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Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has refuted claims of the BBC documentary concerning the late televangelist Temitope Balogun Joshua describing the report as dirty lies. The African Examiner reports that in the BBC Eye’s three-part expose released on Monday, January 8, 2024, the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has refuted claims of the BBC documentary concerning the late televangelist Temitope Balogun Joshua describing the report as dirty lies. The African Examiner reports that in the BBC Eye’s three-part expose released on Monday, January 8, 2024, the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says Globacom customers will be barred from calling MTN lines owing to non-settlement of interconnect charges. This is according to a Monday statement by NCC Director of Public Affairs Department Reuben Muoka. “Globacom was notified of the application made by MTN and was given the opportunity to […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has distanced himself from claims of owning a company awarded a contract by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Some reports claimed that a firm allegedly owned by the minister had gotten N438 million as “consultancy fees” from the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has sacked the chief executives of the Federal Competition and the Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). Presidential spokesman Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this in a late Monday statement, saying the dismissal of Babatunde Irukera as the FCCPC EVC/CEO and Alexander Ayoola Okoh of BPE […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will appeal an N100m fine imposed on it by the Federal High Court, Abuja, over the violation of the rights of a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele had instituted a fundamental human rights suit against the […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal against the election of Governor Hycinth Alia of Benue State. This follows the withdrawal of the appeal by counsel to Mr Titus Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sebastian Hon. Uba had challenged the victory of Governor Hyacinth Alia of the All Progressives Congress […]
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Monday, January 8th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has arrived at the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to offer clarifications concerning her stewardship. Mrs Umar-Farouq arrived at the headquarters of the EFCC to honour the invitation by the anti-graft agency to offer clarifications […]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted sunshine and haziness from Monday to Wednesday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja, forecasts sunny skies on Monday with a hazy atmosphere over the northern region and the north central states. “Patches of cloud in a hazy atmosphere is anticipated […]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, says the G5 group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027. Ortom made this known on Sunday at a luncheon hosted by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State […]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A report comparing the prices of gasoline (petrol) in various countries has ranked Nigeria as 22nd on the list of countries with the least expensive petrol prices. The report titled “Gasoline Prices, Octane-95” dated early in the month revealed that the average price of petrol around the world is 1.30 U.S. Dollars […]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike maintains he has no regrets about supporting Bola Tinubu’s presidential bid. Wike, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), backed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 election with the APC winning the oil-rich state for the […]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nyesom Wike has again spoken about the Rivers State crisis and maintains he still has a stronghold in the state he finished serving as its governor just in May last year. The Minister of the FCT has been at loggerheads with his successor Governor Sim Fubara. While President Bola Tinubu had waded […]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Dangote Group Aliko Dangote has clarified the recent visit of officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to its office but assured of its commitment to helping the agency with its investigations. EFCC officials visited the Dangote Group headquarters in Lagos over details of foreign exchange […]
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Saturday, January 6th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the N2.267 trillion budget for 2024 presented by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu last year. The budget, comprising 58 per cent capital expenditure and 42 per cent recurrent expenditure, was approved after a unanimous voice vote by the lawmakers. Governor Sanwo-Olu, on December 13, 2023, presented […]
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Saturday, January 6th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has lamented the security situation in the country, saying that it has gone beyond control. He said the situation the country is in at the moment has gone beyond playing politics, adding that President Tinubu has a lot of work […]
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Saturday, January 6th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Friday described the recent bombing in Kaduna State as a series of avoidable errors, saying it cannot be repeated. Last December, a deadly military airstrike killed at least 85 people and injured several others at Tudun Biri village in the Igabi Local Government Area of the North-Western state. […]
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Friday, January 5th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The body of former Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu has arrived in Nigeria. It arrived at the private wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Friday and was received by the widow, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu and other family members. It was flown from Germany where the former governor had gone […]
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Friday, January 5th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle has presented two hi-tech unmanned water vessels to President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The vessels are to help Nigeria in the fight against insecurity on the country’s waterways. A Friday statement from the ministry’s spokesman Henshaw Ogubike said the “unmanned […]
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Friday, January 5th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The CEO/Founder of TAF Africa, Jake Epelle, claims Godwin Emefiele is the “worst” governor that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has had. Emefiele is facing six counts of fraud and corruption. But while speaking on the trials of the former apex bank governor, Epelle says he does not pity Emefiele, maintaining […]
