(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governing board of the National Examinations Council has approved the appointment of Mr. Ebikibina John Ogborodi as the Acting Registrar/Chief Executive of the Council. The appointment followed the death of the Registrar, Professor Godswill Obioma on Monday, June 1, 2021, after a brief illness. Until his appointment, Mr. Ogborodi was the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), has stated that he never wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari asking him to suspend the use of the constitution. The AGF in a statement by his spokesperson, Umar Gwandu, advised Nigerians to disregard news reports accusing him of writing a secret memo to the president in […]
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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The staff of Chimola School in Akure, the Ondo state capital, who was in the school bus hijacked today by gunmen has been released. African Examiner gathered that the female attendant, identified as Peace, was released by the gunmen at lkota. But the gunmen went away with the school bus. The school […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Osun says efforts are ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspected armed robbers that killed four of its officers and three others in an attempted banks robbery in Ikire and Apomu Town on Wednesday. SP Yemisi Opalola, the Command Spokesperson, said in a statement on Thursday in Osogbo, that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, says popular social media giant, Twitter, should hold presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu; and Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed accountable for the controversial ‘civil war’ post on the President’s verified handle on Tuesday. It could be recalled that President Buhari on Tuesday, condemned the attacks […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen on motorcycles hijacked a school bus at Oba Ile Estate in Akure North Local Government thursday morning It is not yet clear how many pupils were inside the bus. Some eyewitnesses said pupils were inside the bus while others claimed only the attendant was taken away by the hoodlums. It was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some armed men on Wednesday struck in Ikire and Apomu, Irewole and Isokan local government areas of Osun State, killing five persons in Ikire after attacking two new generation banks and a police station. It was gathered that the armed robbers had earlier robbed a bank in Apomu town around 5:00 p.m. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to investigate recent deadly attacks by insurgents in the east and bring the perpetrators to account. Guterres, has strongly condemned the attacks, according to a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric. “The Secretary-General expresses his deepest […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Music star, Oladapo Oyebanji popularly known as D’banj, will this month (June) release a single from his next album entitled “Stressfree” to mark his next birthday. D’banj made the disclosure in Lagos during reward of 10 winners of the May edition of a raffle draw organised by his initiative, CREAM Platform. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, says the civil war analogy used by President Buhari referring to dealing with persons misbehaving in the country was “insensitive”. She disclosed this in a video statement on Wednesday as she reacted to a statement made by the President on Tuesday after meeting with the Chairman […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Femi Falana, has urged the Federal Government to engage various separatists groups in the country to douse tensions and agitations. Falana made the appeal while speaking at the South-West Zonal Public Hearing of the House of Representatives Special Committee on the Review of the 1999 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government has lashed out at social media giant, Twitter, for playing alleged double standards on issues concerning Nigeria’s domestic issues, describing the company’s role in Nigeria as suspect. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, reacting to questions over the reported deletion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweets reminiscing Nigerians’ […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Social media giant, Twitter, has deleted a controversial post by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on the Biafran war of 1967-1970 wherein many lives were lost. The tweet, which was posted on Tuesday, read in part, “Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded UNICEF $9,978,800 over three years to support the Nigerian government’s initiative to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara States in north-west Nigeria. The funds will provide lifesaving WASH services to more than 300,000 people in need of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling All Progressives Congress has stated that the insurgency which its government is facing was inherited from the administration led by the People’s Democratic Party. According to APC, the seed of insurgency was sown by the PDP “when it handled the Boko Haram insurgency in an inept and incompetent manner”. The […]
(African examiner) – THE Senate, on Wednesday, passed a bill seeking to abolish the gulf between the Higher National Diploma certificate and the university degree holders in the country. The piece of legislation, sponsored by Senator Ayo Akinyelure, passed the third reading on the floor of the Senate at plenary. The Chairman, Senate Committee on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted an Executive Bill to the Senate, seeking extension of retirement age for teachers from 60 to 65 years. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan read the letter on the floor of the senate at Wednesday’s plenary. Lawan explained that the bill would harmonised the retirement age for teachers in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have killed retired AIG Christopher Dega, Senior Special Assistant on Security to Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue. ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Plateau Police Command confirmed the incident on Tuesday in Jos. He said that the incident occurred on May 31st at a restaurant in Jos […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – First Bank of Nigeria has urged Nigerians to disregard the news making the rounds that its South East branches are closed. The rebuttal was contained in a statement sent to African Examiner and signed by Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications of the bank. The statement simply reads: “Public Announcement […]
