(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari met with Jamaican Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, Thursday in Kigali, Rwanda, on the sidelines of the 26th edition of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), and lauded the relations between both countries. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by Special Adviser to the President on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on Thursday expressed happiness concerning the arrest and detention of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife in London over alleged organ harvesting. African Examiner recalls that two Nigerians, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu were arrested in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, on Thursday June 23, convicted and sentenced Franklin Ozoma to two years imprisonment for internet fraud. Ozoma was jailed after pleading guilty to one- count charge of impersonation upon his arraignment by the Benin Zonal Command of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Specialist Crime Team of the Metropolitan Police in London has detained a former Senate Deputy President Dr. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. According to Sky News, the two suspects were arrested for alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child. But the child has been taken into protective custody. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Kingdom Metropolitan Police have formally charged two Nigerians with conspiracy to facilitate travel of another person for organ harvesting. The suspects were arrested and charged over their plan to bring a child into the country to allegedly harvest the said child’s organs. The two arrested suspects were identified as Beatrice […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Darius Khobo of the High Court, Kaduna on Thursday ordered that Peter Samson, be remanded in a correctional centre, for alleged possession of 400,000 counterfeit dollars. Khobo gave the order after the Prosecution Counsel, Precious Onyeneho, prayed that Samson be remanded pending the completion of investigation. The judge ordered Samson’s counsel, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of no fewer than seven travellers by suspected kidnappers at Geregu-Ajaokuta road in the state. Those abducted include a lawyer, a doctor, and five others traveling in different vehicles by 2 pm last Tuesday when they were attacked by their abductors. An eyewitness […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps said it has arrested some persons involved in the attack of St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Owo local government area. It said it also recovered some weapons and vehicle used to perpetrate the terror act. About 40 persons were killed in the attack […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United Nations (UN) Secretary General, António Guterres has reiterated the need to collectively intensify efforts aimed at ending the lingering armed conflicts across Africa. The UN chief made the observation at the third Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development which ended in Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday. This year’s edition of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has directed that a portal be opened to document unemployed citizens. This resolution was reached on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, shortly before the president went to Rwanda to attend the 2022 CHOGM. The job portal would […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army said on Wednesday that its troops of 13 Brigade operating under command of 82 Division, Nigerian Army on Tuesday 21 June 2022, intercepted a Toyota Camry car with registration number JAL 492 AA, ladden with assorted ammunition while enroute Utanga village towards Obudu Mountains in Cross River State. A […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said contrary to insinuations that the federal government was not engaging with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), there have been a series of meetings between all parties with the next one coming up on Thursday. Mr Ngige stated this while speaking […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame has harped on the need for Commonwealth countries to harmonize and translate common visions into action to build back a shared future, prioritizing the youth. President Kagame gave the charge while speaking during a panel discussion at the opening plenary of the on-going 2022 Commonwealth Business Forum […]
-Says Recent Spate Of Church Attacks unacceptable (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said his government would hunt perpetrators of church attacks in the country and bring them to justice Buhari, through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said those responsible for the attacks would be punished for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 51-year-old man, Alhaji Usman Madaki, who is trekking from Bauchi to Lagos to celebrate the victory of Senator Ahmed Tinubu as the 2023 flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has arrived. African Examiner reports that Madaki later left Ilorin, the Kwara capital, on Wednesday morning. He stated in Ilorin […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely two months after a serving member of the Anambra State House of Assembly was abducted, murdered and beheaded. Another Ex lawmaker in the State, Hon. Nelson Emeka Achukwu’s has been killed and beheaded. His lifeless body was discovered by his family members, two weeks after he was kidnapped by unknown gunmen. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has come under severe attack on social media after a video clip of him emerged online saying that the South East will vote for the People’s Democratic Party despite Obi being an easterner. In the video clip, Ekweremadu was heard saying: “I come from the SE, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mary Dauda and Hauwa Joseph, the two rescued girls abducted from the GGSS Chibok in Borno in 2014, have revealed that more than 20 missing others are still in Gazuwa camp in Sambisa Forest, eight years after being kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents. African Examiner Reports that Gazuwa camp was is acclaimed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over virtual weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC)at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. African Examiner reports that the Ministries of Power; Works and Housing; Trade, Industry and Investment; Health as well as Finance are expected to make presentations at the meeting. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2022 National Para Sports Federations elections will hold in Abuja on July 15, the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development announced on Tuesday. Manga Mohammed, the ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, in a statement in Abuja said this was necessary with the dissolution of seven para sports federations […]
