(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Ondo State have arrested two 35-year-old serial kidnappers, Olaoye Oluwatosin and Taiwo Olamide. The suspects allegedly kidnapped three persons in Ofosu, Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State between 2021 and 2022. Police spokesperson, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, paraded the duo before newsmen on Tuesday in Akure. Odunlami said they kidnapped […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah on Monday stated that his nephew and a driver abducted over three months ago are still in captivity. He made this revelation during the ongoing high-level forum on political communication and issue-based campaign in the 2023 general elections in Abuja, as he talked about […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Ebonyi State on Monday arraigned a 40-year-old-man, Uche Awegbe, before an Abakaliki Magistrate’s Court for allegedly threatening to kill the state governor, David Umahi. The police said Mr Awegbe had shot two residents of the state dead and caused communal crises in Effium, a crisis prone-community in Ohaukwu Local […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate will on Wednesday screen the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, it has been learnt. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, disclosed this in his address of welcome to Senators from their Annual Summer Recess during plenary. He said the Senate will also work on the Medium Term Expenditure […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Katsina State has arrested three suspected armed robbers who specialise in using charms to break houses in Daura Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Gambo Isah, stated this in a statement released to newsmen on Tuesday in Katsina. He said, “On Sept.12, 2022 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A political pressure group, Enugu State polling Booths Vanguard (ESPBV), has cautioned politicians in the state, particularly Chairman of a major opposition party in the area against blackmail and campaign of calumny against the 2023 gubernatorial Candidate of the peoples Democratic party PDP in the state, Barrister Peter Mbah. The group, regretted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 31-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, was on Monday, sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Ikeja Special Offences Court for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old student within a school premises. The convict was charged with defilement. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo held that the prosecution failed to establish the charge of defilement against the convict, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Octogenarian, and retired Federal Civil Servant, Chief Joseph Chuka Elobuike, from Eke, Udi Council Area of Enugu State, and his family have approached the State High Court, asking it to order their inlaw, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ambrose Maduabuchi, to Exhume and bring home the Corpse of his late […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, IMHA Rt. Hon. Barrister Kennedy Chidozie Ibeh, has Resigned from office. This was contrary to reports making rounds that he was impeached. A statement issued Monday by his Chief press Secretary, Ifeanyi Onyekachi, obtained by African Examiner read thus: “Is with due sense of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, better known as Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to 21 years imprisonment for abducting one Sylvanus Hafia. The duo were accused of conspiring and abducting Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia at about 5:30 pm on June 23, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, aka Davido, has berated the outgoing governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, concerning his claims of over-voting during the state’s July governorship elections. Taking to this Twitter account on Monday, Davido, nephew to Osun’s governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, accused the governor of “spreading lies” and killing his legacy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has blocked roads connecting to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos to express their unhappiness with the ongoing ASUU strike. African Examiner recalls that the students had earlier threatened to block the Lagos airport to protest against the strike. They however carried out their threat […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Officers of the Lagos State Police Command, Lagos Airport Police Command and students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, may be set for a showdown over the students’ plan to ground the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday (today). The students’ planned mass action is in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Osun have taken custody of a 28-year-old man, Ismail Adewuyi, found with a freshly-cut woman’s head and intestines in Ede area of the state. Police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated in Osogbo that the suspected ritualist was arrested on Saturday by one Isa Usman, a member of the Nigerian Hunters […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to address issue of indecent dressing in schools within Anambra state, the governor Charles Soludo led Government has placed a ban on the wearing of mini-length uniforms in schools across the state. The State Commissioner for Education, Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, disclosed this yesterday during an interactive meeting with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amstel Malta Marathon 20 km race will take place on Saturday, October 1st, 2022, in Enugu. Our Correspondent reports that the Star price money for the exercise, tagged: ‘Run for the Coal City’ organised by Kurioucity Sports Limited, will be 500,000 (five hundred thousand naira) for the first male and female finishers. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran better known as Jandour and his running mate, Funke Akindele, have visited the homes of two owners of the recently auctioned vehicles in Lagos. African Examiner recalls that on September 15, vehicles forfeited to the Lagos state government […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has refuted claims that he ordered the state police command to teargas supporters of the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, who did a one million-man march for their preferred political candidate in the state capital. Umahi made the declaration as he reacted to the allegation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Zamfara State have arrested 10 people suspected to be informants and suppliers of ammunition and other equipment to terrorists operating in parts of the state. Some of the items the police claimed it recovered from the suppliers include arms, ammunition, military uniforms, food items and motorcycles. In a statement, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Lagos State says it has reduced crime to the barest minimum in the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, gave the assurance during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos on Saturday. He said that criminal activities in the state had dropped much through effective […]
