(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) clashed on Friday in the Agbado area of Alimosho Local Government Area in Lagos over ticket collection at the parks. According to The Punch newspaper, the conflict led to pandemonium as road users and passersby scampered for safety as the warring […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Building Control Authority (LASBCA) has told an Ikeja Coroner’s Court that the late Femi Osibona, Managing Director of Fourscore Heights Ltd., prevented its officers from gaining access to the construction site of the collapsed 21-storey building. African Examiner reports that Oluseun Randle, an Assistant Director in charge of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, on Friday, denied writing Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, to solicit support for a proposed wedding in Kano State. A letter had gone viral on the internet where the royal father purportedly solicited money for the Kano wedding. The letter dated February 8, 2022, addressed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani (PPD-Enugu) has revealed that Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi brought him back to the political limelight in the state after 15 years as governor. Nnamani, who represents Enugu East Senatorial District, stated this during the PDP campaign in Nkanu West for Feb. 23 2022 Local Government Elections in the state on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The suspension of Rev. Fr. James Anelu, the priest-in-charge of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Ewu-Owa, Ikorodu, is eliciting reactions. Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos suspended Anelu for banning Igbo songs during mass in the church. Onyema Onyemankeya, Coordinator, Catholic Deanery of the Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC), FESTAC chapter, warned against […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imam Tawhidi a.k.a Imam of Peace has called for support for the actualization of the Republic of Biafra. The cleric took to his Twitter handle as he talked about the killings within Nigeria’s Southeast saying that Biafra must be free. Imam Tawhidi wrote: “The images coming out of #Biafra are horrific. I […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Students of Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, yesterday, embarked on a protest over the murder of one Hassan Adedeji, who just graduated from the school and was preparing for his one-year mandatory youth service. It was gathered that the HND Banking and Finance graduate was on a commercial motorcycle around the Agbale-Bode […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A train bringing containers into the Apapa port derailed yesterday, ramming into a truck carrying containers loaded with cargoes. Eyewitnesses stated that for several hours there was no access into the ENL Terminal, APM Terminals and the ABTL Terminals through the railway crossing. There were efforts to salvage the situation by the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pandemonium as armed robbers reportedly hijacked a bullion van, killing people in the attack at Idi Ape area in ibadan . It was gathered that the Idi-Ape area of Iwo Road was deserted while the operation by the hoodlums lasted. A resident of the area, who identified himself as Waheed Adegoke, told […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension has enveloped Enugu and environ following the killing of three policemen by unknown gunmen at a police check point in Enugu. The ugly incident occurred Thursday along timber junction, Maryland axis in Enugu South Council area of the State. African Examiner learnt that the criminal elements also abducted a woman and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two Northern traders at the recently demolished new Artisan Goat market, Enugu, Alhaji Sani Na Dada and Alhaji Lawan Ayavgar, have appealed to the Enugu state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to pay them 47 Million naira compensation for the destruction of their shops in the market by his administration. They said the ugly […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Troops of Nigerian Army (NA) have neutralized four suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB/ Eastern Security Network gunmen at Ihiala town in Anambra State. Director Army public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement made available to African Examiner, Wednesday said, the gunmen who were out enforcing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Tuesday, remanded a pastor with the Royal World Embassy Church, Rufus Olatunji, for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old member. The Chief Magistrate, F.M. Kayode, who did not take Mr. Olatunji’s plea, ordered that the pastor be remanded at Ikoyi Correctional Centre. Mr. Kayode then adjourned the case […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some parts of Ibadan City in Oyo State on Wednesday witnessed unusual gridlock due to the prevailing scarcity of fuel across the country. African Examiner reports that the gridlock caused by heavy presence of car owners in many filling stations visited in the town, left many commuters stranded. Commenting, a businessman, Mr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Court of Justice will on Wednesday rule over a Uganda reparation bill to the Democratic Republic of Congo for its role in conflicts in Congo’s resource-rich Ituri province. Uganda was initially asked to pay 11 billion dollars in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ICJ, the United Nations’ […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed bandits, Wednesday morning, killed a divisional police officer, A. Rano, in Jibia local government area of Katsina State during an attack on Magama section of Jibia town. Sources disclosed through the phone that the bandits arrived at the area around 3 a.m. and laid siege for three hours, despite resistance by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Evangelist Naomi Silekunola, the estranged wife of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, on Tuesday, broke her silence on social media since her divorce post on December 23, 2021. Taking to her Instastories and Facebook status simultaneously on Tuesday night, the 28-year-old evangelist uploaded a short video of herself […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Manger of Plateau Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Mr Peter Kassam, says open defecation is punishable under the law in Shedam Local Government and residents found culpable of such acts risk imprisonment. He made this known in an interview on Wednesday in Jos, observing that Shendam is the first […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture(ECCIMA), Barr. Jasper Nduagwuike has expressed concern over the effect of the Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB continued Monday sit- at home and insecurity challenges in the South East region. Speaking with Newsmen in Enugu shortly after his investiture as the 16th President […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents in a community in Oyo town have uncovered activities of suspected ritualists in an uncompleted building in the area. Our correspondent gathered that those living close to the building, which is along the Oyo-Ilora Road, in the Oyo West Local Government Area, Oyo State, started combing the bushes after perceiving a […]
