(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA) says it has the power to prosecute for noise pollution, churches and mosques that use loud speakers without control while worshipping. Prof. Aliyu Jauro, Director-General of NESREA made this known while speaking in Abuja. According to Jauro, noise is one of the serious […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are indications that Mrs Evelyn Joshua, the wife of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Temitope Joshua, will replace him as General Overseer of the church. Evelyn and Joshua were married for 31 years and had three children together until his death on June 5 at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has enjoined troops of Sector 2, Operation Lafiya Dole, to end insurgency in the North-East region. Yahaya made the call on Saturday during an operational visit to the troops of Sector 2 Operation Lafiya Dole in Damaturu. He said the visit was operational […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it has seized 646.23 kilograms of hard drugs and arrested 60 drug suspects in Imo State between January and June 2021. The seized drugs are Cannabis Sativa (Indian hemp) cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and tramadol while the suspects arrested were between the ages of 17 and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it impounded 835 articulated vehicles in 2020 under its Operation Scorpion I, II and III. The state Sector Commander, Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, gave the figure at a conference in Lagos on Friday. The conference on: “Curbing Crashes Involving Articulated Vehicles, was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Ngozichukwu Unaogu, on Saturday urged families to ensure that children and wards desist from experimenting or engaging in drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking. Unaogu, who is the Head, Training and Research of Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, gave the task while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army says its troops of 8 Division have eliminated an unspecified number of bandits in fierce encounters in Talata Marafa Local Government Areas of Zamfara. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said that troops, while on a fighting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services has reportedly invited controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, for questioning over his recent comments during an Arise TV interview claiming that Nigerian soldiers aid bandits’ activities. Our correspondent gathered that the controversial Islamic cleric was summoned to the DSS office in Kaduna State, according to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 21-year-old 300-level female student of University of Lagos on Thursday, told newsmen in Lagos that she stabbed Super TV CEO Michael Ataga to death in self defence. The student said this when she was presented by the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu at the command headquarters. African […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Friday proceed to London for medicals. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a two-paragraph statement on Thursday. The statement titled ‘President Buhari off to London Friday for medical follow-up,’ read, “President Muhammadu Buhari will proceed to London, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Actor Olarewaju James (alias Baba Ijesha) has been granted bail in the sum of 2 million naira with two sureties in like sum by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court . African Examiner reports that James had pleaded not guilty on arraignment on Thursday. He is standing trial on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 21 year old chidinma ,an undergraduate of the university of Lagos has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing the Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in the Lekki area of the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, said Chidinma has confessed to committing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Army has cautioned Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, against comments that encourages bandit. Gumi, who was a guest on Arise News morning show, claimed that some soldiers were conniving with bandits to perpetrate crime. Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, said in a statement: “The Nigerian Army […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Islamic Scholar Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi has urged the federal government to engage the services of bandits as forest guard Gumi, who was a guest on Arise News morning show, claimed that some soldiers were conniving with bandits to perpetrate crime and the blame should not be for bandits alone. He said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some commuters and residents plying the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway have lamented the activities of carjackers and robbers that usually operate at the end of the long bridge linking Lagos State with Ogun. African Examiner reports that many commuters were robbed at gun point late on Tuesday on the popular `long bridge’. The victims […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Jude Okeke-led National Working Committee of the All Progressives Grand Alliance on Wednesday, announced the suspension of a former Governor of the Central Bank, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo from the Party for anti-party activities. The Ag. National Publicity Secretary of the Chief Okeke-led faction, Ikechukwu Chukwunyere, stated this while briefing journalists […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Schools and businesses were shut in Ebonyi on Wednesday in compliance to the state Government declaration of public holiday in honour of the two civil commissioners in the state that died. African Examiner recalls that Governor David Umahi had on Tuesday declared Wednesday a state public holiday in honour of the commissioners. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said that its decision to suspend the activities of Twitter is well founded in law and it has not breach the citizens’ rights by so doing. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made this known in a presentation to the House of Representatives Joint Committee […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday disclosed that one of its members had been killed in Imoru community in Ose Local Government Area in the state. It was gathered that the deceased, identified as Bamidele Isibo, was shot by bandits on his way from Imoru to Ifon […]
