(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has denied setting cut-off marks for admissions into higher institutions across the country. In a statement posted on its official X account on Thursday, the Board dismissed reports that it had set 140 as cut-off marks for universities, and 100 for polytechnics respectively. “There’s no […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised Thursday to bring an end to raging international crises and restore American prestige on the world stage, saying he could “stop wars with a telephone call.” The former president sought to paint a dire picture of the world under his successor Joe Biden, telling the Republican […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour has opened up on the reason for accepting President Bola Tinubu’s N70,000 new national minimum wage increase. According to the president of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero and his counterpart in the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Festus Osifo, who spoke to newsmen after a meeting with President Tinubu on Thursday, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 24-year-old Nigerian, Oside Oluwole, has broken a world record by continuously playing a soccer video game for three days, according to the Guinness World Records (GWR). The GWR said Oluwole, with the nickname, “Khoded”, performed the longest videogame marathon playing a soccer game, registering a time of 75 hours. It said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representing Borno North, Sen. Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno) has replaced Sen. Ali Ndume representing Borno South (APC-Borno) as the Majority Whip of the Senate. This was contained in a letter to the President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio and signed by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kogi governor Yahaya Bello has asked the Federal High Court, Abuja, to adjourn, indefinitely, the ongoing case instituted against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC). He also asked the court to vacate its arrest order on him, pending the determination of an appeal he filed at the Court of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) gas shared a total sum of N1.354 trillion June revenue among the Federal Government, states and Local Government Councils (LGCs). The revenue was shared at the July meeting of FAAC, held in Abuja and chaired by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Abba Yusuf has signed the Kano State Emirate Council Establishment Bill 2024 into law. The legislation, passed by the State House of Assembly, aims to bridge the gap between the grassroots and the government while sustaining the rich cultural values and norms of the people. The new law establishes second-class Emirate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday dismissed a suit challenging the use of Arabic inscriptions on Naira notes. Justices Yellin Bogoro held that Section 53 (1) of the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act (BOFIA) empowers the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to print, design and issue the currency […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Cholera outbreak in Nigeria has claimed at least 103 lives, while over 3,000 suspected cases have been recorded. The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Jide Idris, confirmed the figures at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. He added that the outbreak has now […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi, on Monday refuted the claim that he has relocated to the United Kingdom. Kumuyi, in a message posted on the Facebook page of Cross River State Deeper Life, described the relocation rumour as misleading. “You must have read that I relocated […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of efforts towards transferring knowledge on Impact of climate change and Net-Zero Emissions, a Non Governmental Organization, the International Climate Change Development Initiative has put together a a one day workshop to sensitize Stakeholders in some local government areas of Enugu state, South East Nigeria The workshop with the objective […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Donald Trump on Monday named right-wing Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate in the US presidential election, rewarding a one-time harsh critic who became one of his most loyal supporters in Congress. Trump, 78, announced his pick on the first day of the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee, an extravaganza […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu is set to meet with the leadership of the Organised Labour in continuation of discussions on a new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said the issue of the new minimum wage was also discussed during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has lamented the paucity of funds in her minister, saying she will approach the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, to seek support in paying some contractors who executed projects for her ministry. “There is no money in the Federal Ministry […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the reinstatement of Professor Nenibarini Zabbey as the Project Coordinator of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP). President’s Spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, in a statement issued on Monday said the President reached the decision to reinstate Zabbey following a performance review of the HYPREP Project Coordinator and concluded […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Sunday, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, the Founder and Senior Pastor of the House on The Rock Church, came under fire from Nigerians on social media after he condemned the assassination attempt on former United States President Donald Trump. The African Examiner recalls that on Sunday, gunshots rang out at a rally as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have won all 25 local government chairmanship seats in the election conducted on Saturday, July 13th 2024. The Chairman of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Jerry Agbaike, on Sunday, said one of PDP candidates was returned unopposed. PDP candidates contested against other parties and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote says the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited now owns a 7.2% stake in the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, and not a 20% stake as initially announced before the inauguration of the facility at the Lekki Free Trade Zone. Dangote, who made this known at a press briefing […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Substitute Mikel Oyarzabal scored a dramatic late winner as Spain triumphed in Sunday’s Euro 2024 final, beating England 2-1 to confirm their re-emergence as a force on the international stage and end their opponents’ dreams of winning a first title in almost six decades. Spain lost influential midfielder Rodri to injury at […]
