(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), has suspended campaign activities over the floods ravaging many parts of the country. Mr Obi has also called on the candidates of other political parties to suspend their campaigns and join him to help the flood victims. He said this when he visited […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola says the Lagos-Ibadan expressway is suffering delay because of the drainage channel being constructed across the road by the Oyo State Government in its Ibadan axis. The minister disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at the inaugural edition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration Scorecard […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a 22-year-old primary school teacher, Margret Obano, for allegedly brutalising her two-year-old daughter and burning her buttocks. African Examiner learnt that the incident happened on Friday, October 14, 2022, in the Bariga area of the state. An Instagram platform, Instablog9ja, while speaking […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Sulaimon Hussein Adamu said that 171 million Nigerians do not have access to hygiene services. The minister made the observation in his address to commemorate the 2022 Global Handwashing Day. Leveraging its position as a foremost advocate of hand hygiene habits and regular handwashing, Dettol Nigeria has […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, Patrick Achi has urged the coalition of public development banks to do more to support the private sector and for the development of renewable energy. The prime minister gave the charge in his opening remarks at the ongoing third edition of Finance in Common Summit (FICS) in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some physically-challenged persons on Wednesday staged a protest in the Surulere area of Lagos, causing a traffic gridlock which kept motorists on the roads for hours. Many who were on their way to work were forced to abandon commercial vehicles and trek long distances to beat the traffic, especially along Funso Williams […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has signed Nigeria’s Startups Bills into law, activating the Nigeria Startups Act 2022. Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Pantami, who disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the quiet signing ceremony at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, also disclosed that the new Act will be establishing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of activities to Commemorate the 2022 global Hand washing day in Enugu State, WaterAid Nigeria in partnership with a non- governmental body, South Saharan Social Development Organization SSSDO, has donated hand washing stations and detergents to primary schools in Enugu North Senatorial district of the state. The two benefitting schools […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Against the backdrop of the current security challenges confronting Nigeria, the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Umar Musa has urged media practitioners in the country to make professionalism and ethical standard their watch word while discharging their duties. He gave the charge Wednesday in his office […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arewa Joint Committee has stated that the region has not endorsed any presidential candidate for the February 2023 general elections. Mallam Murtala Aliyu, the chairman steering committee of the Arewa group in a communiqué signed and made available to the press in Kaduna, stated that the interaction was not aimed at endorsing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday, confirmed that the construction of the 2nd Niger bridge is now completed and will soon be released to the public for use. He stated this at an ongoing press briefing to present the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.) scorecard in Abuja. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali’s foreign affairs minister on Tuesday said the military government would exercise its right to self-defence if France continued to undermine the West African country’s sovereignty and national security. Speaking at a United Nations Security Council briefing on Mali in New York, Minister Abdoulaye Diop repeated allegations that France had violated its […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Illegal gold-mining is destroying tracts of pristine rainforest in Congo’s Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site meant to be a haven for the endangered mammal nicknamed Africa’s unicorn, environmental organisations have warned. Industrial activities are supposed to be banned in the 13,000 square kilometers of the reserve in northeast Democratic […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda’s state-run sector regulator on Wednesday said Uganda coffee exports declined in September due to the impact of drought affecting many growing areas across the country. Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), in a report said the country shipped a total of 503,695 60-kg bags of coffee beans in September, down 14 per […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, says the impact of Tigray airstrikes on civilians is ‘utterly staggering’, calling all parties to the conflict to cease hostilities. Türk, in a statement on Tuesday, said parties to the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia must cease all hostilities […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester United will be in action today when they face an in-form Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford. United will hope to be in and around the top-four by the end of the season, but they currently sit seven points in arrears of third-placed Spurs, and as such, this appears to be a […]
By Farooq Kperogi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I frankly don’t get what people are mocking in Bola Tinubu’s characterization of climate-change policies for poor countries as “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.” Tinubu merely just deployed familiar ecclesiastical metaphors to capture the dilemma that developing countries face […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party, Lagos State chapter, has condemned the endorsement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu by his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike. The endorsement was issued at the 22nd conference Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials, held in the state on Tuesday. Speaking at the event, Wike, a member of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, on Tuesday, continued the trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, who was alleged to have killed the Chief Executive Officer of Super Tv, Usifo Ataga. Ojukwu, an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Akoka, was arraigned alongside Adedapo Quadri and Chioma Egbuchu on October, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West Africa Examination Council has announced plans to make its certificates available to candidates of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination once their results are released. The Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan, made this known on Tuesday at a luncheon organised by the exam body in Lagos. He also […]
