(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Government of Ogun State has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari’s one-day official visit to the state has been postponed. African Examiner writes that President Buhari was scheduled to visit the state on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, to commission some projects executed by the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun. Some of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria Customs Service officials attached to Tin Can Island Command have reportedly intercepted a container carrying cartons of guns. According to available information, the owner of the container was said to have declared the content of the container as plasma televisions. Confirming this, the Public Relations Officer of the Tin Can Customs, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The EFCC has arrested a popular Ibadan socialite for alleged fraud. Its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren stated on Friday that the suspect was reported to have obtained N25 million from her victims by false pretence. Uwujaren stated that the 42-year-old socialite was arrested following series of petitions written against her. He added that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Alhaji Hussaini Zanwa Akwanga has been reportedly dead. Akwanga, died Friday, at the age of 77 after a protracted illness in his country home Akwanga, the headquarters of Akwanga local government of Nasarawa State. The former Minister, a professional teacher, became a minister in 2003 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The remains of the late student of Dowen College, Sylvester Oromoni, have been released to his family for burial. This was after an autopsy was conducted to ascertain the cause of his death. The report of the autopsy was, however, yet to be out as of the time of filing this report. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many traders at the popular Balogun market in Lagos State, wept, yesterday morning as fire burnt their goods. The fire was said to have occurred at 5a.m., before it was put out by combined efforts of the federal and state fire services. Many of the traders lamented that they had stocked millions […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Kano State paraded 245 suspected criminals at their headquarters in Bompai. Thirty-eight of the suspects were arrested for robbery, nine for kidnap, 12 for fraud, seven cattle for rustling, 44 for vehicle theft, and 118 for thuggish acts while 17 were held for drug deals. Commissioner of Police, Sama’ila Shu’aibu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A major air mishap was averted on Wednesday as a Max Air jet, which landed on runway 18L of the Lagos airport, almost rammed into a malfunctioning car that was being tested on the runway. Investigations revealed that a Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria’s Civil Department van had developed a fault, and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Ebonyi State, South- East Nigeria, has confirmed the death of a kidnap kingpin who was shot dead by men of the Anti- kidnapping squad during an exchanged of gun battle in Abakaliki. The security men engage the kidnappers after they abducted one Chukwu Felicia Nkechi of No. 3 Eze-Ukwaje street […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has replied his predecessor, Bisi Akande, over comments made in the latter’s recently released autobiography. At the launch, President Muhammadu Buhari said the author had retained his ‘‘inflexible integrity,” in and out of public office, never accepting or offering bribes. The book has continued […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Directorate of Road Traffic Services on Thursday crushed over 1,400 impounded motorcycles. FCT DRTS Director, Mr Wadata Bodinga, said that the commercial motorcycles were seized between January and June from operators within the city centre. Bodinga said that there were 600 more motorcycles undergoing the process of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A businesswoman, Mrs Loveth Oyakhilome, has told an FCT High Court in Kubwa that a 34-year-old church usher, Patrick Ekene defiled her eight-year-old daughter. Ekene is charged by the police on one count of rape. Oyakhilome, who, was led in evidence by the Prosecution Counsel, John Ijagbemi said the defendant called her […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Local Government Councilor representing Ward 5 in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Hon. Jude Adjekpogu, who was shot by suspected Fulani herdsmen some days ago is dead. The councilor passed on early hours of Thursday at Warri where he has been receiving treatment in an undisclosed private hospital. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leader of pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Thursday, berated former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, for saying he (Adebanjo) disturbed APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now stays. The 93-year-old Afenifere leader, who disclosed how he gathered […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Authorities in Anambra state, South East Nigeria, has arrested 24 suspected members of a cult group allegedly involved in a recent deadly shooting incident that recently claimed two lives in the state. The Command’s Spokesman, Toochukwu Ikenga, made this known to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra state capital. Two Police officers […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Structural Engineer, Mr Muritala Olawale, has narrated how Fourscore Heights altered a four storey building plan to 21-storey building which collapsed on Nov. 1 at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. African Examiner reports that Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering, made the revelation while responding to questions from Mr Akin George, counsel […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sacrilege being perpetrated against the traditional institutions in Imo State, South East Nigeria, has continued unabated, as another Monarch was whisked away on Wednesday by unknown armed men. This time around it was the traditional ruler of Umuezeala-Ama Autonomous Community in Ehime Mbano Council Area, Eze Aloysius Igwe, who was kidnapped […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team have arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and gruesome killing of one Mrs Nneka Kalu, earlier reported missing. She was found dead in a cassava farm on August 29, 2021, in Ngugworo community in Nguzu Edda in Afikpo South, Ebonyi State. […]
….Heap Blame On Umahi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular human Rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of law, (InterSociety) has raised questions on the 3rd November 2021, abduction and disappearance till date of five Engineers working with Nelan Consultant-Engineers, in Ebonyi State, insisting that an independent forensic investigation be carried out on the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bisi Akande, former interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that some northern elites had asked the party not to field Muhammadu Buhari as presidential candidate in 2015. In his autobiography “My Participations”, Akande stated that some prominent royal fathers from the region were not eager in fielding Buhari […]
