(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner of Police Kaduna State Command, Mr Ali Janga has ordered immediate investigation into the death of a bus driver reportedly shot to death by a policeman on Friday along Kaduna-Abuja expressway. The Command Public Relation Officers DSP Yakubu Sabo said in a press statement issued on Friday in Kaduna. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Government says it has sealed 52 pharmacies, patent medicine shops and unlicenced premises across the state. Dr Titilayo Goncalves, Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of Health, said in a statement that the sealed outlets were located in Isolo, Egbeda, Ikotun, Bariga, Somolu, Oshodi-Isolo and Alimosho areas of the state. Goncalves said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State House of Assembly on Wednesday passed four Bills for the establishment of four new ministries to enhance efficiency in service delivery. The legislators passed the Bills during plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr Adebo Ogundoyin. The proposed ministries include Lands, Housing and Urban Development; Environment and Natural Resources; […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kebbi State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended five local government party chairmen and and nine others for anti-party activities. A statement issued by the State PDP Chairman, Mallam Haruna Saidu on Tuesday in Birnin Kebbi, accused the suspended members of exposing the party and its leadership to public […]
Photo: NNPC Boss, Mallam Mele Kyari (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has for the umpteenth time assured stakeholders in Delta State and the Niger Delta in general that it has no plan to relocate the headquarters of its subsidiary, Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) from its present location in Delta State to somewhere […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A coalition of 406 indigenous youth groups in Nigeria and the Diaspora has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 state governors to immediately save the country from collapse. The groups, under the aegis of the Nigerian Ethnic Nationality Youth Leaders Forum (NENYLF), also appealed to Buhari to order the immediate […]
Photo: Catholic Fathers in Enugu Protest Killing of their colleague, Rev. Fr. Paul Offu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu, has deployed detectives from the Force Headquarters to hunt for the killers of Rev. Fr. Paul Offu, a Catholic Priest in Enugu State. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely five months after unknown armed miscreants killed a Catholic priest Rev. Fr. Clement Ugwu of the Enugu Catholic Dioceses, in a cold blood, another cleric in the area, Fr. Paul Offu has been reportedly shot dead by unidentified gunmen. The priest was said to have been murdered by his assailant at around 8pm […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Four serving governors are among a ten-man list of high level politically exposed persons that have been banned from obtaining United States visa. The serving governors include a sharp-witted and cerebral governor from the Northwest who is known to be a close ally of President Muhammadu Buhari. Another governor from the Northwest […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Chief Magistrate Court in Benin has sentenced a 52-year-old native doctor, Jacob Alonge, to 21 years imprisonment without option of fine for raping and impregnating his teenage daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Dorothy Adamaigbo, convicted the defendant over three-count charge of repeated sexual assault and impregnating her daughter. The court sentenced […]
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amnesty International (AI) has described the proscription of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) as an attempt by the Federal Government (FG) to cover up the massacre of over 350 Shi’ites in Kaduna State in 2015. AI in a statement it issued Wednesday alleged that the move was equally aimed at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has said that naming a successor that would take over from him in 2023 would create problem. Buhari spoke on Tuesday when members of Progressive in Academicians (Pro-Acad) visited him at the Presidential Villa. While speaking on the issue of successor, the President said he would rather keep his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has described the late Moshood Abiola as a bridge builder who could have prevented the religious and tribal issues besetting the country now from happening, if he had been allowed to rule Nigeria. Speaking on Tuesday when he received Elders and Leaders of Thought from Ogun State at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Senate has constituted 69 new standing committees and named their heads. Those already listed are: Senators Barau Jibrin (Appropriations), Ali Ndume (Army), Dino Melaye (Aviation), Ibikunle Amosun (Capital Market), Ike Ekweremadu (Environment), Abubakar Kyari (FCT), Adeola Olamilekan (Finance), Ibrahim Oloriegbe (Health), Sikiru Oshinowo (Industry), Kashim Shettima (Interior),Teslim Folarin (Local content), Adedayo […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a week session of questioning and taking a bow, the Senate Tuesday confirmed all the Ministerial Nominees sent to it over a week ago by President Muhammadu Buhari. After screening the last three Nominees, which included the immediate past Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed; Saleh Mamman […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday constituted a 16-man ad hoc committee to screen cabinet nominees forwarded by Gov Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The House had on July 22, read the list of 25 nominees for appointments as commissioners and Special Advisers sent by the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Friday screened seven ministerial nominees who appeared before it. The Senators worked till late hours of the night, while screening the nominees and adjourned by 8:13pm. Names of those screened include: Abubakar Malami (Kebbi), Sen. Hadi Sirika (Katsina), Dr Osagie Ehanire (Edo), Mrs Pauline Tallen (Plateau) and Muhammdu Dingyadi […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is billed to depart Abuja today (Friday) for Monrovia to attend the activities marking Liberia’s 172nd independence anniversary. The President Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu disclosed this in a statement he issued in Abuja Thursday. Apart from the independence anniversary in which he has been invited […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Adamu has ordered the immediate beef-up of security in all the States of the Federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The Police Spokesperson DCP, Frank Mba in a statement signed Friday indicated that the directive was necessitated due to the series of protests by members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) popularly known […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State House of Assembly was Thursday thrown into confusion as a live snake dropped from the roof of the chamber during day plenary. The House which was presided over by the Speaker, Bamidele Oleyelogun, was about to commence legislative activities when noise from frightened lawmakers and the audience at the gallery […]
