(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday, produced Form CF001, containing WAEC-GCE certificate and Secondary School Testimonial of Gov. Ademola Adeleke before the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Osogbo. This was in compliance with the order of Justice Tertsea Kume, the Tribunal Chairman, on Nov. 25. Kume had ordered the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 82 Division of the Nigerian Army has lambasted a rights group, International Society for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law Intersociety, over false allegations against the General officer GOC Commanding the Division. It said “the attention of the 82 Division Nigerian Army has been drawn to a libelous and diminishing narrative […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A student of Federal University Dutse (FUD), Aminu Muhammad, has been remanded in prison because of his tweet on Aisha Buhari. African Examiner writes that Muhammad, who is from Azare in Bauchi state, is a final-year student at the department of environmental management and he was arrested by the police because of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State on Tuesday announced the killing of its women leader, Victoria Chintex, by suspected gunmen in the Kaura Local Government Area of the state. The publicity secretary of the party in the southern Kaduna zone, Edward Buju, in a statement said she was shot dead at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd), has called for the cooperation and support of traditional rulers in the Niger Delta region for the reform of the intervention programme. Gen. Ndiomu, disclosed that the monarchs who are custodians of the culture and tradition of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governorship aspirant and founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State Sani Shaaban has resigned his membership of the party with immediate effect. Shaaban, a former member of the House of Representatives, contested in the May, 25th, 2022 APC governorship primary held in Kaduna State which was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Operatives of Enugu State Command have arrested a total of seventeen (17) criminal suspects, including one (1) female and a native Doctor for offences of conspiracy, murder, armed robbery, truck snatching, abduction and unlawful possession of firearm. The Command’s Spokesman, Daniel Ndukwe DSP, in a statement made available to Newsmen Tuesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State wing of the Southwest Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corps has recovered AK-47 rifles, military camouflage and other items hidden in a forest in the state by suspected kidnappers. Commandant of the corps in Oyo State, Col. Olayinka Olayanju (retd.), told newsmen in Ibadan, on Monday, that the corps recovered […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fire has razed 150 improvised shops at the Kachako Central Market in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State. This news of the fire incident is contained in a statement issued in Kano by the spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi. He said the incident occurred on Monday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The pioneer Deputy state Chairman of the All progressive Congress APC in Enugu State, Comrade Adolphus Ude, has alerted the national leadership of the party on what he called ‘senseless’ changing of its name to New APC by the Embattled Chairman of the party in Enugu state, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa. He posited […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 24 hours after his inauguration, Osun Governor Senator Ademola Adeleke has sacked 12,000 workers and ordered the dethronement of three monarchs. The Governor also nullified the appointment of 30 Permanent Secretaries and suspended the chairman and members of Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). The affected monarchs include Akinrun of Ikinrun […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A section of the popular Onitsha, main market, in Anambra State, South East Nigeria, has been gutted by a mysterious fire which has damaged goods worth several millions of naira. As at the time of filing this report, cause of the inferno , which reportedly began around midnight is yet to be […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular broadcaster and socialite, Ifedayo Olarinde, a.k.a Daddy Freeze, has reacted to the revelation made by the general overseer of Power City International Church, Pastor Abel Damina, concerning the death of the popular Nigerian gospel singer, Sammie Okposo. Pastor Abel Damina, in his sermon in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, disclosed that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three persons died on Saturday while nine others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Nissan car and a Toyota sienna at Fidiwo bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Sector Commander of the FRSC in Ogun, Ahmed Umar, confirmed the incident to journalists in Abeokuta on Sunday. Mr Umar explained that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) —Hoodlums have set ablaze the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, destroying, among others, 340 ballot boxes and yet to be determined quantity of Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs. The attack is the third on INEC’s local government offices in less than three weeks, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of its Civil Military Cooperation (CIMIC) programme under the Exercise GOLDEN DAWN II, the 14 Brigade Nigerian Army, on Saturday organised a medical outreach for the people of Afaraku community in Umuahia North Council Area of Abia State, and where the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra […]
…Vows To Keep Supporting Women To Excel (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya says his administration will continue to hold women in high esteem and support their cause to excel, considering their role in the development of the society. Governor Inuwa stated this yesterday in Abuja, when he received an award as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gboyega Oyetola, the former governor of Osun, has stated that he left N14 billion in the state’s coffers and he never took a loan in his tenure. African Examiner recalls that Governor Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party was sworn in after he defeated Oyetola of the All Progressive Congress. In Oyetola’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Enugu State Command, Joachim Olumba PCC, has stressed the need for the organization to entrench a culture whereby all persons seeking it’s services are treated fairly, decently, and effectively. He said although, “the NIS has recorded considerable transformation since inception, but “there is […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The paramount Traditional ruler of Obeagu Ugwuaji Autonomous Community in Enugu South Council area of Enugu State, Igwe Christopher Ikenga, and members of his Cabinet, have dismissed the alleged Misconduct, land grabbing, and intimidation of the people of Isiagu Village, Ugwuaji Awkunanaw in same local government leveled against him and his son, […]
