(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eleven persons have been reportedly killed in a fresh attack on a Tiv settlement by suspected Fulani armed militia in Benue State. The state Police Public Relation Officer, Moses Yamu, who confirmed the attack in a chat with Journalists was however unable to ascertain the number of casualties in the attack. The […]
…As Kachickwu Denies Plot to Hike Pump Price ONDO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has sealed four erring filling stations in Owo Local Government area of Ondo State, South West Nigeria for hoarding PMS also called fuel and selling it above the N145/litre regulated pump price. DPR controller in charge […]
By Niyi Adeyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite declaring its Director Nnamdi Kanu wanted, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has announced the launch of its Hausa Radio Service. The Spokesman of the group Emma Powerful dropped this hint in a statement he issued Thursday. Mr. Powerful confirmed that the radio would hit airwaves […]
BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Again, one of the abducted Chibok girls Salomi Pagu has been rescued by the troops under the Operation Lafiya Dole deployed in Pulka, Gwoza Local Government area of Borno State. The girl was abducted alongside over 200 of her classmates from their school hostels by the Boko Haram terrorists in […]
Photo: minister of Petroleum Resources Dr Ibe Kachickwu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister of Petroleum Resources Dr Ibe Kachickwu has again restated the need to address the price differentials in the sale of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) in the country from its current N145 per litre. He said currently that the landing cost of a litre […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa’s football governing body, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has named Mohamed Salah of Egypt and Liverpool as the 2017 African Player of the year. Mohamed Salah beat Sadio Mane of Senegal and Liverpool, and Gabon’s Pierre Emerick Aubameyang who plays for Dortmund. he takes over from Algeria’s Riyad Mahrez who […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo (akinadejum@aol.com) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The elation over Nigeria’s experiment in democracy is over. Reality is once again at our doorstep with the worrying questions about our future – the calibre of those running (or ruining) the country, security, impunity of those in power, marginalisation, restructuring, economic slump, poor governance structure, etc. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru on Thursday disclosed that the nation lost about 148,533000 million litres of fuel to diversion during the December fuel crisis, in Nigeria. Speaking at an investigative public hearing by a Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Petroleum […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government on Thursday said there is no cause for alarm, calling on fleeing members of Ndoro community in Ekeremor local government area of the state to return home as everything is now under control. The assurance is coming in the wake of a meeting between Governor Seriake Dickson, security chiefs, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kakatar Construction and Engineering Ltd and its Managing Director, Azibaola Robert are not part of any scam involving alleged diversion of monies allegedly meant to settle insurance premium of sacked PHCN workers, the company’s spokesman Mr. Austin Ekeinde has said. Ekheinde made the clarification against allegations that Kakatar CE Ltd. was part […]
TARABA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sum of N75m has been allegedly placed on the kidnapped Taraba State House of Assembly member Hon. Hosea Ibi by his suspected abductors. It was learnt Thursday that the gunmen who abducted the Legislator who is representing Takum 1 constituency of the North central State have contacted a family […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) Wednesday confirmed it has dispatched its memorandum to the House of Representatives over the investigation on recent refusal of call to bar of a Muslim female Law graduate – Miss AbdulSalaam Firdaus Amasa in Abuja. Following the incident, the House Committee on Judiciary and […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President and returnee chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has added his voice to the fresh cases of killings in Rivers and Kaduna States, describing the incidents as unacceptable. The former number two man regretted the cycle of blood-letting that has […]
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Lagos State Government Wednesday sealed off a Petrol Filling Station, an Hotel and Event Centre belonging to a suspected Badoo cult kingpin – Alhaji Alaka Abayomi Kamal. The structures which are situated along Ijebu-Ode-Itoikin Road in Sabo area of Ikorodu were sealed for violating the State’s Urban and Regional Planning […]
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South East Governors Forum has condemned in strong terms the New Year’s killings in Omoku, the headquarters of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni council Area of Rivers State, South- South Nigeria, describing the incident as height of insanity and barbarism. Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Ebonyi state, Chief […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the current fuel scarcity fails to abate across the country, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu said he is yet to have a reliable evidence to implicate any marketer as the brain behind the crisis which has lasted for about a month. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It was another night of reward, with FirstBank showcasing the strength of its brand by winning two of the three awards up for grab in the keenly contested Nigerian Electronic Fraud Forum (NeFF) 2017 Annual Dinner and Awards Night held at the Federal Palace Hotel on the 14th of December 2017. FirstBank […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria, OPAN, Nigeria’s premier association of digital/new media publishers, has condemned the arrest of the duo of Daniel Elombah and Tim Elombah, the Publisher and Editor respectively, of United Kingdom based online news website, Elombah.com by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, of the Nigeria Police Force on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – George Weah’s emergence as Liberia’s President-elect after the December 26 run-off election generated considerable interest among Nigerians for a number of reasons. Number one is George Weah’s popularity. The first African footballer to win the Ballon D’or, FIFA Player of the Year, three-time African Footballer of the Year, ex-Monaco, ex-Paris Saint-Germain, ex-AC […]
By Jerome-Mario Utomi With the Saturday 6th, January 2018 Delta state Local Council polls now around the corner, all eyes are on the state. This feeling is understandable as the ‘’ground of battle’ and the battlers have swiftly become unpredictable, full of intrigues and uncertainty. But what is adding fuel to this political battle in […]
