(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The new leader of the Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has vowed to continue pressing for the restructuring of Nigeria, saying those opposed to restructuring are enemies of Nigeria. Adebanjo, who was announced Afenifere leader by Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the immediate past leader, said he was surprised when the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Samuel Ortom said his convoy was attacked on Saturday while leaving his farm on Makurdi-Gboko Road Ortom, who appeared upset while speaking to journalists on Saturday at the Benue People’s House, Makurdi, said armed militia men, numbering about 15, advanced quickly towards his convoy with sophisticated weapons but were repelled by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the immediate suspension of Saturday’s House of Assembly bye -election in Ekiti State following bloody attacks that greeted the exercise Dr Tella Adeniran, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Ekiti State, made this known in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti, and also confirmed that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police broke up demonstrations by opposition movements and civil society groups in Chad’s capital N’Djamena Saturday, three weeks ahead of a presidential vote expected to be won by 30-year incumbent Idriss Deby Itno. With large numbers of officers on the streets, few were able to answer calls to turn out from opposition […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has criticized the fresh notice by the Academic Staff Union of Universities to embark on a fresh strike barely four months after calling off a 10-month industrial action. The government said any person conceiving a strike after close to one year of downing tools would be doing a disservice […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.),has stated that the South-West has the highest cases of drug abuse in Nigeria. Marwa disclosed this on Friday during the inauguration of a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts built by a group known as Ogbomoso First Initiative. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command has paraded a total of 40 criminal arrested for various crimes in parts of the state. Commissioner of police in the state, Mr. Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu, who briefed newsmen on Activities of the Command in the last one month at the Command’s headquarters in Enugu on Friday, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Actress, Jaiye Kuti, has said that she was surprised when she heard the viral rumour that she was married to a popular fuji artiste, Wasiu Alabi, aka Pasuma. Kuti made this known as a guest at Inspire Nigeria Summit, a virtual summit held to motivate young Nigerians. Reacting to the rumours being […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye has described Buhari’s administration as the “greatest scam that came out of Africa”. He spoke on the Channels TV programme Politics on Saturday Melaye who represented Kogi West in the Senate between 2015 and 2019, said he regretted supporting Buhari’s candidacy in 2015 when he was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected herdsmen on Saturday afternoon attacked the convoy of the Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom. The incident, according to the state government official, happened at Tyo Mu along Makurdi/Gboko road. It was also gathered that the governor was on his way to Makurdi, the state capital when the suspected herdsmen opened fire […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 13 persons have been killed while seven others were injured in series of bandits’ attacks on communities in Zangon Kataf, Kauru and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna State. In one of the attacks on Kizachi village, Kauru LGA, 56 houses, 16 motorcycles and several barns were razed. Kaduna […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA), the federal government Agency mandated to certify electricity meters imported into the country have been directed by the President to ensure the installation of 36 million meters nationwide by June 2021 Mr Goddy Jedy-Agba, the Minister of State for Power, disclosed this on Friday, after […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegal’s football federation has called on its French-based players to be released for upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, calling the league’s ban on internationals travelling outside the European Union “discriminatory” The French football league (LFP) announced this week that its clubs will bar non-European players for playing for their country later […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says it will appeal, rather than force anyone to take the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccines for COVID -19, according to Dr Olorunnibe Mamora, the Minister of State for health Mamora made the disclosure, in Asaba, while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after he inaugurated some projects at the Federal Medical […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo votes in presidential elections on Sunday with incumbent Denis Sassou Nguesso aiming to extend his decades-long hold on power in the Central African state. Sassou Nguesso has accumulated 36 years in office — he was most recently re-elected in 2016, after which the opposition was effectively sidelined and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025. Wearing a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, known as Sunday Igboho, has declared his support for the creation of the Yoruba nation. Captured speaking in a viral video, Igboho, who gained prominence following an ultimatum he issued to criminal herdsmen in the South-West, expressed the determination to defend Yoruba land. According to him, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the operations of local airline, Azman Air, to avert a national tragedy and loss of lives which may become inevitable if the airline continues to operate with disregard for safety procedures. NCAA Spokesman, Sam Adurogboye, said this in a statement titled, ‘NCAA Puts The Record […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unidentified gunmen on Thursday attacked a police patrol team along the Nimo-Neni link road in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra, leaving one personnel dead. A source alleged that three policemen were killed after which their rifles were carted away by the gunmen who set the police patrol vehicle ablaze. But the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has set in motion the machinery for the prosecution of a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, on criminal charges of threat to the life of his mistress, Chinyere Amuchienwa Already, the office of the Attorney General of the Federation had on Thursday told a Federal High Court […]
