Posted by Oludare Fase
African News, Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of its continuous effort to catalyse the growth and sustainability of Small and Medium-Scale businesses in Nigeria and Africa, Pan Africa Financial Institution, United Bank for Africa, (UBA) Plc will be hosting its next Business Series on Wednesday, March 17th, 2021. The UBA Business Series, which is held quarterly, is a […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, March 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A human rights and Non-governmental organization, African Law Foundation (AFRILAW), has raised concern over the alarming rate of irregular migration and human trafficking in Nigeria, especially among the youths, calling on relevant authorities to rise up in combatting the menace. Founder and Chief Executive officer (CEO) of the organization, Barrister Chiwinke Okereke, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Monday, March 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda main opposition figure, Robert Ssentamu, better known as Bobi Wine has been arrested by security forces. Last week, Bobi Wine had enjoined Ugandans to “rise up peacefully and unarmed” in protest against President Yoweri Museveni, who have been in power as president for the East African country for nearly four decades. […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, March 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The deputy speaker of the house of representatives, Idris Wase has come under heavy attack for questioning the eligibility of Nigerians living abroad to submit petitions to the National Assembly. Wase, who presided over house plenary session on Thursday, rejected a petition from “Mutual Union of the Tiv in America,” saying Nigerians […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Sunday, March 14th, 2021
By DAVID MICHAEL TERUNGWA As African countries steps up efforts to revise and submit their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the UNFCCC there is the urgent need to include the carbon fee and dividend policy otherwise referred to as climate income as the continents carbon pricing policy to build back better post COVID19, reduce poverty and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State, Press Releases
Saturday, March 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Lagos, Bola Tinubu, has enjoined the federal government to convene a stakeholder meeting to resolve the issue of farmer-herder crisis in the country. The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) made this known on Saturday in a statement he issued to the press saying that farmers and herders […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Saturday, March 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly elected director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has arrived in Nigeria for a one-week working visit. This will be her first visit to the country since she assumed office as the first female and first African WTO DG on March 1. Okonjo-Iweala was welcomed by the permanent […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, March 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former chief of army staff, Tukur Buratai, has refuted the claim that he embezzled funds meant for the procurement of military equipment. African Examiner had reported that the national security adviser, in an interview with BBC Hausa, had stated that the federal government is not aware how the funds approved for the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Saturday, March 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Traders at the new Artisan Goat Market Enugu, have cried out to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of the state over concluded plans by government officials and an individual to Eject them from the place, urging him to urgently intervene in the matter. Our correspondent reports that the said private individual in collaboration with […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, March 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Security Adviser Maj.-Gen Babagana Monguno (retd.) has denied saying that money budgeted for purchase of arms were missing under the immediate past service chiefs. A statement issued by the NSA office at the presidency said that General Monguno was quoted out of context by reporters. The statement reads in parts: […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria and 18 other African countries would benefit from World Bank’s 22.5 million dollars additional financing for the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) in Western and Central Africa. The World Bank announced this in a statement issued on Friday in Washington D.C., adding that its board of Executive Directors had approved […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 10- year conviction on Former Plateau Governor, Joshua Dariye. The 10-year imprisonment was for the offence of criminal breach of trust. A five-member panel of justices, led by Justice Mary Odili, in a unanimous judgment, held Dariye’s appeal in part, by setting aside the one-year […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected gunmen have abducted some female students of The Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Mando area of Kaduna State. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Mohammed Jalige confirmed the incident. His words: “They were abducted last night; we have no details of the number of students.” He said the […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, East/Central Africa, Latest Headlines, World News
Friday, March 12th, 2021
By ERIC OJO (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chair of the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Africa, Karen Bass has expressed her worry over alleged cases of human rights violation in the Tigray region of Ethopia. Bass said there has been an escalation of ethnic violence in the country where extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, March 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, Hamed Bakayoko, is dead Authorities disclosed that Bakayoko passed on in an hospital in Germany, while receiving treatment for cancer on Wednesday, just days after his 56th birthday. He was appointed prime minister in July, following the sudden death of his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly. Aside […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mahamadou Issoufou, who is stepping down as president of coup-prone Niger after two terms in office, on Monday won Africa’s top prize for leadership. He was awarded the 2020 Mo Ibrahim Prize for facing “seemingly insurmountable challenges”, ranging from deep poverty to jihadism and desertification. Despite these enduring problems, “Issoufou has led […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News Around Africa
Monday, March 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has enjoined the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to review the protocol on free movement so that the influx of foreign herders into Nigeria will be curtailed. Tambuwal disclosed this on Saturday when he appeared on Television Continental Programme on Saturday saying that […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, March 7th, 2021
By Lawal Ibrahim (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Last Thursday, the Zamfara State parliament purportedly passed a vote of no confidence on the National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Major General Babagana Monguno, allegedly over the state of insecurity in the state. The resolution, among others, followed a motion raised by the House Leader Hon. Faruk Musa Dosara, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
African News, Agriculture, Business News, Latest Headlines, News
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An international network organization, Solidaridad, working in over 40 countries of the globe in various sectors of the economies, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Nigeria’s federal Ministry of Agriculture and rural Development to improve Agricultural productivity in the country. The organization also has eight regional offices in five continents, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, March 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana is preparing to become the first Liquefied Natural Gas importer in sub-Saharan Africa, with the terminal at the port of Tema set to receive its maiden cargo in the coming weeks. LNG will add to Ghana’s own gas production and imports from Nigeria via the West African Gas Pipeline, though these […]
