Photo: President Faure Gnasingbe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Togo will hold a referendum in the coming days on limiting presidential terms, after parliament failed Tuesday to put such a change into the country’s constitution. Announcing the decision to put the constitutional change to a popular vote, parliament head Drama Dramani told lawmakers: “You have voted for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US President Donald Trump has declared North Korea and Iran as ”rogue Nations”, warning them against attempt to launch threat. Trump made the declaration Tuesday in his speech at the ongoing General Debate of the 72nd Session of the United Nation General Assembly in NewYork. President Muhammadu Buhari is also billed to […]
Photo: Dangote cement trucks …Sets up Hotline for Incident Reports (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Management of Dangote Industries Limited (Dangote Group) has issued a passionate appeal to members of the public to assist in monitoring and reporting both recklessness and illegal haulage of contrabands goods by some of its truck drivers. The company has also […]
Photo: President Buhari of Nigeria and his entourage to the UNGA 72, New York, USA By Tajudeen Balogun NEW YORK, US (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday affirmed that the most pressing threat to international peace and security today is the accelerated nuclear weapons development programme by North Korea. Speaking at the ongoing General […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan has faulted the plan by the Federal Government (FG) to extend the deployment of Military (Operation Crocodile Smile), for show of force, to the South South and South West zones of the country. The criticism was contained in a Facebook post by Jonathan’s aide on new […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operation code-names have been an important part of military operations since the Germans first applied them in World War 1 but it may be said that the recent (or ongoing?) controversial military exercise in the South Eastern part of Nigeria codenamed Operation Python Dance II is the first major incident in Nigerian […]
Photo: Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday announced a conditional suspension of the strike it embarked upon five weeks ago. But the union said that the suspension has time line for the Federal Government to implement what was contained in the memorandum of […]
Photo: Wayne Rooney (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former England captain and Everton Midfielder Wayne Rooney has appeared in court and admitted drink-driving. He was arrested when police stopped a car in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in the early hours on 1 September. The 31-year-old was banned from driving for two years and ordered to perform 100 hours of […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A one – day public hearing and consultation on true federalism organized for the South East geopolitical zone of Nigeria by the national body of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC has ended in Enugu with the State Chapter of the party, throwing its weight behind establishment […]
BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 15 people were killed Monday in a suicide bomb attack by the suspected Boko Haram members in Borno State, North East Nigeria. The blasts according to AFP occurred in the Konduga an area, of about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. It would […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) says it has uncovered plans by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the November 4, local government council election in the state. It however, cautioned the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) to resist the […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The Nigeria Football Federation NFF, future Super Eagles Competition for U-13 and U-15 boys was introduced in the country with a view to tackling the issue of age cheating syndrome in the country ,especially during international soccer fiestas, Coordinator of the championship in the South East- geo political zone, Hon Chidi […]
Photo: Nnamdi Kanu’s Father, His Royal Majesty, Israel Okwu Kanu, the paramount ruler of Isiama Afaraukwu in Umuahia (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Abia state group, Umuahia Youth Movement, has urged Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to dethrone His Royal Majesty, Israel Okwu Kanu, the paramount ruler of Isiama Afaraukwu in Umuahia, who is also the father of the […]
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned attacks last Friday attacks by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Yoruba mosque in Umuahia, Abia State, describing it as ”wicked, cowardly, unjustifiable and psychopathically sadistic.” It is well known that most Northerners who live in the South […]
Akintokunbo A Adejumo, akinadejum@aol.com “Prof. (Ishaq) Oloyede of JAMB has remitted 5billion to government early in August and yesterday announced another 3billion is ready to be remitted this week making it 8billion. The Finance minister made this announcement and some of us may have seen it. In 40 years of JAMB no kobo has ever been […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has alleged that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is being sponsored by certain disgruntled elements to sabotage the Buhari’s Administration, under the guise of fighting for the rights of the people of the South-east. Speaking at a press conference in […]
ABIA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For challenging the sovereignty of Nigeria, the Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has justified the deployment of troops in the South East region to checkmate the group’s activities. The former Abia State Governor stated this on the side-line of the opening of the 2017 Annual Youth […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations (UN) has declared that Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been given “a last chance” to halt an army offensive that has forced hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Rohingya to flee abroad. Antonio Guterres told the BBC unless she acted now, “the tragedy will […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Congolese security troops killed at least 36 Burundian refugees and injured more than 100 others during confrontations Friday over plans to return some of the refugees to their home country, officials and local activists said. Soldiers and police opened fire as the refugees tried to free some of their compatriots in Kamanyola, […]
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 24 hours Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi sacked the management and Board of Rangers International FC, he has inaugurated a 10-man Administrative Panel of Inquiry “to carry out a diagnostic investigation of its problems”. AFRICAN EXAMINER sports gathered that the Governor was sad with the alleged […]
