(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The lawmaker representing Oyo Central senatorial district, Teslim Folarin, has lost his wife, Barrister Angela, to the cold hands of death. According to the media aide of Senator Folarin, YSO Olaniyi, in a statement made available to Vanguard, the woman died on Friday in the United Kingdom. Olaniyi said: “With total submission […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angry youths on Thursday apprehended and set ablaze two members of a notorious suspected armed robber gang along Nkume junction by Mgbabano-Umuaka Road, Eziama Obaire in Nkwere local government area of Imo State. It was gathered that the suspects have been operating engaging in the criminal act using motorcycles. An eyewitness said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Enugu based lawyer, Barr. C.D Ezeh, and Civil Liberties organization (CLO), have urged the inspector General of police (IGP) Baba Alkali, police Service Commission (PSC), and Enugu State CP, Abubakar Lawal, to use their good offices to probe alleged acts of impunity, insubordination, and attempt to truncate justice leveled against a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely three weeks after Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), announced his presidential ambition, the former Lagos State governor has traveled out of the country. According to a The Cable, a source who is in the camp of the former Lagos governor stated that Tinubu traveled to London, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Biodun Oyebanji, the governorship candidate of the APC, has stated that Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, has no influence in his emergence as the standard-bearer of the party in the state. African Examiner recalls that on Thursday, Oyebanji, former secretary to the state government (SSG), gathered 101,703 votes to emerge as APC’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday expressed hope that he would emerge victorious concerning the terrorism charges leveled against him by the federal government. Kanu expressed optimism that his present trial at the Abuja Federal High Court would soon end. He disclosed this in his routine […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government said it would be diverting traffic from Yaba as it continues the First Phase of the construction of the Red Line railways covering Oyingbo to Agbado from midnight February 1, to February 16, 2022. In a statement, the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, said the diversion was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force has debunked reports that its helicopter crashed in Bauchi State. This was contained in a statement by the NPF’s spokesperson, Frank Mba, on Thursday, titled, ‘Police helicopter in controlled safe-landing in Bauchi … Not crashed as reported, none of the occupants sustained any injury whatsoever.” However, the Accident […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dare-Devil armed robbers have allegedly attacked a bullion van belonging to a yet to be disclosed bank. African Examiner gathered that the bullion van was successfully robbed while the robbers carted away an undisclosed amount along Otor-Owhe on the Ughelli-Asaba dual carriageway in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One person has been confirmed dead following a liquefied petroleum gas-laden tanker explosion in the Ohoror axis of the East-West Road in Ughelli North Local Government of Delta State. A total of four trucks, including the LPG-carrying truck, were burnt down in the fire accident. It was gathered that the incident happened […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian Police Force helicopter has crashed in Bauchi on Wednesday, injuring six persons, the Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB stated. The helicopter took off from Abuja but AIB stated that no life was lost in the crash. The Bureau said it was informed of the accident by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ebonyi chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the state government’s declaration of Mr Linus Okorie, a former member of the House of Representatives wanted. Chief Tochukwu Okorie, PDP state chairman, at a press conference on Wednesday, in Abakaliki said the 1999 Constitution as amended did not confer […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi, has declared Thursday as a work-free day for public and private schools in the state ahead of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election. This is contained in a statement by O.R Ajayi, the Director of Schools, on behalf of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted Jephthah Robert, a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan. It was gathered that he was kidnapped at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday in front of his house around Dimrose Road in Yenagoa. The victim is the elder brother of Azibaola Robert, who is the founder and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chimaroke Nnamani, former Enugu governor, has stated that it is up to Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the present governor of the state, to choose his successor. Nnamani disclosed this on Wednesday, saying that it has been the norm in Enugu since 1999 for the incumbent governor of the state to choose his successor. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Imo State and Senator representing Imo West, Rochas Okorocha has declared to the Senate of his intention to run for president in the 2023 general elections. The lawmaker told the senate of his presidential ambition in a letter on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Okorocha’s letter was announced in a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representing the Ekiti South Senatorial District, Chief Biodun Olujimi, has pulled out from the ongoing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Ekiti State shortly before the exercise began. Speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, Olujimi stated that her decision to withdraw from the primary was caused […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Authorities in Anambra state, South- East Nigeria, have declared a total of 21 people wanted, over the recent killing of two persons at Ogwuaniicha village in Ogbaru Council Area of the state. According to the Command, the development is also in connection with the abduction of the traditional Ruler of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Kayamata seller, Hauwa Muhammed aka Jaruma, has been remanded in prison custody following a petition by Regina Daniel and her billionaire husband, Ned Nwoko. According to reports, Jaruma was remanded at the Suleja Correctional Centre by an Abuja Upper Area Court after she was arraigned by the police for alleged false […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Tuesday, inspected the final parade as a police officer, taking a bow out of service. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, in his note of commendation, said Mr Odumosu served Lagos and the country with every mental and physical […]
