(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief Whip of the Senate and Senator representing Abia North in the 9th Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was never denied US visa as speculated. Kalu who took to his Facebook on Saturday to refute the report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Abuja on Saturday to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for high-level bilateral engagements in the Southeast nation. The Osinbajo will meet with the President of Vietnam, President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc; Vice President Vo Thi Aah Xuan, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, other government officials and the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cameroon defeated a second-string Brazil team 1-0 in their final Group G match at the Lusail Stadium on Friday in Qatar. The win, however, was not enough as the African side were knocked out of the competition. Cameroon finished third on four points, two points below second-placed Switzerland, who defeated Serbia 3-2. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo Police Command says it repelled an attack on the building of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) located in Orlu LGA in Imo by the suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The command further disclosed that the hoodlums, who attacked the INEC facility, later retreated with bullet wounds […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Human Rights group, Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has petitioned the Enugu state Commissioner of police (CP), Ahmed Ammani, over alledged unlawful and fraudulent removal of boundary marks with intent to defraud an Octogenarian, Pa Geofrey Nwebor and his son, Mr. Cletus Nwbor by the duo of Mr. Paul […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the proscribed group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has informed his followers that he will soon be released from detention. Conveying the message was IPOB’s counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who spoke with Kanu during his visit to him at the Department for State Services (DSS) detention […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2022 World Cup in Qatar, which has already registered some historic upsets, is set to enter the round of 16 – the first of the knock-out phases of the tournament. Sixteen of the 32 teams who qualified for the tournament proceeded to the next round. The Round of 16 which starts […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has withdrawn the case against Aminu Adamu Mohammed, a final year student of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State. The prosecution counsel, Fidelis Ogbobe, on Friday, said following the intervention of well-meaning Nigerians, the First Lady, as the mother of the nation, decided to withdraw the case. Ogbode […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed dates for the collection of Permanent Voters Cards in all the 774 local government offices of the Commission nationwide. The Commission fixed Monday 12 December 2022 to Sunday 22 January 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs. Disclosing this in a statement […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State and Chairman of the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council, has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will beg his counterpart from Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and his group. Emmanuel stated that the party had made a mistake concerning the way it went about the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) says the purported suspension of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Director-General, Doyin Okupe, is null and void. Umar-Farouk Ibrahim, the national secretary of the party, said this when he addressed journalists in Abuja on Friday. The Ogun State chapter of the party had on Thursday announced the sack […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour Party in Ogun State has sacked the Director-General of the party’s presidential campaign council (PCC), Doyin Okupe, and 10 for allegedly not paying membership fees, high-handedness and financial recklessness. The State Chairman of the party in the state, Michael Ashade, announced this at a press conference in Abeokuta on Thursday. Flanked […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension gripped Ughelli town in Delta state over the kidnap of Imam of the Ughelli Central Mosque as gunmen attacked worshippers shortly after prayers Friday morning. At least 11 persons were injured by the gun-wielding hoodlums who stormed the mosque, reportedly seen in an ash coloured Toyota Sienna. The gunmen, said to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Angolan Government has expressed its appreciation of the roll out of Remote Appraisal, Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation (RASME) project in Angola, following a three-day training session in the capital, Luanda. RASME which is an initiative of the African Development Bank (AfDB), is essentially for remote monitoring and evaluation of development projects. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Centre for Migration Policy Development ICMPD has said the £4.5 million business park and a start-up Centre built in partnership with the Australian Development Agency, European private sector partners and Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu is aimed at tackling issue of unlawful migration to foreign lands by Nigerian youths According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Osun State Government has accused the administration of Gboyega Oyetola of accruing debts in pensions and salaries to the tune of N76 billion. The spokesperson to the Executive Governor Olawale Rasheed quoted the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Bimpe Ogunlumade to have made the claim while briefing officials of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Dino Melaye, has claimed that everything surrounding the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, is controversial contrary to his PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar. He claimed that the PDP presidential flag bearer has a verifiable historical background, unlike […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC) has expressed concern over the increased incidences of vandalization of its electrical facilities across the South-East region, even as eight suspects arrested for the crime are now cooling off in police net in Enugu. It raised the alarm over the latest turn of events where […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday, produced Form CF001, containing WAEC-GCE certificate and Secondary School Testimonial of Gov. Ademola Adeleke before the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Osogbo. This was in compliance with the order of Justice Tertsea Kume, the Tribunal Chairman, on Nov. 25. Kume had ordered the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For the second tournament in a row, Germany have crashed out in the group stages despite a 4-2 victory vs Costa Rica on Thursday night. Extremely disconsolate faces could be seen at the Al Bayt Stadium as both Costa Rica and Germany failed to progress, with Japan securing a 2-1 victory over […]
