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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oil marketers have said they do not have details of the logistic challenges that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) claimed are responsible for the current low supply of products nationwide. Fresh petrol scarcity resurfaced on Wednesday last week and has worsened, leaving Nigerians to grapple with the effects of the […]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, said the U.S. government, through its Presidential Malaria Initiative, PMI, has contributed $914m to fight malaria in Nigeria since 2011. This is contained in PMI’s latest report, which said it also supported Nigeria with $73 million to fight malaria in 2023 alone, and released […]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Commission has promised one billion euros to Lebanon financial aid (1.07 billion U.S. dollars) in order to stop the flow into the European Union of refugees from Syria. The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the promised in Beirut on Thursday following talks with acting Lebanese Prime Minister […]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) says it has reached an advanced stage in the processing of entry visa for the 2024 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. The Executive Chairman, NAHCON, Malam Jalal Arabi, said this at the Maiden Stakeholders Summit on Nigeria’s Hajj and Umrah Industry on Thursday in Abuja. […]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Organised Labour has handed the Federal Government May 31 deadline to come up with a realistic and reasonable new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. Labour made this known during the Workers’ Day celebrations at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Wednesday. The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero; […]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular celebrity bartender and businessman, Pascal Okechukwu, also known as Cubana Chief Priest, is exploring an out-of-court settlement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with respect to the charge of Naira abuse leveled against him by the anti-graft agency at the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. His lawyer, Senior […]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has described as “baseless distractions”, claims by the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, that he is inciting the people of the South-East geopolitical zone against the Federal Government over the Lagos-Calabar coastal road project. In a string of posts on X […]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Kashim Shettima says the President Bola Tinubu’s administration is determined to eradicate corruption without fear or favoritism. He stated this on Thursday at the Second Edition of The Chronicle Roundtable in Abuja where he said the government is also working to reduce the unemployment rate in the country. The event […]
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says although the Tripartite Committee On National Minimum Wage is yet to conclude its negotiations, workers will not lose anything as the new minimum wage will take effect from May 1, 2024. The Minister of State Labour, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, stated this on Wednesday while addressing Nigerian workers at the […]
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The family of JohnPaul Odonwodo, a.k.a Junior Pope, has urged the public to rely solely on information from the Central Planning Committee (CPC), for his burial. The elder brother to Junior Pope, Mr Ivor Odonwodo, said this in a statement in Enugu. While noting that the family was heartbroken by his death, […]
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Naira on Tuesday closed the month of April on a good footing as it gained N28.15 at the official market, trading at N1,390.96 to the dollar. Data from the official trading platform of the FMDQ Exchange, a platform that oversees the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM), revealed that the gain […]
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the world celebrates Workers Day, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and state governors have appealed to workers to remain steadfast, and make sacrifices that will move the nation forward in the face of the present economic challenges. Akpabio has assured Nigerian workers that the National Assembly and the Executive arm of […]
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has approved a salary increase of between 25% and 35% for civil servants on the remaining six Consolidated Salary Structures. This move is coming on the eve of the 2024 Workers’ Day event and is contained in a Tuesday statement by the Head of Press at the National Salaries, […]
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 30 for ruling in a bail application filed by the detained leader of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo. Bodejo, who was accused of unlawfully establishing an ethnic militia group to promote terrorism, has been in the custody […]
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government had declared Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 as a public holiday to mark this year’s Workers’ Day event. Nigeria’s Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo made the declaration, according to the ministry’s Permanent Secretary Aishetu Ndayako. “The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, 1st May 2024 as a Public Holiday to commemorate […]
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Navy (NN) says personnel of Naval Security Station (NSS) 023, deployed along Cawthorne Channel in Rivers, have rescued more than 250 passengers on board a capsized passenger boat. The Director of Naval Information, Commodore Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu, in a statement on Tuesday, said the passengers were rescued at about 10:00 pm […]
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students has stated that it would organise a nationwide protest on May 7, 2024 because of the ongoing fuel scarcity and electricity crisis. The student body in a statement on Tuesday also lamented the failure of the government to address the challenges affecting the power sector. According […]
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), in a move to deregulate the metre supply and pricing market, released an order on Monday on the deregulation prices for metres deployed under the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) Scheme. According to the order, the commission said the move was necessitated after MAPs and other operators […]
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), has threatened to cripple the supply of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, over non-payment of ₦200bn bridging claims. The threat comes following current nationwide scarcity which has seen prices of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, surge to between […]
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has sympathised with the victims of the gas explosion at Ita-Oshin in the Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The explosion from a solitary gas truck rippled through the community, resulting in the loss of life and property. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media […]
