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Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday tackled former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, attributing the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to what it describes as his “political desperation.” APC spokesman, Felix Morka, in a statement faulted the vice president for criticising the nation’s judiciary. Morka said it is an irony […]
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, says the Federal Government is determined to sanitise the nation’s educational system. Miracle Examination Centres (MECs) are private secondary schools in Nigeria that facilitate exam fraud. They are known for promising students success in their final exams, regardless of their actual merit. “We have a […]
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has closed the popular Cemetery Market in Aba, Abia State, for the second time in two years. According to the agency, it found and seized fake and substandard food and beverages worth over ₦5 billion in its latest operation which was tagged […]
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has slammed the ruling partly, All Progressives Congress, APC, as he accused them of going astray from its founding ideals and toeing the line of terrible leadership. El-Rufai, while speaking in a national conference in Abuja on strengthening democracy in the country, stated […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria will battle Tunisia, Uganda and Tanzania in the group phase of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Morocco. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this was confirmed at the end of a colourful ceremony at the Mohamed V Theatre in Rabat on Monday. With the draw concluded, […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Muhammadu Buhari says his health improved after he left office on May 29, 2023. It is worth recalling that during his time in office as President, Buhari was frequently getting sick and this led to him being flown abroad for medical attention. The former military leader handed over to Bola […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Politician and a former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has described Nigeria’s democracy as “fast losing its essence” as a result of deep-necked poverty ravaging the country. He disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Monday. According to him, the number of Nigerians living in poverty is alarming, […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US President Donald Trump once again hinted at the idea of serving a third term, saying he was “not 100 percent sure” he was barred from doing so under the Constitution, which forbids it. Trump has repeatedly alluded to the possibility that he might go beyond the current two-term limit for US […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kano State Governor and NNPP leader, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has slammed the Federal Government and the Kano State Police Command for a false terror alert issued ahead of the annual Maulud celebration. The annual event, which honoured Sheikh Ibrahim Inyass, the spiritual leader of the Tijjaniyya Sufi Order, happened at the […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the forthcoming election of a Vice Chancellor (VC) for the University of Nigeria Nsukka UNN, a pressure group, under the platform of ‘Kpokotenu Nsukka’, meaning, (unite Nsukka), has urged eligible voters and other critical stakeholders in the electoral process, including the Governing Council, to support and vote for an Enugu […]
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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anambra State Police operatives serving at Abagana Divisional Police Headquarters has arrested four suspects including a 21-year old lady Chinenye Ekwenugo from Ifitedunu over the burning of a 74 (seventy-four) years old woman in a wheelchair at Abagana. The three other suspects includes Uzochukwu Okeke ‘M’ aged 47, Fidel Anayo ‘M’ aged […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Anambra State Government has discovered a total of 35 graves in a popular hotel used for kidnapping and sundry crimes in Oba, Idemili South local government area of the state. Deputy Governor of the state, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim disclosed that chains of graves and a shrine were discovered on the topmost […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rights activist Omoyele Sowore was on Monday grilled at the Force Intelligence Bureau in Abuja over his recent viral extortion video involving some police officers. In the video, Sowore alleged that the officers were engaged in some illegalities on the Murtala Muhammed Airport Road in Lagos State. In the video, Sowore had […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Minister and Poverty Reduction, Nentawe Yilwatda, says some politicians are trying to influence poor Nigerians who make the social register to enjoy the government’s conditional cash transfer. He said, “Some people want us to bend and allow the governors or the states to just generate the list and […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Timileyin Ajayi, the suspected killer of Salome Adaidu, has been arraigned at the High Court of Justice, Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital. He was charged with one count of culpable homicide punishable by death, contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria He was arraigned on Monday before Justice […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian singer, 2Baba, has confirmed his separation from his wife, Annie Idibia. The African Examiner writes that 2Baba in a now-deleted Instagram post disclosed that he and Annie had been separated for a while and was filing for divorce. However, a few minutes after the post, the “African Queen” hitmaker stated […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Details of how six top Yoruba monarchs prevailed upon nonagenarian legal luminary Afe Babalola to drop his criminal defamation suit against human rights activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi have emerged. t was gathered that the Ooni of Ife, Enitan Ogunwusi, mobilised five other high-class traditional rulers to the Ado-Ekiti residence of Babalola […]
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Monday, January 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – China said Monday it was “extremely unlikely” Covid-19 came from a laboratory, after the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission. “The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team […]
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Sunday, January 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has condoled with the government and the people of Enugu state over the fuel tanker explosion, which resulted in the loss of lives on Saturday. This was contained in a press release issued on Sunday and signed by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga. […]
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Sunday, January 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, has stated that there are more “yahoo people” in government than “outside”. A ‘yahoo boy’ in Nigerian coinage means an internet fraudster or scammer. Peter Obi, a former Anambra governor, while speaking in the 4th graduation ceremony of Nexford […]
