(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner for lands and Urban Development Enugu state, South East Nigeria , Dr. Victor Nnam, has given reason why he resigned his appointment, saying his action is in protest against the sudden removal of some departmental Heads under his ministry by the Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi led government. Nnam, a Surveyor by profession […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has urged the military to show restraint and not to create any more victims as mass civil protests against the military coup planned for Saturday in Sudan. Guterres made the appeal while speaking to journalists in Rome on Friday, ahead of the weekend’s G20 Summit in the Italian […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kano Police Command has announced the arrest of no fewer than 59 suspected armed robbers and drug dealers during the just concluded ‘Eid-Maulud’ celebrations, according to the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa. In a statement issued in Kano, Haruna-Kiyawa said 35 suspects were arrested for armed robbery, while the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Emmanuel Osodeke, has revealed how the union, during its last negotiations, rejected Federal Government’s plan to increase school fees of all university students to N1m. He said government’s plan was to open an education bank and give each student a loan of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, has denied media reports that the commission’s operatives carried out an operation in Justice Mary Odili’s house, in Abuja. Bawa made the denial on Friday night while featuring on Channels Television, in Abuja. He stated that the news emanated from some mischief […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, have reopened the institution closed on Oct. 2, following a protest by the students.. This is contained in a statement by the University’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju on Friday in Ile-Ife. Olarewaju said that the decision to reopen the University was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – How did Africans, and people of African descent become so detested in the Western world? How is it that black skin color became so resented by some Europeans when in fact Africans were the first human beings in the world and all other “races” evolved from Africans? How did the concept of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Juventus president Andrea Agnelli is refusing to give up hope on the European Super League (ESL) while insisting no player, not even Cristiano Ronaldo, is bigger than Juventus. Juve were one of 12 prospective founding members to announce their intention to form the breakaway, closed-shop competition involving Europe’s elite. The news of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The German economy continued on its upward path in the third quarter, posting quarter-on-quarter Gross Domestic Product(GDP) growth of 1.8 per cent based largely on consumer spending. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported on Friday. According to the latest figures from Destatis, German GDP grew by 1.9 per cent in the second […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Examination Council (NECO) on Friday announced the release of the results of the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) conducted nationwide in July. NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Dantali Wushishi, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Minna. He said that out of 1,233,631 candidates who registered; 1,226,631 actually […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after a five-day visit to Riyadh, Madinah and Makkah in Saudi Arabia. African Examiner reports that the presidential aircraft conveying the president and some members of his entourage departed the Royal Terminal of the King Abdulaziz International Airport Jeddah for Abuja at about 15.45 p.m […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – NAFDAC has urged the public, healthcare professionals, distributors and importers who are in possession of recalled lots of Ruzurgi (Amifampridine) 10mg tablets to discontinue sale or use. The warning is in a statement signed by the agency’s Director-General, Prof. Moji Adeyeye on Friday in Abuja, following the recall of the drug by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Appeal Court in Port Harcourt has dismissed a suit by the suspended national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondud meant to stop the party’s convention. The Court also ordered the PDP to go ahead with the party’s national convention scheduled to hold in Abuja Saturday and Sunday. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he will leave office when his tenure ends May 29, 2023. President Buhari disclosed this during a meeting in Makkah with a select group of Nigerians resident in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he just ended a visit. He warned against campaigns for tenure extension […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As plans for the 2023 elections draw near, the National Consultative Front (NCFront), is about to launch a new political party. The group, which is made up of Prof Pat Utomi, Prof Attahiru Jega, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) and other notable members disclosed that NCFront will launch a“credible alternative mega ideological party by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has stated that Nigeria is “in a mess” and that the country is currently ”disintegrating before our very eyes”. Soyinka disclosed this during a media briefing held at the Freedom Park in Lagos . The elder statesman who was worried by the state of the nation stated that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Six people were found dead after a mudslide buried workers at an illegal gold mining site in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan province, an official said on Friday. Two other miners survived the accident in Kutawaringin Timur district on Thursday, said Rihel Magat, the head of the local civil protection agency. “We suspect that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has said that the Lagos Blue rail lines will be operational by Dec. 31, 2022. The Railway Engineer of LAMATA, Mr Joseph Akinpelu, said this when he led 57 Students of Leisure and Tourism Management (LTM), Yaba College of Technology (YabaTech), Epe campus, on sensitisation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, has declared war against the operators of brothels and commercial sex workers in the territory as part of efforts to safeguard the health of residents. Malam Sani Amar, the Acting Director, Social Welfare Services, FCT Social Development Secretariat (SDS), made this known when he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Outrage as the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated that Nigeria is safer now than it was in 2015, as regional groups in the country did not only disagree with him but also contended he was living in fantasyland. The minister was, however reacting to the report on Nigeria […]
