BALTIOMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Everton Defender John Stones has been signed by Manchester City with the sum of £47.5m. Stones who signed a six-year deal has been named in the City’s official Champions League squad, published on the UEFA website prior to confirmation of his transfer. In his remarks, the elated defender confessed: […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As his relationships with some western nations continue to wane, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived St Petersburg with the main target of reviewing ties with Russia via talks with President Vladimir Putin. It would be recalled that bilateral relationship between the two countries crumbled last November when Turkey […]
By Leo Igwe The reactions that have trailed the decision by the Buhari government to subsidize this year’s Hajj, despite the fact that the Nigerian economy is in recession, underscores the necessity of separating church (mosque) and state. Last year, President Buhari announced the discontinuation of state sponsorship of both Muslim and Christian pilgrimages as […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 13 year old United states of America,(USA) footballer, Alex Fung on sunday put smile on faces of his peers in Enugu, as he donated dozens of soccer boots valued several Thousands of dollars to the coal city boys. Before making the presentation to the Enugu […]
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria media mogul and Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi has denied the allegation that he is one of the sponsors of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, a notorious militant group from the oil producing region of Nigeria. A statement issued […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The new Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar/Chief Executive Prof Is-haq Oloyede has announced a five-point agenda, which include staff welfare and ensure he hands over a more advanced and efficient agency. Other areas of focus according to Prof. Oloyede are: “discipline, improved technology, transparency and advanced […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Paul Pogba has finally arrived his new club Manchester United for a medical. The France midfielder came ahead of his 89 million pounds transfer from Juventus. Pogba flew from Nice into Manchester Airport Monday before making his way to the club’s training ground. Man U is expected to pay the […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Banky W has declared that his planned wedding will be out of public. In his latest posts, the singer who ranks high among the Nigerian music stars indicated that his entire life has been “a show”, therefore has resolved to give his incoming wedding an enclosed approach. Among his speculated […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 63 people have been killed while 120 were injured in a suicide bomb attack at a hospital in Quetta South-West Pakistan. The attack according to officials occurred at the entrance of an emergency department where the body of a prominent lawyer Bilal Anwar Kasi shot dead early […]
By Niyi Adeyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan raised death threat alarm against him by the Movement For Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, have denied allegation of funding the raging Niger Delta Avengers (NDA). Special […]
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU , NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police Command has confirmed the arrest of leader of a kidnap syndicate that recently abducted, kill, and buried an over 80 years old woman in Enugu community,after collecting 5million ransom from the family members. Ebere Amaraizu, the state police public Relations officer, […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has raised the alarm that the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) are planning to kill him even as he disassociated himself from the notorious Niger Delta Avengers. A faction of the Niger Delta Avengers over the weekend named the former president and other Ijaw […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s seems to be enjoying more popularity in his country, as hundreds of thousands of people gathered in country’s biggest city, Istanbul, for an anti-coup rally. Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt Friday July 15, 2016. Over 270 people died in the failed mutiny. Interestingly, Erdogan […]
By Ayo Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the arrested suspects who abducted the Oniba of Iba land, Oba Goriola Oseni has narrated how they kidnapped the monarch and successfully collected N15.1 million ransom before releasing him. The monarch was released on Saturday by his abductors after spending three weeks in captivity in […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As reactions continue to trail the exchange rate flexibility for the year’s pilgrims, the National Hajj Commission has denied being given FOREX waiver by the Federal Government (FG). The Commission’s denial was made in a statement issued Sunday in Abuja by its Head of Media, Alhaji Uba […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has once again expressed its willingness to engage the new Super Eagles Manager Mr. Gernot Rohr. Indication to appoint the new Coach emerged last Friday. Speaking on the new move, NFF technical committee Vice Chairman Ahmed Yusuf Fresh, indicated that his committee was impressed with […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to leave Nigeria Monday for N’Djamena to join other Heads of State and Government for the inauguration of the re-elected President Idriss Deby of Chad. In a statement issued Sunday by his SA on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, President Buhari will be accompanied […]
By Leo Igwe Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, is at it again. Last year, when he pledged to stop state sponsorship of pilgrimages, some people were skeptical about Buhari’s intentions. They doubted if he would, given his religious track record, make good his promise. On the other hand, many people applauded the move and thought that […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government on Friday announced the closure of the Marine Bridge Road (Inward Ijora), Apapa area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria in preparation to commence repair works on it. The repair work according to a statement from the State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Dayo Mobereola would be carried out by contractors […]
By Ayo Balogun EDO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo State Governor Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said the state government is not responsible for the failure of local government authorities to pay their workers, explaining that he meets the monthly wage obligation to the state workers. He explained that the Local Government workers must […]
