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Thursday, February 13th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal has adjourned proceedings to March 3 for parties in the petition to adopt their final written addresses. The adjournment followed the decision of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to close its case without presenting additional witnesses in defense of Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo’s victory […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Assembly on Thursday passed the ₦54.99trn 2025 Appropriation Bill. The bill was passed separately by the Senate and the House of Representatives. A breakdown of the budget showed N3.645trn for statutory transfers, N14.317trn for debt servicing, N13.64trn for recurrent expenditure and N23.963trn capital expenditure (development fund), with fiscal deficit put […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The national grid has collapsed again, plunging millions of Nigerians into darkness. The collapse which happened on Wednesday is the first in 2025. Confirming this in a post on X, the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company reported that the system outage happened at 11:34 am local time. “Please be informed that we experienced […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the implementation of a 50% tariff hike by telecommunication companies, demanding immediate reversal of the old tariff. The NLC and the Federal Government had earlier constituted a 10-man committee to deliberate on the tariff hike within two weeks and report back before any final decision […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bishop Isaac Idahosa, the 2023 Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), says the appropriate punishment should be meted out to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and public officials for electoral failures. According to the ally of former Kano governor and the 2023 NNPP presidential candidate Rabiu Kwankwaso, […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives on Wednesday began debates on the four tax reform bills transmitted to the National Assembly in 2024 by President Bola Tinubu. The bills are scheduled for a second reading on the floor of the Green Chamber some six months after the President transmitted them to the National Assembly […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority, Dr George Moghalu, on Tuesday brought the Labour Party’s ₦30 million nomination and expression of interest forms to contest the Anambra State off-cycle governorship election. Moghalu brought the forms at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Speaking with journalists shortly after he received […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the Police Service Commission PSC, Retired Deputy Inspector General of police (DIG), Hashimu Argungu, has written to the Inspector General of police, Kayode Egbetokun, asking him to investigate an abuse of office, extortion and gross misconduct levelled against officers of Zone 7 of the Nigeria police. He said such act […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed confidence that nothing will stand in the way of his victory in 2027 should he decide to seek a second term. Governor Fubara made this assertion on Tuesday during a solidarity visit by the three Local Government Areas that make up the Kalabari Ethnic Nationality. […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Embattled former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai says he won’t opt for exile despite the many rumours that he might be arrested and tortured by the Bola Tinubu administration. El-Rufai, who has been embroiled in a battle of words with the Presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said he won’t […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has been ranked 140th position out of 180 countries in the world on the 2024 corruption perceptions index, according to a report by Transparency International. The TI’s latest ranking released on Tuesday sees the continent’s most populous nation move up 5 spots when compared with 2023 ‘s report and 10 spots […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Osun government has stated that the Court of Appeal judgment in Akure on Monday did not reinstate the sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) local government chairmen and councillors. Mr Kolapo Alimi, Osun Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, explained in a statement that the dismissed case was the PDP’s summons challenging the […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has accused personnel of the Nigerian Army and the police of extorting a whopping N21.8 million naira from motorists at various road blocks and barracks extortions in parts of South- East, Nigeria within two months of December 2024 […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede, says the autonomy of public universities can be better achieved if the National Universities Commission (NUC) is left to manage the budgets of tertiary institutions in addition to its role as the regulator that accredits courses in schools. The […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A five-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji has dismissed the appeal filed by the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, challenging the leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly led by Martin Amaewhule. Justice Uwani Abba-Aji while dismissing the appeal awarded a cost of two million […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, questioned the jurisdiction of his alleged terrorism case when he re-appeared before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court for the resumed hearing of his protracted case. Despite Kanu’s insistence that Justice Nyako has no jurisdiction over […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Monday led a delegation to meet with his former boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo at the hilltop residence of the former Nigerian leader in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The former vice president was accompanied by former Governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke and Senator Aminu […]
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Sunday, February 9th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),Chief Olabode George, has faulted calls for the creation of 31 additional states in the country . Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)on Sunday, the PDP chieftain said creation of additional states would not solve the country’s challenges […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Determined to give every Igbo man a sense of belonging, and operate under a crisis free atmosphere, the National Executive Council NEC led by the newly elected President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Senator John Azuta-Mbata has set up a peace, reconciliation and dispute resolution committee to address any dispute that might arise […]
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Saturday, February 8th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, says the Nigerian economy must be strengthened to weather the storm if a prosperous nation is desirous. Makinde noted that for Nigeria to beat the poverty trap and become a prosperous country, its economy must be built to weather all storms and raise entrepreneurs, improve standard […]
