(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than three persons have been killed while others were injured when security operatives and gunmen engaged in a shoot- out in Anambra State. The incident took place at the military post in Agulu, Anaocha local government area close to the residence of former Minister of Information, late Prof Dora Akunyili. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that a former Secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has picked the nomination of interest form for presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has led to debate on social media. African Examiner recalls that Lawal was the former SGF in the first term of President Buhari after he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Islamic cleric, Muideen Nafiu, 43, has disclosed that he and one of his cleric friends, Yusuf Muslim killed his woman friend and severed her body parts. The victim, Aisat Yekeen, 53, was declared missing on March 8, 2022 only for police to discover that she had been killed, dismembered and buried […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Friday picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) Gubernatorial Nomination and Expression of Interest forms ahead of the primaries for the 2023 elections. The forms were picked at the APC’s national secretariat in Abuja by a member of the House of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, […]
……It’s My Constitutional Rights To Contest, Says Lawmaker (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A group under the platform of United Nsukka/Igboeze-South Rescue Movement on Friday staged a peaceful protest round Nsukka town against the 5th term bid of Dr. Pat Asadu, representing Nsukka/Igboeze-South Federal constituency in House of Representative. The protestants numbering over 2000 were clad in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Renowned Professor of Cardiology and Vascular surgery at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Prof. Ndubueze Ezemba has been appointed chairman of the university of Nigeria Hospital, UNTH, Cardiothoracic Centre of Excellence. A statement from the chief medical director (CMD) of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital UNTH, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State, Prof. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Lagos State said its operatives have arrested seven armed robbery and murder suspects. The spokesman for the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. He said that the suspects were arrested following a tip-off by members of the public. According to him, operatives of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government (LASG) on Friday demolished shops and other structures constructed under the burnt Apongbon Bridge on Lagos Island. African Examiner reports that the Apongbon Bridge was razed by fire on March 23 due to activities of the traders, leading the Federal and the Lagos State Governments to issue a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, has said he is not a drug baron as is being insinuated on some online media platforms. In a statement, yesterday, Cubana warned those using his picture to illustrate drug baron reports to desist from doing so or prepare to face legal action. Cubana […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As a way of maintaining the existing zoning culture prevailing in Enugu state chapter of the People’s Democratic party, a Senatorial Aspirant for Enugu North District, Professor Eddy Ugwu has pleaded with governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to drop his ambition of vying for the position and support him. The university Don, who is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Transportation and Presidential hopeful of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has urged party members in Lagos State to support his presidential aspiration by voting for him in the party’s primary slated for May. Chief Amaechi who stressed the need for APC to present a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Campaign posters of former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday dotted major streets of the ancient city of Kano. The posters carry the inscription: “2023 Jonathan Goodluck, Our hope, Our solution.” The posters were pasted all around Kano business district that housed half of the city’s population. It was gathered a pan Arewa […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Kano State on Thursday said they have arrested a former chairman of the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission, Muhuyi Magaji. Mr Magaji, a governorship aspirant under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was reportedly arrested at the Sokoto Governor’s Lodge in Abuja, where he was being screened by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has declared a federal lawmaker, Farah Dagogo, wanted for allegedly hiring thugs to attack the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Port Harcourt. Mr Dagogo is a PDP governorship aspirant in Rivers. “The police must as a matter of urgency arrest Farah Dagogo, wherever he is, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has said that two corps members lost their lives during the 2021/2022 service year in Kano State. The NYSC State Coordinator, Hajiya Aisha Tata-Mohammed, made the disclosure during the Passing-Out-Parade of 1, 936 Batch “A” Stream II Corps members, on Thursday in kano. She said that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Nasarawa State has arrested 21 commercial motorcyclists who allegedly killed a National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) personnel on April 18, in Karu. Mr Adesina Soyemi, Commissioner of Police in the state, said this on Thursday in Lafia, while parading the suspects alongside 29 others arrested for allegedly […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the 2023 general election in Nigeria draws near, the immediate past chairman of All Progressive Congress, APC, Enugu State, Dr Ben Nwoye, and Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Edward Ubosi, have advised the youths to shun thuggery and all manner of violence capable of disrupting the Electoral process. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An interest group within opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, the Rescue Oyo Mission ’23, raised alarm on Wednesday about the wanton destruction of billboards of the party’s aspirants. Its coordinator, Dauda Kolawole, called on the police and other security agencies to check the activities of political thugs hiding under […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zamfara dethroned the Emir of Zurmi, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Dansadau, Alhaji Hussaini Umar, on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in banditry. The government also removed Alhaji Suleiman Ibrahim, District Head of Birnin Tsaba, in Zurmi Local Government Area from office, for a similar offence. Commissioner for Information, Alhaji Ibrahim Dosara, announced […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pensioners in Abia Wednesday staged a protest against the 38 months unpaid arrears of their pensions by the state government. The pensioners, operating under the aegis of Concerned Abia Pensioners, took their protest round the major streets of Umuahia and ended up at the Government House. They accused the Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu-led […]
