(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged Nigerians to drop the negative habit of cell-phone snapping or video recording of an accident scene but rather help to rescue the victims to safety. The Sector Commander of FRSC Enugu State Command, Mr Joseph Udoabba, made the call in Enugu while speaking on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Executive Council of the Nigeria Union of Teachers has directed its members in Kaduna State not to participate in the competency test being organised by the state government. The Deputy National President of the union, Mr Kelvin Nwankwo, gave the directive in Kaduna, during a meeting with teachers in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sokoto State’s Gov. Aminu Tambuwal on Thursday confirmed the killing of 43 persons in Monday’s bandits attack on Illela Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by Tambuwal’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Malam Muhammad Bello, on Thursday in Sokoto. Bello said Tambuwal led members […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – 127 inmates of Enugu Custodial Centre are expected to sit for the November/December National Examination Council (NECO) senior secondary certificate examination (external), an official disclosed. Mr Monday Chukwuemeka, the Public Relations Officer of the state command of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS), disclosed this in a statement in Enugu . Chukwuemeka said that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than four persons were feared dead while five were rescued when a storey building collapsed, yesterday, at Sunny Filled, Flour Mills, Estate, Magbon, Badagry, Lagos. This came barely two weeks after a 21-storey building collapsed in Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos killing about 45 persons and injuring 15. It was gathered […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has vowed to curb illicit drug abuse and activities of traffickers in Osun and Oyo States, the pioneer Zonal Commander (Oyo and Osun), Josephine Obi stated. Obi made the promise in Ibadan at the sendoff party organised for her by the Oyo State Command of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party in Ondo state has stated that the appointment of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s son Babajide Akeredolu as the DG of Ondo State Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit is a flagrant abuse of office. Babajide was appointed as the head of the agency . Reacting to the development, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Retailers (LPGAR), branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), says Tuesday’s explosion at Ladipo Spare Part Market, Lagos was caused by acetylene gas. Its National Secretary, Mr Olukayode Solomon, made the clarification in a statement issued on Wednesday in Lagos while commiserating with the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has begun a probe into the Tuesday’s explosion that rocked Ladipo, Mushin area of Lagos State, leaving five persons dead, with 10 others injured and 12 vehicles and buildings destroyed. The Senate has mandated its Committees on Petroleum Downstream and Gas to, as a matter of urgency, investigate the remote […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Bureau of Statistics says South-East residents paid the highest average price for Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, in October. The NBS said this in its “Premium Motor Spirit Price Watch for October 2021’’, released on its website on Tuesday in Abuja. According to it, the highest average price […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kogi Assembly has extended its ultimatum for Sterling Bank Plc. Managing Director, Mr Abubakar Suleiman to appear before it to Dec. 8. The house announced the extension at plenary on Tuesday, Following the failure of the Sterling bank to appear before it today (Nov. 16.). African Examiner recalls that the house […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Cross River Police Command has arrested one Felix Etim, suspected to be among the gang member that kidnapped a Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Calabar, Sunday Adediran and a teacher whose name was not mentioned. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Irene Ugbo, stated in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Five persons are feared dead in a gas explosion that occurred at Ojekunle Street, Ladipo, Mushin area of Lagos on Tuesday morning, Ibrahim Farinloye, the South-west coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has said. Mr Farinloye said one female and three male bodies have been recovered. He added that a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police operatives have rescued 11 passengers who were kidnapped by hoodlums dressed in army camouflage along the Ozoro/ Ughelli expressway, Delta State. Police Public Relations Officer of the State command, Mr. Bright Edafe, said the kidnappers numbering five who were armed with AK 47 rifles came out of the bush at IDU […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The management of the University of Ilorin has expelled a final-year student, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer, Mrs Rahmat Zakariyau, of the same Department. A statement by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun, disclosed that the verdict […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has arrived at the scene of a gas explosion on Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of the state. Five persons have been confirmed to have been burnt to death in the tragic occurrence that happened on Tuesday morning. Security operatives including policemen, soldiers and emergency […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahaji Ahmed Matane, Secretary to Niger State Government, has stated that Boko Haram insurgents are controlling 5 communities in the state. Matane who disclosed this while addressing journalists, stated that Boko Haram insurgents are fully in charge in Hanawanka, Madaka, in Rafi LGA and Kurebe, Gussau, Farina Kuka in Shiroro LGA. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Chairman of All progress Congress APC in Enugu state, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has declared that a former Commissioner for Works in the state, Barr. Ugochukwu Agballa who is parading himself as a factional state Chairman is not a member of the party. Agballa, who claimed to have defected to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution on Lekki Toll Gate Shooting Incident and Cases of Police Brutality as well as human rights violations has indicted the Nigerian Army and the Police of complicity in the death of protesters at the Lekki Toll gate in 2020. The 309-page report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All progressive Congress APC Anambra State Chapter, has sacked its publicity secretary, Mr. Okelo Madukaife for congratulating winner of the just concluded governorship election in the state, and Candidate of the ruling All progressive Grand Alliance APGA, professor Charles Soludo. Chairman of the party in the state, Chief Basil Ejidike disclosed […]
