Posted by African Examiner
African News, Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Host communities of the Oil Mining Licence (OML) 11 in Rivers and Abia States have rejected Sahara Energy except the federal government, through Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), dialogue with them on the operatorship of the licence. The communities under the aegis of Ogoni, Asa, Imo River OML11 Oil Producing Communities insisted […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Terrorists that attacked the AK-9 Abuja-Kaduna train and abducted passengers on March 28, have, on Tuesday, released five more hostages including a victim shot while in their custody, Mukhtar Shuaibu. Shuaibu was shot during a “friendly fire” while in the den of the terrorists. Tukur Mamu, the Publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The vice presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kashim Shettima, has stated that if elected, his principal, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu would be fair and just to all Nigerians, no matter their tribe, religion, and political affiliations. Shettima made this known on Tuesday at the one-year memorial service held […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, Sports News
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has enjoined the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to pay former Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr a compensation fee of $378,000. It could be recalled that Rohr was sacked by the NFF last December, a few weeks before the start of the 2021 Africa Cup […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many persons were on Tuesday morning burnt to death and five others critically injured after two vehicles collided in Lagos. The accident, which occurred around 3am at Alaro City inward Epe, involved a passenger bus carrying 23 men and a tipper conveying sand. Two people escaped unhurt. While the Federal Road Safety […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Youths stormed the streets of Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State, to protest the alleged killing of innocent indigenes by the Ebubeagu Security Network. The protesters, under the aegis of Igbo Youths numbering over 200, marched through Umule, Faulks, Aba-Owerri Expressway and among other major roads in Aba, causing gridlock along […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja commended collective efforts of nations towards tackling security challenges across the globe, and within Nigeria, urging more collaboration to check terrorism, banditry and insurgency. According to a statement issued and signed by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, Buhari […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of its ongoing tour of the six geo political zone of Nigeria to drum support for the ruling All progressive Congress APC presidential Candidate, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 polls, a political pressure group under the platform of ‘Omaluegwuoku Progressive Initiative’ (OPI) weekend stormed Calabar, Cross River […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States on Saturday in a drone strike killed al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, President Joe Biden said Monday in a speech from the White House. “I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield, once and for all,” CNN quoted Mr Biden as saying. Mr Zawahiri, who […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) yesterday declined comment on the alleged arrest of a suspected Boko Haram Commander in Ogun State. Spokesman for the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunnaya, who was contacted by our correspondent on the issue, said he had no reaction. Similarly, the Ogun State Police Command denied knowledge of […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that its presidential flag-bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is the only candidate with a better understanding of Nigerian youths and their aspirations. This was announced by the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Yakubu Ajaka, at a town hall meeting with young Nigerians in diaspora […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arise Television staff, Rufai Oseni may face prosecution by the Lagos State Government after the journalist admitted that he passed the Bus Rapid Transition (BRT) lane on Monday. African Examiner recalled that on Monday on Twitter, Rufai explained that he used the BRT lane because other vehicles passed and were not stopped. […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ifeanyi Okowa, says Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is his friend. Okowa, who is also the Delta State governor stated that he is making an effort to reach out to Wike saying that everything is being settled bit by bit. Okowa, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 1.9 million vulnerable Nigerians will receive about N38bn being disbursed as grants of N20,000 each to some citizens under the Grant for Vulnerable Groups programme of the Federal Government. According to data released in Abuja by the National Cash Transfer Office of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – America Ambassador to Nigeria Mary Beth Leonard has harped on the need to adopt a multi-stakeholder approach in the fight against human trafficking. Leonard made the observation in her remarks during the event organized in Abuja to mark this year’s edition of the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, which was celebrated […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Europe, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Commission has expressed its worry over imminent escalation in the energy crisis as the European Union (EU) continues its stand-off with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. Russia had recently suspended gas deliveries to several EU countries, including Poland, Bulgaria, and on Saturday, Latvia, for their refusal to pay for […]
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Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, August 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has announced a four-week extension of the ongoing strike in public universities. A statement made available in Abuja confirmed the development. It partly read, “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, August 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Consumers of telecommunication services in Nigeria spent at least N1.25tn on calls and data in the first six months of 2022. This was made known in a statement in the half-year financial report of MTN Nigeria and Airtel Africa. This figure represents a 17.77 percent increase from N1.06tn that was spent on […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, Sports News
Monday, August 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After several months of uncertainty that has surrounded Nigeria’s Africa Cup of Nations, double-header clashes against Guinea Bissau. The Confederation of African Football on Sunday stated that the games between the two countries have been postponed. African Examiner recalls that the second phase of the AFCON qualifiers was originally fixed for September, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, August 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Traditional Religious Practitioners’ Association (TRPA) in Nigeria has sued the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, over its refusal to register their organization as a religious body as the Christian Association of Nigerian CAN and the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs NSCIA. They dragged the Commission to the Federal High Court in […]
