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Sunday, December 31st, 2023
Alamu said that farmers in Oyo, Niger and Kano states had been exposed to diversity of seeds of cowpea, sorghum accessions and other seeds conserved in the genebank. The National Centre For Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), says Nigeria will soon witness sufficiency and price reduction in food commodities. The NACGRAB Acting Director, Dr Anthony […]
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Sunday, December 31st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Derivatives Company, Bismarck Rewane, has stated that the subsidy was not completely removed but only reduced. Rewane made this known when he featured on Channels Television on Sunday evening. In the programme, he also spoke about the effects of the reduction in fuel subsidy and […]
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Sunday, December 31st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has enjoined the Federal Government to promote effective policies that will provide succour to the economic hardship Nigerians are going through in 2024. Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag-bearer in the 2023 presidential election, stated this in his New Year’s message to Nigerians. In a statement […]
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Sunday, December 31st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 election, Peter Obi, has enjoined the Federal Government to desist from interfering in the internal affairs of states especially in circumstances where national security is not threatened. Obi stated this in a statement in his 2024 New Year message on Sunday […]
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Sunday, December 31st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ongoing crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assembly has taken a different dimension on Sunday as the factional speaker loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Rt. Hon. (Barr.) Ehie Ogerenye resigned as speaker and quitted as a member of the Assembly. Ehie in a letter addressed to the National Chairman, Independent […]
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Sunday, December 31st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle and the service chiefs on Sunday visited Plateau State shortly after a fresh attack by gunmen. The visit comes hours after assailants killed no fewer than two persons, including a father and his son, in a fresh attack which occurred in Bokkos Local Government […]
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Friday, December 29th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Alex Otti of Abia has called on indigenes of the state to invest at home, assuring that his government is creating a conducive environment for their enterprise to flourish. Governor Otti was speaking at the grand civic reception organized by the Abia State Government in honour of the Deputy Speaker of […]
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Friday, December 29th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Ademola Adeleke has signed the budget 2024 bill into law where he promised to ensure full implementation for the benefit of the state. The total approved budget stands at Two Hundred and Seventy-Three Billion, Nine Hundred and Eight Million, Nine Hundred and Ninety Seven Thousand Naira and Four Hundred and Ten […]
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Friday, December 29th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, says President Bola Tinubu has asked him to take charge and pull everybody together to spur the development of the state. Aiyedatiwa disclosed this while speaking with journalists after a visit to the President in Lagos on Thursday, a day after he was sworn in […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has extended the interim order stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission ((INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from taking any action against the 26 Rivers House of Assembly members who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Justice Okorowo extended the […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has assured that the perpetrators of the Christmas Eve killings in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State would be brought to book. The African Examiner had reported that unknown gunmen had attacked communities in the two LGAs on Sunday, killing over 150 persons. The Minister of […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, has stated that N354m appropriated to the Office of the Deputy Governor is enough as Philip Shaibu is not expected to carry out too many functions in 2024. The African Examiner recalls that in the budget which was signed into law by […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner for Infrastructure, Lands and Housing in Ondo State, Raimi Aminu, has resigned his appointment. He announced his resignation in a letter dated December 28, 2023, and addressed to the Secretary to the State Government (SSG). His resignation comes barely 24 hours after the death of his principal, the late Governor […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the February 3, 2024 by-elections, the Labour Party (LP) has released a timetable and schedule of activities for the contestants into Senatorial, House of Representatives and State Assemblies seats. According to the National Secretary of the Labour Party, Umar Ibrahim, the collection of forms commences on December 28, 2023, to […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, on Wednesday, signed into law the 2024 appropriation Bill with an assurance that his administration is fully prepared to implement the budget for the realisation of his administration’s shared prosperity agenda. The 2024 Appropriation, Christened ‘Budget of Sustainable Growth and Development’ was presented to the governor by […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Wednesday, December 27, 2023, Ondo State Acting Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa was sworn in as the substantive governor of the Sunshine State after the sad passing of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu in faraway Germany where he was being treated for prostate cancer. Aiyedatiwa, who will celebrate his 59th birthday on January 12, 2024, […]
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Government has declared a three-day period of mourning in honour of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who died in the early hours of Wednesday, December 27, 2023. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa also ordered national flags are to be flown at half-mast across the state. This was announced in a statement on Wednesday […]
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has called on all state governments to join hands with him to fight poverty and terrorism in the country. The President made this comment at the Lagos House in Marina, where he was hosted by governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Tinubu asserted that himself and his financial team are working very […]
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’abba has been laid to rest in his country home in Kano State. He was buried at the Dandolo cemetery at Goron Dutse, shortly after the Chief Imam of Kano, Prof Sani Zahraddeen, led the funeral prayer at the palace at exactly 5:38 […]
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger State Governor Umaru Bago has assented to the 2024 appropriation bill passed by the House of Assembly seven days after he presented the budget proposal to the parliament. The governor presented to the state assembly a 2024 budget estimate of over N613 billion on the 19th of December. He said his […]
