(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress presidential campaign council said its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima gave alms as an act of compassion. The campaign council stated this on Wednesday, noting that it would be unfair for anybody to label the alms given by its flag bearers […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Wednesday gave the Ministry of Interior 24 hours to defend N700m collected from Service Wide Votes for the monitoring of Ondo and Edo governorship elections. From the record, the money was released in two batches, N400m for the Ondo Governorship election and N300mn for Edo Governorship Election. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has again called for an end to the killing of indigenes of Eha-Amufu in Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen. African Examiner reports that the area has become a theatre of war, with several lives and properties lost. Following the ugly development, the […]
By Steve Oruruo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu of Calcutta, the Indian-Albanian catholic saint once said that *“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”* These timeless profound words provide a philosophical lens through which earth’s long gruesome history of insecurity could be appraised. Bottomless […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court in Abuja has thrown out a request by the State Security Services (SSS) to order the arrest of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The secret police had filed an ex parte application for an order for the arrest of the CBN governor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council Spokesman, Yunusa Tanko, has stated that Doyin Okupe resigned as campaign Director-General of the Labour Party flag-bearer on personal grounds. Tanko made this known when he spoke on telephone with Daily Post on Tuesday. He stated that Okupe accepts that the interest of ‘Obedients’ across the world […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the date for registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The registration would be from Saturday, 14th January, to Tuesday, 14th February 2023. The Board disclosed the dates for its activities for 2023 following a management meeting on Tuesday. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 213 bodies of terrorists and their collaborators have died and their bodies were recovered in Zamfara State as of Tuesday. This development is coming after exchanges of gunfire between Nigerian troops and terrorists in some communities. According to available information, the armed forces lost 10 personnel and some civilians were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday says that the auctioning of the 5G spectrum alone generated $547m. He also heaped praises on the contributions of the digital economy in driving growth, creating employment and generating 594 per cent of its revenue target for 2019, adding that it has opened more avenues for development […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says that the commission would need over 100,000 vehicles and about 4,200 boats to carry materials and personnel to different polling units across the country for the 2023 general elections. Yakubu disclosed this on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 as he assured […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has condemned the killing of Christopher Elehu, the House of Assembly candidate for Onuimo Local Government Area Constituency in Imo State, South-east Nigeria. The victim was killed when gunmen invaded his house on Friday. Mr Obi, in a post via his verified Twitter handle, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is to activate the stoppage of cash withdrawal from all public accounts with immediate effect. In place of cash withdrawals, public officers are to open domiciliary accounts in foreign and local currencies ahead of the commencement of the new policy, which follows on the heels of the new Naira […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of the Special Assistant to the President on New Media, Lauretta Onochie, as Chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Senate also okayed the nomination of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku for appointment as Managing Director of NDDC. It is “for a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress presidential campaign council on Tuesday demanded the immediate resignation of Dr. Doyin Okupe from the campaign team of the Labour Party flag bearer, Peter Obi. The embattled Director General of Obi-Datti campaign was on Monday convicted of breaching the Money Laundering Act by a Federal High Court sitting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Doyin Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was on Monday found guilty of receiving over N200m cash from a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). He was therefore sentenced to two years imprisonment by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected as the President of South Africa under the platform of the African National Congress. This was reported by AriseTV on Monday. Ramaphosa defeated his closest rival, a former health minister, Zweli Mkhize with 2,476 votes. African Examiner writes that Ramaphosa’s re-election is coming after the opposition tasked […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Director of Publicity of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has stated that Nigeria is potentially bigger and richer than Qatar. Baba-Ahmed stated that Nigeria would have been better than Qatar if Nigerian had good, honest and patriotic leaders. He made this known as he commended the Middle East […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is bringing up allegations against Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, because of his popularity. Mr Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), said this in a statement he released on Sunday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The court sentenced him to two years imprisonment on count 34 with an option of a fine of N500,000. Former presidential spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, has been found guilty of receiving over N200 million cash from former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki and has been sentenced to two years imprisonment. While […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The new naira notes are already being counterfeited, four days after they were rolled out to the public by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the commercial banks. In a video which has now gone viral, a man was heard saying his wife, who operates a Point of Sale (PoS) machine […]
