(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has appointed Bayo Onanuga as his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy. Also appointed is Ms. Delu Bulus Yakubu, who will serve as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. This was announced in a statement on Friday by the Special Adviser to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Ola Olukayode as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sparked social media reactions. The African Examiner writes that Olukayode’s appointment was announced on Thursday in a statement signed by the President’s Special Adviser to the President on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Chief Executive Officers of several agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, in line with his resolve to base Nigeria’s economic revival on the foundation of trade expansion through small, medium and large scale industry facilitation in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder have destroyed an illegal refining site in the creeks of Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. Conducting journalists around the site on Wednesday, the Commander of the NNS Pathfinder, Commodore Desmond Igbo, estimated the capacity of the refinery at over a million litres. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation. Olukoyede’s appointment followed the resignation of the suspended Executive Chairman of the Economic […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu does not have identity problem and does not require re-introduction, the All Progressives Congress (APC) declared in Abuja on Wednesday. It was reacting to an insinuation made earlier on Wednesday by Mr Peter Obi, Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate at the 2023 election at a news conference he addressed. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new and returning Chief Executives to fresh terms in office across multiple agencies under the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy: According to a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has adjourned plenary in honour of its member, Abdulkadir Jelani Danbuga, who died on Wednesday. Danbuga, who was representing Isa/Sabon Birni federal constituency of Sokoto State, died at the age of 63, following a brief illness. He has been buried in Sokoto according to Islamic rites. Presiding over […]
……As Organization Hails Action. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Civil Society and human rights Organization, Civil Rights. Realization and Advancement Network CRRAN, has applauded the Governor. Peter Mbah of Enugu state, for demolishing an illegal structure erected in area marked: ‘Green Area’ by one Mr. Chukwuemeka Oliver Omeke, who claimed to be a developer. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission says over 5.4 million Nigerians have registered for the November 11 Governorship Elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states. INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. Olumekun said: “The Commission held its regular […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Festus Keyamo, the minister for aviation and aerospace development, has stated that domestic carriers will soon start to pay compensation to customers for cancelled or delayed flights. Keyamo made this known in Abuja when he talked about flight disruption challenges in a meeting with the airline operators of Nigeria (AON). According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday directed an immediate plan of action to stem the tide of impending flooding across the country. Mr Stanley Nkwocha, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, made this known in a statement in Abuja. “To this effect, he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, on Tuesday flagged off three training exercises simultaneously across the country in an effort to ensure the protection of lives and property. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement, said the exercises are EXERCISE STILL WATERS 3, GOLDEN DAWN […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday denied claims of either withdrawing from or abandoning the appeal process of the Kano State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal judgment. On September 20, the court sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, who was the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate in the March 18 election, declaring […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court has fixed December 15 to deliver its judgement on the appeal that is seeking to compel the Federal Government to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. A five-member panel led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun fixed the date after counsel for both […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) claims the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar is suffering from multiple electoral losses over his push for the nullification of President Bola Tinubu’s win. Atiku – who lost in the 2023 election and also to Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 – had on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, on Thursday weighed in on the controversy trailing the certificate of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying the development portrays the country as a nation of cheats. The PDP had claimed that Tinubu forged his credentials submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Olumide Akpata has declared his interest in the Edo State governorship election under the Labour Party (LP). He declared his interest in the 2024 exercise during a visit to the Edo State Secretariat of the party in Benin City on Thursday. “My interest […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, has tasked Nigerians to focus attention on national development instead of dwelling on the unfolding certificate saga involving President Bola Tinubu. Tuggar made this known when he appeared on Channels Television programme on Wednesday arguing that President Tinubu has a long-standing political career, after […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Benue State have arrested four persons in connection with the murder of a former President of the Customary Court of Appeal, Late Justice Margaret Igbetar, whose decomposing body was found on the 24th of August 2023. The Commissioner of Police in Benue, Bartholomew Onyeka, who disclosed this while briefing […]
