(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has arrived Osogbo the capital of Osun State to join other agitators who had stormed the streets at the early hours of Saturday. Igboho stormed the capital city with many of his supporters in his convoy. He arrived around 1:40 pm. Details […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Yohana Izam, the Vice Chancellor, Plateau State University, Bokkos, has announced the release of a student of the institution, Stanley Showul-Mushi, kidnapped by gunmen on Thursday. Izam announced the rescue of the final year accounting student in a telephone interview on Saturday in Jos. The vice chancellor said that it was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Lagos State Ministry of Justice, has delayed any possibility of releasing Olanrewaju James, popularly known as, “Baba Ijesha” on bail. According to it, this is based on criminal charges he had to answer to. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in the state from 8pm to 6am daily. The Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Mr Ayibaina Duba, in a statement on Friday, said the curfew was part of the measures to prevent the spread of the surging trait of the new […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are strong indications that workers at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology ( ESUT ) Teaching Hospital, Parklane, may soon embarked on indefinite industrial action, following series of disagreements, alleged injustices, and maltreatment by the Enugu state government on the labor unions in the health facility. Some of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has said that combatting kidnappings, banditry and other security challenges in Nigeria is not the responsibility of the federal government alone. Mohammed told newsmen in Bauchi :”it is the responsibility of the federal, state and the local governments, including all the traditional institutions in the country. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police command has confirmed Thursday’s night fire outbreak at the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC office in Obollo Afor, Udenu Council area of Enugu state, saying full scale investigation into the incident has begun. African Examiner reports that the mystery inferno had destroyed part of the building It was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Personnel of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday in Iseyin, Oyo state, engaged suspected smugglers in a shootout during which four persons were reportedly killed and property destroyed. The exchange of gun shots by the customs officials and suspected smugglers threw the rustic town of Iseyin into panic with residents, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lt. Gen. Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro, former Field Commander of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG). Lt. Gen. Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro, is dead at the age of 80. According to available information, he died in Jos on Thursday morning from an undisclosed ailment. Apart from his ECOMOG assignment, Dongoyaro […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen in a latest episode of sporadic gun duel , has attacked the Headquarters of Bende Divisional Police Station in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State. Bende Police Divisional Headquarter is under constituency of House of Representatives Spokesman, Hon. Benjamin Kalu. The incident which was said to have occurred on Wednesday night […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over 16,000 jobs would be created after the ongoing renovation of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos is completed. Prof. Sunday Ododo, General Manager of the 44-year-old complex, stated in Lagos. Ododo told the African Examiner that most of the jobs would come from the fields of music, movies, fashion and information technology. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Israeli Embassy and the ChabadAid of Nigeria on Wednesday donated food items to support the Fulani community to celebrate the Ramadan fast in the FCT. The ChabadAid is a humanitarian programme of the Jewish community. The food items donated to the Fulani community in Abuja contained rice, beans, groundnut-oil, pasta and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three persons including an infant on Wednesday died in a gas explosion that occurred in Abeokuta, Ogun. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the incident occurred around 3pm at Oke-Egunya, along NTA Road in Abeokuta South Local Government Area. According to an eyewitness account, the incident occurred when a technician […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An unidentified middle-aged man suddenly slumped and died while dancing at a traditional wedding in Borokiri, axis of old Port Harcourt Township in Rivers State. The man simply identified as Dein, was a community chief from Ataba in Andoni Local Government Area of the state. The incident happened at a traditional marriage […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chieftaincy wrangling in Ishi-ozalla Community, Nkanu West Council Area of Enugu State, South- East Nigeria, has aggravated as several members of the locality have disowned an Igweship (Kingship) election reportedly held recently. The Community, has not known peace for some time now, following the Chieftaincy tussle in the land Some aggrieved […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed men, have attacked the Amaekpu office of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, in Ohafia Council Area of Abia State, South – East Nigeria. Commandant of the agency in the State, Mr. Bamidele Akingbade, who confirmed the development to newsmen on Tuesday, said it took place on Monday at about […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has dissolved his cabinet ,relieving 20 of his 28 commissioners of their duties. At the end of the usual weekly Executive Council meeting, Wednesday, the Governor said the dissolution became necessary to rejig and reenergize the system for maximum productivity. The ministries whose Commissioners were retained in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has promoted 6, 332 officers and men of the service, following the approval of the Civil Defence, Corrections, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB). The Public Relations Officer (SPRO) of the Service, Controller of Corrections (CC), Mr Francis Enobore, said this in a statement made available to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Primary school teachers in Bayelsa have expressed disappointment that their April salaries did not reflect increases following promotions, despite the pledge by Gov Douye Diri. According to official sources, the state government made available about N200 million and had promised to commence the implementation of salary increases following the promotion of primary […]
….Receives Royal Blessing (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Management of a private firm, Finance Investment and Trade (FIT) Consultant Limited, currently executing a health Tourism district, and residences project in Enugu state, in partnership with the State Government, has said it will gulp a whopping 130 million US dollars. It said the organization is ever ready to […]
