(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have kidnapped and killed one of the youth leaders of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra. Sources said the victim was kidnapped on Friday while his body was found at Utuh junction in Nnewi South local government area on Saturday A source said: “They kidnapped and killed Hon Emeka […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank has signed an agreement to invest in the Joint Reinsurance Company of Member States of Conférence Interafricaine des Marchés d’Assurances (CICA-Re), which is owned by a group of African countries. Under the agreement, the AfDB will take a 6.56-billion FCFA stake (approximately €10 million) in CICA-Re and join its […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kuje Police Divisional Headquarters of the Federal Capital Territory on Saturday exhumed the body of Hussaini Aliyu Takuma, allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen at Jeda community, Abuja. CSP Umar Abdullahi Sambo, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the command who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said some […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission has assured Nigerians that the electoral body is considering the pleas of Nigerians concerning the extension of voters’ registration and they would soon give feedback concerning the issue. INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made this known while speaking at a political concert in Lagos. Uploading a picture […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate and renowned playwright, Prof . Wole Soyinka, has described the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, where many worshippers were killed, as a message to the entire people of South-West. Soyinka made his view known on Friday while paying a condolence visit to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has sent additional 209 registration machines to five South-East states, Lagos and Kano to quicken the registration process. According to the commission, the decision was due to the unprecedented increase in the number of people that intend to register as voters. This was disclosed by INEC’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 55 scrap metal collectors lost their lives in a series of attacks coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents in the last three weeks in Borno. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdu Umar made this known while speaking on the sideline of a security stakeholders’ meeting on Saturday in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC ) has recorded 10 additional Monkeypox cases in the last seven days in the country. The NCDC disclosed this via it’s official website, in its latest monkeypox situation report released on Friday. African Examiner reports that as global monkeypox cases continue to rise, public-health officials […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Ondo State have denied rumours that the suspected terrorists, who attacked Owo Catholic Church, have been arrested. Rumours filtered into town on Thursday evening that the perpetrators of the terror attack were nabbed by the combined team of the Nigerian Army, Amotekun Corps, and other security agents. African Examiner […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Clashes between armed groups erupted in Libya’s capital Tripoli Friday night leading to the death of one person, according to local media. The clashes are happening as the country reels from a failed coup attempt three weeks ago. Heavy exchanges of gunfire and explosions ricocheted across several districts of Tripoli, an AFP […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate and renowned playwright, Prof . Wole Soyinka, has described the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, where many worshippers were killed, as a message to the entire people of South-West. Soyinka made his view known on Friday while paying a condolence visit to Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The new Cabinet in Guinea-Bissau took the constitutional oath in Bissau on Friday with 24 ministers and 12 state secretaries sworn-in as members, according to sources.. Foreign Minister Srkenuzy Carla Barbosa and Interior Minister Botche Cande remained in their posts in the government led by Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam. The education, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) on Friday announced Peter Obi as the party’s 2023 presidential flag bearer. The National Secretary, Umar Ibrahim also disclosed that there’s no faction in the platform. The scribe spoke on Friday in a chat with newsmen in Kaduna, NAN reports. “Former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi is the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja inaugurated the Presidential Council on Digital Economy and E-government, promising that his administration will continue to take advantage of digital technologies to transform every sector of the economy. According to a statement issued by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian actor, Yul Edochie, who is the son of veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, have come under severe criticism on social media after he stated that polygamy is a blessing to him. African Examiner writes that Yul Edochie took to his Instagram account on Thursday saying that polygamy brought him blessings […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has cautioned the presidential candidates of leading political parties against having a Muslim/Muslim tickets in the 2023 poll. In a statement issued on Friday by Joseph Daramola, CAN national secretary, the association stated that the development would be “a threat to the fragile peace and unity […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says African airlines’ traffic rose to 116.2 per cent in April 2022 compared to a year ago, an acceleration over the 93.3 per cent year-over-year increase recorded in March 2022. IATA’s director-general Willie Walsh said in a statement on Thursday that air travel continued to be […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Thursday evening paid an unscheduled visit to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the latter’s Aguda House residence, Abuja. The APC flag bearer also visited President Muhammadu Buhari before proceeding to Aguda House. African Examiner reported how Mr Tinubu defeated […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Atiku Abubakar of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress for emerging as 2023 presidential candidates of their parties. Jonathan, in a statement issued by his Media Aide, Ikechukwu Eze, on Thursday in Abuja, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, on Thursday suspended the country’s anti-corruption chief Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane with immediate effect. “The Constitution provides that the President may suspend the Public Protector (or any member of a Chapter 9 institution) at any time after the start of proceedings by a committee of the National Assembly […]
