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Friday, April 5th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two former federal lawmakers, Senator Andrew Uchendu and Honourable Dachung Bagos, have faulted the Federal Government’s reduction of electricity subsidy. They argued that the timing was wrong. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had on Wednesday, announced an increment in electricity tariff for Band A customers. It explained that these are people […]
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Friday, April 5th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Bayelsa State Douye Diri has declared Friday, April 5th, 2024, as a work-free day for civil servants to enable them to travel to partake in the local government elections billed for Saturday. This was contained in a memo signed by the Head of the Bayelsa State Civil Service Biobelemoye […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has alleged that the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, is plotting to procure interim orders to declare the state House of Assembly illegal. Also, the state’s main opposition party said Fubara’s outburst on Wednesday while addressing members of the Nigerian Union of Local Government […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Defence Headquarters, on Thursday released the names of terrorist kingpins killed during different operations in the northern part of the country. The DHQ noted that the terrorist commanders were killed in separate operations between January and March 2024. The names of the terrorist kingpins are Abu Bilal Minuki (aka Abubakar Mainok) […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye famously known as Bobrisky over currency mutilation and abuse of naira notes. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said that the cross-dresser was arrested in Lagos on Wednesday night. “He (Bobrisky) was arrested Wednesday night in Lagos,” the anti-graft agency official told […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is set to arraign Binance Holdings Limited and its two top officials, Tigran Gambaryan and the fugitive Nadeem Anjarwalla on allegations bordering on tax evasion. The company and its two executives are set for arraignment before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja. One of the defendants, […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party on Wednesday said its National Chairman, Julius Abure, escaped assassination attempt on him at his Abuja residence early in the day. “His residence was also gutted by a mysterious fire which started a few minutes after 1AM while Abure and the members of his family were asleep,” a statement […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The video that has now gone viral of former freedom fighter, Asari Dokubo, identifying himself as an Igbo Man has sparked reactions on social media since the former agitator have always bashed Ndi Igbo on social media. So, many netizens were surprised for the change of mind. The African Examiner recalls that […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – General Christopher Gabwin Musa, the Chief of Defence Staff, has stated that the deaths of 16 military officers in Delta State were premeditated. Musa disclosed this in his interview with Arise TV on Wednesday, April 3, 2023. He said: “The attack was premeditated just because there are groups of criminals, cultists, militants […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has said that there is no provision in the law suggesting that crossdressers in Nigeria should be arrested. Amid some debates all over social media involving crossdressing and sexuality, the police imagemaker said the crime for which people get arrested has more […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election Omoyele Sowore has faulted the attitude of young Nigerians to politics in light of the swearing-in of 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the Senegalese president. Faye was sworn in at an event attended by several African leaders in Dakar […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Deputy Commissioner of Police serving with the Force Criminal and Investigation Department, Alagbon, Lagos State, Gbolahan Oyedemi, on Monday, allegedly killed himself in his private house in his hometown, Ogbomoso, Oyo State. According to The PUNCH, Oyedemi was the Aide de Camp to the late former Governor of the state, Adebayo […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the Federal Capital Territory’s over N1.1trn statutory budget for the 2024 fiscal year. The FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, disclosed this during an ongoing media chat at his office in Abuja on Tuesday. He expressed delight over the assent by the president, and explained that the budget will […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least thirty children are believed to have been kidnapped by suspected bandits at Kasai village in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Batsari is one of several Security Frontline Local Government Areas in Katsina State where activities of bandits, and other criminal elements have been on the increase almost on […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian on X on Monday are reacting to the news of the Minster of FCT, Nyesom Wike, ordering the demolition of a building in Abuja despite two court orders restraining the minister from the FCT administration from touching the property. The African Examiner writes that Chief Nicholas Ukachukwu, the Chairman and Chief […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, on Sunday, expressed concern concerning what he described as the “ubiquity of the military in our national life”. Kukah stated that the presence of soldiers everywhere “it is impossible to explain how we can say we are in a civilian democracy with the military […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Tuesday for Dakar, Senegal, to attend the inauguration of Senegal’s President-elect, Bassirou Faye. A press statement by the Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Chief Ajuri Ngelale on Monday, said the president’s trip is at the invitation of the Republic of Senegal. President […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says 19 political parties will be participating in the November 16 governorship election in Ondo State. Ondo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the commission, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola, said 19 political parties will be participating in the November 16, 2024 governorship election in the state. Speaking […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Third Mainland Bridge which has been partially closed to traffic is set to be opened to motorists within the next seven days. David Umahi, the Minister of Works, disclosed this in Lagos while inspecting ongoing projects in the state in the company of members of the Senate and House Committee on […]
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Saturday, March 30th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has said that he inherited a huge debt burden of $587m, N85bn and 115 contractual liabilities from the immediate past administration of Nasir El-Rufai, lamenting that the huge debt has eaten deep into the state’s federal allocation. The governor, who disclosed at a town hall meeting […]
