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Sunday, January 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Saudi Arabia has released three Nigerians who were earlier arrested and prosecuted in the country. In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by the Acting-Spokesperson of the Ministry, Kimiebi Ebienfa, the release followed high-level diplomatic engagement between the Nigerian government and Saudi authorities. The three Nigerians namely: Hadiza Abba, Fatima Malah […]
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Sunday, January 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz accused Lebanese group Hezbollah on Sunday of not meeting the terms of a ceasefire, warning that if the militants continued to breach the deal, Israel would “be forced to act”. Katz issued his warning after visiting the military’s northern command and it followed a similar accusation against […]
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Sunday, January 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested a wanted drug kingpin and Lagos socialite, 61-year-old Alhaja Aishat Feyisara Ajoke Elediye on New Year Day in her mansion at Okota area of Lagos following the interception of a truckload illicit drug consignment from her staff same day. A […]
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Sunday, January 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Commissioner for Works and later Water Resources during Peter Odili’s administrations in Rivers State, David Briggs, has dismissed claims by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, that he revived Odili’s political career. Instead, Briggs credited Odili with facilitating Wike’s rise in politics. Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt […]
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Sunday, January 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians, including healthcare providers, about a counterfeit cancer treatment drug, Phesgo 600mg/600mg/10ml, labelled with batch number C5290S20. This notification is outlined in a public alert (No. 051/2024) available on the agency’s website. NAFDAC reported that the Marketing Authorisation Holder […]
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Sunday, January 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Air Training Command, AVM Abubakar Abdullahi, said the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), has recorded successes in its operations against banditry and terrorism in Kaduna and the broader North-West region in 2024. Abdullahi stated thi at the ATC’s and Co-located Units’ Base Socio-Cultural Activities (BASA), on Saturday in […]
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Sunday, January 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The administration of US President Joe Biden has notified Congress of a planned $8 billion arms sale to Israel, a source familiar with the plan said on Saturday. The State Department “has informally notified Congress of an $8 billion proposed sale of munitions to support Israel’s long-term security by resupplying stocks of […]
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Saturday, January 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has justified the removal of fuel subsidy by his administration and labelled it a “necessary” move to secure the country’s future. Tinubu declared an end to the subsidy regime during his swearing ceremony in May 2023, leading to a hike in the cost of the essential commodity. There were […]
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Saturday, January 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Secretary of the Committee of APC Diaspora Chairmen, Mr Ayoola Lawal has condemned the inclusion of President Bola Tinubu in the recent global corruption ranking by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Lawal, the immediate past Chairman of the APC in Scandinavian countries in a statement on Saturday, […]
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Saturday, January 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has dissolved the Nasarawa State Executive Council. He announced the dissolution during an executive council meeting on Friday, 3rd January 2025. The governor appreciated the outgone commissioners and the Secretary to the Government of Nasarawa State for the services rendered to the Government and people of Nasarawa […]
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Saturday, January 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will experience a long period of power outages starting next week on Monday. The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) announced this in a statement via its X handle on Friday. It said the power outage will occur due to the relocation of the 33KV DC […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Chukwuma Soludo has placed a N10m bounty on the killers of security agents and some civilians in Anambra State. Gunmen attacked and killed two security operatives and five others in Ihiala Local Government Area of the state on December 30th. Days later, Soludo paid a condolence visit to the families of […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu will make its first official visit to Enugu State on Saturday to inaugurate some projects executed by the Gov. Peter Mbah administration. Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, the Secretary to the State Government disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Enugu. Onyia said, “The Enugu State Government is happy to […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World food commodity prices declined by 2.1 percent in 2024 compared to the previous year, the FAO said on Friday, but they remain considerably higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s overall Food Price Index averaged 122.0 points — 2.6 points or 2.1 percent lower than the […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana’s outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo Friday announced visa-free travel for all African passport holders from the start of this year, marking a step towards continental economic integration. The announcement came during his final state of the nation address as he prepares to step down on January 6 after two terms in office. […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Borno State Urban Planning and Development Board (BSUPDB) has banned street hawking and other illegal activities in Maiduguri metropolis. The General Manager of the board, Mr Limán Mustapha, in a statement on Friday, said the ban was in accordance with the Borno State Urban Planning and Development Law of 2002. He […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A British independent school, Charterhouse that is located in the Lekki area of Lagos State, has again generated controversy over its fees from Nigerians on social media. According to the website of the school, the Charterhouse Family of Schools has been a prominent name in British education for over 400 years. Also, […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has applauded lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi. Obi, in a tweet on Friday, after his visit to Farotimi, who recently came back from a correctional facility in Ekiti stated that Farotimi was in high spirits irrespective of what he went […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that Peter Obi’s New Year message is “misleading and an attempt to score cheap political points”. It is worth recalling that Obi was the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections. During his New Year message to Nigerians, Obi slammed President Bola […]
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Friday, January 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has slammed the reforms being implemented by President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos during the 2023 elections, speaking on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today, claimed that the only people benefitting from the reforms are the president’s friends. It is worth recalling that President […]
