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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bishop Isaac Idahosa, the 2023 Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), says the appropriate punishment should be meted out to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and public officials for electoral failures. According to the ally of former Kano governor and the 2023 NNPP presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso, […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives on Wednesday began debates on the four tax reform bills transmitted to the National Assembly in 2024 by President Bola Tinubu. The bills are scheduled for a second reading on the floor of the Green Chamber some six months after the President transmitted them to the National Assembly […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has taken full ownership of Keystone Bank. This is according to a statement by the bank posted on its X handle on Tuesday evening. It read, “Keystone Bank Limited wishes to clarify media report of a judgement by the Lagos State Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed confidence that nothing will stand in the way of his victory in 2027 should he decide to seek a second term. Governor Fubara made this assertion on Tuesday during a solidarity visit by the three Local Government Areas that make up the Kalabari Ethnic Nationality. […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Embattled former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai says he won’t opt for exile despite the many rumours that he might be arrested and tortured by the Bola Tinubu administration. El-Rufai, who has been embroiled in a battle of words with the Presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said he won’t […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says charges will now apply anytime customers use the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of banks other than theirs. This was contained in a circular dated February 10, 2025, and addressed to all banks and financial institutions, the apex bank’s acting Director of Financial Policy and Regulation […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has been ranked 140th position out of 180 countries in the world on the 2024 corruption perceptions index, according to a report by Transparency International. The TI’s latest ranking released on Tuesday sees the continent’s most populous nation move up 5 spots when compared with 2023 ‘s report and 10 spots […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Osun government has stated that the Court of Appeal judgment in Akure on Monday did not reinstate the sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) local government chairmen and councillors. Mr Kolapo Alimi, Osun Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, explained in a statement that the dismissed case was the PDP’s summons challenging the […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede, says the autonomy of public universities can be better achieved if the National Universities Commission (NUC) is left to manage the budgets of tertiary institutions in addition to its role as the regulator that accredits courses in schools. The […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji has dismissed the appeal filed by the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, challenging the leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly led by Martin Amaewhule. Justice Uwani Abba-Aji while dismissing the appeal awarded a cost of two million […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, questioned the jurisdiction of his alleged terrorism case when he re-appeared before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court for the resumed hearing of his protracted case. Despite Kanu’s insistence that Justice Nyako has no jurisdiction over […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Monday led a delegation to meet with his former boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo at the hilltop residence of the former Nigerian leader in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The former vice president was accompanied by former Governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke and Senator Aminu […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hailed US President Donald Trump’s widely criticised plan to move Palestinians out of the war-battered Gaza Strip, saying Israel is willing to “do the job”. In a Fox News interview aired late Saturday as the premier was wrapping up a visit to Washington, Netanyahu defended Trump’s […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and a top advisor to US President Donald Trump, said he has no interest in acquiring social media platform TikTok’s operations in the United States, in comments released Saturday. “I’ve not put in a bid for TikTok and I don’t have any plans for what I […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Chief Olabode George, has faulted calls for the creation of 31 additional states in the country . Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)on Sunday, the PDP chieftain said creation of additional states would not solve the country’s challenges […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, says the Nigerian economy must be strengthened to weather the storm if a prosperous nation is desirous. Makinde noted that for Nigeria to beat the poverty trap and become a prosperous country, its economy must be built to weather all storms and raise entrepreneurs, improve standard […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun State Government has warned Hip-hop artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable against what it described as his habit of assaulting government officials without provocation. Portable has never shied away from controversies since his break-out song ”Zazuu Zeh” from picking fights with any of his baby mamas or a show […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that the commission is currently prosecuting alleged 774 electoral offenders from the 2023 general election. Yakubu made the disclosure on Friday during a regular quarterly consultative meeting with the Media at INEC Headquarters Abuja. He reassured Nigerians of the […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Anambra State Police Command says its operatives alongside the state vigilante operatives on Thursday arrested nine suspects “actively involved” in the murder of a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Justice Azuka. The arrest of the suspects was confirmed by the Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Nnaghe Itam, […]
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Friday, February 7th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised students of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Dutse, Abuja to resist any form of peer pressure to abuse drugs. The Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, gave the advice while inaugurating NAFDAC’s Consumer Safety Club (NCSC) in the […]
