(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kano State Governor and NNPP leader, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has slammed the Federal Government and the Kano State Police Command for a false terror alert issued ahead of the annual Maulud celebration. The annual event, which honoured Sheikh Ibrahim Inyass, the spiritual leader of the Tijjaniyya Sufi Order, happened at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Anambra State Government has discovered a total of 35 graves in a popular hotel used for kidnapping and sundry crimes in Oba, Idemili South local government area of the state. Deputy Governor of the state, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim disclosed that chains of graves and a shrine were discovered on the topmost […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rights activist Omoyele Sowore was on Monday grilled at the Force Intelligence Bureau in Abuja over his recent viral extortion video involving some police officers. In the video, Sowore alleged that the officers were engaged in some illegalities on the Murtala Muhammed Airport Road in Lagos State. In the video, Sowore had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Minister and Poverty Reduction, Nentawe Yilwatda, says some politicians are trying to influence poor Nigerians who make the social register to enjoy the government’s conditional cash transfer. He said, “Some people want us to bend and allow the governors or the states to just generate the list and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Timileyin Ajayi, the suspected killer of Salome Adaidu, has been arraigned at the High Court of Justice, Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital. He was charged with one count of culpable homicide punishable by death, contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria He was arraigned on Monday before Justice […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Details of how six top Yoruba monarchs prevailed upon nonagenarian legal luminary Afe Babalola to drop his criminal defamation suit against human rights activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi have emerged. t was gathered that the Ooni of Ife, Enitan Ogunwusi, mobilised five other high-class traditional rulers to the Ado-Ekiti residence of Babalola […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has condoled with the government and the people of Enugu state over the fuel tanker explosion, which resulted in the loss of lives on Saturday. This was contained in a press release issued on Sunday and signed by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, has stated that there are more “yahoo people” in government than “outside”. A ‘yahoo boy’ in Nigerian coinage means an internet fraudster or scammer. Peter Obi, a former Anambra governor, while speaking in the 4th graduation ceremony of Nexford […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has stirred the hornet nest on Saturday after he stated that Nigerian law allows the police to break into homes without a search warrant. This controversial remark is coming on the heels of a viral video showing masked policemen forcibly gaining entrance by scaling […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (ECCIMA), has urged governor Peter Mbah government to create a more robust and enabling environment for businesses to thrive in the state, saying the administration should simplify its tax payment system to avoid multiple taxation. President of the Chamber, Sir Odeiga Jideonwo, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Embattled former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, says nursing an ambition to become the governor of Lagos in 2027 is not a sin. During a press briefing at his residence in the GRA area of Ikeja, the Lagos capital, on Saturday, Obasa challenged any leader in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Sunday for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to participate in the Africa Heads of State Energy Summit on January 27-28, 2025. This was revealed in a statement issued on Saturday and signed by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga. The summit, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has called off its warning strike after the intervention of the FCT Minister, Nyesome Wike. The President of the Association, Dr. George Ebong, in a statement on Friday, said the FCTA under Wike has met their demands. On Wednesday, the doctors […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, on Friday disclosed that notorious terrorist kingpin, Bello Turji, has declared that he is ready to surrender. With his second in command and other lieutenants recently taken out by the military, the Chief of Defence Staff said that Turji has been forced to discard […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Court of Appeal, sitting in Enugu, on Thursday quashed the appeal filed by the Medical Director of the Federal Neuropsychiatrist Hospital, Enugu, FNHE, Dr. Ngozi Unaogu and three other consultant psychiatrists in the hospital, against a senior Nurse of the health institution, Dr. Afam Ndu. Our Correspondent reports that the appeal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kyle Walker has left Man City to join AC Milan on a six-month loan; the Serie A club have an option to buy the defender this summer The 34-year-old helped City win 17 trophies since joining the club in 2017; Walker joined City in a £50m switch from Tottenham in 2017. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has announced its relocation from Benin City to Abuja, effective Monday. The tribunal, according to a notice by its Secretary, Mua’azu Bagudu, on Friday in Benin, will now sit at the National Judicial Institute (NJI), Airport Road, Abuja. “I am directed to notify all parties that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. Department of the Interior (DoI) on Friday said that the Gulf of Mexico is now to be known as the “Gulf of America” following an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump. On Monday, Trump issued an order saying that the body of water on the south coast of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has applauded the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) after they rescued the wife of Hakeem Odumosu, a retired assistant inspector-general of police (AIG). The African Examiner recalls that on January 16, the wife of the retired assistant inspector-general of police […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has ordered the immediate closure of the pedestrian bridge connecting Oshodi Bus Terminals 2 and 3, citing safety concerns. The government raised alarms over the bridge’s safety and structural integrity. The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, issued the order in a statement released on Friday, […]
