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Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Abia State Government has denied spending over N900 million on the feeding and welfare of Governor Alex Otti from July to September 2023. Earlier, reports emerged that a budget performance report indicated that the government spent N927 million within three months on refreshments and meals, allowance, settlement of honorarium and welfare […]
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency, on Monday, slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his statement concerning the present state of Nigeria’s democracy. The Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga in a statement disclosed that the democracy Nigeria practises dates back to direct inputs by Obasanjo when he led the country’s […]
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, has called on the PDP and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, to stop their campaigns of calumny and blackmail against the judiciary. Onanuga made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja while reacting to Atiku’s recent allegations […]
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Liberian President-elect Joseph Boakai, said his administration will take a close look at mining concessions to ensure the use of its full potential. Boakai, 78, a former vice-president who campaigned on a promise to “rescue” Liberia, told Reuters in an interview that he expected a lot of challenges, particularly with the economy. […]
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) has sought the collaboration and support of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc for the proposed amendment of the CIBN Act of 2007. The President/Chairman, CIBN, Dr Ken Opara, said this during the closing gong ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the institute at […]
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Olatunji Disu, Commissioner of Police in Rivers, has dismissed claims of an assassination attempt on the factional Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Edison Ehie. Disu told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday that the command had launched full investigation to ascertain the claims made by the speaker. Ehie (PDP […]
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Monday, November 20th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A board member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Nse Essien says the federation won’t be able to pay the Super Eagles Head Coach Jose Peseiro his compensatory fees if he were to be relieved of his job. The Portuguese coach has been under pressure of late after his side played out […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) have threatened to exit its umbrella body, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), if its President Williams Akporeha and General-Secretary, Afoloabi Olawale, did not resign. Mr Gbenga Olawale, an Ex-Officio of the PTD from Ibadan depot, said in a statement on Sunday that […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will swear-in 58 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) on Monday, November 27, 2023, at the main Courtroom of the Supreme Court, as part of the programmes lined up for the 2023/2024 legal year of the Court. In line with the age-long tradition, […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gaza’s Hamas government said Sunday the death toll from fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory had reached 13,000 since war began on October 7. The Hamas government said more than 5,500 children were among the dead, alongside 3,500 women, with 30,000 more people wounded. Its health ministry […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has described as a temporary setback, the verdict of an Appeal Court which sacked him as governor of the state. In a statement through his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gyang Bere, the governor said the “temporary setback” won’t deter him from repositioning the state […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba State has won all the chairmanship positions at the just-concluded local government (LG) council election held in the state on Saturday. A total of six political parties contested for both chairmanship and councilor positions in the 168 electoral wards across the 16 local government areas […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, says his administration is to spend 30 per cent of the 2024 state budget on the education section sector, stressing that education remains the state’s greatest weapon against poverty. He stressed his administration’s determination to ensure that the poorest child in the remotest parts of […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, says what the state needs is practical and not experimental governance. Shaibu told newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, “With the 2024 Edo Governorship Election fast approaching, the state could not afford to experiment again with someone who does not understand the politics of the state or the […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress Elders Council on Sunday berated former President Goodluck Jonathan for his comment that he would have relocated his mother to Abuja if the APC had won the November 11, 2023 governorship polls in the state. The African Examiner recalls that Jonathan, who raised concern over security […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party has stated that the Liberian President has demonstrated that election isn’t a do-or-die affair and it called on its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, to follow the footstep of Liberian President George Weah and congratulate President Bola […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has inaugurated the Bank’s Maiden report on “Benchmark Macroeconomic Models for Effective Policy Management in Africa”. Prof. Kevin Urama, the Chief Economist and Vice-President of Economic Governance and Knowledge Management, AfDB, inaugurated the report on the sidelines of the African Economic Conference (AEC) in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia. […]
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has disclosed plans to release 4, 068 inmates nationwide as part of measures to decongest the nation’s correctional centres. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony in Abuja, the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said that the programme is targeted at indigent inmates who cannot afford to pay their fines. He […]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (State CID) Enugu, to thoroughly investigate and ensure the prosecution of everyone involved in the sexual molestation of a three-year-old female pupil of Tenderlink School Trans-Ekulu, […]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police in Anambra State have arrested a major arms dealer dealing illegally in prohibited Firearms in the State. According to the Command’s Spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a statement made available to African Examiner on Saturday said “the breakthrough followed weeks of intensive surveillance by operatives of the Command. He added […]
