(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has mourned the death of the Saturday Editor, the New Telegraph newspaper, Mr. Abdulwaheed Bakare. Late Bakare, it was learnt, died Sunday after a brief illness. MMPN National President, Abdur-Rahman Balogun in a statement issued late Sunday condoled with Mr. Bakare’s immediate family, describing the […]
By Emmanuel Adigwe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The conflict between the Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa and the minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami has gone to another level as both continue to tongue lash each other on Twitter. Abike Dabiri-Erewa had accused the minister of ordering gunmen to […]
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo – (akinadejum@aol.com) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Please, let’s get something right. There’s no leader who has ever ruled Nigeria that has ever meant bad or evil for Nigeria. None!!! They have always meant well for the country. But for the people? That is a subject for thought and deep consideration. It is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Corporation (NNPC) has explained the parametres for employment as well as career progression in the corporation, using the recently concluded Graduate Trainee employment process as well as top Management promotion exercise executed by the corporation as an illustration. The National Oil company says unblemished academic competence, logical thinking, ability […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Southeast Governors Forum has resolved to further engage the Nigerian Center for Disease Control ( NCDC) to scale up testing of Corona Virus in the zone, just as it directed its people living outside Igboland to obey all extant orders relating to the pandemic. Some of the extant orders […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian Reggae and Dancehall star, Cynthia Morgan, has disclosed why she stayed away from the spotlight and according to her; it was due to sickness and some family issues. Before now, some participants in the micro blogging scheme have always asked for her whereabouts, there was even a time when “Being back […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, led government in Abia state, South- East Nigeria, was at the weekend thrown into mourning, following the death of the Commissioner for Environment in Mr. Solomon Ogunji. Commissioner for Information in the state, Mr. John Okiyi Kalu, disclosed this to newsmen on Sunday in Umuahia, the Abia state capital, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The total number of Coronavirus – confirmed cases in Nigeria has risen to 7,526. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its daily briefing late Saturday via its Twitter handle announced that 133 of the new cases were found in Lagos, 34 in Oyo, 28 in Edo, 22 in the FCT, six […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has urged Muslims to continue on the path of spirituality and peaceful co-existence among every Lagos resident. Sanwo-Olu in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, on Saturday, congratulated Muslims in the state on the successful completion of this year’s Ramadan fasting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has announced the continuation of peace deals with leaders of bandits operating in the state for the attainment of total peace in the state. The governor stated this on Saturday in Gusau while condoling families of those attacked by bandits in some villages in the state. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said on Saturday that the east African nation will start engaging in massive cultivation of oil palm from October to end importation of edible oils. A statement by the Prime Minister’s office, issued in Kigoma region after Majaliwa had inspected oil palm seedlings nursery, said the premier […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A World War two veteran from Ghana, Ex-Private Ashiteye Hammond, has decided that he will have to walk two miles a day for a week as part of effort to raise money for coronavirus charities. The 95-year-old who has walked over 14 kilometres over seven days intend at raising 600,000 dollars to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Johannesburg NGO, ‘Door of Hope’, is worried as lots of families abandon their babies due to the terrible economic situation in the coronavirus lockdown. According to reports, since the shutdown, the organisation has received seven new babies. Expressing worry over the situation, Nadene Graham, Door of Hope operations director, stated: “The […]
Another Nollywood actor, Femi Oyewumi Aka Laditi , is dead. He was aged 51. According to reports, it was disclosed that he was suffering from chronic back pain and he died on his way to the hospital. The younger brother, Prince Kehinde Adegoke Oyewumi, who confirmed the news of his death in a Facebook post, […]
By Emmanuel Adigwe, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the lockdown measures of the Federal Government to curtail the spread of COVID-19 will soon be a thing of the pass. He stated this in Sallah message issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, […]
By Emmanuel Adigwe, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has opened up that the state spent N2.9 billion for Ramadan feeding. The governor who made the disclosure on Saturday revealed that some people in the state were fed by the government during Ramadan and cows worth N55.2 million (280 cows) were distributed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Rights Agenda (CRA) has described as heart-warming, the judgment of a Federal High Court in Yenogoa, Bayelsa State, over the case of Ese Oruru, who was abducted, converted to Islam and impregnated by one Yunusa Dahiru in Kano in 2015. In a statement by it’s interim Director of Publicity, Mr. […]
Written by Obinna Akukwe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Covid-19 will not swallow Nigeria according to the visions and revelations I saw on the high mountains and Bill Gates, NCDC, WHO and Covid-19 Task force should shut up! The vision that I saw was in four phases Phase1-Seen in February 2020- Flood of evil ravaging the world, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Senegalese striker, El Hadji Diouf, has stated that former Super Eagles captain, Jay Jay Okocha, is Africa’s most talented footballer and he wonder why the talented midfielder did not clinch many accolades. Speaking to told RSI, the former Liverpool and Bolton Wanderers forward, explained that he never said that he was […]
By Emmanuel Adigwe, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians on Twitter have taken to the micro-blogging platform to blast and praise their favorite music stars as they appraise their performances over the years. It all started when David Adeleke, popularly called Davido posted a picture of him and Wizkid on his Instagram handle remarking that they […]
