(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos is to quit the club, the La Liga giants announced Wednesday. Real said there would be an “act of tribute and farewell” to Ramos on Thursday in the presence of club president Florentino Perez. Ramos, 35, has struggled with injuries this season and has played just five […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unknown armed men have reportedly kidnapped Rivers United FC of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, South- South Nigeria, Coach, Mr. Stanley Eguma. His Abductors are reportedly demanding N10 million as ransom for his release. Although the Rivers State owned Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) club side is yet to make any official statement […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank has approved a $1.4 million grant from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme to improve household food security in Zambia. The grant which is aimed at reducing malnutrition among the Southern African nation’s most vulnerable households in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The Mitigating Impacts of Covid-19 on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Catholic Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama has described democracy under President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime as a mixture of dictatorship as he condemns the Twitter ban in Nigeria. The archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja on Tuesday urged Mr Buhari to provide a good life for Nigerians and preserve the things that make them […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A frontline Civil Rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writer Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Mohammadu Buhari to ensure that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa is given adequate protection. The EFCC chairman had recently raised an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Canon Central and North Africa (CCNA) is a division within Canon Middle East FZ LLC (CME) and a subsidiary of Canon Europe has reaffirmed its commitment to building closer ties and collaborations with its customers in Africa. CCNA on Wednesday invited film and photography communities to get closer and announce collaborations with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed 749 polling units from inappropriate facilities. The commission took away nine polling units from shrines and several others from religious houses, royal palaces, and private properties. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has called for urgent restoration of the people’s lost values of honesty and integrity in order to stamp out corruption in the country. The ICPC chairman made the call during a one-day Stakeholders Zonal Dialogue on the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian actor, Olanrewaju James (popularly known as Baba Ijesha), has been denied bail on Wednesday before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for alleged sexual assault and attempted rape of a minor and equally transferred the case to Lagos high court The 48-year-old man was arraigned on a four-count charge […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The dates for the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states have been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The election in Ekiti State will hold on Saturday, June 18, while that of Osun State will hold on July 16. This was announced by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is afraid of breaching any law or the constitution of the country. Ngige disclosed this when he appeared on ‘News Night’ on Channels Television . According to him, Buhari is a democrat and that former President Olusegun Obasanjo will […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has says corruption is fighting back as he has been receiving death threats since he came on board as the chairman of the anti-graft agency. He disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme. When asked on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Against the backdrop of the clamour for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023, Chairman of Enugu State Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has asked politicians in the region with ambition for the exalted office, to come out of their comfort zone and start indicating […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eighteen companies are to face sanctions from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for allegedly abusing the country’s foreign exchange auction system. Dr John Mangudya, the RBZ governor on Tuesday said the companies face allegations of flouting the Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 (SI 127) put in place to provide for penalties […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senior Prophet Celestial Church of Christ Genesis Global, Israel Ogundipe has blamed gospel singer, Tope Alabi, for criticising a popular Christian song, Oniduro Mi. African Examiner reports in a video making the rounds on social media, Tope Alabi said God isn’t her guarantor because He’s more than a guarantor. She said: “God […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya who has a pending case of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold has been re-elected as the federation’s president for the next five years. Rushwaya (53) who was released on $100 000 bail some months back, was retained as president of the federation in elections […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says it is undemocratic for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to shift his constitutional responsibility of securing lives and property of Nigerians to state governors. The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, said the President is the Commander- In-Chief of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday signed an agreement with South Sudan to provide meals to more than 530,000 children in the country. The meals will be provided in 1,100 schools across the ten states for a period of 19 months. Adeyinka Badejo, WFP Deputy Country Director for South Sudan, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the health of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide is at risk from the illegal processing of old electrical or electronic devices. WHO raised the alert on Tuesday in a landmark new report on the toxic threat, entitled: “Children and Digital Dumpsites’’. In a statement coinciding […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo says the state governmant is working out a welfare package, including an insurance scheme, for the police personnel in the state. A statement issued in Owerri on Tuesday by Mr Oguwike Nwachuku, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, stated that Uzodinma announced the plan during a […]
