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Friday, May 5th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The spokesperson of Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, has stated that his principal contested for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the interest of the public. The African Examiner recalls that Osinbajo was among those who contested the party’s presidential primary which saw Tinubu emerge winner and subsequently, […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has stated that most leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, would have been compulsorily retired from politics if the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar or his Labour Party, LP, counterpart, Peter Obi had won the just ended election. President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some Nigerians on social media believe that Super Eagles and Napoli striker, Victor Osimhen, should be the next African footballer of the year after he aided his side to win their first Serie A title since the late Maradona led the club to the 1987 and 1990 championships. The African Examiner writes […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan on Thursday stated that the just concluded 2023 presidential election was rigged. Onaiyekan disclosed this while speaking on Channels Television’s programme on Thursday, as he reacted to the 2023 presidential poll saying that the election was rigged and that those involved in manipulating […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the just concluded 2023 general election has congratulated the Federal Government and the management of Air Peace airline for bringing stranded Nigerians home safely from war-torn country, Sudan. The African Examiner recalls that hundreds of persons have lost their lives in Sudan due […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives is to investigate the circumstances that led to the hard diplomatic stance of the Egyptian authorities over the plight of Nigerians affected by the ongoing crisis in Sudan. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, said this in Abuja during a situation report and update […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Buba Galadima, a chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has stated that the party did not challenge the results of the February 25 presidential election in court because “Nigeria must move forward”. Speaking in a chat with Arise TV on Wednesday, Galadima alleged that NNPP has the highest chance of […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian singer, Chidimma Ekile, aka Miss Kedike, has stated that she was born blind. Chidinma disclosed this in a video on her YouTube page. Speaking concerning her childhood, Chidinma stated how her parents sought God’s intervention after medical efforts proved abortive. She stated that after gaining her sight, her mum reached an […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential election petition court has fixed Monday, May 8 for the hearing of the petition that is challenging Bola Tinubu’s emergence as the president-elect. According to Tinubu’s legal team, Monday’s hearing is a pre-hearing session. The session will seek to settle pending applications and after which a timetable will be fixed […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, heaped praises on Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for his efforts at the February 25 presidential poll. The African Examiner writes that Tinubu spoke on Wednesday, as he commissioned the Rumuokwuta/Rumuola flyover in Port Harcourt, saying that Wike’s insistence that the presidency must return […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) says that Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the chairperson, did not stop any Nigerian from being evacuated from Sudan. The African Examiner had on Monday reported that a video clip emerged online where one of the Nigerians stranded in Sudan alleged that some of them were left behind and […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sidie Tunis, the speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) parliament, has begged a UK court to show mercy to former deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife. The African Examiner recalls that in March 2023, Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, were found guilty of organ trafficking by […]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda’s Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Col Charles Okello Engola (retd) was allegedly killed by his bodyguard. According to available information, Engola, who was the Deputy Minister for Gender and Labour, was shot dead on Tuesday, May 2 in his home in a Kampala suburb. Fred Enaga, Police […]
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has stated that Egypt has finally opened its border for Nigerian students evacuated from Sudan. Dabiri-Erewa stated that the border was opened after President Muhammadu Buhari spoke with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The NIDCOM chairperson’s statement is coming a […]
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that some stranded Igbo traders in war-torn Sudan are lamenting that only northerners are been evacuated has set social media space on fire as many netizens have called out the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Godwin Onyeama, who is also from the eastern part of the country. The African Examiner recalls […]
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – American R&B star, Chris Brown, has stated that he plays Nigerian afrobeats music if he is not playing his own songs. Chris Brown made this known during a recent Million Dollarz Worth Of Game podcast episode. He said: “If I’m not playing my music, I play Afrobeats. I love how the genre […]
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Sunday, April 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage will perform at the historical coronation of the British monarch, King Charles III. The African Examiner writes that King Charles III, who will be ascending the throne after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, last year, will be officially crowned alongside Queen Consort, Camilla, on Saturday, […]
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Sunday, April 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hadiza Bala Usman, former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has stated that she authored a book to address claims that she looted the agency. The book, titled ‘Stepping on Toes: My Odyssey at the Nigerian Ports Authority’, talked about her experience and the opposition she encountered at the NPA […]
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Sunday, April 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has opened up to controversy after it’s claimed to have spent 1.2 million dollars to evacuate Nigerians stranded in Sudan. The African Examiner recalls that the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, had accused the Nigerian government of a ‘fake’ evacuation plan saying that some students paid some money […]
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Sunday, April 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Hudu Yunusa Ari, has opened up on why he announced results of 69 polling units in the April 15 supplementary election. According to him, it was due to security pressure. Ari made this known in a letter to the Inspector General of Police as he […]
