Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has nominated a 10-man shortlist for the 2024 Player of the Year. The list was posted on CAF’s social media pages on Thursday. The nominees are Nigeria’s striker, Ademola Lookman and skipper, William Troost-Ekong. Others on the list include: Achraf Hakimi (Morocco, PSG), Simon Adingra (Cote […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Kashim Shettima’s trip to Samoa to represent Nigeria at the 2024 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Summit has been canceled after a foreign object hit his plane during a stopover at JFK Airport in New York. According to a statement issued on Thursday and signed by Special Adviser to the President, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has restricted Ministers, Ministers of State, and Heads of Agencies of the Federal Government to a maximum of three vehicles in their official convoys. No additional vehicles would be assigned to them for movement. The cost-cutting measure was announced today in a statement signed by the President. A statement […]
Posted by Enitan Felicia
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kogi State governor, Usman Ododo, has called for the payment of 13 percent derivation from the federation account considering the status of the state as an oil-producing state. Ododo stated this when he visited the Minister of Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, at his office on Thursday in Abuja saying that Kogi […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo has confirmed the helicopter accident that happened near Port Harcourt on Thursday, October 24 which involved a Sikorsky SK76, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at around 11:22 am. It could be recalled that the helicopter, operated by East Wind Aviation, was on its way from […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Thursday reassured that past mistakes, such as neglecting livestock farming and relying on dairy imports, would be avoided. Speaking while declaring open a two-day Consultative Workshop on Livestock Reforms at the State House Conference Centre, Tinubu pledged a robust framework to stimulate prosperity in the sector, instilling confidence […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State governor, Dr Peter Ndubusi Mbah has approved the sum of 80,000 naira as the minimum wage for Enugu workers, effective from October 2024. He disclosed this at the government house Thursday, while receiving the report of the committee set up to look into the minimum wage issue in the state. […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has received a request from President Bola Tinubu for the confirmation of the appointments of seven ministerial nominees announced on Wednesday. President Tinubu’s request seeking expeditious consideration of the requests was contained in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio who read it at the commencement of the plenary […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Troops of Operation Udoka in the South-East have arrested a suspected “founding father” of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and others. The arrests were made in Orsu, Imo State, Amaruku, and Arochukwu in Abia State, according to the Director of Defence Media Operations Major Gen Edward Buba. He said this […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kamala Harris on Wednesday said Donald Trump was “increasingly unhinged,” and called her US election rival’s reported praise for Adolf Hitler “incredibly dangerous” as campaigning intensified ahead of the November 5 vote. The Democrat’s fierce criticism came as she headed to must-win Pennsylvania to face voters’ questions in a town hall and […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu wielded his big stick on Wednesday, and like a surgeon in a theatre, he used his surgical knife, yanked off five ministers,redeployed 10 and appointed seven fresh as ministers to replace the sacked ones as well as two others — Betta Edu who was initially suspended, and Simon Lalong […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South-South leader and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has berated President Bola Tinubu for scrapping the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs as he said that the people of the region will not allow that. The African Examiner writes that President Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council, FEC, announced the scrapping of the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state Governor, Peter Mbah, has called on the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) to take decisive action in eliminating quacks from their profession and to actively push for the domestication and implementation of the Urban and Regional Planning Law across the nation. He spoke through his Deputy, Barrister Ifeanyi Ossai […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has directed its Committee on Power to investigate the frequent national grid collapses and provide a report within three weeks. This decision followed a motion of urgent national importance raised by Hon. Mansur Manu Soro (Bauchi, PDP) during the plenary session. In his motion, Hon. Soro expressed deep […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The much-awaited cabinet reshuffle of President Bola Tinubu began on Wednesday with the sacking of five ministers and the nomination of seven new ones for Senate confirmation. The President also re-assigned 10 ministers to new ministerial portfolios and appointed seven new ministers for Senate confirmation. Bianca Odumegu-Ojukwu was nominated as the Minister […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 82 Division, Nigerian Army and the Joint Task Force Southeast Operation UDOKA, meaning (peace is best,) have continued to sustain its offensive against the proscribed Indigenous people of Biafra and its militia wing, Eastern Security Network IPOB/ESN criminals across the SouthEast region, as they smashed their Camps, Rescue Hostages and destroyed […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday scrapped the Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of Sports Development. “There will now be a ministry of regional development to oversee all the regional development commissions, such as Niger Delta Development Commission, North West Development Commission, South West […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Founder and General Superintendent(GS) of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor Dr. William Folorunsho Kumuyi, has advised Nigerian youths not to be distracted by any situation. Pastor Kumuyi is in Enugu for a 6-Day Crusade with the theme , ‘The Day of his Power’ held at Okpara Square by 5.00pm daily. Glory […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday scrapped the Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of Sports Development. “There will now be a ministry of regional development to oversee all the regional development commissions, such as Niger Delta Development Commission, North West Development Commission, South West […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a Father, Native Doctor Over Alleged Conspiracy and killing of his son.. It said it is making “the public aware of the recent occurrence and handling of two separate murder cases. “In the first case, a native doctor, one Enuwa Odugu “m”, aged 48, and […]
