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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The APC Presidential Campaign Council has insisted that its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu will not attend Arise TV Presidential Town Hall meeting slated for December 04, 2022 adding that the campaign will not succumb to the station’s “blackmail”. The statement reads in full: “We find it shocking and downright anomalous that […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Angolan Government has expressed its appreciation of the roll out of Remote Appraisal, Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation (RASME) project in Angola, following a three-day training session in the capital, Luanda. RASME which is an initiative of the African Development Bank (AfDB), is essentially for remote monitoring and evaluation of development projects. […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, December 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari has harped on the need for Africa to take advantage of its large youth population to further enhance socio-economic development in the continent. President Buhari made the observation while speaking at the African Union Extraordinary Summit on Industrialization, Economic Diversification, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, December 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional lending arm for the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved $13.95 million grant for the implementation of Borana Resilient Water Development for Improved livelihoods programme in Ethiopia Administered by the AfDB, the ADF comprises 32 contributing countries and benefits 37 countries. The 37 ADF-eligible countries […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah has expressed his government’s readiness to hold general elections in the country, calling for local and international pressure to complete the laws regulating the elections. Dbeibah made his remarks during a conference organised by the National Elections Commission in the capital Tripoli under the slogan “Together we […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has opened up on how he assisted to resolve the conflict between Ethiopia and Tigray. African Examiner recalls that on November 2, the Ethiopian government agreed to end the two-year conflict with rebel forces in the country’s northern Tigray region. Obasanjo, in a statement issued by Kehinde […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked African countries to collaborate to forestall the circulation of illegal weapons in their countries. Buhari made this known on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at the 16th summit of the heads of state and government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), in Abuja. He was speaking on […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional lending arm for the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved $16 million in loan and grant financing to Niger to implement the Financial Sector Deepening and Inclusion Project. Administered by the AfDB, the ADF comprises 32 contributing countries and 37 benefits countries. The 37 ADF-eligible […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 14 people Sunday died from a landslide that occurred during a funeral ceremony in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Al Jazeera reported that the number of confirmed death was given by the regional governor, Naseri Bea, as rescuers continue to search for dozens of others who remain missing. Mr Bea described the area […]
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Sunday, November 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A war of attrition is quietly raging in the Presidency between the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami over the constitution of the proposed Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The arrowhead in the contest of wit and influence […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Sunday, November 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – European Union (EU) Commission and the Commission of the African Union (AU) will hold the 11th Commission-to-Commission (C2C) meeting on Monday in Brussels to strengthen the partnership between the continents. The meeting is coming after the EU-AU summit in February this year. The two continents aim to demonstrate and share with the […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Saturday, November 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – North Africa remains the most advanced region in industrial development in Africa, according to a new report from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The inaugural edition of the report which was jointly launched by AfDB, AU and UNIDO on the […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Saturday, November 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Argentina struggled massively to start well for the second game in a row, but second-half strikes from Lionel Messi and Enzo Fernández kept their qualifying chances alive As for Mexico, they have their backs against the wall following another dismal performance. The opening minutes were closely-fought, and neither side managed to establish […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Saturday, November 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Yasmine Sherif has harped on the need for the international community to take concretes and pragmatic steps toward ending violence against women and girls. ECW is the United Nations (UN) global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. It supports quality education outcomes for refugee, […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, November 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Finland’s Ambassador for Climate Change, Jan Wahlberg has said that African countries want the proposed climate fund to be based on public donations with no repayment obligation. Wahlberg noted that this option would help the countries from becoming even more burdened with debts on top of the challenges created by the weaker […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, November 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, has approved a $27.9 million grant to Ghana for the development of Savannah Agriculture Value Chain Development Project (SADP). The SADP project, which is located in Savannah region of the West African nation, will be implemented by Ghana’s […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – International Youth Foundation (IYF) partners Google.org to provide young individuals in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria with digital and entrepreneurial skills to enable them secure alternative sources of livelihood. IYF stands by, for, and with young people. Founded in 1990 through a generous grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, IYF is a […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – King Charles will host his first state visit since his accession to the British throne when he welcomes South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. Charles, 74, has played a leading role in many of the recent official visits by the 112 foreign heads of state during the record-breaking […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zuma, a prominent figure in the fight against apartheid, became president in 2009 and was forced to step down in disgrace by the ANC in 2018 following mounting corruption allegations. But he remains a revered figure among grassroots members of the ruling African National Congress, who perceive him as a defender of […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Saturday, November 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have signed a $9.73 grant agreement to implement Phase 1 of the Upstream Project for Digital Market Development in Africa. The project comes as the backdrop of the Covid-19-induced recession that exposed several gaps in the African digital economy ecosystem. It […]
