(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was wild jubilation by some residents of Maiduguri town following the restoration of electricity on Wednesday evening after two months of total blackout. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the two months blackout was caused by the destruction of some of the towers supplying electricity to the city from the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African finance ministers have expressed their joint concern over the slowness in accessing Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines as they appealed funding for vaccine equity. In their joint communique issued late Tuesday concerning Special Drawing Rights (SDR) for low-income and middle-income countries, the ministers noted with deep concern the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Morocco aanounced on Wednesday that it had suspended all flights to and from Mali, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, and Libya, to curb the spread of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variants. The Moroccan National Airport Office (ONDA) disclosed this in a statement posted on its website. It added that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FIFA said Wednesday it had extended the ban on its former president Sepp Blatter and former secretary-general Jerome Valcke by six years and eight months, in relation to the receipt of huge bonuses. Blatter, who is 85, received 23 million Swiss francs ($24.6 million) in “extraordinary bonuses” linked to the 2010 World […]
…It’s Pure Vendetta, Says Ani (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than a week after the Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, demolished a residential building belonging to the Chancellor of Coal City university, Mr. Chinedu Ani, the Agency has completely withdrawn the building approval it issued to the (latter) in 2016, for erection of his residence […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the sorry state of facilities in Nigeria’s health sector, a non governmental organization, Millennium Center For Training, and Leadership, with headquarters in Lagos, has identified lack of political will and mismanagement of resources by those in authorities as the key factors responsible for the mess in the sector. It noted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – JAMB says it has started the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration. A statement issued in Bwari, FCT, by its Head, Public Affairs and Protocols, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Wednesday says all potential candidates must provide their National Identity Number (NIN) at the point of registration. “This […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has blasted the style of government of President Muhammadu Buhari saying the President is too slow and Nigerians cannot wait for him to fix the county at his own pace. Baba-Ahmed stated this on Wednesday when he appeared on Arise Television saying […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has hinted that it destroyed substandard goods valued over eight hundred million Naira, N800,000,000.00, in Nigeria in the last five months. Director General/Chief Executive, of the organization, Mallam Farouk Salim, who disclosed this during the SON special day at the ongoing 32nd Enugu International Trade Fair, […]
By Christopher Adelabu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Frequently described as overstretched and underfunded, Nigeria’s military forces are fighting jihadists in the North-East and armed gangs in the North-West as well as dealing with communal conflicts in central regions, separatist tensions in the South-East and piracy in the nearby Gulf of Guinea. According to Ikemesit Effiong, head […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the release of its remarkable audited financial results for 2020, foremost Pan-African financial services conglomerate, United Capital Plc, held its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at Lagoon Restaurant, Victoria Island, Lagos. At the Annual General Meeting, which was held by proxy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo’s veteran president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has been re-elected with 88.57 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso, 77, has been in power for an accumulated 36 years, first taking the helm of the central African state in 1979. His landslide first-round victory, announced […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa’s largest cement producer, Dangote Cement Plc has remained a major contributor to the economy with a tax charge of N97 billion for the financial year ended 31st December 2020, even as it proposed a dividend of N16 per share. According to the cement group’s audited results released on the floor of […]
…Says Secession Not The Solution (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, says those calling for secession are doing so because of frustration. Fayemi disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on Arise Television, saying that the agitation by some for the breakaway of the South-West region from Nigeria and the establishment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State, some Nigerians are of the view that former Central Bank Governor, Charles Soludo, is not capable to lead the state. African Examiner reports that Soludo has declared his intention to run for the number one political position in the state under the […]
….. …Forfeit N206m, cars, houses to FG (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced two men, Tobiloba Ibrahim Bakare and Alimi Seun Sikiru, to three years imprisonment each, for hacking the emails of British Airways, Turkish Airways and KLM, and stealing no fewer than $750,000 and N120million Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, who convicted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has said that it was abnormal to produce Nigerian passports outside the country in view of its security features Rep Timehin Adelegbe, Vice Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said this at the public hearing on incessant malpractices associated with diplomatic postings and deliberate draining of resources in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership of Ishi-Ozalla Autonomous Community Town Union in Nkanu West Council area of Enugu state, South East, Nigeria, has dismissed allegation of Ostracization of some people in the locality as claimed recently by some individuals. African Examiner reports that former Nigeria’s minister of information and National Orientation, Mr. Frank Nweke hails from […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has described the recently approved rehabilitation exercise of the 210,000 barrels per day capacity Port Harcourt Refinery as a worthy undertaking embarked upon after diligent consideration and in strict adherence to industry best standards. Speaking to reporters at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has received and accepted the petition filed by the Mutual Union of Tiv in America; a petition earlier rejected by the deputy speaker. However, at a plenary session on Tuesday the speaker called on Hon Mark Gbillah, Gwer-East/Gwer-West Federal Constituency in Benue State […]
