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Monday, October 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A professor of political science and former deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Adigun Agbaje, has thanked Nigerians for their concerns before he was released by kidnappers. “It’s a new day today and I’m happy to be alive. I was released by my kidnappers yesterday (Sunday) evening after spending two nights […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is pioneering a voluntary billion dollars’ worth Carbon Market on the continent. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this a statement on Sunday in Abuja. He said “It is an innovative climate change solution which will create, […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Adebola Agbaje, wife of Prof. Adigun Agbaje, the kidnapped University of Ibadan (UI) don, has pleaded for the release of her husband, saying her expected gratuity was not enough to pay the N50 million ransom demanded. In an exclusive interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, the distraught […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, and several South West leaders on Sunday endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Tinubu received their endorsement during a meeting he had with the leaders of the organisation at Fasoranti’s residence in Akure, the Ondo […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has his backing to redesign the naira notes. President Buhari stated the country has a lot to gain from the change in naira notes adding that he did not think the period of three months for the change to the […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday meet with security chiefs in the nation’s capital, Abuja, to further review and strengthen the security network in the country. This was revealed last night via a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu. The statement explained […]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Edo State Commissioner for Information, Kassim Afegbua, says that contrary to media reports, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar never held any crucial meeting with the critical stakeholders of the United States State Department. Afegbua in a statement issued Sunday alleged that “this level of dubiety, desperation, boldness, wildness […]
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Saturday, October 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of the University of Ibadan, Professor Adigun Agbaje, has been kidnapped. The kidnappers who have contacted the family are asking for a sum of N50m as ransom. According to a report by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, Prof. Agbaje, who is currently on sabbatical at Olabisi Onabanjo […]
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Saturday, October 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The plan by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign the Naira is enmeshed in confusion as the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, kicked against the plan. The Minister said she and her ministry were not aware of the policy but only heard of it in […]
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Saturday, October 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s government has expressed disapproval of a US alert warning of a possible terrorist attack in the former. President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa at a press conference on Thursday described as unfortunate the alert issued by the US which he said was done without consulting the South African government. The […]
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Friday, October 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians have taken a big swipe at the controversial governor of the central bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele over the introduction of the new notes even at this time the Naira’s value is at free fall, and the economic hardship bites harder. Recall that the CBN has announced the redesigned 200, […]
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Friday, October 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former political appointee in Ondo West local government area simply identified as Olanrewaju has died in a hotel after allegedly sex romp with his lover. The incident occurred at 9pm on Wednesday at Step Down Hotel. Witnesses said they suspected the woman was spiritually laced with Magun (Thunderbolt). Olanrewaju, 49, was […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has presented an estimated N1,692 trillion as budget estimates for the 2023 to the House of Assembly. The ‘Budget of Continuity’ comprises revenue of N1.342 billion and deficit financing of N350,000 billion. This further comprises total Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of N1.108 billion and federal transfers of N234 […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue, has urged former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to apologise for allegedly lying against him. Ortom said this when he received a group, under the aegis of Jemgbagh Youths, on a protest at the Government House, Makurdi, over alleged lies against Ortom by Atiku. He stated that Atiku should […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oil marketers on Wednesday said the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, in many parts of Nigeria was due to the unavailability of mother vessels to ship the product to the country. Also, they insisted on raising the price of the commodity following the hike in the rate of the […]
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Thursday, October 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Same-sex marriage has become legal throughout Mexico after the state of Tamaulipas became the last in the mostly Catholic country to approve it, the local Congress said Wednesday. The northern border state’s decision ends a 12-year journey toward national marriage equality beginning when the capital Mexico City became the first to celebrate […]
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Seoul, invited top Korean business executives to increase their investments in Nigeria, while his administration would continue to make determined efforts to improve the enabling domestic environment for businesses to flourish. Buhari spoke during an audience he granted representatives of strategic Korean companies and industries on […]
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has announced that the bank would release re-designed Naira notes by December 15, 2022. He also said that existing notes would seize to be regarded as legal tender by January 31, 2023. Emefiele disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. The […]
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, has ordered the Federal Government to pay the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N500 million as damages following his illegal abduction and human rights abuse from Kenya. The Court also ordered the Federal government […]
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was tension in the early hours of Wednesday as fire gutted the West Africa Examinations Council building in Yaba area of Lagos State. Many people are feared trapped in the building as the fire rages. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. However, emergency responders are at the […]
