(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Lagos State Council has reiterated its determination to go on a 3 day warning strike starting on Monday January 10 through Wednesday, January 13. At a general congress of all the Nurses in the State held on Friday, January 7 in Lagos, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has kicked against the move by the federal government to introduce N10/litre on all non-alcoholic, carbonated and sweetened beverages. African Examiner recalls that Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, had announced the new tax on Wednesday. Ahmed stated that the new tax would increase […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Babangida Aliyu, a former governor of Niger State, has stated that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has zoned its presidential ticket to the North. Aliyu disclosed this when he played host to the Atiku Support Organisation. The former governor stated that the organization would be successful. “In our zoning agreement, we have […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State police Command says it has launched a thorough investigation into the recent killings, kidnapping and destructions of properties in parts Eha-Amufu, in Isi Uzo Council area of Enugu state by yet to be identified criminal elements. The State Commissioner of police, (CP) Abubakar Lawal, who led other Heads of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ebonyi State Governor , Engr. Dave Nweze David Umahi, has approved the suspension of the Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Chief Emmanuel Uguru and the Senior Special Assistant, (SSA) on Education, Dr Obianuju Alo for one month over negligence and dereliction of duty. The statement issued Friday and signed by Secretary to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a $47.09 million grant for the first phase of the Pemba-Lichinga Integrated Development Corridor, a Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone in Mozambique. Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) are integrated development initiatives designed to concentrate agro-processing activities within areas of high agricultural potential to boost productivity, integrate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, has said the omicron variant of the coronavirus pandemic is leading to hospitalisation and killing people, just as other variants. Mr Ghebreyesus said this on Thursday at a media briefing on COVID-19, noting that the omicron variant should not be classified as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government is not happy that three days after the official resumption of schools for a new term, some private schools are still on holiday, while attendance has not peaked in those which have resumed. The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, OEQA, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, who led a team […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Singer, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, who became a sensation after his hit single titled, ‘Zazu Zeh’, on which he featured rapper, Olamide Adedeji, aka Baddo, and popular dancer, Iwe Pascal, popularly known as Poco Lee, went viral on social media about a month ago, has had another faceoff with his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sylvester Oromoni, the father of the late 12-year-old pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, has vowed to get justice, saying that he would not bury his son even if it takes 30 years to get justice. He also kicked against the report of the autopsy carried out at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed worry concerning the death of 19 passengers who died on Thursday in a road accident that occurred on the Kano-Zaria Road. The president’s message was contained in a statement signed on Friday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. Reacting to the incident, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has stated that the country may come to an end if the north keeps power in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. Mbaka, disclosed this in a sermon at the adoration ground in Enugu State, as he cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka, has cautioned that nothing should happen to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, as the country would collapse. If anything happens to Kanu. In a video that has since gone viral, the cleric, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari may surprise the people of South-East come 2023. Kalu disclosed this in his Camp Neya country home in Igbere after a meeting with members of his political structures in Abia. According to the lawmaker, Buhari’s single biggest capital project is being constructed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dared devil gunmen on Thursday attacked a police facility in Imo State, Nigeria’s South-east. The police spokesperson in Imo, Mike Abattam, who confirmed the attack in a statement on Thursday, said the incident occurred in the early hours of the day at Ideato South Police Station. The gunmen were “shooting sporadically, and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Chief Coroner, Justice Mojisola Dada, has fixed January 15, 2022, for the commencement of inquest into the cause of death of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos. It would be recalled that Lagos Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Ms. Adetutu Oshinusi, has absolved the five students […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Africa Centre for Disease Control, on Thursday, said Nigeria had experienced a 249 per cent increase in new deaths as a result of COVID-19 just as a tally of epidemiological reports issued by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control revealed that no fewer than 25 persons died in five days. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kogi State Police Command has nabbed three suspected kidnappers, recovered one Dane gun, two cartridges, food items and N45,000. DSP William Ovye Aya, Police Public Relations Officer for the Police Command, disclosed this in a statement he signed, a copy of which was made available to our Correspondent in Lokoja on Thursday. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, has enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to “declare the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) as a terrorist organisation”. This development is coming hours after the federal government issued a directive declaring bandits as terrorists. In a statement on Thursday, Nathaniel Ikyur, chief press secretary (CPS), quoted the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 general election, the South – East chapter of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has endorsed the presidential aspiration of the Ex- Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim. The endorsement was made in Enugu during a consultative session hosted by Anyim. Political leaders from the five South Eastern states […]
