Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is the most attacked president in Nigeria’s history. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu in a statement stated that since the opposition couldn’t defeat the president at the 2019 polls, they have resorted to other means as he reacted to an editorial by Guardian Newspapers. He […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A driver, Valentine Enwerem, was on Friday evening killed when gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, attacked his vehicle. The incident happened at Nkwo Orji market junction along Owerri-Okigwe Road in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State, South-east Nigeria. The slain driver was carrying two Catholic priests before the gunmen attacked […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps has declared rotational number plates illegal in the country. A statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by Assistant Corps Marshal, Bisi Kazeem, said the declaration followed a video circulating on social media with rotational number plates showing different details. The statement read: “The attention of the FRSC […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said that the first malaria vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), will be administered in four doses to 5-month-old babies. WHO also said the vaccine will be effective against the deadliest parasite, especially common in Africa and it’s not for adults. The Minister of Health, Dr […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, Sports News
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – German Regionalliga club, SV Straelen has stated that Sunday Oliseh has resigned his appointment as head coach of the team. Oliseh took the decision after the team did not get a win in all five outings under his care. SV Straelen scored just a goal in the five games and also lost […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labor and employment, says he can drive from Abuja to Kaduna without a security escort. Keyamo stated this on Tuesday in a pre-recorded interview aired on Channels TV. The African Examiner writes that the 155km Kaduna-Abuja highway is one of the feared roads as it has […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has stated that there has been a resurgence of the dreaded virus, Ebola. According to a statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Congo stated this on Tuesday after the confirmation of one case in the country’s eastern province of North Kivu. The African Examiner writes […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WaterAid, a frontline international not-for-profit organization, with funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF), has launched an 18-month project targeted at improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services in four communities within and around the Maiduguri Metropolis in Borno State. WaterAid currently works in 28 countries to change the lives of […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly condemned what he calls “the unprovoked and cold-blooded murder of a Yobe State-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Goni Aisami, by a callous soldier he had offered a lift as confirmed by the Police.” This was contained in a statement issued and signed by Senior Special Assistant to the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch, has informed Nigerians that the ongoing strike will continue since the Federal Government is yet to engage the union. The ASUU’s branch chairman, Dr. Kassim Umaru, made this known in an interview with newsmen at the end of its Congress, held […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja declared that football remains the number one sport in Nigeria and a national asset stressing that his administration would resist any attempt to undermine its development. The President made the pledge while receiving the 10-year Football Development Masterplan submitted by the Minister of Youth and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 25-year-old man known as Elisha Tari has opened up about why he stoned his two children to death in his home. It could be recalled that the Adamawa State Police Command nabbed Elisha for stoning two of his children, aged 3 and 5 years old, to death. While being paraded on […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria and the United States government have agreed concerning the return of over $23 million of the Abacha loot. This agreement signing ceremony was held in the office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami on Tuesday. Malami signed on behalf of the Nigerian government, and […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, and spokesperson for the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that talks concerning the removal of fuel subsidy will begin next year. Keyamo stated this on Tuesday during the unveiling of The Progressives Forum in Abuja, He stressed that […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has denied media reports that he will hand over federal universities to state governments if elected president in 2023. The media adviser to the former vice president, Paul Ibe, in a statement issued on Monday night in Abuja, described the report […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action. Sources among the union’s NEC members told our correspondent on Monday that the meeting will hold at the union’s […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, North Africa
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libya’s oil production is running at 1.211 million barrels per day (bpd), according to the country’s National Oil Corp (NOC). This is contained in a statement by the corporation. On July 23, NOC, which is being run a new chief appointed by the Government of National Unity last month, said production had […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali has appointed an interim prime minister to act in place of leader Choguel Maiga, who is resting amid media reports he had been hospitalised. Col. Abdoulaye Maiga, currently government spokesman and minister of territorial administration, is the new acting prime minister, a government statement said. Earlier this month, Paris-based Jeune Afrique […]
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African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angolan presidential candidates on Monday wrapped up a month-long campaign ahead of this week’s election which is likely to be a tense standoff between a ruling party in power for decades and an opposition with growing appeal among youth. The MPLA, led by João Lourenço since 2017, has governed Africa’s second-biggest oil […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The number of children facing severe drought across the Horn of Africa has increased by more than 40 per cent within two months, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said. UNICEF said on Monday that between February and April, the number of children facing the impact of drought – including acute hunger, malnutrition, […]
