Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Abuja, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abuja police command has arrested lawyer and human rights activist, Professor Zainab Duke Abiola, for allegedly assaulting her female police orderly, Inspector Teju Moses. Trouble started after a video clip that went viral on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 which showed the officer in police uniform, bleeding from an injury on her head, […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El Rufai, has faulted the power sector privatization, saying that Nigeria has lost nearly 15 years of energy sector investment. He said clear roadmaps for structural reforms set up by the Obasanjo government in the electrical, power, and oil and gas sectors were protracted or abandoned by his […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has insisted that Senator Iyorchia Ayu resign as the party’s national chairman. He stated that while nobody was pressuring Ayu to vacate the office, it was a pledge the national chairman freely made in the build-up to the party’s presidential primary election. “Let […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, Lagos State Park and Garages Management Committee, Musiliu ‘MC Oluomo’ Akinsanya, has denied imposing the purchase of stickers bearing the photo of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on commercial tricycle operators known as ‘Keke Napep.’ He made this known in a video on his […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
African News, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has called on African countries and their Arab partners to work hard and be more united to realise common objectives. Speaking at a bilateral meeting with the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, in New York, Buhari said the actualisation of the UN resolution which proposed a Two-State solution to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State, Politics
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The candidate representing Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency in Delta State under the platform of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Tony Ochei Onochei aka Onochieobodo has stated that he is ready to serve the people of the constituency. Onochieobodo made this declaration while speaking with newsmen in Abuja saying that his political philosophy […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Nigeria joins other nations of the world to commemorate this Year’s United Nations (UN) international peace day, the Institute for Peace, Conflict and Development Studies (IPCDS) of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) has posited that there can be no meaningful development in any Society, Nigeria inclusive, without […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, U.S./Canada
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in New York restated the commitment of the Nigerian government towards ensuring that there was a rapid and strategic transition to renewable energy in response to the world-wide efforts for the preservation of the environment. Speaking at a Leaders” Closed-Door Meeting on Climate Change convened by the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian students have threatened not to let political candidates and their political parties campaign until the ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is resolved. The students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), also stated that they will put a halt to all the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A chieftain of the Labour Party, LP, Prof. Pat Utomi, has opened up when Peter Obi’s manifesto for the 2023 elections will be revealed to Nigerians. Utomi disclosed this in a chat with Vanguard Newspaper in Abuja. According to him, Obi’s manifesto was ready but carefully hidden to prevent opposition candidates from […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, U.S./Canada
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in New York vowed to entrench a process of free, fair, transparent and credible elections through which Nigerians elect leaders of their choice. In his farewell speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as President, he told the 77th session that next year, there would be […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students has rejected the court order that directed the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its 7-month strike. African Examiner recalls that the National Industrial Court of Nigeria had directed ASUU to end its strike. The body has been on strike since Monday, February […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off its ongoing nationwide strike. African Examiner reports that ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press home the demands for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries for lecturers, among other […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Ondo State have arrested two 35-year-old serial kidnappers, Olaoye Oluwatosin and Taiwo Olamide. The suspects allegedly kidnapped three persons in Ofosu, Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State between 2021 and 2022. Police spokesperson, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, paraded the duo before newsmen on Tuesday in Akure. Odunlami said they kidnapped […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The team of the Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has pulled out of the campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. Rising from their stormy meeting at the country home of Wike in Obio-Akpor on Wednesday morning, members of the team vowed not to partake […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students has said its members will block the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja and Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Wednesday (today) as part of its protest against the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. African Examiner had reported that students, on Monday, blocked the access […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, says the All Progressive Congress Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is his “respected elder brother”. He stated this during in an interview on #WithChude. Obi said: “Tinubu is my respected elder brother. The only thing I’m saying is where we are today. It is a job […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah on Monday stated that his nephew and a driver abducted over three months ago are still in captivity. He made this revelation during the ongoing high-level forum on political communication and issue-based campaign in the 2023 general elections in Abuja, as he talked about […]
Posted by African Examiner
Ebonyi, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Ebonyi State on Monday arraigned a 40-year-old-man, Uche Awegbe, before an Abakaliki Magistrate’s Court for allegedly threatening to kill the state governor, David Umahi. The police said Mr Awegbe had shot two residents of the state dead and caused communal crises in Effium, a crisis prone-community in Ohaukwu Local […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Debt Management Office (DMO) said Nigeria’s total public debt stock, which was N41.60 trillion ($100.07 billion) in March, rose to N42.84 trillion (103.31 billion dollars) by June. According to a statement obtained from DMO’s website on Tuesday, the total debt represents the domestic and external debt stocks of the Federal Government […]
