Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command In Anambra State has said that two suspects have been arrested in connection with Tuesday’s attack on the US Consulate Convoy in Ogbaru Local Government Area. Preliminary investigations conducted by the police revealed that seven persons were killed in the assault. Of the seven, three were US Consulate officials […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has stated that he regretted supporting the process that produced Aminu Tambuwal as speaker in 2011. Gbajabiamila made this known on Wednesday during a meeting with the reps-elect organised in Abuja. According to him, he supported the “house project” that “installed” Tambuwal at […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar has stated that nothing can stop the inauguration of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu come May 29. Abubakar made this known as he urged Nigerians to pray for Tinubu’s administration to succeed. He stated this at a roundtable engagement with traditional and religious rulers which […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, has arrested and detained the policemen involved in the brutal assault of an Okada rider in Lagos. The African Examiner writes that a video which has now gone viral on social media had shown the three officers decked in police uniform in a struggle […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has slammed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar for criticising the United States, US, Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, concerning the conversation with the Nigerian President-elect, Bola Tinubu.The African Examiner recalls that Blinken, during a call with Tinubu on […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday said it has disowned Lamidi Apapa of the Labour Party. In a statement, the Secretary of the NLC Political Commission, Comrade Chris Uyot, described Apapa as a meddlesome interloper. “It is clear that Mr Lamidi Apapa is a meddlesome interloper who is being used by […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Latest Headlines, Sports News
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A dominant show from Manchester City ended Real Madrid’s hunt for a 15th Champions League title on Wednesday night at the Etihad. Guardiola’s charges bossed the opening period, with an 80 percent possession of the ball. Madrid’s shot-stopper, Thibaut Courtois was called to save a header from Erlong Haaland in the 22nd […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Latest Headlines, World News
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of this year’s edition of the Cincinnati Music Festival, the organizers have announced that the famous American rapper and actor, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., known professionally as Snoop Dogg, Jill Scott, Babyface will headline the festival. The Cincinnati Music Festival is one of the nation’s oldest and most highly anticipated music […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Owner and founder of LiPay Consulting, LLC, Linda Peavy has launched a free grant writing training which is aimed at supporting black-owned businesses and non-profits. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Peavy has pledged to offer free online grant training to 23,000 Black organizations. Her company has written grants and business development funding […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
…….Names Falae, Kwankwaso, Okowa, Others National Patrons. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A pro-national movement, under the plartform of North-South Progressive Movement, NOSOP, has named a former presdential Candidate, Chief Olu Falae; 2023 Presidential flagbearer of New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso; Vice Presdential candidate of PDP, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa; among other personalities as national […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja will Thursday hear a suit filed by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) seeking to compel the Nigerian Government to properly investigate the unresolved killings of 11 journalists killed over a period of two decades. The journalists were killed between 1998 and 2019 under circumstances relating […]
Posted by African Examiner
Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, May 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana utility regulator on Wednesday said the average end-user tariff for electricity has been increased by 18.36% for the second quarter of 2023. According to the regulator, Ghana had previously added almost 30% tariff in the first quarter. The West African country is grappling with soaring inflation, debt, and a depreciating currency […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has opened up on the number of jobs generated by the outgoing administration in the agricultural sector. According to Shehu, the Buhari-led government has successfully created 12 million new jobs in agriculture alone. He made this known in […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Business News, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Monetary Fund has said that weaker currencies in Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African countries are pushing up public debts. This was disclosed in a blog post published on the IMF’s website on Monday. The fund noted that with an average depreciation of nine per cent since January 2022, sub-Saharan African […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
…. LP National Chairman, Julius Abure and the party’s factional chairman, Lamidi Apapa were also in court on Wednesday. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has arrived at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja for the presumed pre-hearing of his petition against the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu. […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pep Guardiola says his legacy as Manchester City boss is already “exceptional” as the English champions aim to finally turn their domestic dominance into European glory. City host Real Madrid in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final on Wednesday with the tie delicately poised at 1-1. Victory over the Spanish […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measures to protect local inventions, the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, has recommended the banning of all foreign goods that can be produced locally in Nigeria. Addressing State House correspondents at the 71st Ministerial Media Briefing, Mamora expressed regret over the under-utilitised research works and […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN DXAMINER) – The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the United Nations (UN) International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have signed two agreements to further strengthen their cooperation in low- and middle-income countries worldwide, with a particular focus on Africa. EIB is the long-term lending institution of the European Union (EU), owned by its Member […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Women Aid Collective (WACOL) Tuesday organized the National Launch of the Fifty-Fifty (50-50) Action Women Advocacy Group. The group is a gender justice women group trained and empowered by the organization to drive the advocacy for the rights of women, towards the elimination of harmful cultural norms that reinforces violence against women […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Enugu, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The joy of sixty indigent female Students of Community High School Umabor Eha – Alumona in Nsukka Council area of Enugu state and their parents on Tuesday knew no bound, as famous non- Governmental organization (NGO), Women Information Network (WINET), and its foreign partner, Mundo Cooperante of Spain, awarded them scholarship. Aside […]
