(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Bank has granted Kenya 16.7 billion shillings (about 150 million dollars) to support the country’s climate action plan, the National Treasury said Wednesday. The Treasury said the money would be used to strengthen local resilience to the impact of climate change through a 10-year programme dubbed financially locally-led climate action starting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) has threatened to sanction airline operators and flights crew who allow unauthorised personnel into the cockpit during flight operations. The Director-General, NCAA, Capt. Musa Nuhu, issued the warning in a letter: NCAA/ DG/ AIR/1/11/324 dated Oct. 25 and addressed to accountable managers in Lagos on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 100 people have died and 200 others have been injured in several days of fighting between government troops and Islamists in the East African country of Somalia. The District Commissioner, Anas Abdi told dpa on Wednesday that around 100,000 people have fled the city of Guriel, also known as Guriceel, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr. Bassey Nyom of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), has warned Nigerian men to desist from being reactive in prostate cancer care, but rather seek ways of its prevention. Nyom, who gave the warning in an interview in Calabar, said it was unfortunate that Nigerians wait until they contract a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Ogun chapter ,in Sango-Ota, blocked the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway over the deplorable state of the highway. African Examiner reports that the NLC Lagos State chapter of the congress joined their Ogun counterpart to stage the protest. The protesters carried placards with inscriptions: ‘’we don’t want palliatives,” ‘’we want […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the commencement of the 12th edition of the Gulder Ultimate Search penultimate weekend, confusion has been the order of the day as contestants spent their first day in the jungle. The contestants met season’s host, Toke Makinwa and the taskmaster, Kunle Remi, as they arrived at the jungle entrance and the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has stated that he went to the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abuja, on his own volition, on Sunday, he was never arrested contrary to public views. The senator disclosed that he heard his name was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, has joined issues with his ex-wife, Precious Chikwendu, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Precious instituted a fundamental rights enforcement suit against Fani-Kayode, the Inspector-General of Police (I-GP) and his officers, claiming N800 million as damages. Listed as respondents in the suit are Deputy Inspector-General […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai has directed security agencies to investigate the lynching of three suspected bandits’ informants in Zangon Aya village, Igabi Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, made the disclosure in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Kaduna. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arsenal moved into the 2021/2022 League Cup quarter-finals with a victory over fellow English Premier League (EPL) side Leeds United on Tuesday. Arsenal eased through with second-half goals from Calum Chambers and Eddie Nketiah in a 2-0 win over struggling Leeds United. Chambers opened the scoring in the 55th minute, 23 seconds […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has ordered the immediate dissolution of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) Caretaker Committee headed by Musa Kida, ahead of the federation’s elections. In a letter addressed to Kida and Prof. Florence Adeyanju, member, Caretaker Committee, NBBF, the sports ministry, thanked the duo for their […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An independent UN human rights expert, Anaïs Marin says women in Belarus are being denied rights and freedoms, while female political activists are subjected to enforced disappearances, torture, ill-treatment and exile. Marin told the General Assembly that the government’s efforts to promote some rights of women at a policy level were rarely […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, predicted that the nation needed about $2.7 billion worth of investment to enable it meet the rising demand for petroleum products. In his keynote address at the 15th Oil Trading and Logistics, OTL, Africa Petroleum Downstream Expo 2021, in Lagos, the Group Managing Director of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A socio-political organisation under the aegis of Igbo Elders Consultative Forum has criticized the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra in Anambra State, disagreeing that it would give the enemies of the people the opportunity to ‘cook’ the results of the governorship election scheduled for November 6. The organisation, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Speaker of House of Representatives, Ghalli Na’Abba’s opinion that northerners are opposed to the zoning of the presidency because they have not benefitted from the administration of President Mohammadu Buhari, has been described as irresponsible, unpatriotic and undignified of a political leader who once occupied one of the highest political offices […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bukola Saraki, a former Senate President, has refuted claims that he would return to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Saraki disclosed this when he appeared on Arise News on Tuesday as he assured that he would remain in the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2023. According to him, he is a team […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, has warned against the spread of fake news, saying it may cause World War III. Mohammed stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives committee on information, national orientation, ethics and values to defend his ministry’s 2022 budget. According to the minister, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The coalition of Northern Groups has filed a case asking the court to compel the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives to hasten the exit of the South-eastern region out of Nigeria. They pleaded that this should be done before the conclusion of the ongoing amendment to Nigeria’s constitution. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have killed 16 worshippers at a mosque in central Nigeria, a government official said Tuesday, in the latest violence in the restive region. Scores of gunmen on motorcycles stormed Maza-Kuka village in Mashegu district of Niger state on Monday and opened fire during morning prayers, said Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, the secretary […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Seun Abimbola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and past Commissioner for Justice in Oyo State, has cautioned leaders across various strata of the society to be wary of putting ex-convicts in any public position. Abimbola stated in Ibadan that the Nigerian constitution forbade an ex-convict from contesting an elective position […]
