(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The abducted son of the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Professor Ali Isa Pantami, has been reportedly seen at a checkpoint in Bauchi. According to Daily Trust, the Minister’s son, Alamin Isa Pantami, was discovered on Friday at a checkpoint in Dambam, a Local Government Area in Bauchi State, a few […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that inhabitants of Oluwo area of Abeokuta are in a panic mood after the killing of a popular area boy known around the metropolis as Tommy has sparked social media reaction. According to available information, Tommy was reportedly killed late Thursday night at Panseke, by some persons who are yet-to-be-identified. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the outbursts generated over the beauty pageant conducted in the female section of Nigerian prisons Kirikiri, Lagos where murder suspect, Chidinma Ojukwu, emerged as Miss Cell 2022, the Controller of the facility, Mrs Lizzie Ekpendu has been redeployed. Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kogi Commissioner of Police, Mr Edward Egbuka, on Thursday warned police officers against going on strike. The commissioner gave the warning in a press statement signed by the State Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Williams Ovye-Aya, and made available to newsmen in Lokoja. Egbuka warned “any form of strike or […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is committed to serving Enugu State people who gave him their mandate on two occasions and would not be distracted from his assignment by politics. Special Adviser to the Governor on Information, Barrister Steve Oruruo who regretted being quoted out of context on issues of zoning […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lawyer of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Aloy Ejimakor, has tasked politicians in the southeast to stop their ambition to run for political offices in the 2023 general elections. Ejimakor made this known in a tweet on his Twitter handle, saying that citizens of the geopolitical zone […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled governor David Umahi led government in Ebony State has vowed that it would soon expose alleged fraudulent activities of Ex- Secretary to the Nigerian federal government, Senator Ayim Pius Anyim. A statement issued by the state’s Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Hon. Barr. Orji Uchenna Orji, Wednesday alleged that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have killed the commander of Ebubeagu security outfit in Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mr. Magnus Iganda. Mr. Iganda was killed yesterday morning. A resident in the area, who is also the Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ezza North local government area, Mr. Emeka […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ado-Ekiti High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced one Tunmise Abraham to death by hanging for raping and killing his landlady, Bukola Olanrewaju. Abraham was found guilty of raping and killing his landlady at Olorunda Zone 7, Adebayo area of Ado-Ekiti sometime in 2019. According to the witness account read by Justice Monisola […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government (LASG)has shut down Eko Bridge while diverting traffic to other routes for the safety of motorists following the inferno which engulfed the Apongbon axis of the bridge in the early hours of Wednesday. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde announced the development in a statement on Wednesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anambra born US based medical Doctor and president General of the Igbo World Assembly, IWA, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze has indicated his interest to contest for the presidency of Nigeria come 2023 on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The presidential hopeful, who said he has concluded arrangement to pick […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has frowned at the turn of events at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. African Examiner writes that the appointment of Prof. Adebayo Bamire as the institution’s 12th substantive Vice-Chancellor has come with a lot of commotions. The protest […]
…… Seeks Media Partnership (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the high rate of child marriage in Enugu State, South East Nigeria, Women Information Network (WINET), a non- governmental organization (NGO) has called on the media to join hands with critical Stakeholders in advocating for more budgetary provisions by governments so as to end the ugly […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Medical Association has enjoined the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to make the full payment of February salaries of medical doctors working with the Kogi state government. The NMA stated this in a communiqué which was jointly signed by its Chairman, Dr. Omakoji Oyiguh, and Secretary, Dr. Chimezie Udebuani […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anambra Governor, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has stated that he met only N300 million in the state’s treasury after the assumption of office. Soludo made this revelation when he appeared on Arise TV on Tuesday. According to the former Central Bank Governor, he has collected debts running into “hundreds of billions of naira” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two men have been arrested by the Police Command in Anambra for allegedly defiling four minors in Umudim, Nnewi in Nnewi North Local Government Area, of the state. The suspects, Peter Ezeala, 61 and Elochukwu Igwilo, 27, were said to be neighbours with the parents of the victims of sexual violation. DSP […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some indigenes of Ile-Ife in Osun, on Monday allegedly invaded the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) campus, armed with charms and other fetish objects, protesting against the appointment of non- indigene as the institution’s Vice-Chancellor. African Examiner gathered that the protesting Ife indigenes closed the university’s two major gates as early as 6.00 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A fire broke out on Monday engulfing a building in Javino, an area of Gauraka in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger. Some eyewitnesses reported that the inferno was caused by activities at the building where fuel was stored illegally. With fuel scarcity in the country, the owner of the goods was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, declared the seats of 20 lawmakers from Cross River vacant over their defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a judgment, dismissed the defence argument that the PDP (plaintiff) had no locus standi (legal rights) to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Abia State Chapter of the opposition All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has suffered a setback, as its financial secretary, Comrade Nnamdi Nwanaga, has resigned his position. He made this known Monday in a letter dated March 20th, 2022, addressed to the National Chairman of the party, Ozonkpu Victor Ike Oye. The […]
