Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Saturday, July 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Award-winning African American actor, Terrence Howard has expressed his interest and intension to invest in some sectors of the Ugandan economy. Howard said he will invest in Uganda’s Information Communication and Technology (ICT) and entertainment sectors as well as real estate. He gave the hint during his recent visit to the East […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Agriculture, Business News, Latest Headlines, West Africa
Saturday, July 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank Group has approved a grant of $3.5 million from the African Development Fund’s Transition Support Facility as additional financing for a rice value chain transformation project in Gambia. The Rice Value Chain Transformation Programme was started in December 2018, with total grant financing of $7 million from the African […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Enugu State has foiled an attempt by armed hoodlums to attack Igbo-Eze North Police Division headquarters within the Nsukka axis of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Friday in Enugu. Ndukwe said that police operatives […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Terrorists have abducted fifty people from Kuchi, in the Munya Local Government Area of Niger State. According to the Co-convener of Concerned Shiroro Youths Of Niger State, Sani Kokki, who made this known in a statement made available to our correspondent, the abduction was said to have occurred while it rained at […]
Posted by African Examiner
Business News, Latest Headlines
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Union (EU) Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS said on Friday that, it would replace the gas from Russia with Nigeria Gas due to the invasion in Ukraine. The Deputy Director-General Department for (Energy), European Commission in Brussels, Mr Matthew Baldwin, said this at a news conference on Friday in Abuja. […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, presidential flag-bearer for the 2023 election says his relationship with the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu took a worse turn in 2007. Atiku stated this during an interview with Arise Tv saying that Tinubu wanted him to field a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2007, but […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) on Friday stated that bishops that attended the unveiling of Bola Tinubu’s running mate, Kashim Shettima are not fake. MURIC Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola made this known in a statement on Friday as he reacted to the dissociation by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Akintola stated […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
…..Passes Confidence Vote On Mainstream Chairman, Ude (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership of All progressive Congress APC ward (1) in Awgu Council area of Enugu State, has disowned one Chukwundu Fabian Nnamdi, who has been parading himself as Chairman of the party in the locality, describing the (latter), as impostor, just as they passed confidence […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Adeyemi Ajayi of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Friday remanded a former Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and two others in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Kuje. Justice Ajayi ordered that Idris and his co-defendants be kept in Kuje Correctional pending the hearing of […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected Islamist militants on Friday attacked the main military base where Mali’s interim president lives outside the capital Bamako, but the armed forces said they had repelled the assault and had the situation under control. The attack on the Kati military base began at 5a.m. local time with two vehicles packed with […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nine persons were burnt to death on Friday in an auto crash which occurred at Omotosho Step Down Bridge, on Ore-Lagos expressway in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. Mr Sikiru Alonge, Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ore Unit Command, confirmed the accident in Ore. Alonge said the crash which […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has come under criticism on social media after he stated that over 90% of the people in the north are not on social media. Abubakar made this revelation while speaking on Arise TV on Friday where he was asked about […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the nationwide protest being planned by the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC and Trade Union Congress TUC, in solidarity with the striking University lecturers, the International Solidarity for Peace and Human Rights Initiative and Coalition of Civil Society, Workers and Human Rights Defenders have expressed their total support for the action. […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja declared that the off-season elections in Anambra, Ekiti and Osun States have confirmed his administration’s irreversible commitment to credible and violence-free polls in the country. Receiving a delegation from Nasarawa State, the President urged the electorate to vote the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An eighteen-seater bus has been attacked by armed men at Ochonyi-Omoko village on the Abuja-Lokoja highway and many passengers were abducted. The incident happened on Wednesday night, and according to a passenger who had escaped, the attackers came from the bush and opened fire on the bus. Benjamin Isaac, who had escaped […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Google on Thursday highlighted the top trending personalities, music, movies, high-profile deaths as well as sports that trended in the first half of 2022. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Communications and Public Relations Manager, Google West Africa, said in a statement that the first half of 2020 had been eventful with high-profile deaths, politics, and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has tasked the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its six-month-old strike. Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, enjoined ASUU to call off the strike and take dialogue. Speaking at the 2022 police meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions in Nigeria held in Abuja, the minister […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress Dumebi Kachikwu has decried the upsurge in the attacks of Catholic priests in the country, noting that 18 of them have either been abducted or killed since January 2022. Mr Kachikwu, in a statement in Lagos on Thursday, described the development as unacceptable and an […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, have stated that there is no sit-at-home order tomorrow (Friday). IPOB stated that the reported order issued by Nnamdi Kanu’s alleged disciple, Simon Ekpa should not be adhered to. Emma Powerful, the spokesman of the group, accused Ekpa of trying to damage IPOB. A statement by […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Friday, July 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nickisha Matthews, a fast-rising African American entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 904 Business Solutions, an executive consultancy firm based in Florida, has announced the successful opening of her new creative digital marketing agency, called Creative Business Branding. The inauguration of Creative Business Branding was disclosed in a statement made available […]
