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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Honourable Pius Ashakia has won the Obanliku State Constituency rerun election in Cross River State. He was declared the winner of the February 3, 2024 rerun election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Returning Officer, Dr Blessing Anyalebechi. Ashakia polled a total of […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Fuad Laguda, as winner of the Surulere Federal Constituency 1 Bye-Election. Declaring the results, the Returning Officer for the bye-election, Prof Simeon Adebayo, revealed that the APC candidate scored a total of 11, 203 votes. Laguda, […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) has asked politicians and their supporters to adhere to the Electoral Act in Saturday’s rerun and bye-elections across the country. While the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will hold polls in areas in 26 states of the federation, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun on […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has criticized the recent decision by the Federal Government, led by President Bola Tinubu, to instruct the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to take control of crude oil sales proceeds from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). Atiku in a statement on Thursday via his official […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Apex Igbo socio cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndi igbo world wide, has distanced it self from a recent press statement credited to one Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, who claimed to be it’s Secretary General, and that the Igbo umbrella body is angry with president Ahmed Bola Tinubu over his trips to France, asking him to […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, has stated that miners and operators in the sector are owing the Federal Government more than N2 trillion. In view of this, Alake stated that the present administration of President Bola Tinubu is keen to stop the activities of illegal miners across the country. […]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated President and Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote on the award of the National Order of the Lion by President Macky Sall of Senegal. The award is the highest order of Senegal and would be bestowed on Dangote on Friday. According to a statement […]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and National Orientation Mohammed Idris Malagi is calling on Nigerians to be patient with the reforms of the Bola Tinubu government. Tinubu, who came into office in May, initiated a string of reforms including the floating of the naira and the removal of the much-debated fuel subsidies. The […]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is palpable tension in Jos, the Plateau State capital following the non-inclusion of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the ballot papers for the rerun elections for the Plateau North senatorial seat and Bassa/Jos North federal constituency scheduled for Saturday. The Intra Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in the state has rejected […]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has, pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of the PDP (as amended in 2017) approved the composition of the Edo State Ward Caretaker Committees to function for a period of 30 days effective today, February 1, 2024. According to a […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Five persons have been killed in an oil-producing community of Obitti in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State following an explosion that occurred at an illegal bunkering site in the area. Confirming the incident to Channels Television, the spokesman for the Imo State Police Command, Henry Okoye, said the unfortunate […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, says there is no going back on the relocation of the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) from Abuja to Lagos. Senator Ali Ndume from Borno South as well as chieftains of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Northern Elders Forum […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Directorate General, Immigration Office, Belgium has stated that about 30 percent of Nigerian migrants looking for Asylum in the country are from Edo State. The Director General, Directorate General, Immigration Office, Freddy Roosemont, stated this on Wednesday in Benin City in a press conference. According to Roosemont, the development is worrisome […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The recent wave of insecurity in the country has sparked agitations from Nigerians in social media. The African Examiner writes that a few days ago, two monarchs in Ekiti were kidnapped. Also, in the same Ekiti State, school children and teachers were also abducted. This is aside from the other abductions that […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says no fewer than 67,315 eligible voters will participate in the Feb. 3 re-run elections in Enugu State. INEC’s Head of Department for Voters Education and Publicity, Mr Rex Achumie, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Tuesday while speaking on […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has summoned service chiefs over the spate of insecurity in the country. This was a unanimous call by the lawmakers after an emergency session on the first legislative day of the year. The Senate had gone into the executive session after the leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele raised a motion on […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A fire has destroyed several shops at Gusau Central Market, killing one person. The fire reportedly broke out at around 9 p.m. last night in the furniture section of the state capital’s largest market. The Commander of the Nigerian Fire Service, New Market office, Hamza Mohammed, informed Channels Television that a shop […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri as Governor of Adamawa State. Justice John Okoro who prepared and read the lead judgement on Wednesday dismissed the appeal by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aisha Dahiru. While dismissing her appeal for lacking in merit, the […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Tunisia inked an agreement to improve social protection for Tunisia’s agricultural workers, the Tunisian Ministry of Social Affairs said. The agreement was signed in Tunis by Tunisia’s Social Affairs Minister Malek Ezzahi and Mohamed Amrani, acting representative for FAO’s subregional office for North Africa. […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Evidence Makgopa and Teboho Mokoena scored second-half goals as South Africa shocked Morocco with a 2-0 victory to dump the World Cup semi-finalists out of the Africa Cup of Nations ( AFCON) at the last-16 stage in San Pedro on Tuesday. Morocco, who had Sofyan Amrabat sent off late on, were among […]
