(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Femi Adesina, the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity has stated that President Buhari may sign the revised electoral bill today or tomorrow. Adesina disclosed this in an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme on Tuesday, February 22, 2022. He said, “It could be today, it […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to end the union’s ongoing one-month warning strike. The legislators made the call in a resolution which followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Dozie Nwankwo, (APGA-Anambra) on the floor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is presently meeting with the governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress at Aso Rock in Abuja. The meeting was previously fixed for last Tuesday but it was postponed before Buhari’s trip to Brussels and Belgium, to attend the EU-AU Summit. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said media reports quoting him as saying he was “ready to get dirty” to achieve his presidential ambition were taken out of context. Mr Tinubu’s media aide, Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Monday, said his principal, while referring to some of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate will lay the report of the Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution Wednesday and begin to vote on the recommendations on Tuesday next week. Disclosing this Tuesday, Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on the Alteration to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has postponed the meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities earlier slated for 1 p.m today, Tuesday, February 22, 2022, to 2pm. This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the ministry of labour and employment, Charles Akpan in Abuja. Though Akpan did […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe, to three months imprisonment. Ochekpe, who served as Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was sentenced alongside a former chairman of the People Democratic Party in Plateau state, Raymond Dabo, and the Plateau State […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain will immediately impose hard economic sanctions on Russia after President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this on Tuesday. “We will immediately institute a package of economic sanctions,’’ Johnson told reporters. “This is, I should stress, just the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least eight people are dead and five police officers injured after a wild shoot-out with automatic weapons in Johannesburg. Police Minister Bheki Cele said on national television that a police helicopter was also fired on by the gang of about 25, resulting in the co-pilot being shot. The shooting was preceded […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, called on the old generation of Nigerians to give way for the younger generation to build a prosperous nation. According to him, rather than compete, the old generation should collaborate with younger people and provide them with the requisite knowledge and experience to transform the country. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dangote Group on Monday warned the public to ignore a fake cement promo trending on social media as “no decision has been taken on any Cement Promo for the year 2022 by Dangote Cement Plc”. A statement by Mr Anthony Chiejina, Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer, Dangote Industries Ltd (DIL), said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara House of Assembly on Monday expressed confidence in the witnesses presented at the investigative panel hearing for the impeachment process against the state’s deputy governor, Mahadi Aliyu-Gusau. A counsel to the lawmakers/complainant and Director, Legal Matters of Zamfara of the Assembly, Nasiru Jangebe, stated this while speaking with newsmen after […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Oyo State, says it has arrested two suspected vandals of rail tracks at Omi-Adio area of Ibadan. The command made this known in a statement issued by its Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adewale Osifeso, on Monday in Ibadan. Osifeso said the arrested persons, who were caught in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary General António Guterres has cancelled his trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) due to worsening situation in Ukraine, according to his spokesman, Mr Stéphane Dujarric. Dujarric in a note to UN correspondents on Monday stated that “In light of the deteriorating situation regarding Ukraine, the secretary-general is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted Media Rights Agenda (MRA), a frontline civil society group, permission to sue the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami over failure to make regulations for the implementation of Anti-Torture Act. MRA had approached the court seeking an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted its convention. The African Examiner recalls that the party’s convention had earlier been fixed on Saturday, February 26, 2022. The APC disclosed this in a letter of the notification dated February 21, 2022, and issued to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The letter […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Commissioner for Lands in Enugu State, Barrister Chidi Aroh, on Sunday narrowly escaped death, after he was attacked by unknown armed men, who killed two policemen attached to him African Examiner gathered that the police victims are, Inspector David Adabu and one Inspector Solomon. The officers were allegedly killed on Sunday when […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was tension among travelers plying the Enugu/ Abakaliki express way on Sunday, as unknown armed men attacked personnel of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA at their check point, killing one personnel. African Examiner gathered that the hoodlums opened fire on some NDLEA operative who were on duty at a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State, South- East Nigeria, were Sunday evening thrown into shock, as two of their colleagues were found dead at a private hostel in the institution. Our Correspondent gathered that their corpses were almost decomposing as at the time they were found It was […]
…Say Gang-Politics Doesn’t wmWork In Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the 2003 general father’s momentum, a political pressure group, Enugu Rescue Group, ERG, has faulted Ex- Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, on his claims that a purported zoning arrangement had knocked former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, off the 2023 […]
