(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite growing controversy and calls that the Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Imo State, Prof Sylvia Agu, be removed, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that there is no reason to remove the official. “The REC will conduct the election,” said Rotimi Oyekanmi on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Togo has handed five soldiers prison sentences over the murder of a high-ranking colonel a day after the president’s 2020 inauguration. At a military court on Tuesday evening, the five soldiers — including the former head of the army — received jail terms of between five and 20 years, according to an […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Republicans in Congress aggressively ramped up an impeachment inquiry against US President Joe Biden on Wednesday by issuing subpoenas for testimony from his son Hunter and brother James. The attempt to compel the pair to testify came from the Oversight Committee in the House of Representatives, where the Republican majority has spent […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After nineteen years, the Enugu state government, in partnership with Wateraid Nigeria and UNICEF has formally launched its water sector Law aimed at regulating issues on water generation and supply, as well as providing citizens rights to access basic portable water and sanitation services. The six chapter document with over one hundred […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court has granted former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, bail. The judge ordered that Emefiele be released immediately to his lawyers, who were charged with the responsibility of producing him in court for his arraignment next week or […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed the 2023 Supplementary Budget N2.17trn at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Last Thursday, the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the N2.17trn 2023 supplementary appropriation bill after a third reading. Before the passage of the bill, the Senate adopted the report of the harmonised sittings […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has arrested one Philip Gokas after he allegedly killed the Ardo of Panyam in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, Alhaji Adamu Gabdo. Gokas also known as Jaykimo was arrested in Lagos after many weeks of investigation. The Army announced this on X on Wednesday. The tweet read, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Businessman and former lawmaker, Ben Murray-Bruce, has stated that a nationwide strike is not what Nigeria needs right now. The African Examiner recalls that the labour union had on Tuesday announced that there will be a national strike next week. Reacting, Murray Bruce in a statement issued on his social media handle […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The NNPC/ Aiteo Joint venture has announced the introduction of Nembe Crude Oil Grade, a new crude oil grade into the international crude oil market. The announcement of the Nembe Crude Oil Blend, produced by Aiteo, the Operator of the NNPC/Aiteo Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 Joint Venture (JV), was made at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of three new Executive Commissioners to serve in the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), and the redeployment of one current Executive Commissioner, pending their confirmation by the Senate. According to a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by Special Adviser to the President on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has re-amended its list of candidates for Bayelsa governorship election, restoring the names of Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC), earlier removed by the commission. “The Amendment No 2: Amended list of candidates for the 2023 Bayelsa state governorship election pursuant to court orders” […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, has called on heads of tertiary institutions across the country to counsel their students against internet fraud. He made the appeal on Monday at the commission’s Zonal Command Office in Ilorin in an interactive session with heads of tertiary institutions […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out a longer ceasefire in the Gaza Strip for the time being during an interview on U.S. television on Monday. “There’ll be no ceasefire, general ceasefire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu told the U.S. broadcaster ABC. “As far as tactical little pauses, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger’s military junta called Monday on Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe to act as a facilitator with the international community, including the West African bloc ECOWAS which has imposed sanctions since a coup. Niger’s Defence Minister General Salifou Mody met Gnassingbe in Togo’s capital Lome where he said the junta also wanted Togo […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A combative Donald Trump clashed repeatedly with the judge on Monday as he took the stand in the New York civil fraud case threatening to cripple his real estate empire. One year out from an election he hopes will return him to the White House, Trump became the first former US president […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has slashed regulated bus and train fares in the state by 25%, effective Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Spokesperson for the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Kolawole Ojelabi, made this known in a statement on Monday. According to him, the governor’s directive followed calls for the reinstatement […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has approved the payment of ₦25,000 and ₦15,000 to workers and pensioners in the state respectively as wage award to cushion the effects of subsidy removal. Makinde announced the wage award while addressing workers who stormed the Governor’s Office on Monday in Ibadan to protest the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, has called for a single five-year term for Nigeria’s President. Obi disclosed that the proposal was part of his campaign in the electioneering period as he could have moved for the amendment of the Constitution to allow the President to stay only five years […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A human rights Organization Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network CRRAN, has identified Imo State as the most dangerous place to live in South East Nigeria, following the alarming rate of rights violations in the area. It posited that the increase in rights violation in the state calls for serious concern by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has sympathized with the Canadian government, diplomatic community, and all persons affected by a fire incident which occurred on Monday at the Canadian High Commission in Abuja. This was contained in a statement issued and signed by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale […]
