(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division Nigerian Army, Enugu, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, has honored four soldiers serving in the Division for their diligence to duties. The honored soldiers, Staff Seargent Amodu Simon, Sergeant Oyinbo Emmanuel, Corporal Mbanaso Isaac and Private Ibrahim Lawal, who were honored during an event held on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have attacked the convoy of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 12 with Headquarters in Bauchi, Audu Madaki, injuring him and killing one of his police guards. Although the reports are still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, it was learnt that the AIG was on his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Osun said the corpse of a 65-year-old woman, declared missing in Ilesa, was found on her farm with one of her eyes plucked. Yemisi Opalola, the police spokesperson in the state, said in a statement that the deceased’s daughter reported the discovery of her mother’s corpse to the police. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular journalist and columnist, Sam Omatseye, has alleged that supporters of Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, were issuing death threats against him. It could be recalled that Omatseye had published in The Nation newspaper an opinion piece titled ‘Obi-tuary’ which generated lots of controversies on social media. In the piece […]
…As Exercise Excites Parents (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to catch them young in Taekwondo Sport, the Enugu state Association of the game, this weekend staged the 1st ever U- 15 boys and girls exhibition of the sport at the indoor Sports Hall of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu. African Examiner Sports Correspondent […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Concerned Stakeholders of the Enugu State Chapter of the All progressive Congress APC, have declared that the use of falsified national delegates lists from the State by the embattled State Chairman of the party, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa, during the just concluded presidential primaries may likely rock the boat for the party through […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says over seven million Nigerians who carried out their voter pre-registration online did not complete the process at physical centres. This is as the continuous voter registration exercise (CVR) came to an end on Sunday. In June 2021, the commission began the CVR exercise and launched […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent terrorist attacks in Sokoto, Kaduna and Plateau states describing the attacks as barbaric . This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by Senior Special Assistant to the President, Mallam Garba Shehu. While expressing his condolence to the families of those who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed Mrs. Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, née Ndongo-Seh, as Acting Vice-President of its Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery Complex, with effect from 1st August Akin-Olugbade, a Cameroonian national, is currently the Director General of the Business Development and Delivery Office for the West Africa Region of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Host communities of the Oil Mining Licence (OML) 11 in Rivers and Abia States have rejected Sahara Energy except the federal government, through Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), dialogue with them on the operatorship of the licence. The communities under the aegis of Ogoni, Asa, Imo River OML11 Oil Producing Communities insisted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Terrorists that attacked the AK-9 Abuja-Kaduna train and abducted passengers on March 28, have, on Tuesday, released five more hostages including a victim shot while in their custody, Mukhtar Shuaibu. Shuaibu was shot during a “friendly fire” while in the den of the terrorists. Tukur Mamu, the Publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The vice presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kashim Shettima, has stated that if elected, his principal, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu would be fair and just to all Nigerians, no matter their tribe, religion, and political affiliations. Shettima made this known on Tuesday at the one-year memorial service held […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has enjoined the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to pay former Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr a compensation fee of $378,000. It could be recalled that Rohr was sacked by the NFF last December, a few weeks before the start of the 2021 Africa Cup […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many persons were on Tuesday morning burnt to death and five others critically injured after two vehicles collided in Lagos. The accident, which occurred around 3am at Alaro City inward Epe, involved a passenger bus carrying 23 men and a tipper conveying sand. Two people escaped unhurt. While the Federal Road Safety […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Youths stormed the streets of Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State, to protest the alleged killing of innocent indigenes by the Ebubeagu Security Network. The protesters, under the aegis of Igbo Youths numbering over 200, marched through Umule, Faulks, Aba-Owerri Expressway and among other major roads in Aba, causing gridlock along […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja commended collective efforts of nations towards tackling security challenges across the globe, and within Nigeria, urging more collaboration to check terrorism, banditry and insurgency. According to a statement issued and signed by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, Buhari […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of its ongoing tour of the six geo political zone of Nigeria to drum support for the ruling All progressive Congress APC presidential Candidate, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, ahead of the 2023 polls, a political pressure group under the platform of ‘Omaluegwuoku Progressive Initiative’ (OPI) weekend stormed Calabar, Cross River […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States on Saturday in a drone strike killed al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, President Joe Biden said Monday in a speech from the White House. “I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield, once and for all,” CNN quoted Mr Biden as saying. Mr Zawahiri, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) yesterday declined comment on the alleged arrest of a suspected Boko Haram Commander in Ogun State. Spokesman for the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunnaya, who was contacted by our correspondent on the issue, said he had no reaction. Similarly, the Ogun State Police Command denied knowledge of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that its presidential flag-bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is the only candidate with a better understanding of Nigerian youths and their aspirations. This was announced by the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Yakubu Ajaka, at a town hall meeting with young Nigerians in diaspora […]
