(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged the striking members of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to call off their ongoing strike and embrace dialogue. Abubakar III made the call during the opening ceremony of the 20th Conference of the National Pediatric Surgeons of Nigeria (APSON) on Friday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a dismissed Police Sergeant, Samuel Philips, in prison custody for allegedly killing an 18-year-old girl, Monsurat Ojuade. Chief Magistrate Adeola Adedayo said that Phillips, 30, should remain behind bars pending legal advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The defendant, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the present administration spent the sum of N8.9 trillion on infrastructural development in 2020. Osinbajo made the disclosure at the inauguration of the 21-storey Dakkada Tower, in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom. “We have invested more than any administration on infrastructural development. “As at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Imo has confirmed that a family of four in Umuduruihiako Umueze ll in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state ganged up to beat their youngest brother, Chukwuebuka Osundu to death. African Examiner recalls that a father and two siblings were arrested for reportedly killing and burying their […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Lagos State has begun investigation into the killing of an officer, CSP Kazeem Abonde, at a a raid of criminal hideouts in Ajao Estate, Lagos on Thursday. The spokesman for the command, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, announced this in a statement on Friday. Ajisebutu said the officer died when […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nutrition Society of Nigeria (NSN) has urged president Muhammadu Buhari Government to urgently tackle the lingering insecurity In the country so as to save the nation from inherent danger of food shortage. President of the Society, Professor Wasiu Afolabi, gave the charge in Enugu at the opening ceremony of the 51st […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The crisis between the ex -minister Femi Fani- Kayode and his estranged wife Precious Chikwendu has taken another twist as the wife has filed a suit at a Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking the implementation of her fundamental human rights The plaintiff in the suit filed against Fani-Kayode, Inspector-General of Police, his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army (NA) says an assault on a female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) by a female officer in Calabar, Cross River, captured on video, is highly unprofessional and unacceptable. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, made this known in a statement in Abuja. Nwachukwu said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, (CP) Hakeem Odumosu, has reiterated that obtaining a driver’s licence is a civic responsibility of all drivers, including police officers plying Lagos roads. This was contained in a statement, signed by the Route Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), and the Public Education Officer, Mrs […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Superintendent of Police (SP) has been shot dead and two other cops allegedly injured after commercial motorcyclists went wild in Lagos. The incident occurred between 5pm and 6pm Thursday at Ajao Estate in Isolo while the policemen were trying to impound motorcyclists. It was gathered that the cops had succeeded in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dakuku Peterside, former director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, has censured Governor Nyesom Wike for blaming Rivers people over flooding in the state, accusing him of ineptitude. He urged him to reactivate the drainage master plan put in place by ex-Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Peterside mentioned that “this is the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A residential building has just collapsed in Woji, outskirts of Port Harcourt, Rivers State leaving One person dead, two injured , Apparently the dead and injured persons were said to be working on the building when the incident occurred. Eyewitnesses said that the incident might have been triggered by the recent flooding’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has announced diversion of traffic from Yaba for the first phase of the construction of the Red line railway project. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, said in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos that the diversion would last for three months from midnight of Friday, Oct. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Ben Nwosu, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria, Enugu, on Wednesday decried the 90, 000 out-of-school children in Anambra State, describing the situation as worrisome. Nwosu said this at a project close-out and unveiling of Data Management System, organised by the Evidence and Collaboration for Inclusive Development […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Contrary to notion in some quarters in South East Nigeria, that president Muhammadu Buhari hates Igbo people, Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has said the composition of the recently announced board members of the Nigeria petroleum Corporation NNPC has showed that the notion was wrong. He however, commended […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has tasked the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to facilitate a quick rehabilitation of the dilapidated portions of the Onitsha-Owerri highway. The lawmakers made this known during Wednesday plenary as they vowed to investigate why sections of the Enugu-Port Harcourt and Enugu-Onitsha roads are failing irrespective […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As President Mohammadu Buhari of Nigeria prepares to address the ongoing United Nations General Assembly, there are barrage of protests planned to embarrass him at the global event. African Examiner gathered that various organizations, dissidents, activists, self-determination groups have mobilised Nigerians in the US to troop out to demonstrate against the president […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ondo State on Wednesday warned motorists to desist from driving without valid driver’s license or face the full wrath of the law. Mr Ezekiel SonAllah, State Sector Commander of FRSC, made the disclosure while speaking on the command’s preparedness towards Ember Months flag off . […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Wednesday, said there was an early fire incident at a wing of its headquarters in Lagos. Mr Olaseni Alakija, General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications made this known in a statement in Lagos. He said that the fire incident suspected to have been triggered by an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of Edo State have frowned at the Edo State Government’s restrictions imposed on persons without COVID-19 green cards. Some of the residents who spoke on Wednesday said it was unnecessary to impose restrictions because of the COVID-19 vaccination green card. Some civil servant in Edo State Civil Commission, Central Hospital Benin […]
