(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles defender, Chidozie Awaziem has said he is all but ready for the team’s clash against Guinea Bissau on Wednesday. Awaziem missed the Super Eagles’ first two Group matches against Egypt and Sudan but has recovered ahead of the last Group D game against Guinea Bissau on Wednesday. The former Porto […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kashim Shettima, former governor of Borno state, has endorsed the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos state. Speaking at a Tinubu support group press conference in Abuja on Monday, Shettima stated that Bola Tinubu has done a lot for Nigeria and the citizens owe him a debt of gratitude. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government and transportation stakeholders on Tuesday introduced and signed a consolidated levy of N800 for the informal transport sector. Speaking at the signing ceremony and ticket unveiling at Ikeja, the Commissioner for Finance, Dr Rabiu Olowo, said that there was need for the harmonised levy. Olowo said the harmonisation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Babafemi Ojudu, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Political Matters, has stated that he won’t be supporting the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ojudu disclosed this in a statement he signed saying that he would not support Tinubu’s presidential ambition because of his “principled […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has assured Nigerians that he will solve Nigeria’s debt and economic challenges if elected president in 2023. Anyim disclosed this in a statement signed and issued to the press by his media aide, Daniel Okorie, also saying that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian award-winning singer, David Adeleke, aka Davido, has knocked down his cousin, Bamidele Adeleke, concerning his interest to run in the 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election. The singer took to his Twitter page on Tuesday as he uploaded a picture of his cousin, where his cousin posed with a provisional clearance certificate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed men suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Tuesday, stormed a Catholic church in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, South East, Nigeria, and disrupted ongoing Mass celebration. The gunmen, who invaded the church, queried the parish priest on why he was celebrating a mass […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Not less than 200 indigent widows of Akwu-Achi in Oji River Council area of Enugu State, South East Nigeria, yesterday smiled home yesterday as they received cash money, assorted food items, including bags of rice, cartons of indomie Noodles, amongst others from Spokesman of Chevron oil company, Mr. Victor Chimaobi Anyaegbudike The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has granted a Dubai- based internet celebrity, Ismailia Mustapha, aka Mompha bail of N200 million with two sureties in the like sum. The court granted his application for bail filed through his lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole (SAN). Justice Dada ordered that one of two […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress has announced that its national convention will hold on February 26. This was stated by the Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday. He was speaking at the Progressives Women Congress held in Abuja. Details later…
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a 1.2 million -bag paddy rice pyramid, in Abuja. President Buhari commended the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for Initiating the Anchor Borrowers Programme, through which the massive rice production was achieved. In his address at the event this morning, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The planned re-arraignment of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafran (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on an amended terrorism charge was stalled on Tuesday before a Federal High Court in Abuja. At the mention of the case, lead defence lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) sought for time to enable him study the amended […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila has declared that the Green Chamber will reintroduce the Electoral Act amendment bill on Wednesday. He said the House has resolved to rework the bill and send back to the President as quickly as possible for assent. He also announced the first set of amendments […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Authorities of the Railway Police Barrack in Enugu, South- East Nigeria, have served Ejection notice and 24-day ultimatum to some serving police officers to pack out from the Barrack. The ejection Notice signed by the Area Commander, Railway Area Command, Eastern District, ACP Bawa Daniel ordered the concerned officers to vacate their […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered prisons’ officers to shoot dead anybody who attempts to attack any prison in the country. The minister gave the order while inspecting the facility at the Agodi Custodial Centre in Ibadan. Aregbesola said any attack on any prison is an attack on the state and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hoodlums enforcing the suspended sit-at-home yesterday unleashed terror as they destroy vehicles and flogged traders in Enugu State for disobeying the directives They flogged traders and destroyed their wares at about 8 am. The hoodlums, who came into the commercial town on motorcycles, beat up traders who had opened for business. They […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles head coach, Austin Eguavoen, says his team will go for the maximum three points against Guinea-Bissau in their final Group D game at the Roumdé Adjia Stadium in Garoua on Wednesday. The Eagles are top of the group on six points and are already through to the round of 16, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States and the British Government have turned down a request by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to send representatives to observe the his trial holding at the Federal High Court, Abuja Division on January 18, 19, and 20. While the US said it was limiting […]
AFRICAN EXAMINER – President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has charged African leaders and citizens to be united in the promotion of the continent’s intrinsic greatness through improved trade relations amongst African countries. Speaking at the formal launch of the Pan-African Payment & Settlement System (PAPSS), which is a centralised payment and settlement infrastructure platform […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government on Monday, entered fresh terrorism allegations against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. FG, in the amended process it filed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, increased the counts in the initial charge it preferred against Kanu. The IPOB leader […]
