(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Chairman of the opposition, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Edozie Njoku, on Saturday led members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to the residence of its pioneer National Chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie to apologize to him for all the injustices Meted to him in the party in the past […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Operatives attached to the Nsukka Area Command of Enugu State has arrested a man identified as Micheal Ali, over alleged spying and filming of Highway to Grace Assembly Church Nsukka with drone camera. A source at the Area Command who craved anonymity while confirming the arrest, said the police responded to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three persons died while two others were injured when the roof of an open market stall in a market in Ebonyi caved in on Friday evening. The incident happened at Ekeaja market square, Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area. Governor David Umahi confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday. The Governor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared May 18 and 26, 2022 as sit-at-home for the people of the South-East. The group said it declared the sit-at-home, being the court dates of its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu as part of solidarity. In a statement on Saturday, the group’s Media and Publicity Secretary, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, on Friday said that every tweet in his official social media handles must get his approval before publication. Atiku, one of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirants, said this when he paid a consultative visit to Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Peter Obi, presidential aspirant for the 2023 general elections on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), says he will prioritise poverty reduction through tackling unemployment if elected. Obi stated this at a meeting with the PDP stakeholders and delegates from Sokoto and Zamfara states on Thursday at the party […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the resort to self-help by the mob in sokoto, resulting in violence, destruction and killing of a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, following an allegation that she had blasphemed Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam last Thursday. Buhari said the news of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A woman found in possession of a human skull has been arrested by the police in Edo State. The police spokesperson in the state, Kontongs Bello, disclosed this on Thursday in Benin City, while briefing reporters on the activities of the command within the last two weeks. Mr Bello, a superintendent of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Sokoto State on Thursday says it has arrested two students of the Shehu Shagari College of Education (SSCOE), Sokoto, in connection with the killing of their female colleague. African Examiner reports that the Sokoto State Government had on Thursday confirmed the death of a student at the college, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some students of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, on Thursday, lynched a female student, identified simply as Deborah, over allegation of blasphemy against Muhammed, a prophet of Islam. The deceased was violently stoned to death and later set ablaze by the angry mob, who are mostly students of the college. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Scores of travelers have been allegedly kidnapped when gunmen hijacked three vehicles along the Emuoha area of the East-West road in Rivers State. This came few days after three kidnapped passengers along the kalabari-Emuoha road regained their freedom. In the latest incident, it was learnt that the gunmen diverted the passengers to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human and vehicular movement as well as social economic activities were on Thursday paralysed in Nsukka town and environs as National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) staged a protest over the continued industrial action of members of the Academics Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Our Correspondent reports that the protest which commenced […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Deputy President of the Senate, and Governorship Aspirant in Enugu State, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has said he has left his Governorship ambition in the hands of God. The Lawmaker also stated that God’s faithfulness in keeping his covenant with Him in the early part of his life accounts for whatever success […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – APC presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu has assured the people of Gombe State that he will curb hunger and ensure shared prosperity in the country if elected President of Nigeria in 2023. Tinubu said this in Gombe when he paid homage to the Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Abubakar Shehu-Abubakar III. Tinubu was in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prominent leaders in Igboland on Wednesday gave president general of Apex Igbo Socio cultural organization Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof George Obiozor thirty days from today (May 11, 2022) to reconstitute the executive of the body or face rejection by Ndigbo. But the organization in a swift response, via its National Publicity Secretary, Dr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, have arrested 36 suspected internet fraudsters. The names of the suspects were given as Chukwuma Destiny, Emenalom Precise, Nwaeze Obinna, Ogbonna Monday, Raymond Chigozie, Mmadu Bright, Chigozie Sixtus, Ike Joachim Uchechukwu, Ifeanyi Uzor, Iwuanyanwu Divine, Nwoke Udojah, Patrick […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reverend Father Joseph Akete of the St. John Catholic Church, Kudenda in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who was abducted eight weeks ago, has died while in his captors’ custody. The Chancellor, Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, Rev. Fr. Christian Okewu Emmanuel, announced this in Kaduna on Wednesday. African Examiner recalls […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Elder statesman and former Federal Information Commissioner, Chief Edwin Clark, has berated former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, calling him a “traitor”. Clark accused Kalu of betraying the Igbo cause, adding that despite the fact that Kalu was one of the oldest vocal frontline politicians in the South-East, he doubted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A gateman with Mabila Hotel in Ikorodu, Lagos State, was killed in the early hours of Wednesday by some unknown gunmen and robbed some officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) that lodged there. The Police spokesman for Lagos Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident . He said that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ogun State High Court has ordered prompt detainment of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos and Superintendent Tijani Taofiq for contempt. The Police officers had disobeyed the court order that asked both the AIG and Taofiq to pay N500,000 and N50,000 respectively as damages in favour of […]
