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Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has enjoined the presidency to clarify the recent statement of President Bola Tinubu, who stated that Belarusian businessman, Alex Zingman, was a former classmate at Chicago State University (CSU). As there are inconsistencies in the timeline and the background of the businessman. The request was contained in […]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo House of Assembly on Tuesday approved a N100 billion loan for Gov. Monday Okpebholo to carry out infrastructural development across the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the approval followed Monday’s letter, addressed to the Speaker of the House, Blessing Agbebaku. The letter, signed by the Secretary […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Shareholders of Dangote Cement on Monday were full of praise for the Board, Management, and staff of the company after approving a dividend payout of N502.6 billion, which translates to N30 kobo per share at the 2024 Annual General Meeting, held in Lagos on Monday. In the same vein, the company also […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government to take urgent and concrete steps to strengthen legal and institutional protections for whistleblowers in the country in recognition of their critical role in exposing corruption, human rights abuses and other wrongdoing. It describes them as a cornerstone of transparency, accountability, and […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, is asking for quick national action to empower Nigeria’s 15 million widows as she described their struggle as a test of the moral conscience of the country. Sulaiman-Ibrahim, making reference to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), disclosed that over 15 million widows, […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former head coach of the Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, says that there is still hope for the team to qualify for next year’s World Cup. The 59-year-old gaffer took over after the team on an interim basis following the resignation of Finidi George after two matches. Eguavoen assisted the three-time African champions […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, former spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has slammed the ongoing coalition discussion among the opposition parties in Nigeria. The African Examiner recalls that opposition leaders under the coalition movement have written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to register the All Democratic Alliance (ADA) as a political […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has said that his administration is fulfilling its promise to Nigerians to make Nigeria a global powerhouse in agriculture. Tinubu stated this during the launch of the Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme in Abuja on Monday. He said the reforms being introduced by his administration were aimed at making […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Northern Senators Forum (NSF) has condemned the killing of 12 travellers from Kaduna State, who were lynched by a mob in Plateau on Friday while journeying to a wedding in Qua’an Pan Local Government Area in the state. In a statement released on Monday, the Chairman of the NSF, Senator Abdulaziz […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun says he will pursue legal means as a form of peaceful resolution to the ongoing local government crisis in the state. This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Osogbo by Malam Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson to the governor. Adeleke, however, hailed […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has strongly denied claims made by former Jigawa Governor, Sule Lamido, about President Bola Tinubu’s role in the annulled June 12, 1993 election. In a statement titled ‘Setting the Record Straight’, Presidential spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, dismissed Lamido’s comments as false, revisionist, and historically dishonest. Lamido had claimed during a […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State, has granted pardon to 11 inmates in Enugu aimed at decongesting correctional facilities in the state. Mr Uche Anichukwu, the Senior Special Assistant to Mbah on External Relations, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Enugu. Anichukwu said that the gesture was a step towards […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member of the new political coalition aiming to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election, Kenneth Okonkwo, has said that the presidential ticket of the political alignment will not be zoned to any region in particular. Okonkwo, who was the spokesperson for the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in 2023, Peter […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The joint security services in Benue State has announced the arrest of suspects linked to a recent attack in the Yelwata area of the state where several persons were killed. The Commissioner of Police in Benue State, Emenari Ifeanyi, announced the arrest at a press briefing on Sunday but didn’t disclose the […]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Felix Morka, says the party has not flouted the rules of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on campaigns. Morka, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, said the endorsement of President Bola Tinubu for re-election in 2027 by the party’s […]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has been elected as the new Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. He succeeds Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, who held the position for the past two years. The announcement was made during the 67th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS […]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Enugu State, Dr. Ben Nwoye has faulted the claim that governors are the Chief Security Officers of their states, describing the claim as a mere rhetoric, even as he advocated for state policing in Nigeria. He stated this at the weekend […]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa, has stated that he is ready to join “any arrangement” to remove President Bola Tinubu from office in 2027. Lamido stated this during an interview on Arise TV on Saturday. Recall that on Friday, a coalition of opposition leaders established the All-Democratic Alliance (ADA), a political […]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ace Broadcaster and the Group Controller, Current and Public Affairs, TVC Communications Limited, Babajide Kolade-Otitoju, has decried the undervaluing of practical skills in Nigeria as against the country’s growing youth population and persistent skills gap. He made this known at a public lecture, themed: “Technical Education and National Development: The Place of […]
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate President Godswill Akpabio believes more states like Rivers and Bayelsa – currently under the leadership of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – will join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming months. Akpabio said this on Saturday at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, the Akwa Ibom […]
