(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday departed Abuja for Madrid, Spain on a State Visit at the invitation of the Spanish President, Pedro Sanchez. At a separate meeting during the visit, the first by the Nigerian leader, Buhari would also meet with the Head of State of the Spanish nation, His Majesty King […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, stated that he would release his governance manifesto “in the days ahead”. Obi disclosed this on his Twitter handle after his emergence as Labour Party (LP’s) presidential candidate. He wrote: “As I earnestly thank Nigerians for their faith in me, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain, have sent their condolences to the President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday over the Port Harcourt stampede that killed over 30 persons last Saturday. African Examiner had reported that the Rivers State Police Command confirmed that 31 persons died after a stampede at the venue of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, admitted a former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, to bail. Mr Okorocha and his co-defendant, Anyim Nyerere, on Monday, pleaded not guilty to allegations of stealing N2.9 billion public funds while the former was in office. Subsequently, the defendants filed their separate bail […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An INTERPOL-led operation targeting malware cyber fraud across Southeast Asia has resulted in the arrest of three Nigerians suspected of engaging in global scamming. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested the suspects in a sting operation conducted simultaneously in a Lagos suburb called Ajegunle and in Benin City, Edo State capital. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bola Tinubu, a frontline presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday appeared before the party’s John Odigie-Oyegun-led seven-man Presidential Screening Committee. According to a statement issued by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director-General Tinubu Campaign Organisation, the former two-term Lagos State governor answered questions bordering on his upbringing, educational and professional […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared a former member of the House of Representatives, Marcellinus Nzeribe, wanted for jumping bail and evading trial. This was contained in a post via EFCC’s verified Facebook page on Monday. African Examiner had reported last week Monday the conviction of Mr Nzeribe in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Abia say the Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Samuel Uche, who was kidnapped on Sunday alongside three others, has been released. Police spokesman, SP Godfrey Ogbonna, confirmed the release of the clergymen in Umuahia on Monday. The assailants kidnapped Uche alongside the Methodist Bishop of Owerri, Rt. Rev. Dennis […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has arrested one Obinna Igbo, for allegedly importing fake malaria drug, Amanta Forte. The arrest of the suspect, a 32-year old businessman was made known in a statement signed by the agency resident media consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has emerged as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. He emerged at Labour Party’s Convention and presidential primary held in Asaba, Delta State. Earlier at the convention, Professor Pat Utomi stepped down for Obi. Utomi announced that Obi is a younger aspirant with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Journalists watch from the side-line as the ruling All Progressives Congress, on Monday, holds its rescheduled screening of the party’s presidential aspirants behind closed-door. The screening exercise is being held amid tight security at the Hilton Transcorp Hotel in Abuja ahead of the APC presidential convention slated for June 6. As of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has begun consultations with other aspirants who contested with him at the last Saturday’s primary in Abuja. African Examiner reports that Abubakar visited Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers in his Abuja residence on Monday. The candidate had earlier […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), while appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to order the release of Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Samuel Uche and two others condemned their abduction. In a statement on Monday title: “CAN asks Buhari to order immediate rescue of Methodist Prelate, two others’’ was signed by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anambra State police Command has confirmed another Monday attack on the State owned broadcasting Corporation ABS in the Commercial city of Onitsha, by unknown Gunmen terrorising the state and other parts of South East Nigeria. The hoodlums who stormed the Station in the early hours of today, set vehicles parked in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Determined towards improving the oil palm farming in Nigeria, an international Solution-oriented civil society organisation, Solidaridad, has begun the distribution of 36,000 improved varieties of oil palm seedlings to farmers in Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers, Enugu and Kogi states of the country It said the four states benefits from the National Initiatives […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Examinations Council (NECO) has extended the registration period of the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for school based candidates to midnight of Monday, June 20. The extension was announced by the Head, Information and Public Relations Division of the council, Mr Azeez Sani and made available to newsmen in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A wanted drug kingpin suspected to be behind the 2000.6kg of Cannabis Sativa seized in a concrete mixer truck in Adamawa State on December 2, 2021, Henry Chukwuneku Okamaru, has been arrested in Ondo State after a five-month manhunt by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Also, a 36-year-old […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The scope of the ongoing probe of the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reached N170billion. Idris, who was battling for bail last night, has opened up on some top government officials allegedly involved in some transactions. The EFCC has grilled a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Ex- Minister of Information and Communication, Mr Frank Nweke (jnr) has won the opposition All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA Governorship primary, ahead of the 2023 general election. Nweke, who joined APGA from the people’s Democratic party PDP, scored a total of 273 votes to beat his closest rival, Dr Jeffery Nnamani […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it arrested former Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara over alleged involvement in the N84 billion fraud allegation against the former Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Ahmed Idris. An authoritative source in the EFCC disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
