Photo: President Buhari (L) and President Trump (R) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Donald Trump welcomed the first leader from sub-Saharan Africa to the White House on Monday nearly 15 months into his term. The discussions with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari centered around security challenges, including the nearly decade-long insurgency by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered an interim forfeiture of two properties in the FCT linked to the wife of the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan. The properties in question are located at Plot No. 1960, Cadastral Zone A05, Maitama District and Plot No. 1350, Cadastral […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pan- African financial Institution, United Bank for Africa Plc, last thursday, ended its annual Group Chairman’s Forum, a platform for group integration, re-strategising and knowledge sharing with the overall aim of putting the bank on firm standing to actualize its goals and targets for the financial year. The theme of this year’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday commended constituents in Kogi West Senatorial District for resisting the move to recall Sen. Dino Melaye from the senate. Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, in a statement in Lokoja on Sunday, said that the people of Kogi West where he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Financial Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Ekiti, Mr Kayode Oni, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Oni was said to have been abducted on a spot on the Efon Alaaye-Erio-Ekiti federal highway while returning to his home, Aramoko Ekiti, headquarters of Ekiti West Local Government area late on Saturday. […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A bomb explosion occurred on Sunday at the country home of the President General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo at Ukehe, Igbo Etiti Council area of Enugu state. The police Bomb Disposal Unit said it was an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Uganda have rescued more than 100 hostages, including more than 90 children, from a mosque in the capital Kampala, said local police spokesman Emilio Kayima on Saturday. “Last night we rescued 94 children and 18 women who had been held captive in the Usafi mosque,” said Kayim. “We have arrested […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in South – East Nigeria, have urged people of the region and its governors to support the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, as it remains the easiest way to realise Igbo presidency in 2023. Some of the leaders who […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ishieke Campus of Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, was on Friday thrown into shock, as a 40-year-old man, Emmanuel Igwe, popularly known as Ezeugo from Amechi-Idodo community in Enugu State, committed suicide for unknown reasons. Until his demise, the deceased, was operating a restaurant in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Government got the sum of N12.949 Allocation from the Federation Account for the month of April. The State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, said in a statement on Friday that the amount represented a drop of N775 million from the allocation for the month of March which was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Absence of the first witness of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Lagos Friday stalled opening of its defence in the ongoing trial of the church’s board of trustees over their alleged culpability in the collapsed building which occurred Friday, September 12, 2014. No fewer than 116 people including foreign worshipers […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja on 28th April 2018, on an official working visit to the United States of America, on the invitation of President Donald Trump. President Buhari will have bilateral meeting with President Trump and a working lunch on Monday 30th April 2018. The meeting is to discuss ways […]
Photo: Del Nero (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The world Football Governing body has slammed a life ban on the head of the Brazilian Football Federation, Marco Polo Del Nero. FIFA which made this known Friday though a statement indicated that its action followed confirmation of gross financial misconduct investigation which was carried out on him. […]
Photo: Late Imam Imam (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Special Adviser to Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto on Media and Publicity, Malam Imam Imam is dead. Imam died around 3.am at the Nziamye Turkish Hospital Abuja after a brief illness on Friday. The younger brother, Abubakar Imam and his friend Muhammad Isa, confirmed that the deceased […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Odoru/Eburumiri Autonomous community in Nsukka council Area of Enugu state, South East Nigeria have stormed the local government headquarters to protest alleged imposition of one Mr. Emmanuel Ezema on them as their traditional ruler by the council. African Examiner reports that the protesters who trooped […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has described as the height of insensitivity on the part of President Muhammadu Buhari, for not visiting troubled Benue state to commiserate with the people and the Catholic Church that lost two high priest and 17 other worshippers in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government on Thursday said that it had prevented the payment of huge amount of money to payroll fraudsters in its local government councils totaling N3.912 bn annually as a fall out of the ongoing public sector reforms in the state. Speaking during a press conference, the Commissioner for Information and […]
Photo: Antoine Griezmann celebrates late equaliser against Arsenal (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A late equaliser from French striker Antoine Griezmann gave 10-man Atletico Madrid a precious away-goal advantage over Arsenal in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final at the Emirates. A night which looked like Arsenal’s ended with a 1-1 draw on Thursday. Arsenal were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The jury in Bill Cosby’s retrial found the TV icon guilty of all three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004. The 80-year-old comedian faces up to 10 years in prison on each count, but is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Mpape, has ordered that a brother to the embattled Senator representing Kogi West, Mr. Dino Melaye, Samuel, and three others, should be remanded in Kuje Prison. The court held that the quartet who were docked by the Nigerian Police Force for obstruction, should remain in […]
