(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Isa Yuguda, former governor of Bauchi, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari has done his best in tackling insecurity. Yuguda, who was also a former minister of aviation, is on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Monday, saying that President Buhari is not to blame for the insecurity across the country. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As reactions continue to trail last Friday’s expulsion of Embattled Chairman of All progressive Congress APC in Enugu State, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa, the immediate past Deputy state Chairman of the party, Hon. Kingsley Uduji (Esq) has joined league of its members to applaud the decision, saying it’s line with the party’s Constitution. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the electronic transmission of election result has come to stay. The commission gave the clarification in a statement titled: “Clarification on Electronic Transmission of Election Result” signed by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two children have died following the collapse of a building in Bariga, Lagos. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) on Sunday confirmed that bodies of the two children were recovered in the incident. The incident occurred around 9:40 p.m. at Adeleye Street, Lady Lark in Bariga. The Permanent Secretary of LASEMA, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation, has expressed satisfaction with the newly appointed Director General of the Project Development Institute(PRODA), Enugu, Dr. Peter Ogbobe, over his cordial relationship with workers of the federal government establishment. African Examiner reports that the agency is under the federal Ministry of Science and Technology. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An aide of the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area chairman, Kehinde Oloyede, has died from gunshot wounds, the police in Lagos State have said. Francis Oguntulu was shot at a birthday party in Oshodi on Friday and he died two days later, Benjamin Hundeyin, the police spokesperson in Lagos stated. Mr Hundeyin added […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Osun Police Command on Sunday said it had arrested eight suspects in connection with the kidnap of the branch chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Apomu , Alhaji Ali Kazeem, a.k.a Kekere Kazuma. African Examiner reports that Apomu is located in Isokan Local Government Area of Osun. […]
….. Wants Legal Action Against NUEE Members (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A human rights organization, Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has urged Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, to direct the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to invoke relevant sessions of the law and commence criminal action against the national Union […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Muazu Sambo, Minister of Transportation, has said that the Lekki Deep-Sea Port project would create 112,000 jobs for Nigerians upon its completion. Sambo gave the declaration on Sunday while speaking to newsmen in Jalingo. He said that the port, which was second in Nigeria after Onne Deep-Sea Port, has the potential to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An All Progressive Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu has stated that the breach of the power rotation principle will cripple the presidential ambition of the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Okechukwu, while reacting to the APC Northern Governors’ letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on June 4, 2022, as evidence that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Four Catholic Reverend Sisters have been abducted in Imo State. They were abducted on Sunday somewhere along Okigwe-Enugu Road. It could be recalled that Okigwe-Enugu Road has become a den for kidnappers as a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Chinedu Nwadike, was kidnapped along the road last week and was released two days […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Goni Aisami, an Islamic cleric, has been killed by a gunman suspected to be a soldier in Yobe state. Dungus Abdulkarim, the state police spokesman, stated that the incident occurred at about 10pm on Friday after Aisami gave a lift to a person who claimed to be a soldier attached to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Gombe State Urban Planning and Development Authority has explained why it demolished an “illegal structure” belonging to the PDP Guber Candidate in the state Jubrin Dan Barde. The Urban Planning Authority said that Alhaji Dan Barde had refused to remove the illegal structure despite several compliant notices chunked out to him. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Chairman of the All progressive Congress APC, in Enugu State, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has lamented the high rate of defection of leaders of the party in the State to other political parties, blaming the development on the high-handedness and bad leadership style of the recently expelled Embattled State Chairman […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minority caucus in the House of Representatives has stated that it is worried by the massive oil theft in the country, which has become an “organised racket under the corrupt, reckless and extremely decadent All Progressives Congress (APC) administration”. The caucus, who are opposition lawmakers made their worries known in a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, says that the country cannot afford another eight years of a Northerner holding presidential power. Fani-Kayode stated that Nigerians should reject the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election. Writing on ‘Power shift, Tinubu presidency and the PDP’, Fani-Kayode advised Southern and Northern allies against betraying […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that some comments being circulated about his meeting with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, are not true. It could be recalled that Tinubu on Wednesday visited Obasanjo at his Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Accompanied by Governor Dapo Abiodun of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite threats by various dissident groups in South- East, region, especially the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB, the Inspector-General of Police (I-GP), Usman Baba Akali, has assured residents of the zone that election will hold in the area come 2023. The Nigeria’s police boss, represented by the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mainstream Chairman of All Progressive Congress APC in Enugu State, Comrade Adolphus Ude has applauded the expulsion from the party of the Embattled State Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa, saying his sack was in line with the party’s constitution. Agballa, who has been having running battle with members of the party in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has refuted claims that it was involved in the attack on the convoy of the state’s First Lady, Kafayat Oyetola. It could be recalled that the convoy was attacked on Friday at the Owode area of the state, and some of the First […]
