidate, and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,of the PDP, saying the two Northern politicians are not solutions to the country’s economic and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja ordered Prof. Usman Yusuf, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), to immediately proceed on administrative leave. Buhari gave the order in a statement signed by Mr Olusegun Adekunle, Permanent Secretary, General Services Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has dismissed the call for the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiohmole, saying party supremacy must be respected. Tinubu made his position known when he fielded questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected the N22,500 proposed by the state Governors as the New National Minimum Wage for workers in the country. The Union National President Comrade Ayuba Waba said this while addressing a world press Conference Wednesday in Abuja. The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) had last week issued a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Wednesday evening visited the Presidential Villa Abuja and met in a closed door with President Muhammadu Buhari. . Specifically, Tinubu arrived alone at the Presidential Villa around 4pm. The agenda of the meeting was not […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The body of the missing Army General, Retired Major General Idris Alkali has reportedly been found. The remains of the retired Military officer according to Channel Television were discovered in Guchwet in Shen of Jos South LGA of Plateau State. The leader of the operation search and rescue, Brigadier General Umar Mohammed, was quoted as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria’s Police has arraigned Senator Isiaka Adeleke and four other suspects over charges on alleged examination malpractices. The Senator and other four were arraigned Wednesday before Justice I.E Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Adeleke who is representing the Osun State West Senatorial district and the Governorship candidate of […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prominent politicians across the political parties in Nigeria have been mourning the death on Sunday, of a former Chairman, Board of Trustees of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih. Anenih otherwise called ‘’Mr Fix It’’ according Mr. Anthony Anenih (jnr) who issued a statement on behalf of the family died Sunday in […]
Photo: Relatives of passengers aboard the ill-fated Lion Air Flight JT-610 (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lion Air flight with 189 people on board crashed into the sea moments after taking off from Indonesia’s capital early Monday. The airliner said it had lost contact with Flight JT-610 and Indonesia’s search and rescue agency posted images of debris […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South- East zonal chapter of Buhari Support Organisation BSO, has insisted that it is the turn of the zone to produce Nigeria President of Igbo extraction in 2023. It stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Enugu at the end of her caucus meeting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than six persons including a police corporal were on Friday killed by bandits in Gurbin Bore village, Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Confirming the incident to NAN in Gusau on Saturday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP […]
Photo: Mr. Gerald Eke, Injured Police Office attached to Enugu APC Chairman By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The Enugu state chairman of the All progress congress APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, narrowly escape death in the early hours of Saturday, as heavily armed suspected assassination invaded his Enugu residence. According to Nwoye, the hoodlums, who gained entrance […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ethiopia’s President Mulatu Teshome Wednesday filed his resignation letter request to the Ethiopian Parliament. Teshome, who has been the East African country’s head of state since October 2013, submitted the letter of resignation as the Ethiopian parliament’s two houses are scheduled to consider it. The houses would eventually name his successor in a joint […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government FG has proposed a total of N8.73tr for 2019 budget. Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, disclosed this Wednesday in State House Abuja, at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Senator Udoma explained that FEC has pegged as benchmark, the price of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representing Rivers West, Osinakachukwu Ideozu has defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Senate Majority Leader Ahmed Lawan, announced Osinakachukwu’s defection at plenary on Wednesday. Lawan who was moving a motion for the adjournment of plenary till November 6, 2018 welcomed and congratulated the new […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday fixed November 19, 2018 for the trial of ex-Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose to commence, after he was granted bail in the sum of N50 million. Fayose is standing trial on a charge of N6.9 billion electioneering campaign fraud. He was arraigned on Oct. 22 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief John Odigie Oyegun, former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) must be having a good laugh wherever he is. If he is just finishing a meal, he can afford to pick his teeth and belch from the deepest part of his biological system, and even turn up his nose […]
