(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday said Ukraine believes there was still a chance of resolving the West’s standoff with Russia through diplomacy. Kuleba made the statements when he visited Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares adding that there are already grounds to impose sanctions on Moscow. The United States and the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles’ Interim Technical Adviser, Augustine Eguavoen, says the appointment of former teammate Emmanuel Amuneke to assist him at the senior national team is “a very good development”. Eguavoen stated in Ilorin on Wednesday that the coming of Amuneke would be a great addition to the quality of the team’s coaching. African […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Manger of Plateau Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Mr Peter Kassam, says open defecation is punishable under the law in Shedam Local Government and residents found culpable of such acts risk imprisonment. He made this known in an interview on Wednesday in Jos, observing that Shendam is the first […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents in a community in Oyo town have uncovered activities of suspected ritualists in an uncompleted building in the area. Our correspondent gathered that those living close to the building, which is along the Oyo-Ilora Road, in the Oyo West Local Government Area, Oyo State, started combing the bushes after perceiving a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The detention of Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has been extended by six months. The Counsel for the detained activist, Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN confirmed the extended incarceration of his client. But this is contrary to claim by Abuja-based human rights lawyer Pelumi Olajengbesi on Saturday that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The kidnapped cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Jephthah Robert, has been released by his captors after spending 14 days in their custody. Jephthah was kidnapped on January 24 in front of his residence at Biogbolo-Epie suburb of Yenagoa, the state capital. Austin Ekeinde, a media aide to the victim’s younger brother, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Afrobeat maestro Femi Kuti has declared that he wants to be cremated when he dies. Kuti said he doesn’t want to be buried with a loud ceremony but prefers cremation and a close-knit burial ceremony. The son of late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti disclosed this at the New Africa Shrine during […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 22,160kg of codeine syrup, methamphetamine and cannabis have been seized at Apapa seaport and a notorious drug den, Akala, in Mushin, Lagos in two major operations in the state by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement yesterday that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Abuja-based human rights lawyer Pelumi Olajengbesi has hinted Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, will soon be released from detention. Although Olajengbesi has since resigned from the team of Nigerian lawyers for Igboho, he advised Yoruba leaders not to be selfish. Igboho has been in detention in Benin Republic […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Political tides against the Igbos on their competency not to provide credible leadership to Nigeria has been described as political antics to deny them their right to be president of Nigeria. Speaking on Arise TV, Thursday, February 3, Okwesilieze Nwodo, former governor of Enugu state and one time National Secretary of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disagreement trails over wearing of hijab by Muslim students in Oyun Baptist High School (OBHS), Ijagbo, Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State has left one dead while others sustained different degrees of injuries. An anonymous source disclosed that unknown people armed with dangerous weapons unleashed terror on peaceful protesters at the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police have arrested 33 suspected criminals, including members of different kidnapping gangs terrorising motorists and travelers on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The suspected kidnappers, who were arrested by men of the Oyo State Police Command, included those operating at the Onigari section of the expressway, where some wedding guests were recently abducted. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting at Isabo, Ogun State, on Thursday has ordered four teenagers who allegedly murdered a 20-year -old girl, Sofiat Kehinde, be remanded in prison for two months. The defendants, Balogun Mustaqeem, 20; Majekodunmi Soliudeen,18; Abdulgafar Lukman,19; and Waris Oladeinde,18; were arraigned on two counts of conspiracy and murder. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed Senate Deputy Minority Leader Emmanuel Bwacha to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Bwacha, representing Taraba South, defected from the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He was presented to Buhari by Chairman of APC National Caretaker Committee Governor Mai Mala- Buni at the State House, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension as hoodlums on Thursday evening attacked the campaign office of Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola after factional members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osogbo held their weekly meeting. African Examiner gathered the hoodlums invaded the premises of the campaign office Aregbesola used before his emergence as Governor around 5:30 pm. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism, including 424 associates/supporters of the financiers. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known during a briefing on the anti-corruption fight of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s regime on Thursday. The minister also said the fraud […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fear has gripped the residents of Oguta Local government area in Imo State as a retired police officer, Chris Kpatuma was beheaded by Gunmen . African Examiner gathered that the retired policeman was murdered on his farm and his severed body brought back to his house by his attackers. A family source, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nollywood Yoruba actor, John Adewuni, popularly known as Tafa Oloyede is dead. According to Osun state Secretary of the Theater Arts and Motion Picture Producers Association of Nigeria, Ademola Oyedokun, the late Tafa Oloyede died in Osogbo on Tuesday. He said, “He (Tafa Oloyede) is dead. I just left the mortuary. I […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The management of Abia State University Uturu, ABSU, has banned students from driving private vehicles on campus. The ban was contained in a press statement issued Tuesday by the Registrar, Dr. Acho Elendu. The action is believed to be part of efforts to avoid an ostentatious show of affluence or flagrance display […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Winner of BBNaija season 4 Lockdown edition, Mercy Eke aka Lambo has stated she can’t wait to experience pregnancy. The entrepreneur revealed this in a recent tweet in reaction to the news of Rihanna’s pregnancy for her boyfriend, A$AP Rocky. While the reality TV star divulged her thirst to experience conception at […]
