(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alhaji Lawal Usman, a Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the party must zone its presidential ticket to the North for 2023 general elections for strategic reasons. Usman, popularly called ‘Mr LA’, said this when he spoke in Zaria . “For the strategic interest of the party and the nation, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Union of Journalists, Abuja Chapter, has rejected the account of the police on the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and subsequent death of Vanguard Newspaper reporter, Tordue Salem. The Chairman of the NUJ FCT council, Emmanuel Ogbeche, while receiving a letter from the House of Representatives Press Corps at the NUJ […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan anti-terrorism police officers said on Saturday they are interrogating a terror suspect who was arrested at a shopping centre in Nairobi. The Police said the suspect, identified as Ali Abdullahi Hussein, had approached a police officer on patrol at around 2.00 a.m. and wanted to seek information about a certain club. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A non – partisan political group under the platform of power shift 2023 movement, Championing youth participation in Nigerian politics, has said it will uplift and promote young political candidates less than 45 years of age ,come 2023 general Election in the country. Convener of the movement, Mr Nonso Nnamani, disclosed this […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Brigadier General of the Nigerian Army has been killed in an ambush by terrorists of the Islamic State of West Africa Province in Borno State. ISWAP had attacked troops at a military base in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday morning according to reports. Four other soldiers were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nine junior high school students drowned , after two canoes capsized on a river in the Northern Region of Ghana, the Police confirmed on Saturday. Bernard Baba Ananga, Northern Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, told Xinhua that about 31 students were on the canoes, which they used to cross […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ohanaeze Ndigbo has applauded the federal government for contemplating a political solution for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the Yoruba successionist activist, Sunday Igboho. It could be recalled that the Nigerian government had stated that it is open to all kinds […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Saturday, leave Paris for Durban, South Africa, at the special invitation of President Cyril Ramaphosa, to the inauguration of the second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2021. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman confirmed this development in a statement on Saturday, in Abuja. The event, billed for Nov. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN peacekeeping chief, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, says fighting terrorism remains the biggest challenge in the Africa’s Lake Chad Basin as lives are lost daily to terrorist attacks. Lacroix told the UN Security Council on Friday that the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region remained highly volatile, highlighting a rising tide of extremist […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria, is among prominent Nigerians that will receive the Zik Leadership Merit Award on Nov. 16. Mr Chineme Onyeke, Director-General (D-G) of Igbo Nsukka United Front (INUF), disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday in Nsukka. Onyeke said the event, scheduled to hold at Shehu […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres, has urged Libyans to forge a spirit of national unity and overcome any remaining differences ahead of landmark presidential and parliamentary elections in December. Guterres made the appeal in a video message to the Paris Conference on Libya, convened on Friday by French President Emmanuel Macron. Some 30 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General of Budget Office (DG), Dr Ben Akabueze, has lamented that over 30 million Nigerians who are generating taxable incomes are not paying tax, compounding the effort of the government to broaden its revenue. Speaking at an interactive forum with the media and civil society organizations in Abuja, Akabueze stated that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians in the Diaspora to always abide by the norms and rules of their host countries. President Buhari gave the charge during a meeting with Minister of State Foreign Affairs of United Arab Emirates (UAE), His Excellency Shaikh Shakboot Alnahyan, at the sidelines of the Paris Peace […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dele Momodu, a 2011 presidential candidate and veteran journalist, has opened up on why he opposes President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Momodu, Buhari’s administrative style is horrible; hence his opposition. In a post on his Facebook, the celebrity journalist accused Buhari of taking Nigeria back to the Stone Age. Stressing that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many people were feared dead and others burnt beyond recognition while five others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a ghastly auto accident on the Ore-Okitipupa axis of Ondo State. African Examiner reports that the accident which resulted into an inferno occurred due to a head-on collision involving a white Toyota Coaster […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution companies and all meter asset providers. The circular, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says revenue recently flowing into the nation’s treasury are majorly from non- oil and gas exports. This is contained in a statement by Josephine Ademu, Press and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation on Friday, in Abuja. The Vice President said this at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Europe has become the epicentre of the pandemic again, prompting some governments to consider re-imposing unpopular lockdowns. This is in the run-up to Christmas and stirring debate over whether vaccines alone are enough to tame COVID-19. Europe accounts for more than half of the average seven-day infections globally and about half of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 15 people have been wounded in an explosion inside a mosque in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, an official said on Friday. The Taliban’s local director of information and culture, Hanif Nangarhari, said the blast happened during Friday prayers in the province’s Spin Ghar district. Initial information indicated that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Governorship candidate in the Nov. 6 election in Anambra, on Friday received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the state Governor-Elect. African Examiner reports that the INEC National Commissioner Supervising Anambra, Mr Festus Okoye, presented the certificate […]
