By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari who is presently on vacation in the United kingdom (UK) is expected to speak today (Monday) with his United States (US) counterpart, Mr. Donald Trump. Indication to this emerged from the President’s SA on New Media Bashir Ahmad via his twitter handle: @BashirAhmaad. […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia (African Examiner) – The popular Club 25 road Abayi, in the commercial city of Aba, in Osisioma council Area of Abia State, South- East Nigeria and environ, was at the weekend thrown into anxiety and tension, as a man identified as Mr. Peter Ibekwe, was found dead inside his hotel room […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (African Examiner) – The Enugu state Police Command has discovered and successfully evacuated an unexploded ordinance(UXO) being part of the civil war left overs in a farm land. It said the object was evacuated by operatives of the Command’s Explosive Ordinance Department (EOD) “on 7/2/17 at a farmland at Eke in Udi local […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has arrived Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital to commence the second leg of the Federal Government (FG) Niger Delta Dialogue. Osinbajo’s visit to the South South State is part of his ongoing engagement with the people and communities of the Niger Delta region. While in Yenagoa, the […]
A federal appeals court Thursday refused to reinstate President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations. The three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco unanimously declined to block a lower-court ruling that suspended the ban and allowed previously barred travelers to enter the United States. “We […]
Niyi Adeyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as well as the former National interim Leader of the party, Chief Bisi Akande Thursday met with the President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja House United Kingdom (UK), London. The two APC […]
IKEJA, LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode Thursday directed the State Police Command to ensure prompt arrest of kidnappers who stormed Isheri area of the State Wednesday evening, killing three security guards. The suspected kidnappers also reportedly abducted the Secretary of the Isheri North Residents Association, Mr. Dayo Adekoya. Commissioner […]
By Ignatius Okpara ABAKALIKI NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vehicular movement along the Enugu Abakaliki express way was on Wednesday afternoon halted for several hours, as operatives of the Department of Security Service (DSS) chased and intercepted a vehicle carrying four fresh human heads allegedly concealed in a sack bag loaded with garri. The security men […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Innocent Idibia also called 2Baba has replied his critics, defending he appreciated to be labeled a coward with the audacity to speak for people. 2Baba said this on his Instagram account while reacting to reservation expressed by a section of the public, faulting his last minute back out from the […]
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Nigerian Army (NA) Enugu, says its attention has been drawn to a video snip of 2 military police soldiers maltreating a physically challenged person along the new market road, Onitsha, Anambra state on Wednesday, assuring that the culprits will not go unpunished. It insisted “whatever human rights […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After about three months of waiting and controversies, the Presidency has at last sent request to the Senate for confirmation of the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Walter Onnoghen as the substantive first Judge in the country. The acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s move was made public via the […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate President Bukola Saraki, has appointed Dr. Baba Ahmed, as his new Chief of Staff. The appointment followed the resignation on January 31, 2017 of the immediate past Saraki’s COS, Mr. Isa Galaudu. In a statement by the National Assembly (NASS) Chairman Special Adviser on (Media and Publicity), Mr. Yusuph […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the dangers inherent in the practice of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM), and cutting among the girl child and women in Nigeria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on governments, civil society organisations traditional and religious leaders to join hands to end the ugly act. Speaking […]
MAIDUGURI, BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Borno Command, Tuesday in Maiduguri averted another disaster as they intercepted two female suicide bombers who attempted to ram into motorists. The incident according to the State NSCDC Commandant Mr. Ibrahim Abdullahi occurred Tuesday around 6.45am at the NNPC […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force said it has confirmed that the Rivers State bribed some electoral officials during Saturday, December 10, 2016 State and National Assembly polls rerun with the sum of N360 million. However, the Police said in Abuja Tuesday, while presenting the report of the investigative panel, […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has confirmed receipt of President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter, informing the National Assembly (NASS) about the resolve to extend his annual vacation in the United Kingdom (UK). Senate’s Spokesman Abdulahi Sabi. Sabi while speaking to the journalists Tuesday in Abuja, indicated that Mr. President explained in his letter […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki ….As GOC, Police Commissioner Calls For Ceasefire (African Examiner) – At least, nine people have been reportedly killed in a renewed communal dispute between Azuofida-Edda and Ogurude communities of Ebonyi and Cross River states over a boundary dispute. No fewer than 20 persons have lost their lives in the feud which […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has appointed some key officials of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) as ambassadors for campaign against raping, domestic violence, child abuse, maltreatment and neglect in the State. Coordinator of Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT), an agency under the State’s Ministry of […]
IKEJA, LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Aviation Minister Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode has prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja, to adjourn his money laundering suit involving sum of N26 million, so as to allow him explore other options of settlement aside the court option. FFK as he is otherwise called was arraigned in court […]
By Niyi Adeyi, Lagos LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite the cancellation of the planned protest across the country convened Monday under the #IstandWithNigeria by the popular musician Innocent Idibia – 2Baba, against bad governance, another group under the name #OneVoiceNigeria and other groups staged protest in Lagos and other parts of the country. The Lagos […]
