(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pan African financial institution, United Bank for Africa Group (UBA) Plc has released its unaudited results for the first quarter ended March 31st, 2020, showing double-digit improvement across all its major income lines. The bank leveraged on modest growth in both interest and non-interest income as well as increased efficiency to deliver […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Muslims have joined their counterparts in most parts of the world, to commence this year’s Ramadan fasting. The take-off of the annual spiritual rite followed the announcement of sighting of the moon late Thursday by the the President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), the Sultan of Sokoto, Saad Abubakar. Speaking on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State mainatins its lead in Nigeria, as it has recorded 78 out of 108 new confirmed cases COVID-19. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this via its Twitter handle late Thursday. The agency posted: “108 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported; 78 in Lagos, 14 in FCT, 5 in Ogun, 4 in Gombe, 3 in Borno, 2 in […]
By Tajudeen Balogun, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Apart from its deadly danger to human’s life, COVID-19 has wrecked sorrow and agony on many families in Nigeria as criminals, hoodlums are reportedly using the Point of Sale (POS) machine during robbery to steal victims money amidst government’s lockdown policy to curb the spread of the coronavirus. […]
… As Vandalism of NNPC Pipelines Spikes (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria recorded crude oil and gas export sale of $434.85million in January, 2020, an increase of 94.30 per cent pitched against the December 2019 figures, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) Monthly Financial and Operations Report, released today, in Abuja has stated. The statement by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Few days to the termination of the second two weeks lockdown order, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government (FG) not to extend the stay at home order aimed at containing the raging COVID-19 in the country. NLC in a letter dated April 14, 2020 and addressed to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unknown gunmen in the wee hours of Monday shot and killed an Assistant Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abeeka Abeeka, in Benue state. The officer was killed at Akile village, Tyo Mu along Makurdi-Gboko road at about 4am on Monday outside his house. The gunmen took to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egypt, on Wednesday, confirmed 169 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total infections discovered in the country so far to 3,659, said the Egyptian Health Ministry in a statement. Meanwhile, 12 patients died of the novel coronavirus in Egypt on Wednesday, raising the death toll to 276, according to the ministry’s spokesman, […]
Photo: Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it has rejected the submission of Bank Verification Number (BVN) as a condition for payment of February and March withheld salaries of lectures in the Federal Universities. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU President, said this in an interview with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is aimed at restoring sanity and prudence in the management of the Commission and will ensure the rapid development of the Niger Delta region. Speaking while handing over the preliminary report and documents of the verification exercise to the lead consultants of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In this COVID-19 era where movement is restricted in some major parts of the world – including Nigeria – with many Banks and business reengineering efforts to improve the adaptability of their customers to electronic ways of carrying out business, Firstmonie Agents, an agent banking initiative from First Bank of Nigeria Limited […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Borno State office, says it has shut down an illegal facility engaged in the production of unregistered yoghurt. The information was disclosed in a statement signed by the state Acting Coordinator, Mr Nasiru Mayo, and made available to News Agency of Nigeria […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After over three weeks of being tested positive, the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has recovered from dreaded coronavirus. Just like he did on March 28, El-Rufai disclosed his present state of health Wednesday via his Twitter handle. The tweet read: “I am delighted to report today, that after nearly four weeks of observing a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed 117 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), pandemic outbreak in the country. This brings the total number of cases confirmed to 782. According to the NCDC, 59 cases were discovered in Lagos, 23 in FCT, 14 in Kano, six in Borno, four in Kastina […]
By. Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi Nigerians would probably remember that on August 2015, that Abba Kyari was appointed the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. From there on Kyari became a more known and an influential figure within the Buhari administration, especially in this second term. During the first term, he worked mainly behind […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector General of Police (I-G), Mr Mohammed Adamu, had ordered the deployment of Ms Janet Agbede as the new Commissioner of Police in Abia. Consequently, the current commissioner of police Mr Okon Ene has been redeployed to the Force Headquarters. A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has approved the appointment of Mrs Bolanle Sarumi-Aliyu as his Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora. This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan by Moses Alao, the Special Assistant to the Governor on Print Media. Sarumi -Aliyu was the governorship candidate of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 15 suspects for allegedly violating the lockdown order of the state government. DSP Abdullahi Haruna, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Kano. NAN reports that Gov. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Rights Agenda (CRA) has condemned in the strongest terms the forceful and provocative conversion of Christian minor girls from Christianity to Islam by Kano state Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The CRA, in a statement issued by its interim director of Publicity Tom Chiahemen, noted that with concern that since becoming […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Richard Akinjide, is dead. The 88-year-old legal icon died in his Ibadan, Oyo State, home. Born in Ibadan, in the early 1930s, the late foremost lawyer and Ibadan High Chief attended Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife. He was a Minister of Education in the […]
