(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rwandan police on Thursday arrested four people who had escaped from a COVID-19 treatment center in Eastern province. The quartet, who contracted the disease and were receiving treatment at the center set up at a secondary school in Ngoma district, escaped on Wednesday evening after breaking iron window bars, the Ngoma district […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eleven out of twelve aspirants seeking the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State have rejected the indirect mode of primary adopted for the July 20 primary in the state. The incumbent Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu was left out of the arrangement. In a letter signed by the governorship […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, has refused departure of 58 Nigerian doctors. The Spokesman of the service, Mr Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. James noted that the doctors attempted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, says 270 Nigerians are expected to arrive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja the nation’s capital following a successful evacuation from Egypt. Onyeama made this known via his twitter handle @GeoffreyOnyeama on Friday as he gives an update on the evacuation process. “@EGYPTAIR conveying Nationals […]
By Nwa Diokpa Nigerians on Twitter have expressed their frustration as the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kemebradikumo Pondei, disclosed that the commission spent N1.5 billion for staff as ‘COVID-19 relief funds’. Pondei disclosed this at the investigative hearing on the N40 billion corruption allegation against the commission. He stated […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the revised N10.8 trillion 2020 budget and directed the release of at least 50 per cent of the approved 2020 revised capital expenditure to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The Federal Executive Council (FEC) had on May 13, approved a revised budget of 10.523 trillion. […]
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The arrest of former Acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has continued to generate controversy as veteran Journalist and former presidential spokesperson, Segun Adeniyi, in his weekly column had narrated how Magu had stopped billionaire TY Danjuma from buying an aircraft and how TY Danjuma had rushed to President […]
By Nwa Diokpa A former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, has refuted claims that the EFCC searched any of his home. It will be recalled that veteran journalist, Olusegun Adeniyi, in his weekly column claimed that embattled EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, raide and searched the home of the former Head of State. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Command in Bayelsa has confirmed ten persons dead in a road traffic accident along Tombia-Amassoma road in the state. Mr Robert Ogom, the Sector Commander, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Yenagoa that three persons were injured in the incident which occurred […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded 499 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the country’s coronavirus case load to 30,748. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the disclosure on its official twitter handle late on Thursday. The NCDC said that as at the July 9, some 499 new confirmed cases and five deaths were recorded in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Kosofe Constituency II, Hon. Tunde Buraimoh is dead. Until his death, Buraimoh was the Chairman, Lagos House of Assembly Committee on Information, Strategy and Security. He was also a former chairman of Kosofe local government and the Bamofin of Ketuland. Confirming […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lebanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. Houssam Diab, on Thursday, walked out on members of the Nigerian House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, at a meeting which lawmakers now say was informal. Mr Diab was reportedly asked to appear before the committee to explain the alleged maltreatment of Nigerians in Lebanon. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says it has rescheduled the special evacuation flight for Nigerian citizens in Canada earlier scheduled for Friday. The Nigeria High Commission in Ottawa, in a statement, said the decision was based on request by the intending evacuees. According to the mission, the request followed their inability to get the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday sign into law the revised 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly in June. The Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, confirmed this on his tweeter handle in Abuja on Thursday. The two chambers of the National Assembly, Senate and House of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The absence of the stenographer at a Federal High Court in Abuja Thursday stalled the planned opening of trial in the suit against the immediate past Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF), Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita and nine others. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed an 18-count charge bordering on fraud […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A naval officer and two other persons Thursday were shot dead by unknown gunmen on Abuja-Lokoja road in Kogi State, North central Nigeria. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ayuba Ede, confirmed this to newsmen in Lokoja, the State capital. Ayuba told journalists that the sad incident occurred around 6p.m. While narrating, the […]
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The current crisis rocking the APC and happenings in the country has made many Nigerians to ponder about the ambition of the party leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. There are speculations that the APC leader may show interest to run for president in 2023 elections. However, with the crack and […]
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Justice of Ghana, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, has gone into self-isolation according to reports and he becomes the latest high-profile personality in Ghana to do so. In a statement signed by the Judicial Secretary, Cynthia Pamela Addo, which revealed that upon the advice of his doctors, the Justice took […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A cholera outbreak has killed 12 people in the fishing village of Londji in south Cameroon, local health authorities said Wednesday. Officials also announced 62 confirmed cases out of 83 suspected ones in the village located about 15 km from the country’s seaside resort town of Kribi. South regional governor Felix Nguele […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria COVID-19 cases has jumped to 30,249 cases as it recorded 460 cases on Wednesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on its official twitter handle. The NCDC said that as at July 8 new confirmed cases was 460 with 15 deaths recorded, while no new state had reported a […]
