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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has officially submitted the 2025 Appropriation Bill for Rivers State to the National Assembly for consideration, following the suspension of the state’s House of Assembly. In a letter addressed to the Senate President, Senator Goodwill Akpabio, the proposed budget totals ₦1.481 trillion, with major allocations aimed at revitalizing key […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has extended heartfelt felicitations to two British Nigerians, Opeyemi Bright and Jason Jackson, on their historic election and inauguration as mayors in London. A press release issued on Wednesday by his Special Adviser, Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, the President commended Bright and Jackson for sustaining the legacy […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has claimed that some Nigerian politicians and members of the armed forces do act as informants and collaborators for Boko Haram insurgents. Zulum stated this on Wednesday in an interview on News Central’s Breakfast Central, where he assured that the state would strengthen its security intelligence […]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has refuted claims that the technical glitch recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, was part of a plans against the eastern part of the country. The African Examiner recalls that the technical glitch disturbed the five […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, has stated that the Nigerian Army does not have the right equipment to fight terrorists. Zulum made this revelation while speaking in an interview on News Central on Wednesday, as he stated that terrorists are now making use of sophisticated technology to execute their operations. According […]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Health Organization (WHO) Member States have approved a 20 per cent increase in assessed contributions as they endorsed the organisation’s 2026 to 2027 budget of 4.2billion dollars. In a statement, the WHO said that the 20 per cent increase comes as governments are facing financial constraints and economic headwinds and demonstrates […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Irked by the controversies that has characterized the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME), results, Women’s Aid Collective (WACOL) in collaboration with Southeast Human Rights Civil Society Situation Room, Southeast Women’s Network( SEWNET),Tuesday staged a peaceful protest to the South East zonal office of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) office to […]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students, Southwest Zone D, has frowned at the death of a student who was hit by a stray bullet while going to write his WASSCE exam in Ibadan, Oyo State. The student, who was reportedly in his father’s car, going to the exam center, was struck by […]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has stated that lawmakers were elected to cooperate with the president and not confront him. Akpabio said this in an upcoming feature documentary to celebrate two years of President Bola Tinubu’s administration. According to him, legislators are not elected to fight the executive but to work across party […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Federation of Women Lawyers, Abia State branch, on Tuesday kicked against the recent alleged incident of domestic violence and child abuse where a father set himself, his wife, and their one-year-old daughter ablaze in Onicha Ngwa community in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state. According to reports, the incident […]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South-East Caucus of the 10th House of Representatives has called for the resignation of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Ishaq Oloyede, over the technical glitch recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. It also called for the examination to be completely cancelled and a new date […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to prevent Gender based violence (GBV) related issues in Communities of South East region of Nigeria, Women Aid Collective (WACOL), in partnership with Ford Foundation has put together in a Enugu a two day paralegal training/capacity building for traditional rulers and Community gatekeepers in the region. The programme […]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have lauded Nollywood series, “The Boy Child’s Life”, a film that depicts everyday challenges the ordinary Nigerian boy child faces. Filmmakers, actors, government functionaries and representatives of civil society groups, as well as the cast and crew of […]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State Government says Ladoke Akintola International Airport, Alakia, Ibadan, will begin international flight operations by June 2026. The Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, confirmed this in a statement issued on Monday in Ibadan. Oyelade said the international terminal, currently at 15 percent completion, is expected to […]
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ballon d’Or award ceremony will take place on September 22 this year and the number of awards for women and men will be equal for the first time, organisers said on Monday. Awards for best women’s goalkeeper, best young women’s player and the top women’s scorer in a club or national […]
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amid growing rumours of a possible coalition among opposition leaders to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has said that the only coalition he is interested in is the one against hunger, poverty, and the terrible state of healthcare […]
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Joe Biden expressed his gratitude to Americans on Monday for their “love and support” after the former US president said he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The weekend revelation that the 82-year-old Democrat had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer, and that it had spread to his bones, […]
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The joint action committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non Academic Staff Union of Allied institutions (NASU) has rejected the recent distribution formula adopted for the disbursement of the ₦50 billion approved by the Federal Government for University based unions. The ₦50 billion is to be […]
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa won their maiden CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations title with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Morocco in Sunday night’s final at the June 30 Stadium in Cairo. Gomolemo Kekana’s stunning second-half strike proved decisive, as the Southern Africans claimed the trophy and rewrote history by overcoming a North African […]
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Monday, May 19th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The kidnapped Chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Ward 5, Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, Mr Nelson Adepoyigi, has been reportedly killed by his abductors. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that Adepoyigi was abducted on Monday, May 13, while parking his vehicle at his residence in Ifon. Confirming […]
