(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Again, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has ignored Nigerian referees for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations and this is making it 15 years without the west African country producing a referee at the continental tournament. According to the list released on Tuesday by the Confederation, referees from Mali, Burkina Faso, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that an operative of the Department of State Services (DSS) reportedly opened fire inside Garki market in Abuja on Thursday has sparked reactions on social media as many netizens are of the view that the DSS have left its main job of being a top security agency to a “boy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Friday, stated that only God can assist the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and his Labour Party, LP, counterpart, Peter Obi. Ayodele stated that Atiku was playing his last politics while Obi could not be president of Nigeria. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A faction within the Labour Party, headed by Lamidi Apapa, has formally accepted the ruling of the Presidential Election Petition Court. The African Examiner recalls that the tribunal, in a decision handed down on Wednesday, September 06, 2023, unanimously declared that the petition presented by Peter Obi and his counterpart from the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Tuesday, tasked Nigerians not to expect too much from the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal’s verdict on Wednesday. Ayodele made this known in a statement by his media aide, Oluwatosin Osho.According to him, the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to suspend its proposed 2-day nationwide warning strike over economic hardship. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong, made the call at a news conference on Monday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the NLC in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has stated that there will be no military coup in the country but Nigerians should expect more political coups. In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele stated that any plans for a military coup would fail in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has revealed that there are chances of the Naira bouncing back and this time greater than the United States dollar. The African Examiner writes that the buying rate of the dollar is about N915, and sells at N918 in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has warned the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against expelling the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, from the party. Fayose made this known when he appeared on Channels Television saying that if the PDP expels Wike, the party will be hurting itself. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Renowned economist and Chairman of United Bank for Africa Plc, Tony Elumelu, has refuted claims that President Tinubu intends to make him the substantive governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The African Examiner recalls that there are rumours that President Bola Tinubu has shortlisted Elumelu as one of the candidates […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, has stated that he feels terrible being away from football. The African Examiner recalls that Siasia was banned from all football activities for life in August 2019 by the world football governing body FIFA and fined $50,000 after he agreed to ‘the manipulation of matches’ for […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The corpse of a 43-year-old unidentified man who drowned in a fish pond in Ogidi, Ilorin West local government area of Kwara State, has been recovered by men of the Kwara State Fire Service on Saturday. A statement by the state fire service on Saturday stated that they received a distress call […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Nigerian vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has enjoined African leaders to look into the root cause of the recent spike in coups across the continent. Atiku took to his Twitter account on Thursday as he reacted to the recent coup in Gabon. According to him, the military takeovers are disturbing and they […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has refuted the complaints by Governor Obaseki of Edo State that the Federal Government stopped him from repairing federal roads in his state. The African Examiner recalls that Obaseki had on many occasions lamented about the poor state of federal roads in his state, adding that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ongoing annual general conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA in Abuja, has sparked controversy as some lawyers stormed out of the venue in the early hours of Thursday after controversial singer, Habeeb Olalomi Oyegbile better known as Portable was announced as a guest performer. The African Examiner writes that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The coup plotters in Gabon have arrested one of the president’s sons after overthrowing the government of President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon The African Examiner recalls that Bongo was ejected from office in the early hours of Wednesday, August 30, 2023, and has been placed under house arrest alongside some of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Controversial singer, Habeeb Olalomi Oyegbile, better known as Portable, has lost his official Instagram account to hackers. Portable’s management announced this in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, the management is working actively to resolve the issue. It also warned the public that the hackers are impersonating Portable and are […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of HEIRS Holdings and Transcorp PLC, Tony Elumelu, has applauded the economic decisions of President Tinubu and he tasked Nigerians to be patient with the president as they will soon reap the benefits. Elumelu made this known to journalists on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, after a meeting with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian singer, Iyanya Onoyom Mbuk, better known as Iyanya, has opened up on how he almost committed suicide after he became bankrupt in 2020. Iyanya made this revelation when he featured on the Tea With Tay podcast hosted by actor Temisan Emmanuel Ahwieh, aka Taymesan. According to him, he lost his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 Presidential election Peter Obi, has denied the claim made by Reno Omokri that he sponsored the burial ceremony of the father of Arise Television journalist, Rufai Oseni. The African Examiner recalls that Omokri, the spokesperson to former President Goodluck Jonathan recently claimed […]
