(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led a coup to topple elected head of state Roch Marc Christian Kabore. In a televised ceremony, Damiba swore an oath before the country’s top constitutional body to “preserve, respect, uphold and defend […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A senior advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, on Wednesday, claimed that former Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari may be reabsorbed into the Nigeria Police Force, NPF. Adegboruwa disclosed this when he accused the Nigerian Police of treating Kyari’s case with levity. The activist lawyer who was reacting to Kyari’s indictment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome(SAN), who is the lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that his client’s sight had deteriorated. Ozekhome told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, that Kanu, who is currently in custody of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Black marketers on Wednesday took advantage of the lingering scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to make brisk business from residents and motorists in Lagos State. African Examiner reports that the ongoing scarcity of PMS, also known as petrol, is due to the withdrawal of the off-spec products imported into the country […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen on Tuesday night reportedly killed several persons during an invasion of the newly constructed Abia cattle market in Omumauzor in Ukwa West local area of Abia State. African Examiner gathered the midnight attack kept the villagers anxious. It was gathered that security operatives have taken over the area to maintain peace. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, on Wednesday, has grounded commercial activities in Onitsha, Nnewi, Oba, and some parts of Awka in Anambra State. African Examiner correspondent went round some major cities, observed that banks, motor parks, filling stations, markets and shops were shut. The roads were also […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Carmelite Prisoners Interest Organisation (CAPIO), a non-profit organisation has decried the recent killing of Police and custom Officers in Enugu State. The Executive Director of CAPIO, Rev. Fr. Jude Isiguzo, condemned the killing in a statement in Enugu on Wednesday. Isiguzo noted that public assassination of citizens and security agents in […]
…Delivers Judgment Against Enugu East Council Area (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Enugu State High Court, presided over by Justice Cyprian Ajah on Tuesday delivered a judgment that it is illegal for local government areas in the state and country in general to be collecting business premises levies from citizens. A human Rights group, Civil Rights […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Singer Davido has made true his promise of donating N250 million to 292 orphanages in 27 States. The final disbursement occurred exactly 89 days after he announced his decision to donate generously to orphanages across Nigeria. The award-winning singer announced that the five-man committee, which was set up in November 2021 to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the final forfeiture of 24 landed property belonging to a top military officer. The anti-graft agency said the property valued at N10. 9bn were controlled through proxies. According to a statement on Tuesday by the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, Justice N. E Maha of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN senior official in Somalia, James Swan, told the Security Council on Tuesday that some 7.7 million Somalis require humanitarian assistance in 2022, with 4.3 million impacted by drought and more than 270,000 displaced. Swan, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), told the Council […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Health Organsiation (WHO) says progress in the overall survival rate for children with cancer is uneven across Europe, with a significant proportion of the thousands diagnosed with cancer each year still dying. The new WHO report sets out for the first time the scale of childhood cancer inequalities in the European […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Death threats have been made against several Bayern Munich players via an anonymous letter, a police spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. “We are investigating on suspicion of threats and disturbing the public peace by threatening to commit a crime,” said the spokesperson, who did not provide further details. The Bild newspaper had reported […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited says it is distributing one billion litres of safe Premium Motor Spirit, known as petrol, in its stock to various fuel stations nationwide. The NNPC also noted that 2.3 billion litres of PMS would arrive in Nigeria between now and February ending to address the current […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, on Tuesday directed the closure of all satellite units of the Intelligence Response Team and Special Tactical Squad. Baba gave this directive a few hours after the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police and Head, Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force, Abba Kyari, was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja to join European and other African leaders as well as heads of multilateral organizations at the 6th European Union-African Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium. The President’s media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this development in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. According to Shehu, the Summit […]
.. As legal tussle commence (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The crisis rocking the Enugu state Chapter of the All progressive Congress APC has shifted to the court, as the Adolphus Ude led faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State has declared that the certificate of return given to Mr. Ugochukwu Agballah by the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Local authorities on Tuesday reported that militants armed with guns and machetes killed at least 15 people and injured four in an early morning raid on a village in Congo’s eastern Ituri province. Sector chief Innocent Matukadala said attackers stormed the village of Syeri Aberkozo just before dawn, hacking residents with machetes […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of the Central Bank of Nigerians, Godwin Emefiele, has opened up concerning calls for him to contest for presidency in the 2023 presidential election. Emefiele, in a statement made when a ‘group of his friends’, tagged ‘Friends of Godwin Emefiele’, visited him to discuss the controversy over his rumored presidential ambition […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, Lagos State Chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rt. Rev. Stephen Adegbite, will arrange and educate voters before the 2023 general elections. The cleric disclosed this when he announced that the 2022 Inter-Denominational Divine Service, will be held on Saturday, 20th February, to pray for peace in the […]
