(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have signed a $9.73 grant agreement to implement Phase 1 of the Upstream Project for Digital Market Development in Africa. The project comes as the backdrop of the Covid-19-induced recession that exposed several gaps in the African digital economy ecosystem. It […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have killed no fewer than four persons, including a former Commissioner in Enugu State, Chief Gab Onuzuluike. The incidents occurred on Friday evening at Oji River LGA and Aguikpa community in Nkanu East council area of the state Onuzulike, who was also a former Local Government Chairman of Oji-River, was shot […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Robert Lewandowski and his Poland teammates enjoyed a special World Cup send-off accompanied by fighter jets but critics questioned the use of military resources. Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak took to public radio on Friday to defend the decision to escort the team plane through Polish airspace the previous day. “It’s a good […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) has assured that he will lift 130 million people out of poverty if he is voted into office come the 2023 general election. Obi stated this after attending the NKST Synod in Mkar, Gboko Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has tasked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to negotiate with the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi ahead of the 2023 elections. Fayose also enjoined the PDP leaders to solve the crisis with rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike’s faction of the party. The former governor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the payment of funds owed to states in the Niger Delta since 1999. Wike stated this on Friday at the inauguration of the Nabo Graham Douglas campus of the Nigerian Law School in Rumueme, Port Harcourt. Wike stated that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has announced a $5 million First Emergency Response grant to tackle drought in Somalia. The grant which brings ECW’s total investments in Somalia to $33 million to date, is aimed at addressing the devastating ongoing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Founder and Executive Director of PROMAD, an Abuja-based civic-tech non-profit organisation, Daisi Omokungbe has warned that Nigeria cannot win the war against poverty and hunger without conducting needs assessment. Omokungbe said the practice of making the government annual budget without quality needs assessment to harness citizens’ voices is responsible for the high […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has discharged and acquitted a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, and five others from the N544 million grass-cutting contract fraud offences brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The Court on Friday held […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – EFCC arrested 18 internet fraudsters in Ilorin on Friday. Its spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, stated that “the suspects were smoked out of their hideouts at different locations following credible intelligence information. “They were arrested at Sobi, Akerebiata and Las Vegas Estate, Asa Dam, Ilorin. “The suspects, mostly in their early twenties, include […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester United has taken the first steps towards kicking Cristiano Ronaldo out of the club over his bombshell interview with Piers Morgan. It’s understood that United have begun the legal process of effectively sacking Ronaldo by tearing up his £500,000-a-week contract without paying the Portugal star a penny of the £16million he […]
….. pledges Support To State Athletes (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State Government on Friday received the torch of National unity ahead of the 21st National Sports festival (NSF) scheduled to commence on 28th of November 2022 in Asaba, Delta State, with a pledge to give total support to the state Athletes going for the sports […]
The Minister of Sports and Youth Development Sunday Dare has confirmed the sack of the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General, Mohammed Fadah. There were rumours of Fadah’s sack Thursday evening with many online platforms quoting discreet Presidency sources. All efforts to confirm the report late Thursday night were unsuccessful as reliable […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Ekiti State Police Command, on Friday botched attempts by hoodlums to burn down the Ekiti Assembly complex. The Nation reliably gathered that the incident happened around 4am when the hoodlums were said to have scaled the fence and made spirited efforts to raze […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Cup host, Qatar, is pressuring FIFA to stop the sale of beer at the eight World Cup stadiums, according to reports. The sale of alcohol is strictly controlled in Qatar, but it is due to be available in the area immediately outside match venues and fan zones, as well as within […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Irish President, Mary Robinson has called for a bespoke climate fund to support grassroots women to tackle climate change and build resilience. Robinson made call while speaking at a panel discussion to mark ‘Gender Day’ at the ongoing 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt. The African Development Bank […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A soldier of the 25 Task Force Brigade in Borno ran amok on Thursday and shot a female humanitarian aid worker to death while injuring a UN pilot. He also shot and killed another soldier. Reports said he would have taken more lives, but for the quick intervention of his colleagues who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Enugu 2023 Governorship flagbearer of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in Enugu state, Hon. Frank Nweke (Jnr) has said that money being voted for the office of the governor in the State in the budget was too high. He recalled that in the 2022 budget, a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said it would address all issues raised concerning the national register of voters. INEC had this month made the entire register public on its website for the first time in the nation’s electoral history. However, many Nigerians have identified numerous […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FIFA President Gianni Infantino will stand unopposed for a third term as head of world football’s governing body next year, FIFA confirmed on Thursday. A brief statement from FIFA said that Infantino would be the only candidate when the election takes place at the 73rd FIFA Congress in Kigali, Rwanda on March […]
