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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has a 2027 target for transitioning its examination system to 100 per cent computer-based testing (CBT). Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this during the inauguration of the Committee on Improvement of Quality Examinations in Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday. Alausa said that the committee was tasked with […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The equities market closed on a mixed note on Thursday following the listing of an additional 9.25 billion ordinary shares of 50 kobo each by Lasaco Assurance Plc. Specifically, investors gained N289 million as the market capitalization, which opened at N63.147 trillion, recorded a slight change to close at N63.147 trillion. The […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Air Sierra Leone, has started its scheduled flight operations from Lagos and Freetown after over 15 years of inoperation. The airline returned to Nigeria in partnership with a Nigerian airline, XEJet. According to available reports, while XEjet will provide technical support to the airline, it will also provide three operational aircraft for […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Real Madrid are the first football club to top a billion euros in revenue during a single season, fuelled by income generated by the revamped Santiago Bernabeu stadium, according to financial experts Deloitte. The order of the clubs at the top of Deloitte’s annual Football Money League stayed the same, with Madrid […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have expressed support for the recent court ruling that nullified the party’s congresses in Rivers State. The NWC members made their position known during a visit to Governor Siminalayi Fubara at the Government House in Port Harcourt on […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Beatrice was woken up by a loud sound on Sunday afternoon. Before she could raise her head, she heard much more. Someone was knocking hard on her apartment’s main entrance door. She went toward the door to ask who was knocking. It was her neighbour, Lade, who got married three years ago. […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mexican President pledges to defend the country’s independence and sovereignty amid U.S. President ‘s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. “For us, it is still the Gulf of Mexico, as it is for the rest of the world,” Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters at a regular press […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A cross section of students in Enugu State, on Wednesday, appealed for the reversal of the 50 per cent hike in tariff in telecommunication services due to prevailing socioeconomic hardship. They were of the view that telecommunication services, such as internet data service, have enhanced learning and research work; making its usage […]
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said that about 14.3 million or Nigerians are victims of drug abuse. Adeyeye stated this at the inaugural ceremony of the agency’s youth programme, tagged, ‘’Catch Them Young,’’ held at the Government Secondary School, Rumuokwuta, Port […]
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Labour Congress has called for the resignation of the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu and other Ministry of Power officials over the frequent collapse of the national power grid. In a statement late Tuesday night by the NLC President, Joe Ajaero said the power sector was on the brink of […]
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said it has approved the release of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange (FX) Code. The apex bank also announced that the Code would be formally launched next week in Abuja. According to CBN in a statement, the Code serves as a guideline to the banking industry […]
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UK public borrowing jumped more than expected in December, official data showed Wednesday, adding pressure to the Labour government and Prime Minister Keir Starmer as they battle economic headwinds. Public-sector borrowing stood at £17.8 billion ($21.9 billion) last month, a £10 billion increase from December 2023, the Office for National Statistics said. […]
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A rebel spokesperson and provincial governor on Tuesday said the Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels have seized the eastern town of Minova, a main supply route for the provincial capital Goma. The Tutsi-led M23 group has been waging a renewed insurgency in the Central African country’s east since 2022. Congo and […]
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State experienced a big boost in revenue during the festive season and generated $71.6 from the end-of-year activities better known as “Detty December”. Idris Aregbe, the Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tourism, Arts, and Culture, said this during the review of the ‘Lagos State Detty December 2024/2025 Report’. “Lagos […]
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said all visa applications will go online before March 1. Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this on Monday when he was hosted on ‘X Spaces’ by an influencer, Dr Segun Awosanya. According to him, there is also now a centralised visa approval centre that has merged […]
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Immigration advocates have sued the US President, Donald Trump following his move to end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily in the country. According to a Bloomberg report, immigration advocates swiftly filed a lawsuit in New Hampshire on Monday evening, shortly after […]
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has announced the postponement of three fixtures from matchday 20 of the 2024-25 season. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this decision was disclosed by Davidson Owunmi, the Chief Operating Officer of NPFL, in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Owunmi slated the six […]
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday took gigantic steps to revoke immediate past U.S. president Joe Biden’s policies by signing executive orders. Trump signed a few other executive orders in front of the crowd at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., just a few hours after being sworn in as the 47th […]
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Telephone subscribers in Nigeria will pay more for data and airtime as the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Monday approved a 50% tariff increase for telecoms operators in the country. In a statement, a spokesman for the regulator Reuben Muoka said the price adjustment, though lower than the “over 100% requested by […]
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Monday, January 20th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian actress, Ini Edo, has opened up about her journey with infertility, saying that she has had over six miscarriages and failed IVF procedures. Speaking in a recent episode of the reality TV series ‘Young, Famous and African,’ the 42-year-old actress stated that she got married at 26 thinking that she […]
