(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday that the total public debt portfolio of the Federal and State Governments as of March 31 stood at N28.63 trillion. The NBS made this known in its Nigerian domestic and foreign debt report released in Abuja. The bureau said that further disaggregation of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has charged the newly reconstituted Board of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) to sustained all-season availability of products across the country. Mallam Kyari who made the call Thursday while inaugurating the new Board of the corporation’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eleven out of twelve aspirants seeking the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State have rejected the indirect mode of primary adopted for the July 20 primary in the state. The incumbent Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu was left out of the arrangement. In a letter signed by the governorship […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, has refused departure of 58 Nigerian doctors. The Spokesman of the service, Mr Sunday James, disclosed this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. James noted that the doctors attempted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, says 270 Nigerians are expected to arrive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja the nation’s capital following a successful evacuation from Egypt. Onyeama made this known via his twitter handle @GeoffreyOnyeama on Friday as he gives an update on the evacuation process. “@EGYPTAIR conveying Nationals […]
By Nwa Diokpa Nigerians on Twitter have expressed their frustration as the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kemebradikumo Pondei, disclosed that the commission spent N1.5 billion for staff as ‘COVID-19 relief funds’. Pondei disclosed this at the investigative hearing on the N40 billion corruption allegation against the commission. He stated […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the revised N10.8 trillion 2020 budget and directed the release of at least 50 per cent of the approved 2020 revised capital expenditure to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The Federal Executive Council (FEC) had on May 13, approved a revised budget of 10.523 trillion. […]
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The arrest of former Acting Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has continued to generate controversy as veteran Journalist and former presidential spokesperson, Segun Adeniyi, in his weekly column had narrated how Magu had stopped billionaire TY Danjuma from buying an aircraft and how TY Danjuma had rushed to President […]
By Nwa Diokpa A former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, has refuted claims that the EFCC searched any of his home. It will be recalled that veteran journalist, Olusegun Adeniyi, in his weekly column claimed that embattled EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, raide and searched the home of the former Head of State. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded 499 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the country’s coronavirus case load to 30,748. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made the disclosure on its official twitter handle late on Thursday. The NCDC said that as at the July 9, some 499 new confirmed cases and five deaths were recorded in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Kosofe Constituency II, Hon. Tunde Buraimoh is dead. Until his death, Buraimoh was the Chairman, Lagos House of Assembly Committee on Information, Strategy and Security. He was also a former chairman of Kosofe local government and the Bamofin of Ketuland. Confirming […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lebanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Amb. Houssam Diab, on Thursday, walked out on members of the Nigerian House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs, at a meeting which lawmakers now say was informal. Mr Diab was reportedly asked to appear before the committee to explain the alleged maltreatment of Nigerians in Lebanon. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says it has rescheduled the special evacuation flight for Nigerian citizens in Canada earlier scheduled for Friday. The Nigeria High Commission in Ottawa, in a statement, said the decision was based on request by the intending evacuees. According to the mission, the request followed their inability to get the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday sign into law the revised 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly in June. The Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, confirmed this on his tweeter handle in Abuja on Thursday. The two chambers of the National Assembly, Senate and House of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The absence of the stenographer at a Federal High Court in Abuja Thursday stalled the planned opening of trial in the suit against the immediate past Head of Service of the Federation (HOSF), Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita and nine others. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) filed an 18-count charge bordering on fraud […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A naval officer and two other persons Thursday were shot dead by unknown gunmen on Abuja-Lokoja road in Kogi State, North central Nigeria. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ayuba Ede, confirmed this to newsmen in Lokoja, the State capital. Ayuba told journalists that the sad incident occurred around 6p.m. While narrating, the […]
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The current crisis rocking the APC and happenings in the country has made many Nigerians to ponder about the ambition of the party leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. There are speculations that the APC leader may show interest to run for president in 2023 elections. However, with the crack and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria COVID-19 cases has jumped to 30,249 cases as it recorded 460 cases on Wednesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on its official twitter handle. The NCDC said that as at July 8 new confirmed cases was 460 with 15 deaths recorded, while no new state had reported a […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Since its establishment in November 1997, Women Aid Collective (WACOL), a non-governmental and human rights organization with headquarters in Enugu, South- East Nigeria, has continued to give voice to the voiceless, especially vulnerable less privileged children and women in the society. The organization, under the headship of a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) says its experts will travel to China to work together with their Chinese counterparts to prepare scientific plans for identifying the zoonotic source of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). WHO, in a statement posted on its website, said the experts would develop the scope and Term of Reference (TOR) […]
