(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Pan-African Conglomerate, Dangote Industries Limited has inducted a new batch of Graduate Trainees in its Graduate Trainee programme, with the management declaring that continuous investments in critical sectors of the economy to create employment and promote decent jobs is irrevocable. Addressing the trainees, President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote gave the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Sokoto has affirmed the election of Dauda Lawal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of the state. The tribunal dismissed the petition of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Bello Matawalle, challenging the outcome of the March 18 governorship […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The meeting between organised labour and the Federal Government is set to be held at 1:00 pm today. While the meeting, aimed at halting labour’s planned strike over fuel subsidy removal and the attendant hardship in the country, was scheduled for 11:00 am, it was later moved to 1:00 pm. Journalists were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Electricity distribution companies will resume distribution of prepaid meters under the Meter Assets Provides programme this week, This was revealed by the Head, Metering Team for Ikeja Electric, Morenikeji Amosun, at a virtual stakeholders’ forum. While giving an update on IE’s metering efforts to customers during the meeting, Amosun said a new […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian track queen Tobi Amusan has won the 100m hurdles at the Diamond League in Eugene, Oregon, US. The Sunday feat is her third consecutive Diamond League trophy. Amusan achieved this after finishing in 12.33 seconds to see off competition from Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quin in 12.38 seconds. US Kendra Harrison came […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has arrived at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The President, who arrived some minutes before 7 pm local time, was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar; the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Nigeria Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) are probing the averted plane crash involving Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State. While the incident had happened about a week ago, Governor Adeleke alleged sabotage. But in a Sunday statement, the NCAA Director General Capt Musa Nuhu expressed […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gombe State Governor and Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya CON, will be accompanying President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a trip to New York, United States of America to attend the United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA). The 78th session of the UNGA, with the theme “Rebuilding trust and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Sunday arrived in New York for the high-level meetings of the 78th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu arrived at the JF Kennedy International Airport in New York at about 6:45pm local time. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he cares less about who comes to New York and more about what gets done, especially as it concerns reviving the lagging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Guterres told journalists on Sunday in New York as some high-profile world leaders opted out of the UN General Assembly’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Confusion over the death toll following massive flooding in eastern Libya continued on Sunday after a UN body said it has risen to about 11,300, while other officials disputed the figure and put it much lower. The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that another 10,100 were still […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu is billed to speak at the Africa International Trade Exhibition program, during the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Tunde MacAlabi, Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Business, Trade and Investment Summit Component of the exhibition programme, made this known in a statement on Saturday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Since the inception of the local government system in Nigeria in 1976, which is a creation of the then Colonial government, nothing meaningful seem to have been achieved in the country through that 3rd tier of government established with the sole aim of driving grassroots development and take governance closer to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Jimmy Odukoya, the son of Bimbo and Taiwo Odukoya, is now the senior pastor of the Fountain of Life Church. This announcement was made in the church service on Sunday. Speaking to the congregation, Rotimi Okpaise, a pastor, stated that the late Taiwo Odukoya spoke with the board of trustees (BoT) members […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has endorsed the appointments of Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim and Ayodele Olawande as ministers in the Ministry of Youth, pending confirmation by the National Assembly. Tinubu also designated Ibrahim as the Minister of Youth and Olawande will serve as the Minister of State for Youth. The announcement was made […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A tricycle rider in Kano State Auwalu Salisu, has returned ₦15m forgotten in his tricycle by a Chadian passenger who intended to make use of the money to buy goods. Salisu returned the missing money after he heard in the radio that the owner had misplaced it. Speaking to a Kano broadcaster, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has refuted claims that he has agreed to work with the government of President Bola Tinubu. The African Examiner recalls that during the week, a video went viral on social media showing Obasanjo in a conversation with Tinubu as the former president telling the present “If you are […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a successful outing at the G-20 Summit in New Delhi, India, President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to depart Abuja on Sunday for New York, where he will participate in the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which will be his first as the Nigerian leader. The theme of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly elected leadership of Nkanu youth organization (NYO), in Enugu state, South East Nigeria, says empowering it’s members through mentorship and scholarship programes, both at home and diaspora to make them self reliance will be her top most priority. It stated that engaging them in such meaningful ventures would no doubt […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Participants at a one day Town hall meeting held in Enugu have decried the alarming rate of alleged corruption and lack of accountability in the administration of pension fund in Nigeria, using Enugu state as a case study, calling on all Stakeholders, including anti-Corruption agencies and labour leaders to join hands in […]
