(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate under the leadership of Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Tuesday suspended Senator Abdul Ningi over allegations of N3.7trn padding of the 2024 Budget. Ningi, from Bauchi Central Senatorial District, was suspended for three months after a stormy session in the red chamber. A member of the Appropriation Committee in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Opeyemi Bamidele from Ekiti Central Senatorial District, on Tuesday, raised the alarm that some discontent Senators are determined to impeach Senate President Godswill Akpabio before his first anniversary in office by June. Bamidele also described as a “civilian coup”, claims made by Senator Abdul Ningi that the 2024 Budget passed by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Atiku Abubakar has reaffirmed his commitment to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), distancing himself from speculations claiming he left the party. The PDP presidential candidate for the 2023 election said this in reaction to speculations that he has departed from the party. “Let me be unequivocal: this is pure mischief, devoid of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Igbo Umbrella body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has faulted traditional rulers in Kogi State for kicking against the Senate investigative panel on Ajaokuta Steel Company and the National Iron Ore Mining Company, Itakpe. The warning came in response to a letter written to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio by the Ebira […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety); Nigeria’s leading Research and Investigative Human Rights and Democracy Advocacy Group, has strongly warned against the ceding of lands by south East governors for the establishment of cattle Ranches/settlement, saying lands in the five states of the zone are too tiny […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Super Eagles head coach, Sunday Oliseh, has stated that he would consider managing the three times African champions again if the necessary conditions are met. The African Examiner writes that the former midfielder had a brief stint in charge of the Super Eagles between July 2015 to February 2016. During his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Controversial Kaduna-based Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has stated that he intends to dialogue with bandits who abducted about 287 schoolchildren from Kuriga Government Secondary and LEA Primary Schools in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. Gumi disclosed this so that the release of the abducted schoolchildren will be looked […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says many approvals for the release of funds within the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under Godwin Emefiele did not have the signature of former President Muhammadu Buhari. “President Bola Tinubu has come out several times in fairness to him (Buhari), to say, ‘Look, this is what happened under the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representating Bauchi Central in the National Assembly, Senator Abdul Ningi, has insisted that N3 trillion in the 2024 budget has no project tied to it. In a chat with Senate correspondents on Monday, Ningi said the sum of N3 trillion has been located in the budget but what the money […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The wife of the President, Oluremi Tinubu, has said that some of the initiatives of President Bola Tinubu under the Renewed Hope Agenda are already yielding fruits and will soon reach all communities in the country. The First Lady stated this at the inauguration of the Women Wing of the Christian Association […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Netizens on social media are having a filled day to the news that former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, during his time as governor gifted the traditional rulers in Anambra State 400 SUVS. The African Examiner writes that former Secretary to the State Government, Obaze, while explaining a point disclosed this […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the president, Ajuri Ngelale, had stated that President Bola Tinubu will launch the Students Loan Scheme on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Ngelale stated this while speaking on a TVC programme titled, ‘Counting the Cost of President Tinubu’s Reforms,’ on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Speaking […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union have declared a 7-day warning strike to demand the payment of four months of withheld salaries of their members, after the 2022 nationwide strike. The decision was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Managing Director, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo), Elohor Aiboni has won the 2023 Energy Personality Award at the just-concluded 2024 edition of the Nigeria International Energy Summit in Abuja. This was contained in a statement issued during the weekend and signed by Shell Media Relations Manager, Abimbola Essien -Nelson […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Professor Uche, Wife of first Nigerian President Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, has expressed displeasure over the dilapidated condition and abandonment of the hostels her late husband built at University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) popularly known as Zik’s flats. She stated this in Nsukka on weekend when her husband’s Memorial Foundation and Nsukka Ezue […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has denied allegations of padding the 2024 budget by an additional N3 trillion. This followed accusations by Senator Abdul Ningi of Bauchi Central (PDP) that the executive is implementing a budget other than the one approved on January 1, 2024. Ningi, under the aegis of the Northern Senators’ Forum, had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced the sighting of the lunar month of Ramadan, which will pave the way for the beginning of the Islamic lengthy fasting. The Kingdom announced its Twitter platform, @Haramaininfo, on Sunday. The tweets partly read, “Crescent of Ramadan 1445/2024 has been sighted in Saudi Arabia! “Subsequently, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hollywood A-listers are getting ready to lavish awards on Christopher Nolan’s atomic blockbuster “Oppenheimer” and party with “Barbie” on Sunday at the Oscars, the biggest night in showbiz. Nolan’s drama about the inventor of the nuclear age, half of last summer’s massive “Barbenheimer” phenomenon, is the firm favourite to win the prize […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Labour Congress has distanced itself from the N500,000 being canvassed as the new minimum wage, saying it has yet to adopt a position on an amount to be presented to the tripartite committee on the new minimum wage for workers. The President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, disclosed this to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ancient and Noble Order of the Knights of St. John International (KSJI), a sodality organisation in the Roman Catholic Church, has thrown its full weight behind the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria against same sex marriage and blessing of same sex marriage as recent directed by the headship of the Vatican, led […]
