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Wednesday, June 12th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Government has slammed the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, over its billing and disconnection of some of the state government’s offices, describing the actions as unlawful, malicious, callous, and vexatious. It also faulted EEDC’s claim of government’s indebtedness to the company to the tune of N1.3bn, explaining that besides […]
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
…Picks Ex- Enugu Scribe, Orurou As Chairman. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to restore enduring peace in the crisis – ridden Ebonyi state chapter of the peoples Democratic party PDP, the national leadership of the party, has put in place a Caretaker Committee to pilot it’s affairs for the next three months. Our […]
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh, has demanded a detailed technical report from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on the Super Eagles’ disappointing results in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. This is contained in a statement by Diana-Mary Nsan, the Special Assistant to the minister on Media. The Eagles […]
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a contempt charge against the Director General, Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, over his alleged refusal to obey court orders. Kanu, through his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, on Monday filed Form 49 titled: “Notice to Show Cause […]
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has again reassured the banking public of the safety of their deposits and the banking system’s resilience. The apex bank’s Acting Director of Corporate Communications Department, Mrs Hakama Sidi-Ali, gave the assurance in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Sidi-Ali’s statement was a response to concern […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Newly released data by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has revealed that exports of agricultural goods from Nigeria to other countries, increased by 123 per cent over the value recorded in the fourth quarter of 2023 (₦463.97bn), and also by 270 per cent when compared to the value recorded in Q1, […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Organised Labour said the one-week grace period given to the Federal Government last Tuesday, June 4, 2024, would expire by the midnight of Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Labour said should the Federal Government and National Assembly fail to act on the demands of workers by tomorrow (Tuesday), the organs of the […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – State governors have called on the federal government to enforce a “no-meter, no-service” policy for all new electricity connections in the country. The plea was outlined in the Development of the National Integrated Electricity Policy & Strategic Implementation Plan: Policy Recommendations by State Governments to the Federal Ministry of Power document from […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Far-right parties made striking gains in European Union elections on Sunday, while the ultimate losers were French President Emmanuel Macron — and the Greens. Here are five takeaways from the vote which saw Europe’s centrist political groups emerge relatively unscathed and higher turnout than in 2019 among the bloc’s 27 states. – […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Union (EU) has raised Schengen visa application fees from €80 to €90 for adult African and other non-EU citizens. According to the European Commission, the new visa fees will come into effect on June 11, 2024. “All visa applications submitted on or after this date will be subject to the […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday dismissed rumours that he would quit before the July 4 general election, as criticism about his early departure from D-Day commemoration events rumbled on. The Conservative leader issued an apology after outrage from veterans’ groups that he declined to join other world leaders at an […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says that the rescheduled rerun election for the Enugu South 1 State Constituency was postponed due to security reasons. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Dr Chukwuemeka Chukwu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Sunday that the postponed election was […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Yobe State Independent Electoral Commission has declared that All Progressives Congress (APC) won all 17 chairmanship seats and 178 councillor positions in the just concluded local government elections. Announcing the winners after the collation of all results, the Chairman of the Commission, Dr Mamman Mohammed, explained that other political parties participated […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Ondo State governorship election Agboola Ajayi has named Festus Akingbaso as his running mate for the exercise. Akingbaso popularly known as Fessy West is a member of the House of Representatives representing Idanre/Ifedore Constituency. Before now, he was a member of the Ondo State […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former National Vice Chairman, North-West, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Lukman has questioned the Lagos-Calabar coastal road project expected to gulp N15 trillion. Lukman believes the government should have channeled the money into more pressing issues like education among others and maintains that the APC has poorly managed […]
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Monday, June 10th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Controversial Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has stated that the proposed N62, 000 minimum wage by the Federal government should also be extended to Governors as well as Nigerian lawmakers both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. The spiritual director of the Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria, disclosed this […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has urged stakeholders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to pursue compensation, and not litigation to resolve land disputes in the nation’s capital. The President stated this when he commissioned the Guzape Lot II Infrastructure Project in Abuja on Saturday. He said the completion of the project was testament […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State has declared a state of emergency in the education sector. The governor made this declaration while distributing educational materials to schools, awarding scholarships to students and soft loans to teachers on Saturday. At the event, the governor announced that the state government has recruited over 5,000 […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Saturday, stated that the last general election was characterised by fraud and a lot of irregularities. Obi stated this in his X account saying that the poll was disturbed by glitches irrespective of the huge sum of money spent to execute the exercise. […]
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Sunday, June 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Saturday, the Nigeria Labour Congress accused state governors of acting in bad faith concerning matters of minimum wage negotiations. The Congress in a statement kicked against the claim by governors that the payment of N60,000 monthly as minimum wage to workers won’t be possible. It is worth recalling that governors under […]
