(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government has stated that it has rejected over 90 percent of the applications by airline operators for expert quotas in their business. Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation, disclosed this in his office in Abuja. According to Sirika, the rejection was to make sure that Nigerians are prioritised for such jobs, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, has stated that the declaration of bandits as terrorists by the Federal Government ‘will cause more mayhem’. According to Gumi, the development would not end bandits’ aggression against the society. The cleric disclosed this after an Abuja division of Federal High Court declared the activities of Yan […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Matthew Kukah, bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, has stated that Abdulsalami Abubakar, former head of state, has given respectability to Nigeria’s electoral process because of the peace committee. African Examiner recalls that the National Peace Committee (NPC) was conceptualized in 2014 in response to emerging threats brought on by the 2015 general […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2019 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has enjoined the Federal Government and governors elected on the platforms of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to emulate their PDP counterparts. Atiku Abubakar stated that only states controlled by PDP governors are working based on projects that have […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria Air, the country’s proposed national carrier, will take off by April 2022, Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation, has disclosed . The minister stated this when he briefed state house correspondents after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting at the presidential villa, Abuja. According to him, the national carrier will be run […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has placed Governor Willie Obiano, governor of Anambra State on its watchlist. This development is coming months before Obiano is expected to vacate office as governor. According to a letter dated November 15 and addressed to the comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles striker, Victor Osimhen, will not be available for action for three months after undergoing surgery on his cheekbone and eye socket. Serie A leaders Napoli announced this in a statement released on their official website on Tuesday. With this, the striker will not be available for action in the 2021 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, has stated that the federal government will remove fuel subsidies by 2022 and replace them with a N5000-a-month transportation grant to the poorest Nigerians. Ahmed disclosed this at the launch of the World Bank Nigeria Development Update (NDU) on Tuesday, saying that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have agreed to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari, to discuss the way forward for the party’s upcoming national convention. The governors under the aegis of Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) reached the agreement at the end of their meeting on Sunday night […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, expressed happiness with the manner multiple award-winning singer, David Adeleke, raised funds for orphanage homes across Nigeria. African Examiner writes that Adeleke, also known as Davido, a few days to his 29th birthday, had raised over N250m through freewill donations from his friends, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Attahiru Bafarawa, former governor of Sokoto state, has announced his retirement from politics after 45 years. Bafarawa was the governor of Sokoto between 1999 and 2007. Speaking in an interview , the ex-governor stated that he no longer has the will to be in active politics. Bafarawa who contested for the position […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigeria international, Julius Aghahowa, has berated Super Eagles players and their coaches. The former Super Eagles striker was angered by the team’s performance in their shocking 1-1 draw with Cape Verde in Lagos on Tuesday. “If you talk of the players, the talents are there, the players have the capabilities but […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has stated that Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), will soon declare if he would be running for president in 2023 or not, next January. Tinubu, who was Lagos governor from May 1999 to May 2007, has been always […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Just few days after the attack that killed a general and three other officers of the Nigerian Army in Chibok/Askira Uba in southern Borno, Damboa, another neighbouring Local Government Area is presently under severe gunfire by terrorists of Islamic State West Africa Province. This making it a third attack in one month […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Executive Council of the Nigeria Union of Teachers has directed its members in Kaduna State not to participate in the competency test being organised by the state government. The Deputy National President of the union, Mr Kelvin Nwankwo, gave the directive in Kaduna, during a meeting with teachers in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Bureau of Statistics says South-East residents paid the highest average price for Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, in October. The NBS said this in its “Premium Motor Spirit Price Watch for October 2021’’, released on its website on Tuesday in Abuja. According to it, the highest average price […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has been enjoined to sack the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed immediately. This development is coming after the report of the Panel of Investigation set by the Lagos State Government to unravel the incidents of October 20, 2020, at the popular Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos State. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Nigerians have taken to social media to express disgust concerning the death of a ‘wrongfully jailed’ Nigerian lady, Itunu Babalola. According to available information, 21-year-old Babalola from Oyo State was a trader based in Bondoukou, Cote d’Ivoire. Her apartment had been burgled by an Ivorian in September 2019 and she had reported the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has enjoined former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP), Bode George to stop his rift with Bola Tinubu, APC National Leader. Igbokwe stated that George should stop attacking Tinubu and admit that the APC National Leader is better. He […]
(AFRICAN Examiner) – The African Union’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, remains hopeful that dialogue can end Ethiopia’s year-long war, but warned in a statement released on Sunday that “such talks cannot deliver” without an immediate ceasefire. The former Nigerian president is leading an international push to end a conflict that […]
