(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 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Deji Adeyanju, a socio-political activist, has raised the alarm concerning moves to increase the pump price of fuel in Nigeria. Adeyanju alleged that the federal government is planning to increase the price of fuel to N450 per litre. In a series of tweets, the activist accused the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has stated that even as the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari remains steadfast to the delivery of sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to all Nigerians, effective collaboration among all levels of government and the private sector will help the country achieves its goal to end open defecation by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion, has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. According to available information, Igbinedion who finished his tenure as governor in 2007 is being grilled at the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC for allegedly diverting public funds to the tune of N1.6 billion. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles manager, Gernot Rohr, has stated that the team is missing three players ahead of their Saturday’s 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying tie against Liberia on Saturday. The Super Eagles men are presently camping in Morocco, the venue of the next FIFA World Cup qualifiers against the Lone Stars. Rohr’s men […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government has stated that Twitter was not banned in Nigeria. Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, stated that Twitter was suspended in Nigeria and not banned. The minister disclosed this when he responded to a question from a participant at the Nigerian International Partnership Forum in Paris. According […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Victor Oye, national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has stated that the Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in 2019 election, Peter Obi “cannot achieve anything” unless he comes back to the party where he was elected as Governor of Anambra state in 2006 and also ended […]
