BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Boko Haram terrorists’ group Sunday released a video claiming that they are some of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls. The video showed about 50 of the girls abducted in their school in April 2014, with a gunman demanding the release of the group’s fighters in return for the girls. […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has reiterated it is doing is doing everything possible to secure the release of the abducted Chibok girls as well as put an end to the horrible saga of Reacting to the latest video of some of the girls, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Government said it would formulate a comprehensive policy that would guide the management of all its tertiary institutions and the government parastatals towards making them less dependent on government funding. To this end, the government is to constitute sub-committees to study and streamline the various policies that […]
The Lagos State Government has shut 12 houses in Ilasamaja area of the State over discovery of shallow oil wells built by landlords to illegally scoop diesel from pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). The oil wells were said to have been built for the purpose of illegally scooping diesel and selling same to […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Economic Matters to President Muhammmadu Buhari, Mr. Ayodele Adu is dead. Indication to the death which occurred Friday emerged in a condolence issued by the SA on Media to the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Mr. Olayinka Oyebode. Details on Mr. Adu’s […]
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following a tip-off, troops on Operation LAFIYA DOLE Thursday morning carried out mine and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) clearance at Gombori a location along the troops main supply route. Acting Director Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman Friday in a statement indicated that the troops […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with the ruling APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun as he marks his 77th birthday anniversary today. Buhari in a statement issued Friday in Abuja by his SA on Media and Publicity Mr. Femi Adeshina joined Oyegun’s family, friends and admirers in celebrating another […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has alarmed the country that it has a total of 118 alleged electoral offences which indicted political class; individuals and institutions. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Professor Bem Angwe, made the allegation public Thursday in Abuja at the presentation of the “End Electoral […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sobering news that two children have been paralyzed by wild poliovirus in northeastern Nigeria underscores the urgency of eradicating the disease in conflict-affected areas, UNICEF has said. The Government of Nigeria and the World Health Organization have confirmed an outbreak of wild poliovirus in conflict-ridden Borno state, where children are already […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has urged rich countries to take urgent actions to save the Lake Chad from extinction, due to effects of climate change. The President gave the task Thursday in Abuja while receiving the Director-General of UNESCO, Ms Irina Bokova. Buhari warned that the failure to regenerate the Lake […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja. ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No member of the National Assembly (NASS) can be investigated or charged to court for performing their constitutional responsibility of lawmaking including budget, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has declared. Dogara, who spoke in Abuja on Thursday, at the Civil Society Dialogue Session […]
By Niyi Adeyi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to the media to project a positive image of Nigeria and accord less prominence to widespread insecurity in the country. The appeal was made Thursday in Abuja, while the Minister was addressing members of the Association […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Noble Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka Thursday joined the league of prominent Nigerians paying visit to President Muhammadu Buhari and meeting with him behind closed doors. The Literary icon had about an hour meeting with President Buhari in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. However, like some […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Seven months after the Bayelsa gubernatorial election was held, Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday said it would launch an investigation into the electoral violence that characterised the election which led to loss of lives and also forced 600 persons into the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Southern Ijaw. The […]
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) No fewer than 15 inmates escaped during a jailbreak that occurred at Nsukka Prison in Enugu State, South East Nigeria. A source at the prison, who did not wish to be quoted, confirmed that the inmates broke their cells and scaled over the perimeter fence late Tuesday night. […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fund raising for the pet project #GetInvolved of President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha is billed for this Saturday – August 13, 2016 in Lagos. Interestingly, Mr. President’s wife is being joined to get through in her initiative by the wife of Vice-President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo as well as the multitalented […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Aggrieved workers of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) on Wednesday paralyzed socio-economic activities in the city and other south- east States, as they took to the streets over alleged anti-labour policies and insensitivity to staff welfare by authorities of the establishment. AFRICAN EXAMINER Correspondent who […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Plans by Boko Haram terrorists to carry out multiple and bloody attacks in some States of the Federation has been exposed by the Nigerian Army. According to online news medium, Sahara reporters, the Nigerian Army in an intelligence document indicated that States listed for attack include: Lagos, Kano, Sokoto, Kebbi, […]
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, urged security agencies in the country not to treat the rumours that Boko Haram terrorists are recruiting members from Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in the Northeast with levity but to urgently investigate the issue so as to unravel those behind […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn-in additional aides and deployed them into various offices. The administration of oath of office was presided over Wednesday by Mr. President and witnessed by Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo; Ministers; some Presidential aides and family members of the political appointees. The brief […]
