Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
Tasks Incoming Govt. On Improve WASH. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WaterAid Nigeria, and its non governmental organization (NGO), partner, South Saharan Social Development Organization SSDO have lamented the perennial water scarcity in Enugu State, that has lasted over two decades, calling on the incoming administration to make Water Sanitation and Hygiene WASH a topmost priority. […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African examiner takes a look around trending deadline day transfer market deals with top premier league clubs on the rise to strengthen their squads. Chelsea have sensationally signed Enzo Fernandez for a British record £121 million after agreeing a deal with Benfica late on deadline day. The eye-watering swoop for Chelsea’s […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has promised to transform Anambra into the country’s industrial hub, if given the mandate in the February 25 poll. Mr Tinubu said this when he addressed APC supporters at a presidential campaign rally on Tuesday in Awka. He also promised to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has stated that commercial banks will still continue to accept the old naira notes from customers after the February 10 deadline. Emefiele stated this when he appeared before the House of Representatives committee on the CBN naira redesign policy on Tuesday, […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
Inaugurates 5,700 Hectares Hadeja Valley Irrigation Scheme (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Dutse, Jigawa State, urged Nigerians to maintain peace during the forthcoming general elections. Buhari spoke at a state banquet after inaugurating several projects executed by the Federal Government, the Jigawa State Government and the Malam Alu Farm Project, a private […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele is before the ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives which is investigating the scarcity of the new naira notes. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, had on Thursday stated that he will not hesitate to ask the Inspector General of Police, Usman […]
Posted by African Examiner
Articles/Opinion, Featured, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Few days ago, we commemorated the 4th anniversary of the Nigerian Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, which was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 23rd 2018. On 24th of August, 2020, President Buhari also established an Independent National Commission for Persons With Disabilities (NCPD), which is the first of kind in […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, January 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Kano described Boko Haram as a fraudulent organization with links to international groups bent on destroying Nigeria. According to him, his administration has succeeded in decimating the terror group, limiting their capacity to inflict harm. A statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, Politics
Monday, January 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike says it is an act of anti-party on the part of the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to tell lawyers handling legal suits on behalf of the PDP in the State to dissociate themselves from the cases. The Rivers State governor stated that […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada, World News
Monday, January 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify in March to US lawmakers in Washington where the Chinese social media app faces accusations that it is beholden to the Communist Party in Beijing. TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is Chinese, is fighting for its survival in the United States with rising calls from […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, Uncategorized
Monday, January 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country is at a very high risk of increased Lassa fever transmission. The NCDC disclosed that it has activated the national multi-sectoral emergency operations center for Lassa fever (LF-EOC) at level 2 to coordinate and strengthen ongoing response activities in the country. The […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, January 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has intercepted some members of organised syndicates involved in the sale of the new redesigned naira notes. According to a statement on by DSS spokesman, Dr Peter Afunanya, the Service in the course of its operations, also established that some Commercial Bank officials are […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, January 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In the aftermath of judgement by the Osun State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, a former official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, has provided clarifications on the discrepancy related to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS). The tribunal ruling on Friday nullified the election of Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Monday, January 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) will intensify the fight against substandard and falsified medicines in the country with the implementation of pharmaceutical traceability strategy to safeguard the health of the Nigerian populace. The Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this at a workshop in Port Harcourt, organized by […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, News
Monday, January 30th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An articulated vehicle carrying a 20ft container has fallen on a commercial bus in the Ojuelegba area of Lagos State, crushing nine passengers to death. Investigations revealed that the commercial bus was picking up passengers at the bus stop along the Ojuelegba Bridge when the vehicle lost control and fell over the […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), have sealed a new deal to ramp up agricultural investments in African countries. Dubbed, “Mission 1 for 200”, the new initiative aims to increase funding to the agriculture and food sectors in the continent. The initiative, which was jointly launched […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has refuted claims of disagreement between him and President Muhammadu Buhari as he described the support of the president as unalloyed and enduring. Tinubu made this known during the APC rally in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, on Saturday. He said: […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has stated that N1.7 trillion worth of naira notes have found their way back to the CBN’s vaults so far and N500 billion more to go. The African Examiner had earlier reported that the apex bank on Sunday extended the deadline […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the deadline for the use of the old notes. CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced the extension in a statement signed on Sunday. He explained that the apex bank has sought approval from President Muhammadu Buhari to extend the deadline for the use of the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, January 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – All Progressives Congress (APC), Ward 2, in Enugu South Council area has thrown its weight behind former President of the Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani, in the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party, warning the Embattled State Chairman of the party, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa, to desist from disrespecting him. The Amechi […]
