(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Just four months after he signed a three-year permanent deal with it, Leicester City has sacked its Manager Craig Shakespeare. The club is third from bottom in the Premier League they have not won any of their past six league matches. Shakespeare, 53, succeeded title winner Claudio Ranieri in February 2017, initially […]
Photo: Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – What is it about South African President Jacob Zuma and statues? Two statues in one month- generating controversy from the streets of Pretoria to the streets of Owerri in Nigeria. In the first week of October, a 30-feet monument was unveiled in honour of President Zuma in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The recent closures of Intels logistics services belonging to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar was a deliberate attempt by agencies of government to intimidate and truncate his perceived ambition to contest the 2019 Presidential elections, All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Comrade Timi Frank has revealed. Frank who is also the Deputy National […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the patients receiving medical care for ‘Monkey Pox’ at the quarantine centre in Bayelsa state has committed suicide, the State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu, has said. Addressing a press conference in Yenagoa, he said the deceased was among the 21 suspected cases of ‘MonkeyPox’ that were being managed […]
Photo: Kaduna state governor, Nasir ElRufai KADUNA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the massive sack of primary school teachers looms in the State, the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State has resolved to commence a three-day fasting and prayers to avert the disaster. It would be recalled that over […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Owner of the Premier League club, Newcastle United Mike Ashley has put it up for sale. The club has been relegated twice from the English top flight during Ashley’s 10-year reign. After winning promotion last season, Rafael Benitez’s side are ninth in the Premier League after eight matches. According to a statement, […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The joy of over 300 less privileged indigent students from Enugu state South- East Nigeria, at the weekend, knew no bound, as they received a total of 38.5 million naira for their scholarship and bursary awards from Ikeoha Foundation, a non-Governmental Organization founded by the Deputy President of […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Chairman of Nigeria National League, (NNL), Chidi Offor Okenwa, has identified the round leather game, football, as one of the “greatest instrument for poverty alleviation in the contemporary globe, including Nigeria, saying gone are the days when it was merely for entertainment. He noted that the sports has launched scores of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are headed for a run-off in Liberia’s presidential election. Nearly all the results from Tuesday’s poll have been counted, the election commission says. Mr Weah, the first African to win the Ballon D’Or football award, is leading with 39%, while Mr Boakai is […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 270 reportedly killed Saturday in massive bomb attack in a busy area of Mogadishu, the Somalian capital. Police confirmed that many were wounded when a lorry packed with explosives detonated near the entrance of a hotel. The attack was considered the deadliest terror attack in Somalia since […]
Chelsea boss: Antonio Conte (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Antonio Conte lamented the lack of “personality” in Chelsea’s performance after they slipped nine points behind Manchester City with a 2-1 defeat against Crystal Palace. An own goal from Cesar Azpilicueta and Wilfried Zaha’s second-half strike condemned Chelsea to their third Premier League loss of the season at Selhurst […]
Photo: President Buhari with L-R: Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi; President Ohaneze Ndigbo Chief John Enia Nwodo; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday assured stakeholders from the South East that the region will benefit more from roads and […]
Chairman, Nigeria Governors Forum and Governor of Zamfara state, Abdulaziz Yari (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Oguntoyinbo also ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of N220,000,000. 00 (Two Hundred and Twenty Million Naira) recovered from two other companies namely Wasp Networks Limited and Thebe Wellness Services.(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice O. Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court sitting […]
Photo: Bruce Arena BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After the team failed to qualify for 2018 the World Cup finals, United States Coach Bruce Arena has relinquished his role. US were defeated 2-1 in Trinidad and Tobago Tuesday. The failure by the team to qualify for the world Football tournament is the first since 1986. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that embattled South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma must face charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering and money laundering. The court agreed with a lower court ruling last year that prosecutors could bring back 783 counts of corruption relating to a 1999 arms deal. The charges had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Kainji, Niger State, has convicted and sentenced 45 Boko Haram members to between 3 and 31 years in jail. The sentence followed the conclusion of the first phase of the trial during which 575 Boko Haram suspects were arraigned. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji […]
Photo: Aisha Ahmad (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A group, Concerned Professionals Initiative for Good Governance (CPIGG), has written to urge the Senate to “totally and overwhelmingly reject the nomination of Aisha Ahmad as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the grounds that she is not qualified to hold that office since she is […]
Photo:President of the World Bank Group, Mr. Jim Yong Kim By Oludare Sunday Fase, Washington, DC (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of the World Bank Group, Mr. Jim Yong Kim told reporters that Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari specifically requested that the group shift it focus to the northern region. Mr Kim disclosed this during a press […]
Photo: Governor Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele in the middle holding the Forbes Award By Oludare Sunday Fase, Washington, DC (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele has received the Forbes Best of Africa Innovative Banking Award at the sideline of the 2017 Annual […]
Photo: president Muhammadu Buhari ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has re-appointed Mr. Uchechi Orji as the Managing Director of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA). It would be recalled that Mr. Orji was first appointed in October 2012 for an initial term of five years, renewable for another term of five years. Under […]
