(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ambassador of China to Nigeria, Cui Jian Chun, on Wednesday, disclosed that his country would like to establish its military industry in Nigeria. According to him, this would aid local production of military equipment in Nigeria, saying that Nigeria has abundant natural and human resources that can support Chinese corporations based […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissolved the Rivers State Executives of the party at all levels. Briefing journalists after the meeting of the NWC at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, announced the NWC’s decision to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal, Umar Bangari, has cleared air on the controversies surrounding the judgement delivered by the court on the Kano Governorship Election dispute. In a reaction, Bangari said that what happened in the judgement body was a typo error that did not in any way invalidate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court Abuja, has granted the immediate past Governor of the Central Bank, Mr Godwin Emefiele, bail in the sum of N300 million and two sureties in like sum. The sureties must have certificates of occupancy and titles of properties within the Maitama District. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb Maitama Tuggar, says with the Siemens gas deal between Nigeria and Germany, Nigerians will experience improved electricity supply by the first half of 2024. Tuggar spoke virtually from Berlin, Germany, on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday. “In the coming year by the first half […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The New Nigeria People’s Party, (NNPP), on Tuesday, described as a welcome development, a proposal mulled by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that opposition parties merge to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 presidential election. At a press conference in Abuja, the Acting National Chairman of the party, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was uproar in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly on Tuesday, following the announcement of Senator Osita Ngwu representing Enugu West as the new Senate Minority Whip. Ngwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was named as the minority leader by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, a development that did […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Abia State Government has denied spending over N900 million on the feeding and welfare of Governor Alex Otti from July to September 2023. Earlier, reports emerged that a budget performance report indicated that the government spent N927 million within three months on refreshments and meals, allowance, settlement of honorarium and welfare […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency, on Monday, slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for his statement concerning the present state of Nigeria’s democracy. The Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga in a statement disclosed that the democracy Nigeria practises dates back to direct inputs by Obasanjo when he led the country’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, has called on the PDP and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, to stop their campaigns of calumny and blackmail against the judiciary. Onanuga made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja while reacting to Atiku’s recent allegations […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Olatunji Disu, Commissioner of Police in Rivers, has dismissed claims of an assassination attempt on the factional Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Edison Ehie. Disu told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday that the command had launched full investigation to ascertain the claims made by the speaker. Ehie (PDP […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) have threatened to exit its umbrella body, the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), if its President Williams Akporeha and General-Secretary, Afoloabi Olawale, did not resign. Mr Gbenga Olawale, an Ex-Officio of the PTD from Ibadan depot, said in a statement on Sunday that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, will swear-in 58 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) on Monday, November 27, 2023, at the main Courtroom of the Supreme Court, as part of the programmes lined up for the 2023/2024 legal year of the Court. In line with the age-long tradition, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gaza’s Hamas government said Sunday the death toll from fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory had reached 13,000 since war began on October 7. The Hamas government said more than 5,500 children were among the dead, alongside 3,500 women, with 30,000 more people wounded. Its health ministry […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has described as a temporary setback, the verdict of an Appeal Court which sacked him as governor of the state. In a statement through his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gyang Bere, the governor said the “temporary setback” won’t deter him from repositioning the state […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Taraba State has won all the chairmanship positions at the just-concluded local government (LG) council election held in the state on Saturday. A total of six political parties contested for both chairmanship and councilor positions in the 168 electoral wards across the 16 local government areas […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, says his administration is to spend 30 per cent of the 2024 state budget on the education section sector, stressing that education remains the state’s greatest weapon against poverty. He stressed his administration’s determination to ensure that the poorest child in the remotest parts of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, says what the state needs is practical and not experimental governance. Shaibu told newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, “With the 2024 Edo Governorship Election fast approaching, the state could not afford to experiment again with someone who does not understand the politics of the state or the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress Elders Council on Sunday berated former President Goodluck Jonathan for his comment that he would have relocated his mother to Abuja if the APC had won the November 11, 2023 governorship polls in the state. The African Examiner recalls that Jonathan, who raised concern over security […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Apapa-led faction of the Labour Party has stated that the Liberian President has demonstrated that election isn’t a do-or-die affair and it called on its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, to follow the footstep of Liberian President George Weah and congratulate President Bola […]
