(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Opposition figures Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi have learnt their lessons in the 2023 presidential election and would unite to kick out the “incompetent and clueless” administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Paul Ibe has said. Atiku and Obi of the Labour Party scored over six million votes each in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has granted bail to rights activist and legal practitioner, Dele Farotimi. Farotimi was granted bail on Monday morning. The court granted him bail for ₦50m with a surety in the same amount. The surety must also provide a landed property as collateral. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Borno Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum has presented the 2025 Budget, tagged the “Budget of Recovery and Continuity,” with a total sum of ₦584.76 billion aimed at consolidating the state’s developmental strides. The budget prioritises health, education, and economic recovery, alongside critical investments in security, infrastructure, and social services. The budget comprises a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mobile money agents have become a familiar sight across Nigeria, using handy point-of-sale machines to provide essential services to millions of people without access to banking, particularly in hard-to-reach rural areas. Even on the streets of major cities, they have become a go-to, due to an ongoing shortage of cash at ATMs […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kosile Stella, an aide to Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke on Revenue Matters, has berated social media critic, Reno Omokri, concerning his remarks on Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the state. The African Examiner writes that Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan alleged that Wizkid, Grammy award winner’s latest album, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has predicted hazy and cloudy weather activities from Monday to Wednesday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja, envisaged the North and North central regions of the country to experience dust haze with visibility range of 1km to 5km. It anticipated localised visibility of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mrs Hannatu Musawa, the Minister of Arts, Culture, Tourism, and Creative Economy, on Sunday lit up the Christmas Village and other recreational facilities in the Enugu State capital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister also toured the newly renovated International Conference Centre, Enugu Digital Museum, and equally lit […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview aired Sunday he would “have to” deport all undocumented immigrants in the United States, as he doubled down on his hardline campaign pledges including ending birthright citizenship. “You have to do it,” he said during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” after being asked […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea roared back from two goals down to beat Tottenham 4-3 on Sunday, moving just four points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool. Spurs raced into an early 2-0 lead but Enzo Maresca’s men turned the match on its head, scoring four times, including two penalties from England forward Cole Palmer, before a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama won a historic comeback election victory on Sunday after voters appeared to punish the ruling New Patriotic Party over its management of an economic crisis. NPP candidate Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia on Sunday conceded defeat in the weekend presidential election after failing to shake off widespread […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Joe Biden on Sunday said the United States would engage with “all Syrian groups” over the political transition after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. “We will engage with all Syrian groups, including within the process led by the United Nations, to establish a transition away from the Assad regime […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, says President Bola Tinubu is responsible for the stiff opposition that has greeted the tax bills introduced by his administration. Sowunmi faulted Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for appointing his tribesmen as finance minister, revenue boss, governor of the Central Bank […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has dismissed reports of the presence of the COVID-19 variant known as XEC in Nigeria, urging citizens to disregard misinformation circulating on social media. The ministry said this in a statement signed by Mr Alaba Balogun, Deputy Director of Information and Public Relations on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester City failed to win for the eighth time in nine games in a 2-2 draw at Crystal Palace on Saturday as high winds caused the Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool to be postponed. City had the chance to go second in the Premier League but failed to build on a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority is encouraging aviation passengers to be more informed about their challenges while travelling via airports. NCAA Head of Consumer Protection, Michael Achimugu, made this call on Saturday during a road walk in Port Harcourt the Rivers state capital. He noted that this is the heavy travel season […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu is confident of an economic rebound and is asking Nigerians to keep faith in his administration’s reforms. Inflation levels in Nigeria have reached new highs, pushing the cost of basic commodities beyond millions of persons in Africa’s most populous nation. But at the graduation ceremony for the Executive Intelligence […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana counted ballots on Saturday after a tight election with the ruling party’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia trying to shake off anger over economic woes and rebuff a challenge by opposition party candidate ex-president John Mahama. Ghana’s struggling economy dominated the election, after the west Africa gold and cacao producer went through […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo says he did not carry the Nigerian military along during his recent investigation into crude oil bunkering in the Niger Delta, claiming some security operatives collude with the bunkerers. Soyombo was recently detained by the Nigerian Army for three days, with the army claiming that the ace journalist […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The NBA will stage two pre-season games in Macau next October, its deputy commissioner said on Friday, marking its return to China after being frozen out for more than five years. No NBA games have been held in China since two pre-season contests in 2019 after a tweet from then-Houston Rockets general […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Thursday, the House of Representatives enjoined security agencies to caution their operatives at checkpoints along the Onitsha-Enugu expressway against “harassing and exploiting” travellers. The lawmakers passed the resolution in their plenary on Thursday after the adoption of a motion sponsored by Amobi Ogah, a lawmaker from Abia. Moving the motion, Ogah […]
