(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government said state governors were responsible for the rising rate of poverty in the country. The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, made this assertion at a press briefing in the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, shortly after this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting chaired […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force has denied disregard for court order by the current administration of the Office of the Inspector-General of Police (I-G). The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Adejobi said the current Office of the I-G was not aware of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State on Tuesday announced the killing of its women leader, Victoria Chintex, by suspected gunmen in the Kaura Local Government Area of the state. The publicity secretary of the party in the southern Kaduna zone, Edward Buju, in a statement said she was shot dead at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd), has called for the cooperation and support of traditional rulers in the Niger Delta region for the reform of the intervention programme. Gen. Ndiomu, disclosed that the monarchs who are custodians of the culture and tradition of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked African countries to collaborate to forestall the circulation of illegal weapons in their countries. Buhari made this known on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at the 16th summit of the heads of state and government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), in Abuja. He was speaking on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to three months in prison for flouting a 2011 court order. The IGP’s committal followed a suit that was filed by a police officer, Patrick Okoli, who was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigerian Police […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governorship aspirant and founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State Sani Shaaban has resigned his membership of the party with immediate effect. Shaaban, a former member of the House of Representatives, contested in the May, 25th, 2022 APC governorship primary held in Kaduna State which was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the recent attacks on its facilities will not stop the conduct of the 2023 general election. INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu said this when he received a delegation from the Africa Union Special Pre-Electoral Political Mission led by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Monday in Abuja. Mr Yakubu, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Operatives of Enugu State Command have arrested a total of seventeen (17) criminal suspects, including one (1) female and a native Doctor for offences of conspiracy, murder, armed robbery, truck snatching, abduction and unlawful possession of firearm. The Command’s Spokesman, Daniel Ndukwe DSP, in a statement made available to Newsmen Tuesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday warned Nigerians that if the Federal Government kept withholding their pay, a new crisis in the country’s universities would transcend break out. It urged interested parties and well-meaning Nigerians to pressure the Federal Government into paying its members’ withheld eight-month salaries across the nation. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State wing of the Southwest Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corps has recovered AK-47 rifles, military camouflage and other items hidden in a forest in the state by suspected kidnappers. Commandant of the corps in Oyo State, Col. Olayinka Olayanju (retd.), told newsmen in Ibadan, on Monday, that the corps recovered […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fire has razed 150 improvised shops at the Kachako Central Market in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State. This news of the fire incident is contained in a statement issued in Kano by the spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi. He said the incident occurred on Monday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The pioneer Deputy state Chairman of the All progressive Congress APC in Enugu State, Comrade Adolphus Ude, has alerted the national leadership of the party on what he called ‘senseless’ changing of its name to New APC by the Embattled Chairman of the party in Enugu state, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa. He posited […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 24 hours after his inauguration, Osun Governor Senator Ademola Adeleke has sacked 12,000 workers and ordered the dethronement of three monarchs. The Governor also nullified the appointment of 30 Permanent Secretaries and suspended the chairman and members of Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). The affected monarchs include Akinrun of Ikinrun […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A section of the popular Onitsha, main market, in Anambra State, South East Nigeria, has been gutted by a mysterious fire which has damaged goods worth several millions of naira. As at the time of filing this report, cause of the inferno , which reportedly began around midnight is yet to be […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has promised to expose and shame all oil thieves in Nigeria if elected president. Atiku stated that he’s aware of those behind oil theft in the country and he is going to expose them. He disclosed this in an interactive session with the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief spokesman, Femi Adesina, has stated that his principal can’t wait to leave the presidency. Adesina disclosed this Sunday night on Channels TV , reacting to a statement that Buhari can’t wait to leave as his seven years in office was described as “tough”. Reacting to the development, Adesina […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular broadcaster and socialite, Ifedayo Olarinde, a.k.a Daddy Freeze, has reacted to the revelation made by the general overseer of Power City International Church, Pastor Abel Damina, concerning the death of the popular Nigerian gospel singer, Sammie Okposo. Pastor Abel Damina, in his sermon in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, disclosed that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians on social media are reacting to the news that the Department of State Service has locked up a student of Federal University Dutse over a social media post considered defamatory against Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari. According to available information, Aminu Adamu Muhammed had in June posted on Twitter that Mrs […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director, New Media of the APC Presidential Campaign Council Fani Kayode took to his twitter handle to throw jabs at PDP’s governorship candidate Jide Jandor and his deputy Funke Akindele with a tweet on Sunday. He also downgraded the pedigree of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , choosing a low standard […]
