(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A group of young professionals has obtained expression of interest and nomination forms for Mr Peter Obi to vie for the presidential election under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The group, known as “Like Minds for Peter Obi” bought the N40 million form for Obi on Thursday at the National Secretariat of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has told residents of the state to defend themselves after the state government said that ‘several people’ were killed by suspected herders who attacked farming communities in three local governments in the state. Mr Ortom made this call in a statement released on Wednesday by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unknown gunmen on Thursday morning burnt down Nnewi South Local Government Area in Anambra State. According to available information, the secretariat was set on fire and It is yet to be confirmed if anyone died or injured. Anambra State Police Command says “It is a suspected case of arson”. DSP Tochukwu Ikenga […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The terrorists who attacked a Kaduna-bound train and abducted unspecified number of passengers on Monday, have contacted their families. They are yet to demand ransom, the families said yesterday. A member of one of the families told our correspondent that the abductors informed them that their family members and many other passengers […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled former Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, has rejected food offered him by the Nigerian Correctional Service after being remanded in prison custody on Monday. The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, it was learnt, opted for the food prepared by his wife or other family members. Kyari, who is under […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kano Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has urged Nigerians, especially the youths, to join the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) to restore Nigeria and provide the fresh air desired by citizens. Kwankwaso made the call at the National Convention of the party in Abuja, saying NNPP is well placed to restore the nation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At last, wife of immediate past embattled governor of Anambra State, Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano, has formerly tendered an unreserved apology to the state Governor, professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Igbo nation, over the incident between her and Mrs Bianca Ojukwu in Awka during the inauguration programme of Soludo on March 17, 2022. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has highlighted that lack of knowledge among those in the corridors of power is the cause for the lack of good governance in the country and not politics. Kukah disclosed this on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Doyin Okupe, the former spokesman of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race. Okupe announced this at a press conference at the NUJ Secretariat, Iwe Iroyin, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday, saying it would not be good for the PDP to jettison zoning adding that he would […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Rivers State based non- governmental organization (NGO) Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action), and the Enugu State branch of Nigerian Union of Local government Employees NULGE, have expressed concern over the nonchalant attitude and delay by governors and State Houses of Assembly towards the realization of the local government Autonomy in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested eighty (80) suspects for alleged internet- related activities in Ibadan, Oyo State and forty (40) others apprehended by the Enugu Zonal Command of the Commission for same offences. They were all arrested based on verified intelligence […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security operatives foiled an attempted attack on Dangote Refinery, Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State. The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to the PRO, the attack occurred at the early hours on Monday. He said that the armed hoodlums […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Governor of Kano State, Sen. Rabiu Kwamkwaso, has dumped Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a letter addressed to PDP chairman in his ward and made available to newsmen in Kano, Kwankwaso said that he was no longer a member of the party, with effect from March 29. He attributed his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has cancelled the 13th birthday colloquium in honour of victims of the Kaduna-Abuja train attacked by suspected terrorists on Monday evening. Tinubu, who announced the cancellation a few minutes after the official kick-up of the event, described it as a national […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has arrived in Kaduna on Tuesday afternoon to view the situation concerning the terrorist attack on the train service connecting the state and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. An aide to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, announced this in a tweet. The attack which […]
(African examiner) – Kaduna State Government said the military had rescued the Kaduna-bound train passengers trapped by terrorists Monday night. In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, the government said information about the rescue mission was conveyed to it by security operatives. Aruwan said the government […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of Enugu were on Monday thrown into panic as armed men suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB, implementing the Monday sit- at home engaged in sporadic shootings at the New Market area of the metropolis The gunmen believed to be implementing the sit-at-home order opened […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), have arrested 75 suspected internet fraudsters in separate sting operations in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The Head, Media and publicity of the Nigeria’s anti – graft Agency, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren disclosed this in a press statement made available to African Examiner in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Operatives in Anambra State, South East Nigeria, have apprehended six suspects for flouting the governor Charles Soludo administration’s ban on illegal revenue collection. The state Commissioner of Police, (CP), Echeng Echeng, who spoke with Newsmen in Awka, the Anambra capital, said the arrest was in line with the state government’s commitment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed bandits have kidnapped the Catholic Parish Priest of St Mary’s Catholic Church, Sarkin Pawa, Munya Local Government Area of Niger State, Very Rev Father Leo Raphael Ozigi, and 44 other villagers. The Secretary, Niger State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Raphael Opawoye, who confirmed the incident to newsmen […]
