(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barcelona coach Xavi announced Friday that his contract extension with the Spanish champions had been confirmed and will be made official shortly. The former Barca midfielder, who took over as coach in 2021, will extend his contract by one season until 2025. Xavi led the club to their first La Liga title […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command on Friday gave its reasons for dispersing the youths who gathered at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos State in light of the candlelight procession held in honour of the late Afrobeats artist Mohbad. Following last Tuesday’s passing of the 27-year-old under controversial circumstances, there has been public […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More than 24 students of the Federal University of Gusau were abducted in the early hours of Friday after bandits invaded the Sabon-Gida community of the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State. A resident of Sabon-Gida identified as Nazeer Sabon-Gida confirmed that the gunmen invaded the community around 3 am and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Thursday, announced the indefinite postponement of the September version of its bi-monthly Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. CBN Director of Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, announced the postponement in a statement in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting was earlier scheduled […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Thursday departed New York after attending the 78th session of high-level meetings of the UN General Assembly. President Tinubu, while in New York, participated in some of the high-level events, including a bilateral meeting. The Nigerian President, who arrived in New York on Sunday, was among the leaders […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The organisers of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), on Thursday, announced the nominees for the 19th edition of the continental awards ceremony. The 2023 Awards will feature 26 categories, including that of the Best Nigerian Film, where top movies like Gangs of Lagos, Brotherhood, Anikulapo, Mami Wata, 4-4-44 (Four Four Forty-Four), […]
–Woos Large Scale Investment At Nigeria-US Executive Business Roundtable (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In honour of President Bola Tinubu’s determined global push to aggressively attract foreign direct investment into Nigeria, the world’s second largest stock exchange, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ), on Wednesday in the world’s financial capital, invited the Nigerian […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State governorship election petition tribunal in Enugu Thursday dismissed the petition filed by the labour party LP Guber Candidate in the 2023 election, Barr. Chijioke Edeoga challenging the March 18, election of Governor Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic party PDP. The three member tribunal headed by Justice Kudirat […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pope Francis has appointed Rev. Fr. Dr. Habila Tyiakwonaboi Daboh as the new Bishop of Zaria Diocese, Kaduna State. This announcement was contained in a statement issued on the Facebook page of the Catholic Broadcast Commission, Nigeria, on Thursday. The African Examiner writes that Fr. Habila Daboh until his appointment was the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World champions Argentina remained at the top, while Germany stayed 15th in the rankings published by governing football body FIFA on Thursday. Argentina lead an unchanged top three, followed by 2022 World Cup runners-up France and Brazil. There was only one change in the top 10, as Portugal moved ahead of Italy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police authorities in Lagos State have exhumed the remains of singer Mohbad and are set to begin an autopsy. The singer died last week in unclear circumstances with Nigerians protesting and calling for justice for Mohbad. While the rapper, known officially as Ilerioluwa Olademeji Aloba, was buried less than a day after […]
…Introduce E- Ticketing, Revive Community Taxation… (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tough time now awaits residents of Enugu state, as the governor Peter Mbah led Administration has announced plan to reintroduce Community taxation and launch E- ticketing under it’s new consolidated tax regime, saying the system would go a long way in eliminating all forms of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said he will stand for re-election next year, hoping to extend nearly a quarter of a century in power. Kagame, who became president in 2000, is eligible to continue in office for another decade after a constitutional amendment in 2015 changed term limits that would have forced him […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arsenal are back in the Champions League and they’re back with the profoundest of bangs. In the end it was four. It should have been at least double that as the Gunners ruthlessly reacquainted themselves with European football’s elite club tournament with this efficient dismantling of PSV Eindhoven. This was Arsenal’s first […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Harry Kane, Leroy Sane, Serge Gnabry and Mathys Tel seal win for Germans after Andre Onana gifted opener with a hOWLER in Group A clash Munich is etched into the very soul of Manchester United. Through tragedy, of course, but also through this club’s instinctive ability to fight back in the face […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The CBN on Wednesday in Abuja unveiled a new online platform for the submission of license applications by microfinance banks. Its Director, Corporate Communications, Mr Isa AbdulMumin, said the platform, known as the CBN Licensing, Approval and Other Requests Portal (CBN LARP), would be the place to process applications. AbdulMumin said the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says road traffic fatalities significantly reduced in the first half of 2023 by 15.5 percent. This is contained in a statement released by FRSC’s Spokesman, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem, on Wednesday in Abuja. Kazeem said that the corps recorded a total of 5,700 road traffic […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State has rejected the ruling of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that voided his election and declared his opponent the winner. The African Examiner reports that the tribunal on Wednesday declared Dr Nasiru Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress as the rightful winner of the March 18 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Wednesday called for expansion of the UN Security Council and reform of the right of veto granted to its permanent members. Zelenskyy spoke in his first in-person address around the iconic horseshoe table in a meeting in the Security Council chamber at the UN General Assembly in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has encouraged Nigerians in the U.S. to rise above failure by having a change of mindset for success in all their endeavors in life. Tinubu gave the advice at the Presidential Town Hall Meeting with Nigerians in the diaspora on Wednesday in New York. The News Agency of Nigeria […]
