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Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned one Okorie Sunday who was arrested on March 19, 2025, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, with $578,000 in cash. The defendant was arraigned before Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on four counts bordering on alleged money […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Enugu state Command, Nkechi Enete, has said that the digitization processes, and other significant innovations initiated by the incumbent Comptroller General CGI, of the Service, Kemi Nanna Nandap, has enhanced Efficiency, transparency, and eliminating corruption in the establishment. She noted that the unveiling of the […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Organised Labour has strongly condemned the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, warning that it may be forced to take decisive action that could disrupt national economic activities if the proclamation is not reversed within a reasonable timeframe. The threat was contained in a statement jointly signed by […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has confirmed Sylvester Nwakuche as the new Controller General of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS). His appointment by President Bola Tinubu on December 13, 2024, followed the retirement of Haliru Nababa. The confirmation came after the Senate Committee on Interior, led by Senator Adams Oshiomhole, presented its report for consideration. […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday announced that Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) collected ₦509.84 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024 (Q4 2024) out of the ₦658.40 billion billed to customers. This was disclosed in NERC’s 2024 Fourth Quarter Report, published on its website in Abuja. According to the report, […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated former President Goodluck Jonathan on winning the 2025 Sunhak Peace Founders’ Award. This was contained in a press release issued on Tuesday and signed by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga Tinubu applauded the former President for his consistent advocacy for peace, […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), has appointed Prof. Ibibia Worika, a legal expert and administrator, as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG). In a statement, the Sole Administrator said the appointment, which took immediate effect, followed a rigorous selection process in which Worika’s extensive […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Donald Trump said Monday he would levy a 25 percent tariff across the board on any country buying oil or gas from Venezuela, as he wages a deportation campaign against Venezuelans and slaps duties on a number of trading partners. Since returning to the White House in January Trump has unleashed […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The suspended senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has debunked reports that she apologised to the Senate over the dispute that led to her suspension. In a statement on Monday, the Kogi lawmaker described the claims as false, adding that she will continue to stand by her truth and fight for what […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says democracy has failed in Africa, arguing that it is not delivering dividends to the continent. Obasanjo said this in Abuja on Monday during the 60th birthday colloquium of a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Emeka Ihedioha. “If you are talking about democracy failing in […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Sudan is suffering its worst cholera outbreak since it became an independent nation in 2011, the United Nations warned Monday, reporting almost 700 deaths in six months, including many children. The organisation’s children’s fund UNICEF said 40,000 cholera cases were reported from the end of September to March 18, “including 694 […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenya Finance Minister John Mbadi on Monday said Kenya has applied for a new lending programme from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Mbadi said the programme will factor in unused money from the current programme, which both sides walked away from last week. The East African nation and the IMF earlier agreed […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, the minister of interior, has called for a probe into the prison break at the federal correctional centre in Koton Karfe area of Kogi state. The African Examiner writes that the Kogi state commissioner for information had earlier announced that at least 12 inmates escaped in the jailbreak. Fanwo disclosed […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has turned down claims to assess the President Bola Tinubu administration. It is worth recalling that on December 24, 2023, Soyinka stated that he would assess Tinubu’s government after the administration gets to one year in office. According to Soyinka, he usually gives a president one year to […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Managing Director of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Bismarck Rewane, said the concession of Nigeria’s major roads in deplorable condition would ultimately reduce inflation, increase productivity, and strengthen the nation’s wobbling currency, the Naira. Rewane is a member of the Highway Development and Management Initiative (HDMI), an initiative of the Federal Government […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has ordered the immediate probe into the prison break incident at the Koton Karfe Correctional Centre in Kogi State. Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, gave the order on Monday, according to his aide, Babatunde Alao. In a statement, the minister described the incident as unfortunate, and vowed to ensure […]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Temitope Ajayi, has stated that President Bola Tinubu made the right call in declaring emergency in Rivers State. Ajayi was reacting to the comments of the emergency rule by former President, Goodluck Jonathan and Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka. It is worth […]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has intercepted a 42-year-old Indian lady at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, (MAKIA), Kano, with 72 parcels of heroin. A statement by NDLEA’s Director, Media And Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja said that the prohibited substances were factory sealed in wafer […]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has stated that President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers state is against the spirit of federalism. It is worth recalling that Tinubu announced the rule in the state on Tuesday because of the political crisis in the state. Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, […]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pope Francis was discharged from hospital Sunday after more than five weeks being treated for pneumonia, waving to crowds gathered and thanking everyone for their support before heading for home. Looking tired and worn, the pontiff sat in a wheelchair on one of the hospital balconies, waving softly to hundreds of people […]
