(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed on Saturday met with the leadership of the National Assembly to intimate it with an Executive proposal to establish a N500 billion COVID-19 Crisis Intervention Fund. Mrs Zainab, with senior officials from her ministry, held the meeting with the President of […]
…As NCDC Team Disinfects Affected Apartment (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has explained the circumstances of the reported COVID-19 infected individual at an apartment in the NNPC Estate in the Garki Area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT. NNPC dismissed insinuation of mass outbreak of Coronavirus infection in the facility, […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state government was on Saturday thrown into shock as its Commissioner of Health, Professor Anthony Ugochukwu died after a Protracted Illness. . African Examiner reports that the late surgeon died Friday night at Memphys Hospital, Enugu. Confirming the development, the Member representing Oji River state Constituency in the Enugu House […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension has enveloped Enugu over the arrest of the youth leader of the All progressive Congress in Enugu, Prince James Nwanjoku Okugo, following a petition written against him to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, who claimed that the party […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Government has announced the first confirmed case of the deadly Covid-19 virus in the state. Mr Donald Ojogo, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, in a statement on Friday in Akure explained that a suspected case tested positive to the virus. “It is with great concern that the Ondo […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has cautioned members of the public in Zamfara against panic buying of petroleum products as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. The Controller, Gusau DPR Field Office, Alhaji Yusuf Shehu gave the advice on Friday during surveillance patrol on filling stations in Gusau, the state capital. Shehu […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police Command has apprehended six members of a notorious armed robbery gang that have been terrorising the state and its environs. Their arrest followed intelligence gathered by the Command’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, (SARS), which led to the arrest of Eneh Ekene at Ugbo-Odogwu, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu and […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu …Not True, We Have Enough Medical Supplies –Management (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unhappy with the poor state of facilities and lack of protective equipment for work in this period of the dreaded COVID 19 pandemic, the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) at the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH) staged a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has confirmed the discharge of 11 patients who previously tested positive to COVID-19 from the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba. Sanwo-Olu, in a statement on Thursday in Lagos, said that the patients included two females and nine males, making 18 patients that had been discharged in Lagos […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning has reversed itself on the request it sent to the American billionaire, Elon Musk for ventilators to combat the raging COVID-19 pandemic The Ministry’s tweet (request) early Thursday followed Musk’s tweet the same day, that his firm – SpaceX, had extra […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A middle-aged woman, on Wednesday, attempted taking her life in Osogbo by jumping into Osun river before she was rescued by residents of the area. The woman, who identified herself as Kafayat Alake, shortly after the rescue, said she decided to end her life out of the frustration, occasioned by economic hardship. […]
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Again, Nigeria has recorded 23 new cases of COVID-19 infection. The latest confirmation brings the total number of the cases in the country to 174. Earlier Wednesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 23 new cases with Osun state recording nine. The latest confirmation made late Wednesday was […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of a non- governmental organisation, NGO) Women for Women (WFW), has dragged a former State and South- East zonal Chairperson of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, (NAWOJ) Mrs. Chieso Aninwagwa to the police over alleged misappropriation of the organisation’s N5 million naira. In a petition […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the recent confirmation of two cases of the dreaded Coronavirus pandemic in Enugu state, SouthEast Nigeria, a serving member of the Federal House of Representatives from the state, Rt. Hon. Ofor Chukwuegbo, has urged president Muhammadu Buhari, to extend the special COVID-19 palliative approved for Lagos and others, […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ebonyi state police Command has confirmed the kidnapping of two chinese working in a quarry site at Ihietutu community in Ishiagu, Ivo council Area of Ebonyi, state, South- East. This was disclosed to newsmen in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi state capital, by the command’s spokesperson, Mrs Loveth Odah, who said police had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila, has announced that all 360 members of the house resolved to donate their two months’ salaries to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, Gbajabiamila said that the two-month salaries donation was independent of the contributions by individual […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has announced further reduction of the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol from N125 to N123.50k per litre. The agency made the announcement in a statement singed by its Executive Secretary, Abdulkadir Saidu, in Abuja on Tuesday night. “PPPRA in line […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Serious crisis is currently looming in Nsukka council area of Enugu state, Southeast Nigeria, over the alleged revocation of the autonomy granted to fowl dealers association at Ikpa market by the immediate past caretaker committee chairman of the council, Hon. Chinwe Ugwu, just as the group has vowed to […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the Enugu state government begins total closure of public places, such as markets, border crossing inter-state transportation, amongst others, on Tuesday, the State Police Command has vowed to enforce the government’s directives to the fullest. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, had through Secretary to the State Government SSG, Prof. Simon Ortuanya announced that all […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Monday said he tested positive for the coronavirus and is in self-isolation. The governor revealed this in a statement on his verified Twitter handle on Monday where he disclosed that he is asymptomatic. “I just received my COVID-19 confirmation test result, it is positive, I am […]
