(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has tasked Nigerians to show proof that the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, is not fit to vie for the Presidency in 2023 on health ground. Spokesman of ACF, Emmanuel Yawe, made this known on Friday against the backdrop of the APC stalwart’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the 23 local government chairmen to provide a comprehensive list of illegal refineries and their operators within their jurisdiction. Wike gave the ultimatum at a meeting with the council chairmen and heads of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air force, Nigerian Navy, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The wives of the five engineers declared missing in Effium Community of Ebonyi State, Nigeria’s South-east, said they marked Christmas and the New Year in grief and pain over the fate of their husbands, who went missing about two months ago. African Examiner reported that an Enugu-based engineering firm, Nelan Consultants, had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ogun 1 Area Command who were pursuing some suspected rice smugglers Thursday night have shot a two-year-old girl. The incident occurred at Itawaya, near the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. Photos made available to this newspaper showed the bullet […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than four students of the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, have reportedly been kidnapped by heavily armed men who stormed the university premises and whisked them away to an unknown destination. The institution’s Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Ibrahim, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to our correspondent in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Muslim Lecturers Association (MLA) has inaugurated new executives that will pilot the affairs of the association for the next four years. The new executives emerged through a selection process by a Selection Committee headed by Prof. Modiu Durowoju of Ladoke Akintola University of Techmology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State. After series of screening, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Boko Haram terrorists have kidnapped an undisclosed number of mobile policemen at the police mobile training school in limankara Gwoza local government area of Borno State which is the hometown of Senator Ali Ndume, the Chairman Senate Committee on Army. According to available information, the insurgent fighters attacked the training school around […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians on Twitter have enjoined former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi to declare for the office of Nigerian president in the 2023 general election. This development made the renowned economist trend on the social media App. African Examiner recalls that Peter Obi participated in the last general election as the vice presidential […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government on Thursday inaugurated a 23-member board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). African Examiner had reported how the appointment of the members was earlier confirmed by the Senate in October last year. EFCC’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government yesterday dispelled rumours that there are fresh outbreaks of a new polio virus across the country. It stated that while there is no outbreak of the wild polio virus (WPV), there have however been 395 cases of Circulating Mutant Poliovirus Type 2 (cMPV2) reported across 27 states and the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Thursday grilled socialite, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, for his alleged link to the illegal narcotic business. African Examiner reports that Iyiegbu, who is the Chairman, Cubana group of companies, was grilled for about five hours at the Abuja headquarters of the NDLEA […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has declared that the state will never be part of Biafra. The governor reiterated that the state was better in a fair and equitable Nigeria, reiterating that “if anybody tells you about Biafra, Ebonyi State will never be part of Biafra”. He stated this at the Ecumenical […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police and Military operatives have rescued the three ladies bandits kidnapped on Wednesday night in Ban, Barkin Ladi local government area of Plateau. African Examiner reports the three girls were abducted around 8:15 pm. Military and Police authorities confirmed the three girls have regained their freedom. Military Information Officer of The Task […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Ogun State for the inauguration of some projects done by the state governor, Dapo Abiodun. The president arrived at 11.37am and was welcomed by the host governor, Abiodun and governors of Yobe, Ekiti, Ondo and Osun states and other top government functionaries at Mojoda area in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina, has refused to endorse the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the 2023 presidency. It could be recalled that a statement that made the rounds online, credited to the AfDB President, had stated that Adesina […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Oyo State Governor Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala is dead. It was learnt that the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain died yesterday in his Ogbomoso, Oyo State home. He was 71. Alao-Akala became governor of Oyo State from 2007 to 2011, following the impeachment of his principal, Chief Rashidi Ladoja. A source close […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission would deploy 12,000 ad hoc personnel for the February 12, 2022 area council election in the Federal Capital Territory, its Resident Electoral Commissioner, Yahaya Bello. He also assured that INEC would provide a level playing field for candidates participating in the election. Bello, represented by the Administrative […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Abuja has rescheduled hearing for February 10 in a suit seeking to, among others; restrain the Federal Government from extraditing suspended former Head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Abba Kyari a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). Justice Donatus Okorowo pronounced […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the upper chamber will work with revenue-generating agencies towards reducing the level of the nation’s borrowing. Mr Lawan made this known on Wednesday in Abuja, at an event to mark his 63rd birthday. Many Nigerians have, in recent times, criticised the Buhari […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Officers of the Nigeria Police have stormed the streets of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in protest over the alleged demolition of their residents in Miniokoro Police Barracks, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. The policemen, who protested, yesterday, within the area, said they were forcefully evicted from their residents. One of […]
