(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of no fewer than seven travellers by suspected kidnappers at Geregu-Ajaokuta road in the state. Those abducted include a lawyer, a doctor, and five others traveling in different vehicles by 2 pm last Tuesday when they were attacked by their abductors. An eyewitness […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps said it has arrested some persons involved in the attack of St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Owo local government area. It said it also recovered some weapons and vehicle used to perpetrate the terror act. About 40 persons were killed in the attack […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army said on Wednesday that its troops of 13 Brigade operating under command of 82 Division, Nigerian Army on Tuesday 21 June 2022, intercepted a Toyota Camry car with registration number JAL 492 AA, ladden with assorted ammunition while enroute Utanga village towards Obudu Mountains in Cross River State. A […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 51-year-old man, Alhaji Usman Madaki, who is trekking from Bauchi to Lagos to celebrate the victory of Senator Ahmed Tinubu as the 2023 flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has arrived. African Examiner reports that Madaki later left Ilorin, the Kwara capital, on Wednesday morning. He stated in Ilorin […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely two months after a serving member of the Anambra State House of Assembly was abducted, murdered and beheaded. Another Ex lawmaker in the State, Hon. Nelson Emeka Achukwu’s has been killed and beheaded. His lifeless body was discovered by his family members, two weeks after he was kidnapped by unknown gunmen. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mary Dauda and Hauwa Joseph, the two rescued girls abducted from the GGSS Chibok in Borno in 2014, have revealed that more than 20 missing others are still in Gazuwa camp in Sambisa Forest, eight years after being kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents. African Examiner Reports that Gazuwa camp was is acclaimed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, has stated that many Nigerians are now ‘Obidient’ and this development will affect the chances of the ruling All Progressives Congress and People’s Democratic Party in the 2023 presidential elections. African Examiner writes that the ‘Obidient’ movement is talking about the supporters of the presidential candidate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Against the back drop of the alarming insecurities currently facing Nigeria which has claimed thousands of lives across the nation, the Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, His Grace, Most Rev. Emmanuel Olisa Chukwuma has warned that unless urgent steps are taking by the federal government to address […]
…..Trains 380 Pupils (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the alarming rate of Child abuse and Sexual Based violence (SBV) cases in the Society, a non- governmental organization, NGO, Health Care Support Services, (HCSS), has taken Sensitization Campaign against the menace to primary and Nursery schools in Isi – Uzo Council Area of Enugu State. It […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has stated that he’s not going to end his call for a separate country for the Yoruba ethnic group in Nigeria. Igboho made this known in a video released on Sunday, June 19, 2022, as he commemorated the birthday of Francis Olushola Alao, Olugbon […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen on Monday, bombed the popular Izombe Market in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria’s South-east. The gunmen were said to be members of outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) enforcing the suspended sit-at-home order. They were said to have stormed the market earlier to warn the traders not to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abdulahi Adamu, has dismissed the allegation of vote-buying leveled against the party during the Saturday’s Gubernatorial election in Ekiti. African Examiner reports that the APC candidate, Biodun Oyebanji, polled 187, 057 votes to win the election. Adamu, who addressed State House correspondents […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen, who attacked Maranatha Baptist Church and St Moses Catholic Church in the Rubu community of Kajuru council of Kaduna State on Sunday, have demanded for N100 million to free about 36 worshippers in their custody. Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs Samuel Aruwan said three persons were killed in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra State, has rubbished reports credited to him that a purported investment of former Anambra governor, Peter Obi, who is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, in the state has brought returns. African Examiner writes that Obi’s presidential ambition has gained popularity among many Nigerian youths on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Press Centre (IPC) Lagos-Nigeria has expressed concern over the attack on journalists in the convoy of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday June 19, 2022 in Lagos. “According to widely publicised reports, the ugly and bloody incident occurred in the aftermath of a visit to the palace of Oba Rilwan Akiolu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Five persons from the same family were killed when gunmen invaded Umuebele-Okporo, a community in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria’s South-east. The council area has witnessed several gunmen attacks in recent times. In the latest attack, the gunmen, suspected to be members of Ebubeagu security operative, attacked five family […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fire brand Catholic priest and Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has distanced himself from Sunday’s protests by his followers at the Adoration ground. The protest, which was targeted at the Enugu Catholic Bishop, Most Rev. Callistus Onaga rocked the capital city, as the demonstrators insisted that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2023 flag bearer of the People’s Democratic party PDP in Enugu State, Barr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, has announced Barr. Ifeanyi Ossai as his running mate. He made this known Sunday at the Base Event Centre Enugu, during a chit chat with Newsmen. It was the first formal announcement of the PDP […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected terrorists on motorcycles in the early hours of Sunday, attacked two churches, the Maranatha Baptist Church and the St. Moses Catholic Church, both in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The attack came barely a week after some suspected terrorists in a helicopter invaded communities in the same Kajuru LGA, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thousands of APC supporters and leaders on Sunday, stormed the Presidential Wing of the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, to welcome Sen. Bola Tinubu, the party’s presidential candidate. African Examiner reports that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, is returning to his home state for the first time, after he […]
