(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police operatives have rescued 11 passengers who were kidnapped by hoodlums dressed in army camouflage along the Ozoro/ Ughelli expressway, Delta State. Police Public Relations Officer of the State command, Mr. Bright Edafe, said the kidnappers numbering five who were armed with AK 47 rifles came out of the bush at IDU […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The management of the University of Ilorin has expelled a final-year student, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer, Mrs Rahmat Zakariyau, of the same Department. A statement by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun, disclosed that the verdict […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has arrived at the scene of a gas explosion on Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of the state. Five persons have been confirmed to have been burnt to death in the tragic occurrence that happened on Tuesday morning. Security operatives including policemen, soldiers and emergency […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two explosions hit Uganda’s capital Kampala on Tuesday, injuring a number of people in what police termed an attack on the city, the latest in a string of blasts targeting the country. The explosions occurred in the central business district of Kampala near the central police station and the entrance to parliament, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahaji Ahmed Matane, Secretary to Niger State Government, has stated that Boko Haram insurgents are controlling 5 communities in the state. Matane who disclosed this while addressing journalists, stated that Boko Haram insurgents are fully in charge in Hanawanka, Madaka, in Rafi LGA and Kurebe, Gussau, Farina Kuka in Shiroro LGA. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Chairman of All progress Congress APC in Enugu state, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has declared that a former Commissioner for Works in the state, Barr. Ugochukwu Agballa who is parading himself as a factional state Chairman is not a member of the party. Agballa, who claimed to have defected to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution on Lekki Toll Gate Shooting Incident and Cases of Police Brutality as well as human rights violations has indicted the Nigerian Army and the Police of complicity in the death of protesters at the Lekki Toll gate in 2020. The 309-page report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A lady, identified as Susan, has been electrocuted at the Hustle and Bustle club in the Aminu Kano Crescent area of Wuse, Abuja. Hustle and Bustle is a club and restaurant co-owned by a popular socialite, Obi Cubana. It was gathered that the victim, who went to the club on Saturday, was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) electricity consumers are not required to pay directly for the meters issued to them. This is contained in a statement NERC issued in Abuja . “We wish to reiterate that the NMMP designed to provide all consumers of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said the partial or full vaccination against the dreaded COVID-19 is not enough reason to drop non pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) guard, or a guarantee against infection. Ehanire said this in Abuja, at the national briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19. “Nigeria […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal government has called for a full autopsy over the death of a Nigerian and Oyo State indigene, Itunu Babalola, who died in Cote D’ivoire. African Examiner had reported that Itunu who was wrongfully jailed in Cote D’ivoire, died on Sunday. According to available information, Itunu was said to have contracted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All progressive Congress APC Anambra State Chapter, has sacked its publicity secretary, Mr. Okelo Madukaife for congratulating winner of the just concluded governorship election in the state, and Candidate of the ruling All progressive Grand Alliance APGA, professor Charles Soludo. Chairman of the party in the state, Chief Basil Ejidike disclosed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Detained American journalist, Denny Fenster, has been released and deported amid growing international pressure after a Myanmar court sentenced him to 11 years in prison. According to his employer, Frontier Myanmar, “we are relieved that Danny is finally out of prison, somewhere he never should have been in the first place.” Frontier’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cristiano Ronaldo conceded that Sunday’s 2-1 defeat to Serbia was “tough” but vowed that Portugal’s hopes of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup are “still very much alive.” In spite an early goal from Renato Sanches in Lisbon, an equalizer from Dusan Tadic and a 90th-minute Aleksandar Mitrovic header saw Serbia leapfrog […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), called the Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, has decried the plan to sell pre-payment meters to electricity consumers in the country. The group’s position is contained in a statement issued by its President-General, Goodluck Ibem, and made available to newsmen in Owerri on Monday. It called on the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security Minister Maxime Kone, on Monday said that within three days two terrorist attacks left 27 people dead in Burkina Faso. Kone said one civilian and 19 gendarmes were killed in an attack on a gendarmerie post in the northern province of Soum on Sunday. According to a military spokesperson, around 60 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday remanded two brothers, Sodiq Hamzat, 22, and Taoreed Hamzat, 22, for allegedly beating a motorcyclist to death. Sodiq and Taoreed, whose address was unknown, were charged on two-count bordering on conspiracy and murder. The Magistrate, Mrs Munirat Giwa-Babalola, who did not take plea […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday has given the Federal Government an ultimatum of three weeks over failure to fulfill lingering demands. This is coming as the Senior Staff Association of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities met today to deliberate next moves over the failure of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chinese authorities on Monday set the latest example of strict Coronavirus (COVID-19) measures when it sent several thousand students into quarantine. More than 10,000 students were required to stay in their dormitory rooms or go to quarantine hotels in the north-eastern city of Dalian. The authorities were reacting to an outbreak among […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bank robbers seem to be a dying breed in Germany, the number of robberies at banks, savings institutions and post offices have dropped by 95 per cent over the past three decades. This is according to a 1993 report, in which the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) counted 1,623 robberies of “financial […]
