(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Wednesday night, attacked Owo town in Ondo State and injured many. This attack is coming barely two months after terrorists killed about 40 worshippers at St Francis Catholic Church, Owo. According to available information, people were injured in the attack which took place Wednesday evening, at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Wednesday resolved to summon Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, over skyrocketing inflation and naira devaluation which continue to plunge Nigerians into hardship. Stakeholders in key sectors of the economy expressed worry over the free fall of the naira against the United States Dollar. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senators, mainly of the minority block and some belonging to the All Progressives Congress (APC), have called for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari over the worsening insecurity in the country. They gave President Buhari six weeks to curb insecurity or face a formal notice of impeachment from them. The Senators staged […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FOREMOST Diplomat, Ambassador Blessing Akporode Clark is dead. He died in Lagos at 92. He is the younger brother of former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. A statement titled: ”Press Statement on the passing on of Ambassador Blessing Akporode Clark, CON,” by Dr. Christopher C. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Abia State Police Command, on Tuesday, along Port Harcourt/Enugu highway, by Ntigha junction, in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of the state, shot dead a bullion van robber. According to the Police Public Relations Officer of the state, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna, “Six mobile policemen attached to 28 PMF Umuahia and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday named the lawmaker representing Sokoto East, Senator Abdullahi Gobir, as the new Senate Leader. This is contained in a letter by the National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and read at plenary by the President of the Senate, Senator, Ahmad Lawan. Gobir replaced Senator […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, Ekaette Obot, has sent a human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, to prison. Mr Effiong who is handling a case for his client before Justice Obot’s court in Uyo disclosed this in a message he posted on his WhatsApp status around 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday. “I […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The solidarity rally by the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has caused heavy gridlock at the major roads leading to the Federal Secretariat, Abuja. The Congress is holding a mega rally in solidarity with university unions which have been on strike since February, 2022. Addressing the workers at the three arm zone, Abuja, President […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There were strong indications on Tuesday that two terrorist groups, the Islamic State West Africa Province and Boko Haram, were planning to attack some states in the North-West, North-Central and South-West. African Examiner learnt that security agencies had gotten a security report that ISWAP and Boko Haram planned to attack Lagos, Kaduna, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Monrovia, Liberia called on leaders in West Africa to do all within their powers to ensure that elections are conducted in their countries in an atmosphere of trust, freedom and transparency as this was the only way the sub-region can be insulated from the scourge of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Socio cultural Organization, Omaluegwuoku, Progressive Initiative (OPI) led by a Federal Commissioner, Ambassador Mrs. Ginika Tor, of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), has enjoined the Igbo race to shun religious and ethnic sentiments and embrace the 2023 All progressive Congress APC presidential Candidate, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s project for their own […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2023 campaign of the party has named the immediate past chairman of the party in Enugu, Dr. Ben Nwoye into his Think-Tank Group/ Resource Persons Group. The appointment was contained in a letter addressed to Nwoye by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – BudgIT, a frontline Nigerian nonprofit organization promoting transparency and accountability in budget and public resources through infographics, data analysis, and presentations, has urged the Federal Government to stop indiscriminate borrowing. Founded in 2011, BudgIT uses technology to improve transparency in budgets and public spending and to galvanize participation and accountability. In a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A criminal court in London, on Monday, granted bail to Beatrice Ekweremadu, who is enmeshed in an alleged organ harvesting trial along with her husband, Ike Ekweremadu, a former Nigerian Deputy Senate President. According to UK Daily Mail, the court, popularly known as Old Bailey, granted bail to Mrs Ekweremadu on stringent […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says fresh registration in the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration hit 10.4 million at 7a.m.,on Monday, July 25. INEC in its weekly update on Tuesday also said that 11million registrants have completed their registration. According to the update, 3.3 million of the registrants did online registration, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Protesters have stormed the office of Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Alausa over the prolonged strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The protest, which kicked off as early as 7:00am from under Bridge Ikeja, attracted hundreds from various unions. The protesters marched through the major Ikeja road leading […]
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba, has said that the workers’ union will embark on a three-day nationwide strike if the Federal Government fails to accede to the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities after the ongoing two-day warning protest organised by the NLC. Wabba, who spoke in an interview […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday tasked the National Population Commission (NPC) to conduct accurate, credible and acceptable data, in the forthcoming 2023 census, saying that it would assist the country in planning and formulating policies. Obasanjo made the call during a courtesy visit by the Executive Chairman of NPC who came […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna State chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, is calling for the disqualification of the presidential candidates of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2023 election. The Kaduna State Chairman of the NNPP, Sani Litti tasked […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says salaries of university lecturers in the country have not been reviewed in the last 11 years. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the University of Jos chapter of the union made this known at the peaceful protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on […]
