(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says 70% of Nigerians refused to pay bribes in 2023 on at least one occasion. This is according to the NBS Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns and Trends Report released in Abuja on Thursday. The report said the bribery refusal rate was found to be highest in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over eight hundred thousand women in Enugu State, Southeast Nigeria, have benefited from an empowerment project organized by ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), in collaboration with 3 Local Women Right groups and 12 community based organization (partners) through its project, Women’s Voice and Leadership Nigeria (WVL-N). Country Director of Action Aid, Andrew Mamedu who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)has threatened sanctions against electricity distribution companies or DisCos if they failed to take up at least 95 per cent of the total monthly energy allocated for distribution. In the commission’s Order on Performance Monitoring Framework for all the DisCos, the market operator rolled out touch sanctions […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the umbrella bodies for herders in Nigeria, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has applauded President Bola Tinubu for creating a Ministry for Livestock Development in the country. MACBAN President, Baba Othman-Ngelzarma, stated this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, hours after the President announced […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, his wife Hafsat, and six others will appear in court on Thursday to face charges related to alleged bribery, diversion, and misappropriation of funds amounting to billions of naira. This development followed a notice of trial served on the respondents through […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu will meet with the Organised Labour in Abuja on Thursday to further discuss a new minimum wage for workers in Nigeria. A top labour official said that the President invited the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to the meeting expected to be […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit or petrol has taken a drastic turn in Kaduna state, with pump prices hitting as high as ₦1,100 per litre. Our correspondent gathered that residents of the state are groaning over the situation, and have called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), to urgently […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate Chief Whip, Ali Ndume, has lamented the increase in the number of Nigerian children who are dying of food scarcity in Nigeria. Ndume, disclosed this in an interview with BBC Hausa as he stated that President Bola Tinubu had closed the door on some of his ministers and this has […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER – It is a tale of woes as an acute scarcity of one of Nigerians’ most popular staple foods, bread, has hit Kaduna, Katsina, and Kano States. Checks by the News Agency of Nigeria correspondents revealed that the most-favoured staple was now as scarce as petrol or the highly-prized precious metal, Gold. It […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives on Tuesday, passed for second reading a bill seeking to alter the 1999 Constitution to provide seat reservations for women in the National Assembly. The bill also covered the State Houses of Assembly. The bill was sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Rep. Benjamin Kalu, who represents Bende Federal […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has warned airlines against indulging in deceitful departure time scheduling. Briefing journalists on Tuesday at the Authority’s corporate headquarters in Abuja, the agency’s acting Director General, Chris Najomo, said the NCAA now runs a zero-tolerance approach to regulatory infractions. Speaking through the NCAA Director of Public […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Tuesday, hundreds of non-teaching staff, consisting of members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Association of Universities of the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, embarked in a nationwide protest with their colleagues and this brought academic activities in the university to a halt. The protest, which was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has opened up on how Godwin Emefiele, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, moved funds to his wife, Margaret Emefiele. Ogbonnaya informed an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday how Emefiele used the bank to send millions of naira to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria’s House of Representatives has called on the President to suspend the Samoa agreement recently signed by his government over the controversial Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender (LGBT) clause in the aggrement. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion by deputy minority leader Aliyu Madaki and 88 others, during plenary […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced one Olukayode Dayo, a former officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to life imprisonment over an offence of rape. The 39- year- old convict was arraigned before Justice Lekan Olatawura on May 13, 2022 on one count […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is to establish mobile courts to attend to issues relating to sexual harassment. The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye made this known at a one-day National Stakeholder’s Engagement on Sexual Harassment Prevention on Tuesday in Abuja. The event was organized by the ICPC in collaboration with the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zenith Bank Plc has emerged as the Best Commercial Bank, Nigeria in the World Finance Banking Awards 2024, retaining the award for a fourth consecutive year. The bank was also named as Best Corporate Governance, Nigeria for the third year running in the World Finance Corporate Governance Awards 2024. The awards, which […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Capital Territory Police Command on Monday stated that a man identified as Shuaibu Yushau has been arrested and detained for attempting to commit suicide. It is worth recalling that Yushau climbed a broadcast mast that is owned by Aso Television and Radio in the Katampe area of the Federal Capital […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Enoh, said on Monday that President Bola Tinubu has approved the entire budget estimate submitted for Nigeria’s participation in the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics. Enoh, who did not mention the amount approved, said this on Monday at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, while handing over […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the issue of bullying in secondary schools across Nigeria continues to create disaffection amongst parents, junior and Senior students, newly elected Executive of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA), Federal Government College, Enugu has vowed to put a stop to such act. Chairman of the new executive, Dr. Chinedu Mbah, who was […]
