(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, says he will not accept a ministerial appointment from President Bola Tinubu. Fayose made this revelation during an interview with Channels Television on Sunday. According to him, the young people should be given a chance in the cabinet of Tinubu as their future had been […]
…Reduces Rank Of CP, 8 Others (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the dismissal of three senior Police officers over cases of misconduct and abuse of office. Nine other officers were reduced in rank including a Commissioner of Police. The Commission took the decisions at the continuation of its 21st Plenary […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mmesoma Ejikeme, the Anambra student who was accused of inflating her 2023 UTME result by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Wednesday disclosed that she received an automated text message from JAMB showing that her score was 249. Mmesoma disclosed this in an interview with Sunrise Daily on Channels Television. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Biafra agitator and Separatist, Simon Ekpa, has stated that only the quick release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra will stop the sit-at-home order in the southeast. Ekpa, the self-acclaimed Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government who is based in Finland, made this known on Wednesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has said the Federal Government would support Nigerian firm, UTM Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, and it’s foreign partners for the timely actualisation of their gas project. Speaking on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa during an audience with the management of the company and its foreign partners, Tinubu pledged […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Retired staff of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) have expressed deep concern over the manner a former Acting Director-General of the Agency, Ambassador Mohammed Dauda, has gone to the public without due regard to in-service rules and regulations. A statement issued under the aegis of Dolphin Retired Staff Association and signed by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Monday said that his administration would work towards a drug-free society. Tinubu spoke at the celebration of the United Nations International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa. Tinubu who spoke through Secretary to the Government of the Federation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Osun State Government has refuted claims that it intends to subvert the death sentence on Dr Rahman Adedoyin. The African Examiner recalls that Adedoyin and two others, Adeniyi Aderogba and Oyetunde Kazeem, were sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Adegoke. Adegoke was a postgraduate student of the Obafemi […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor Ndubuisi Mbah’s led administration in Enugu state is to hold a Diaspora Investment Forum that would see the state reap about $2 billion in investment interests in the first year of the administration. The event which christened: “The Enugu State Diaspora and Investment Forum” and proposed for April 2024, will […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has debunked some media reports that the Federal Government has lifted the ban on vehicle importation through the Seme border. Mr Hussaini Abdullahi, Customs Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Seme Area Command, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Seme, Lagos State. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has proceeded to London from France on a private visit after concluding his official trip where he attended the summit for ‘A New Global Financing Pact’ hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. A statement signed by Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Intelligence Agency, NIA has strongly rebuffed news reports of the reinstatement of its erstwhile acting director-general, Mohammed Dauda by the Court of Appeal. The agency in a statement issued on Friday asserted that the substantive case arose from the dismissal of Dauda as a director of the agency and not […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has said that President Bola Tinubu has not approved any increase of 114 per cent increase in the salary of himself, Vice President, elected Federal and State political office holders and judicial officers A statement issued on Thursday and signed by Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The RMAFC has urged the 36 States Houses of Assembly to hasten efforts on amendment of relevant laws to give room for upward review of remuneration packages for political, judicial and public officers. The Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Muhammadu Shehu, made the call at the presentation of reports […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu +on Tuesday, approved the return of the National Emergency Management Agency and the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria to the Office of the Vice President for supervision in compliance with their various establishment Acts. This was contained in a statement signed on Tuesday by the Director of Information, Office […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State, has approved the appointment of Victor Udeh, as his Chief of Staff and Kenneth Ugwu as the Head of Service. This is contained in a statement issued by Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, in Enugu on Tuesday. According to the list, other aides […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice-President Kashim Shettima has decorated the newly-appointed acting Inspector General of Police (I-GP), Kayode Egbetokun, with his new rank. Shettima performed the decoration on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Bola Tinubu had, on Monday, appointed new service chiefs, acting inspector-general of police […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from Service as well as their replacements with immediate effect. According to a statement issued on Monday and signed by Willie Bassey, Director, Information in the office of the Secretary to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Sunday, revealed that he was poisoned at the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2018. Wike disclosed that the poison affected his liver and kidneys and it almost killed him but for God’s intervention. He made this declaration in a special Thanksgiving […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The project development institute PRODA Enugu state, formally known as the East central state project development agency (ECSPDA), a corporate body established by the erstwhile East central state government with a view to promoting the establishment of new industrial projects through laboratory and pilot investigations to actual construction of large scale commercial […]
