(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Opposition figures Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi have learnt their lessons in the 2023 presidential election and would unite to kick out the “incompetent and clueless” administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Paul Ibe has said. Atiku and Obi of the Labour Party scored over six million votes each in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has granted bail to rights activist and legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi. Farotimi was granted bail on Monday morning. The court granted him bail for ₦50m with a surety in the same amount. The surety must also provide a landed property as collateral. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Borno Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum has presented the 2025 Budget, tagged the “Budget of Recovery and Continuity,” with a total sum of ₦584.76 billion aimed at consolidating the state’s developmental strides. The budget prioritises health, education, and economic recovery, alongside critical investments in security, infrastructure, and social services. The budget comprises a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mobile money agents have become a familiar sight across Nigeria, using handy point-of-sale machines to provide essential services to millions of people without access to banking, particularly in hard-to-reach rural areas. Even on the streets of major cities, they have become a go-to, due to an ongoing shortage of cash at ATMs […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has stated that Ghana’s decision to decentralise its electoral system was a system copied from Nigeria which resulted in a seamless election result announcement. The INEC chief stated this as he heaped praises on the smooth conduct of the General Election […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kosile Stella, an aide to Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke on Revenue Matters, has berated social media critic, Reno Omokri, concerning his remarks on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the state. The African Examiner writes that Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan alleged that Wizkid, Grammy award winner’s latest album, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Non governmental body, Women Aid Collective (WACOL), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), and media professionals in the South-East Zone of Nigeria have raised concern over the high level of corruption in the area in handling Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) cases. They posited that the ugly trend in the geo political […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has predicted hazy and cloudy weather activities from Monday to Wednesday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja, envisaged the North and North central regions of the country to experience dust haze with visibility range of 1km to 5km. It anticipated localised visibility of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, says President Bola Tinubu is responsible for the stiff opposition that has greeted the tax bills introduced by his administration. Sowunmi faulted Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for appointing his tribesmen as finance minister, revenue boss, governor of the Central Bank […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has dismissed reports of the presence of the COVID-19 variant known as XEC in Nigeria, urging citizens to disregard misinformation circulating on social media. The ministry said this in a statement signed by Mr Alaba Balogun, Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority is encouraging aviation passengers to be more informed about their challenges while travelling via airports. NCAA Head of Consumer Protection, Michael Achimugu, made this call on Saturday during a road walk in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital. He noted that this is the heavy travel season […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu is confident of an economic rebound and is asking Nigerians to keep faith in his administration’s reforms. Inflation levels in Nigeria have reached new highs, pushing the cost of basic commodities beyond millions of persons in Africa’s most populous nation. But at the graduation ceremony for the Executive Intelligence […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana counted ballots on Saturday after a tight election with the ruling party’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia trying to shake off anger over economic woes and rebuff a challenge by opposition party candidate ex-president John Mahama. Ghana’s struggling economy dominated the election, after the west Africa gold and cacao producer went through […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Benue state have stated that the state governor, Hyacinth Alia of the APC, is running the state like a Catholic Church parish. The PDP, in a statement by its State Publicity Secretary, Tim Nyor, alleged that Governor Hyacinth Alia-led administration is undermining the tenets of democracy […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has announced the appointment of Chief Executive Officers for the National Universities Commission (NUC), the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), the Solid Minerals Development Fund/Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Initiative (SMDF/PAGMI) and the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD). A statement issued on Friday signed by Special Adviser […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo says he did not carry the Nigerian military along during his recent investigation into crude oil bunkering in the Niger Delta, claiming some security operatives collude with the bunkerers. Soyombo was recently detained by the Nigerian Army for three days, with the army claiming that the ace journalist […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Thursday, the House of Representatives enjoined security agencies to caution their operatives at checkpoints along the Onitsha-Enugu expressway against “harassing and exploiting” travellers. The lawmakers passed the resolution in their plenary on Thursday after the adoption of a motion sponsored by Amobi Ogah, a lawmaker from Abia. Moving the motion, Ogah […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission on Friday approved the dismissal of 18 senior officers and the demotion of 19 others because of different acts of misconduct. Head of Press and Public Relations at the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, stated this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja. According to the statement, the Commission, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has forwarded to the Senate for confirmation a modified list of members of the inaugural Governing Board of the North West Development Commission (NWDC) as he nominated Emeka Atuma as chairman of the South East Development Commission (SEDC). This was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday by Special […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Economic Adviser to ex- president Olusengun Obasanjo and Professor of Economics, University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN Professor Osita Ogbu has called advocated for institution of Chartered Journalists in Nigeria so as to distinguish core professional from non u serious ones. He stated this Monday while delivering a lecture titled: “Journalism […]
