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Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was commotion on the floor of the Senate following the submission and consideration of the ad-hoc committee report on the emergency rule in Rivers State, particularly regarding the screening and approval of the Chairman of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC). The session became contentious after lawmakers argued on the […]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – NATO leaders are set to sign off Wednesday at their Hague summit on a defence spending pledge to satisfy US President Donald Trump’s demand for a headline figure of five per cent of GDP. Here are the details of what NATO is signing up to: Trump has insisted NATO countries hit the […]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Nasarawa State said there will be traffic diversion in Lafia, the state capital, due to the scheduled official visit by President Bola Tinubu. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Rahman Nansel, stated this in a statement to journalists in Lafia on Tuesday. The PPRO also said that […]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has enjoined the presidency to clarify the recent statement of President Bola Tinubu, who stated that Belarusian businessman, Alex Zingman, was a former classmate at Chicago State University (CSU). As there are inconsistencies in the timeline and the background of the businessman. The request was contained in […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi faces a tantalising reunion with former club Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup last 16 after both sides on Monday progressed to the knockout phase. Miami drew 2-2 with Palmeiras to go through second in Group A, after the Brazilian side fought back from two goals down […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo House of Assembly on Tuesday approved a N100 billion loan for Gov. Monday Okpebholo to carry out infrastructural development across the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the approval followed Monday’s letter, addressed to the Speaker of the House, Blessing Agbebaku. The letter, signed by the Secretary […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda’s ruling party said Tuesday that the country’s long-running president Yoweri Museveni will seek re-election in polls due early next year. The 80-year-old had been widely expected to try and extend his almost four-decade rule over the East African country. The opposition has faced a mounting crackdown ahead of the general election […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An angry Donald Trump berated Iran and Israel Tuesday for violating a ceasefire deal, adding that he was “really unhappy” with Israel in particular. The two countries have been “fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing, do you understand that?” the US president told […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has projected N1.279 trillion revenue for the 2025 fiscal year which is 40 per cent higher than N865 billion projected for 2024 and even surpassed. Managing Director of NPA, Dr Abubakar Dantsoho made this known during the authority’s 2025 budget defence before the Senate Committees on Marine […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire after close to two weeks of violent conflict between the two countries. Trump took to his Truth Social on Monday evening to announce that both countries had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire”. According to him, […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Shareholders of Dangote Cement on Monday were full of praise for the Board, Management, and staff of the company after approving a dividend payout of N502.6 billion, which translates to N30 kobo per share at the 2024 Annual General Meeting, held in Lagos on Monday. In the same vein, the company also […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, is asking for quick national action to empower Nigeria’s 15 million widows as she described their struggle as a test of the moral conscience of the country. Sulaiman-Ibrahim, making reference to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), disclosed that over 15 million widows, […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former head coach of the Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, says that there is still hope for the team to qualify for next year’s World Cup. The 59-year-old gaffer took over after the team on an interim basis following the resignation of Finidi George after two matches. Eguavoen assisted the three-time African champions […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, former spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has slammed the ongoing coalition discussion among the opposition parties in Nigeria. The African Examiner recalls that opposition leaders under the coalition movement have written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register the All Democratic Alliance (ADA) as a political […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has said that his administration is fulfilling its promise to Nigerians to make Nigeria a global powerhouse in agriculture. Tinubu stated this during the launch of the Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme in Abuja on Monday. He said the reforms being introduced by his administration were aimed at making […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oil prices wobbled and stock markets wavered Monday as traders awaited Tehran’s response to US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend. US and European stocks retreated while Asian equities were mixed, with markets keeping a close eye on whether Iran will block the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which carries one-fifth […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) has condemned the killing of 12 travellers from Kaduna State, who were lynched by a mob in Plateau on Friday while journeying to a wedding in Qua’an Pan Local Government Area in the state. In a statement released on Monday, the Chairman of the NSF, Senator Abdulaziz […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun says he will pursue legal means as a form of peaceful resolution to the ongoing local government crisis in the state. This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Osogbo by Malam Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson to the governor. Adeleke, however, hailed […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iran’s judiciary said it executed on Monday a man found guilty of spying for Israel, as fighting between the two countries entered its 11th day. “Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh was hanged this morning for intelligence cooperation with the Zionist regime,” the judiciary said, using Iran’s term for Israel. Shayesteh was alleged to have […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has strongly denied claims made by former Jigawa Governor, Sule Lamido, about President Bola Tinubu’s role in the annulled June 12, 1993 election. In a statement titled ‘Setting the Record Straight’, Presidential spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, dismissed Lamido’s comments as false, revisionist, and historically dishonest. Lamido had claimed during a […]
