(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has bemoaned the way former Political Adviser to Ex- President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, was assassinated, saying he did not deserve to die that way. Gulak, was brutally murdered on Sunday morning while on his way to the Sam Mbakwe Cargo airport by those the police […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abubakar Bello, governor of Niger state, has reportedly travelled abroad amid perennial insecurity and fresh kidnap of schoolchildren of Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Rafi Local government of the state. The African Examiner reports that bandits had invaded the school on Sunday evening. According to reports, the bandits arrived in their numbers […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia’s food reserve agency on Monday assured that the country was food secure and would remain so in the foreseeable future. Kelvin Hambwezya, Food Reserve Agency (FRA) Chairperson, said the 3.6 million tons of maize produced in the 2020/2021 season and the 840,000-carryover stock from the previous season meant that the country […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An ethnic group in Namibia has rejected the agreement proposed by Germany to recognise the crimes of the German colonial power more than 100 years ago in what is now Namibia as genocide. The group, called association of chiefs of the Herero and Nama ethnic groups, demanded that the planned signing ceremony […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 18,639 individuals has been nabbed for alleged illegal border crossing since December 2020, making up to 248 per cent yearly, China’s National Immigration Administration said on Monday. Since the Ministry of Public Security launched a special campaign in 2020, authorities have investigated 6,732 criminal cases involving actions that will […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, has relieved four commissioners from their duties. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Christian Ita, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Calabar, the state capital. The affected commissioners are Mike Usibe (New City Development), Rita Ayim (Women Affairs), Asu Okang […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 51-year-old building materials merchant, Maduabuchi Linus Onwuamanam, was on Saturday gruesomely murdered at the Oremeji area of Mokola, on the Sango Roundabout Road, Ibadan, Oyo State. He was reportedly attacked by four gun-wielding assailants while he was at a relaxation spot in the area. One of his attackers was said to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The lifeless body of the Chief Provost of Imo State Command of Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), Okiemute Mrere, has been found in a bush along the Owerri, Port Harcourt Express road. He was reportedly killed yesterday by unknown armed men who dumped his corpse in a bush. The deceased was said to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors of the South East geo political zone of Nigeria, has condemned in strong terms the killing of Gulak Ahmed, a former political Adviser, to Ex- president Goodluck Jonathan, by unknown gunmen in Owerri, the Imo State, capital, describing the act as a national catastrophe. They spoke under their Forum platform on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ebonyi has discredited recent reports/ pictures flying on social media that a community in Ebonyi has been attacked by suspected gunmen in the early hours of Sunday. This is contained in a statement issued to reporters in Abakaliki on Sunday by the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given two weeks’ extension to candidates genuinely unable to complete their registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The deadline for registration was May 29, 2021. A statement by JAMB’s head of information and protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, noted that such candidates […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An explosion has rocked parts of mile 3 market in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, Rivers State. The incident, which occurred around 6:30am on Monday, sent people especially at Mile 3 motor park running to different places for safety. Though no life was lost, many people were reportedly injured. A source […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former presidential candidate and publisher of online news medium, SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, has been “shot” by a police operative in Abuja. Sowore was reportedly shot on Monday by a female police officer at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. The politician was at a rally with some associates when the incident happened. An […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Social and economic activities were grounded in Awka, Anambra State capital, on Monday following the Sit-at-home order (on May 31) given by the proscribed Biafra agitators, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The group said ,it declared a Sit-at-home order in remembrance of more than five million Igbo people who died during […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command on Monday said it has launched a manhunt for the killers of former Enugu State High Court Judge, Justice Stanley Nnaji. Justice Nnaji was reportedly killed by gunmen suspected to be assassins on Sunday evening. A statement by the Enugu State Police Command, however, could not identify […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Okwudor, Njaba Local Government Area of Imo, has been gutted by fire set by unknown gunmen. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Prof. Francis Ezeonu, made this known in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday, in Owerri. He confirmed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says the N200 billion facility earmarked for the Federal Government’s Social Housing Scheme was ready to commence disbursement for the project. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, in Abuja. The presidential aide […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) has stated that the only way to avert the death of Nigeria is to restructure. The forum on Sunday enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to address Nigerians on the numerous challenges facing the country. Edwin Clark, national leader of the SMBLF, disclosed this at a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member representing Nasarawa central, Ismail Danbaba, in the state house of assembly, has been abducted by suspected gunmen. According to news reports, Danbaba was kidnapped on Saturday evening along Akwanga/Jos road close to the forest in Sanga LGA of Kaduna state. Dangba was said to have been on his way to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sixty two out of the sixty-three newly promoted Senior officers of the Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have been decorated with their new ranks. Speaking weekend during the colorful ceremony held at the Conference Hall of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Independence Lay Out, Enugu, the State Comptroller […]
