(FRICAN EXAMINER) – A student of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Aminu Mohammed, has apologised to the First Lady, Aisha Buhari over a Twitter post deemed defamatory. Mohammed, who is a 500-level student of the Department of Environmental Management and Toxicology, tendered his apology following his release from detention after the First Lady’s decision […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Terrorists have reportedly abducted at least 13 worshippers in an attack on a mosque in Maigamji, Funtua LGA of Katsina. Gambo Isah, police spokesperson in the state, announced this to newsmen on Sunday. According to available information, the insurgents attacked the mosque in large numbers and fired at the worshippers who scampered […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) has released its manifesto tagged “Our Pact with Nigerians: Creating a New Nigeria“, which will be formally unveiled to Nigerians December 4th, 2022. The Head of Media of the Presidential Campaign Council of the party, Diran Onifade, told Channels Television that the candidate, Peter Obi, was part of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has visited the Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Sulaiman Adamu in his office in Abuja on Friday, 2nd December, 2022. This came against the backdrop of several other visits by the Governor to the Ministry in demonstration of his administration’s resolve to strengthen mutual partnership with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The APC Presidential Campaign Council has insisted that its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu will not attend Arise TV Presidential Town Hall meeting slated for December 04, 2022 adding that the campaign will not succumb to the station’s “blackmail”. The statement reads in full: “We find it shocking and downright anomalous that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 300-level student of Business Administration at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Ebuka Joshua has reportedly committed suicide. Unizik Plus, a campus press outfit in the school confirmed this on Friday via a Facebook post. The post read: “300L, UNIZIK Student Of Business Administration Reportedly Dies After Poisoning Himself With Sniper. | #unizik_plus “Stories […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), says it has concluded arrangement to use the programme in launching a sports academy which is aimed at helping to combat crime in the society. This was disclosed weekend in Enugu by National Coordinator of POCACOV, CSP Ebere Amaraizu. He hinted that POCACOV […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) will resume the Abuja-Kaduna passenger train service on Monday, with only two return services. The announcement is contained in a statement on Saturday by the Managing Director of the NRC, Fidet Okhiria. The statement shows the first train will depart Rigasa train station in Kaduna state to Abuja […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief Whip of the Senate and Senator representing Abia North in the 9th Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was never denied US visa as speculated. Kalu who took to his Facebook on Saturday to refute the report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Abuja on Saturday to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for high-level bilateral engagements in the Southeast nation. The Osinbajo will meet with the President of Vietnam, President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc; Vice President Vo Thi Aah Xuan, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, other government officials and the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo Police Command says it repelled an attack on the building of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) located in Orlu LGA in Imo by the suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The command further disclosed that the hoodlums, who attacked the INEC facility, later retreated with bullet wounds […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Human Rights group, Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has petitioned the Enugu state Commissioner of police (CP), Ahmed Ammani, over alledged unlawful and fraudulent removal of boundary marks with intent to defraud an Octogenarian, Pa Geofrey Nwebor and his son, Mr. Cletus Nwbor by the duo of Mr. Paul […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the proscribed group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has informed his followers that he will soon be released from detention. Conveying the message was IPOB’s counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who spoke with Kanu during his visit to him at the Department for State Services (DSS) detention […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has withdrawn the case against Aminu Adamu Mohammed, a final year student of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State. The prosecution counsel, Fidelis Ogbobe, on Friday, said following the intervention of well-meaning Nigerians, the First Lady, as the mother of the nation, decided to withdraw the case. Ogbode […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed dates for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards in all the 774 local government offices of the Commission nationwide. The Commission fixed Monday 12 December 2022 to Sunday 22 January 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs. Disclosing this in a statement […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State and Chairman of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council, has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will beg his counterpart from Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and his group. Emmanuel stated that the party had made a mistake concerning the way it went about the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) says the purported suspension of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Director-General, Doyin Okupe, is null and void. Umar-Farouk Ibrahim, the national secretary of the party, said this when he addressed journalists in Abuja on Friday. The Ogun State chapter of the party had on Thursday announced the sack […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour Party in Ogun State has sacked the Director-General of the party’s presidential campaign council (PCC), Doyin Okupe, and 10 for allegedly not paying membership fees, high-handedness and financial recklessness. The State Chairman of the party in the state, Michael Ashade, announced this at a press conference in Abeokuta on Thursday. Flanked […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension gripped Ughelli town in Delta state over the kidnap of Imam of the Ughelli Central Mosque as gunmen attacked worshippers shortly after prayers Friday morning. At least 11 persons were injured by the gun-wielding hoodlums who stormed the mosque, reportedly seen in an ash coloured Toyota Sienna. The gunmen, said to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Centre for Migration Policy Development ICMPD has said the £4.5 million business park and a start-up Centre built in partnership with the Australian Development Agency, European private sector partners and Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu is aimed at tackling issue of unlawful migration to foreign lands by Nigerian youths According to […]
