Posted by Eric Ojo
Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
( AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African American female accountant, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Essential Accounting Consultants based in Cleveland, Ohio, Robin Boyd has been featured in Forbes Magazine twice for helping to grow 1,000 minority-owned businesses in the United States. For more than 20 years, Boyd has been transforming Black-owned businesses into million-dollar […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Yakubu Lawal, Nasarawa State Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism that was abducted by gunmen has regained freedom. DSP Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in the state confirmed in Lafia. African Examiner recalls that the Commissioner was kidnapped at his residence in Nassarawa-Eggon Local Government Area (LGA) by gunmen […]
Posted by African Examiner
Europe, Latest Headlines
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday expressed outrage over a 34-year prison sentence handed down to a Saudi woman, Ms Salma Al-Shehab charged with following and retweeting so-called dissidents and activists. Doctoral student Al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in jail, followed by a 34-year travel ban in connection with […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment and re-deployment of nine Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service. Mr Mohammed Ahmed, Deputy Director Communications, office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), made this known in a circular issued on Friday in Abuja. According to Ahmed, the affected […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, Sports News
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The prize money for Saturday’s (today) heavyweight title rematch between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia has been revealed. According to Evening Standard, Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk will each receive a guaranteed minimum of £33.2m ($40m) for their rematch. Recall that the duo went head-to-head on Wednesday at the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXANINER) – The crisis rocking the Enugu State chapter of the All progressive Congress APC Friday evening took a new twist, as the Udi/Agbudu political ward of the Embattled State Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballah, announced his expulsion from the party. They had debarred him from holding party office, before pronouncing the expulsion. The decision […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Imo State on Friday stated that the regime of Gov Hope Uzodinma has come to its expiry date and must give way to a PDP led-administration. The opposition party alleged that the Imo State government through its sponsored protest wants to hoodwink the people and divert […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Latest Headlines, Sports News
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South East Badminton in collaboration with Community Sport and Educational Development (CSED) Initiative, a frontline Non-governmental Organisation (NGO), has organised a two-day badminton clinic in Nsukka, Enugu State. The grassroots outreach training, which is the first to be jointly facilitated by the Badminton Federation of Nigeria (BFN) and CSED Initiative, was held […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Asia, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Global Peace Ambassador and world-renowned humanitarian, Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has arrived in Nigeria to attend a culture festival. Ravishankar is a global humanitarian and a spiritual leader who has rekindled traditions of yoga and meditation that have helped millions achieve personal and social transformation by relieving stress and discovering inner […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja said the public service remains the engine room of government, and should attract the “best and brightest’’ that would fuel policies with fresh ideas, while assuring that the Orosanye White Paper Report would be implemented, after review. This was contained in a statement issued by […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Entertainment, Latest Headlines
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian online coach, Solomon Buchi, has deactivated his social media accounts after trolls called him out for being an hypocrite. African Examiner had earlier reported that Buchi had earlier come under severe criticism after he wrote a “romantic message” to his lover, Arike, who he described as not “the most beautiful […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Broadcasting Commission, on Friday, tasked 52 broadcast outfits, including the African Independent Television, Silverbird Television and the broadcasting corporations run by various state governments to close down their operations. According to the NBC, the directive became necessary because of debts incurred by the broadcasting organisations amounting to at least N2.6bn. […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
African News, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News Around Africa
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said that the stability of Chad Republic, and, indeed, all our neighboring countries was in the interest of Nigeria. The President spoke Friday at the Presidential Villa while receiving a Special Envoy from the Transitional President of Chad, General Mahamat Idris Derby. Chad holds a Sovereign National […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, August 19th, 2022
AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The deplorable condition of the Sango-Ota end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State, has continued to aggravate the woes of residents and business owners in the area. Motorists and commuters had a hectic time plying the route. The almost three-kilometre stretch of Joju, immediately after the Sango-Ota Bridge inward Ifo, was abandoned. […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Plateau Sector of the Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) says 10 persons lost their lives and 15 others were injured in a multiple accident involving seven vehicles on Jos-Bauchi highway. The Sector Commander, Alphonsus Godwin, said on Thursday in Jos that the tragedy involved a truck and six other vehicles. Godwin […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Valentine Ozigbo, the former Anambra Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has defected to the Labour Party (LP). Ozigbo said in a statement in Awka. “There comes a defining moment in the life of any country when all people of good conscience must stand up to be counted. “Those […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan, Ms Sara Nyanti, on Thursday called for joint action to address the aid crisis in the country and end attacks against civilians, as well as humanitarian workers. Nyanti made the call in her message to mark the World Humanitarian Day globally celebrated on Aug. 19. […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Secretary, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Dr Cosmos Ilechukwu, has said same-faith ticket, either Christian-Christian or Muslim-Muslim, will not augur well for the unity and future of Nigeria. Ilechukwu made the position of the group known at a press conference on the state of the nation, held at the PFN National […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
African News, Exclusive Reports, Exclusive/Investigative Stories, Featured, Latest Headlines
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In a major shake up, the outgoing Auditor General of the Federation, Mr Alphosus Aghughu has begun mass redeployment of staff members out of the abuja headquarters to various parts of the country. The redeployment, according to aggrieved staff members, is allegedly done with malice and revenge against perceived staffers who opposed […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, August 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has opened up concerning the reason it’s meeting with the Federal Government of Nigeria ended in a deadlock earlier this week. According to ASUU, it rejected the Federal Government’s offer since it is “miserable”. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made known in a statement on […]
