(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ongoing violent clash among youths of Inalende, Abebi and Oopo areas of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has claimed more casualties. Though, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Adewale Osifeso, while confirming the incident, said he has yet to establish the number of casualties, a witness insisted that the casualties increased […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says it will soon begin prosecution of fans exhibiting hooliganism at match venues. NFF’s First Vice-President, Seyi Akinwunmi, said this while addressing participants at the Nigeria National League (NNL) Football Development Summit for Club Administrators and Media, in Abuja on Friday. Akinwunmi, who declared the event open on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of five new Permanent Secretaries into the civil service of the federation. This followed the recent successful conduct of the selection process of permanent secretaries. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan made the announcement in a statement by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW) has distanced itself from the violence that claimed lives and properties with many sustaining varying degrees of injuries at Iwo Road Ibadan and equally shift the blame on the Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State for empowering Mukaila Lamidi (aka Auxilliary) who is responsible […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Gov. Nasir El’ Rufai of Kaduna State has disclosed that 99 political appointees were sacked as part of government right sizing. El-Rufai, who made the disclosure at news briefing, said that the government was yet to disengage any state civil servant in the state. The governor explained that the disengaged political appointees constituted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka as Sunday Igboho, is set to visit Lagos for Yoruba Nation rally. African Examiner reports Yoruba nation protesters have held rallies across southwest states, including Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, and Ondo. Igboho in the past weeks expressed dissatisfaction over the continuous activities of killer herders in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three bodies have so far been recovered from the scene of Thursday night’s tanker explosion on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos State. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, confirmed the development in Ikeja on Friday. Our correspondent reports that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North) of N322 million money laundering charge Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke held that the agency failed to prove the elements of the offences for which it charged the lawmaker. Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, represents Delta North […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, has died aged 97, according to Zambian news platform. He was the country’s founding father and ruled for 27 years from 1964 after it gained independence from Britain. Kaunda’s death comes days after reports that he was admitted to Maina Soko military hospital in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Another set of female students of Federal Government Girls College have been abducted by Bandits in Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, according to Daily Trust. Details of the incident are still sketchy but there are reports that a security operative was shot dead during the operation. The attackers, who rode on motorcycles, were said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 127 suspected traffic robbers were arrested in different parts of Lagos metropolis in three months, Commissioner of Police (CP), Hakeem Odumosu, has said. Odumosu, confirmed this in a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos by the Command’s spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi. The Commissioner of Police who addressed some officers […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was a tense atmosphere in an Ikeja High Court on Wednesday night as Francis Atuche, a former Managing Director (MD) of Bank PHB, begged Justice Lateefa Okunnu not to send him to prison following his conviction for defrauding the bank of N25.7 billion. Atuche and Ugo Anyanwu, a former Chief Financial […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has called for urgent restoration of the people’s lost values of honesty and integrity in order to stamp out corruption in the country. The ICPC chairman made the call during a one-day Stakeholders Zonal Dialogue on the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian actor, Olanrewaju James (popularly known as Baba Ijesha), has been denied bail on Wednesday before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for alleged sexual assault and attempted rape of a minor and equally transferred the case to Lagos high court The 48-year-old man was arraigned on a four-count charge […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The dates for the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states have been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The election in Ekiti State will hold on Saturday, June 18, while that of Osun State will hold on July 16. This was announced by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senior Prophet Celestial Church of Christ Genesis Global, Israel Ogundipe has blamed gospel singer, Tope Alabi, for criticising a popular Christian song, Oniduro Mi. African Examiner reports in a video making the rounds on social media, Tope Alabi said God isn’t her guarantor because He’s more than a guarantor. She said: “God […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate President Ahmad Lawan has disclosed that Nigeria and Twitter need each other and called for peaceful resolution of the feud on the micro blogging platform twitter and the federal government. Lawan bared his mind at a briefing in Abuja to mark the second anniversary of the 9th Senate. He said: “Our […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari’s only made reference to Lagos while speaking on the future of the All Progressives Congress (APC)and has nothing to do with party stalwart Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Presidency said last night. During his interview with Arise TV, when the President was asked on his desire for the APC after […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Yoruba Appraisal Forum (YAF) has warned those planning a nationwide protest on June 12 Democracy Day to stay away from the South West. The group said people of the South West would neither support, tolerate nor join such protests, as the June 12 Democracy Day should be for celebration and not […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has advised State Governors to look inward towards finding solutions to security challenges particularly those occasioned by herders/farmers clashes in their states. The president gave the challenge during an interview with Arise Television which was televised on Thursday. He called for the resuscitation of the grassroots’ security panels in […]
