(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja received his third booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the Presidential Villa. The president had taken his first jab of the vaccine on March 6 and the second jab on May 29, 2021. African Examiner reports that the third vaccine was administered on the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A businesswoman, Mrs Loveth Oyakhilome, has told an FCT High Court in Kubwa that a 34-year-old church usher, Patrick Ekene defiled her eight-year-old daughter. Ekene is charged by the police on one count of rape. Oyakhilome, who, was led in evidence by the Prosecution Counsel, John Ijagbemi said the defendant called her […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Local Government Councilor representing Ward 5 in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Hon. Jude Adjekpogu, who was shot by suspected Fulani herdsmen some days ago is dead. The councilor passed on early hours of Thursday at Warri where he has been receiving treatment in an undisclosed private hospital. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has explained that expired vaccines has been withdrawn and will be destroyed accordingly by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). This was due to the news circulating on social media handles that some vaccines donated to Nigeria by partners had long expired. In a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with parents, relations and friends of Ojodu Grammar School students who lost their lives in a tragic accident on Tuesday, along Isheri Road, Ojodu, in Lagos State. The president’s condolence message was contained in a statement released by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Wednesday in Abuja. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Four students of Delta State University (DELSU) and five others abducted on Saturday, have regained their freedom. Spokesman of the Police Command in the state, DSP Bright Edafe, confirmed the release of the abductees in Warri . The victims were kidnapped on the Abraka-Eku Road in Ethiope East Local Government Area of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to pay the Convener, #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, the sum of N2 million over unlawful seizure of his mobile phone in 2019 at the point of his arrest. Justice Anwuli Chikere, in a judgment, also ordered the DSS to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has shut down Bab Fafunwa Millennium School, Ojodu, formerly Ojodu Grammar School until January 2022. A trailer had on Tuesday crushed some pupils of the school. Some of the students died on the spot, while some others were injured. The incident sparked outrage among the students and inhabitants […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was rampage in Idogbo Secondary School, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, as students of the school in a viral video , went haywire, setting a section of the school ablaze, equally vandalizing the principal’s office. They were said to have also harassed a policeman on duty in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday repatriated another 180 stranded Nigerians in Libya. Mr Kabiru Musa, Charge d’ Affairs of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. Musa said that the 180 stranded Nigerians, who departed from Mitiga Airport, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chiemeka Arinze, one of the codefendants in the alleged kidnap trial of Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has died in the custody of Correctional Services. African Examiner reports that Arinze was charged alongside, Evans, Joseph Emeka, and Udeme Upong with the attempted kidnap of Chief Vincent Obianodo, the Chairman of the Young Shall […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian traders has condemned ECOWAS’ silence over border closure by the Ghanaian government thereby violating the policy on free movement in the region. Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji, President of the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG), made the call in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Nnaji, who spoke against the backdrop […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has increased registration fees for school candidates for West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) from N13,950 to N18,000, beginning from 2022. WAEC Head of National Office (HNO), Mr Patrick Areghan, made this known while announcing the release of results of the 2021 WASSCE for school […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Founder and Senior Pastor of Salvation Ministries, Port Harcourt, David Ibiyeomie, has said anyone whose phone rings in a church is suffering from poverty mentality. The clergyman, who said this while delivering a sermon to his congregation on Sunday, said such can never be found with a wealthy person. “Anyone whose phone […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has announced the closure of Marina road from Apongbon Bridge due to the ongoing Blue Line Rail Project. The General Manager, LASTMA, Mr Bolaji Oreagba, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Lagos entiled: “Traffic advisory from LASTMA.” Oreagba suggested alternative routes for motorists […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An APC governorship aspirant in Zamfara in the 2019 governorship election, Alhaji Sagir Hamida, has been killed by unknown gunmen Sunday evening, A family source confirmed the incidence to our correspondent. African Examiner gathered from the deceased’s elder brother, Kabiru Hamida, that Sagir was killed near Abuja while he was returning for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 35-year-old lawyer, Aina Odetayo, who allegedly assaulted her 12-year-old nephew with a hot knife over N500 theft, has appeared before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Odetayo, who resides at Agege, Lagos State, is facing trial on a three-count charge bordering on assault and inflicting bodily injury. The prosecutor, Insp. Michael […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sokoto State’s Gov. Aminu Tambuwal on Thursday confirmed the killing of 43 persons in Monday’s bandits attack on Illela Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a statement issued by Tambuwal’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Malam Muhammad Bello, on Thursday in Sokoto. Bello said Tambuwal led members […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to make it compulsory for the Federal Government to provide free health care services for children in Nigeria. The legislation, which was sponsored by a member, Bello Kaoje, is titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Make Health Care Service […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed the North West Zonal Congress of the party, earlier scheduled to hold on November 20. The party, in a statement issued by its National Organising Secretary, Col. Austin Akobundu (rtd.), in Abuja, said the NWC approved the postponement of […]
