(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Transportation (FMoT), has directed that the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS) should resume on May 23. The Deputy Director, Public Relations of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Yakub Mahmood, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday. African Examiner reports that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – EFCC operatives have arrested the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris, over alleged diversion and laundering of N80 billion. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Public Information at the EFCC made the declaration in Abuja. He stated that verified intelligence reports showed that Idris raked off the funds through bogus […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday assumed duty as the new White House press secretary, acknowledging the historic nature of her role and pledging to maintain a transparent dialogue. Jean-Pierre, 44-year-old daughter of Haitian immigrants, made history as the first black woman as she took over from Jen Psaki. Her father worked as a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghanaian Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has applauded Africa Emergency Food Production Plan proposed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to mitigate the current food crisis in the continent. With the disruption of food supplies arising from the Russia-Ukraine war, Africa faces a shortage of at least 30 million metric tons of food, […]
(African examiner) – Barely 24 Hours after unknown gun men killed a police man in Aguata Council area of Anambra State, the Headquarters of Idemili North Local Government Area of the State situated at Ogidi, Anambra state was in the early hours of Monday, 16th, May 2022 set on fire by unknown hoodlums. It was […]
…..Appoints Ogbonnaya Amadi, Bala Senchi As Digs (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission has confirmed the promotion of Ex- Acting Chairman of Nigeria’s anti- graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Mustafa Ibrahim Magu as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), along with five others. The Commission says Magu who is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 general election, a former president of the Nigerian Senate, and Presidential Aspirant under the platform of the ruling All progressive Congress APC, Senator Ken Nnamani has put in place a support group known as Senator Ken Nnamani (SKN), Grassroots presidential Campaign Movement. In his remark at the inauguration […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church has kicked against the killing of Deborah Samuel, a student who was recently mobbed by her colleagues for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. Bakare stated that he has read the Qur’an, the Muslims’ holy book from cover to cover, saying that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries, Chibuzor Chinyere, has given “automatic scholarships” to the seven siblings of the late Deborah Samuel. African Examiner recalls that Deborah, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was stoned and burnt on the school campus last Thursday after she allegedly blasphemed Prophet […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, an All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential aspirant, says fighting insecurity in Nigeria is his major priority if voted as president. Amaechi made the pledge in a statement on Monday in Abuja, following his visit to the Bayelsa State Traditional Rulers Council in Yenagoa on Sunday, while on nationwide consultations […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa’s biggest reality TV show, Big Brother Naija, has officially opened applications to take housemates for season 7 edition. African Examiner writes that the show has produced winners like Mercy Eke (season 4), Laycon (season 5) and Whitemoney (season 6). This was announced on the BBNaija official Instagram page on Sunday. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian singer, Davido, has reacted to a viral video where the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Senator Ademola Adeleke, promised to go beyond the financial strength of the ruling All Progressives Congress. Adeleke, while speaking with some members of the PDP in Osogbo, Osun State Capital during the weekend, Adeleke […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Operatives in Anambra state have neutralised armed men enforcing the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The leadership of the Biafran agitators, had said it has cancelled the Monday Sit- at home, with the exception of days his founder, Nnamdi Kanu who is currently in DSS custody […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Delegates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, on Sunday, pledged to give their votes to a presidential aspirant and outgoing Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi. The delegates made the decision two days after they had promised same to another visiting presidential aspirant, stating that the earlier pledge by some […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The negotiations between the Federal Government and the abductors of no fewer than 68 Abuja-Kaduna train passengers is not conclusive following the insistence of the gunmen on the release of their commanders in exchange for the abductees. African Examiner gathered that the gang insisted on a swap of their men in custody […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Baseball and Softball Association (NBSA) as well as the Japan-Africa Baseball & Softball (J-ABS) Foundation have agreed to sign an MoU to develop baseball and softball in Nigeria. According to a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by the Public Relations Officer of NBSA, Robert Onwukwe, the initiative is aimed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was on Sunday re-elected as head of state of the East African country. The 66-year-old politician prevailed against 35 candidates in the election for the country’s highest office, including the incumbent president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who had replaced Mohamud in power in February 2017. Parliamentary and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Multiple people were shot Sunday at a church in Laguna Woods in California’s Orange County, prompting a major response from Orange County Sheriff’s officials and other first responders. The number of casualties was not clear. The shooting occurred at the Church on the 24000 block of El Toro Road. The sheriff’s department […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested four suspects over the killing of a young man by commercial motorcyclists in the Lekki area of Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the father of two was killed over N100 balance by the motorcyclists. It was learnt that the victim, who was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The alarming Insecurity and barbaric killings in parts of South East Nigeria, particularly Anambra and Imo States continued on Sunday as some hoodlums killed a police man in Anambra. Despite efforts by the State Governor professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo to find a solution to the ugly development, it has continued unabated. Only […]
