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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Adeleke Agbola says Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State risks impeachment and therefore needs to tread carefully. The legal practitioner was speaking in light of recent political developments in the oil-rich state. Fubara and his predecessor Nyesom Wike were at loggerheads which needed President Bola Tinubu’s […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled former Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Kunle Oluomo, has challenged his removal from office in court. On Tuesday, Oluomo was impeached by 18 out of 26 members of the legislative arm during the house’s sitting presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Mrs Bolanle Ajayi, (APC-Yewa South). But […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A joint troops have cleared several camps of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it’s militia arm, Eastern Security Network (ESN) along Umulolo-Umukele- Amousu and Agbobu in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo. The security operatives are made-up of troops of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Navy and Air […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, says that his choice of Dr. Olayide Adelami and Tayo Oluwatuyi as Deputy Governor and Secretary to the State Government respectively was the right thing to do. Aiyedatiwa made this known on Friday at the Government House, Akure while meeting both Adelami and Oluwatuyi for the […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, has apologised to the Nasarawa State Government concerning the accidental air strike which caused the death of many residents of the Rukubi community in the Doma Local Government Area of the state in January 2023. Abubakar stated this on Friday when he visited […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Professor Attahiru Jega, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has stated that the electoral commission needs to tell Nigerians why its Result Viewing Portal (IReV) and the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS) did not work in the 2023 general elections. The African Examiner recalls that the February 2023 […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Ademola Adeleke has approved the immediate suspension of the Provost of Ila College of Education in line with the interim report of the Investigation Panel headed by the Chief of Staff, Hon. Kazeem Akinleye. The Governor, according to a statement signed by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, also approved the recommendation of […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A private jet having about 10 persons onboard including Very Important Personalities (VIPs) has overshot the Ibadan airport runway in the Oyo State capital. An impeccable source said the incident happened on Friday around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. The jet with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway and […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar asked President Bola Tinubu to account for the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL)’s $3.3 billion emergency crude repayment loan. Last August, the NNPCL secured a $3.3 billion emergency crude repayment loan from the African Export-Import Bank to stabilize the foreign exchange market. A few weeks ago, […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In a significant move, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, has publicly urged Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano to abandon the ruling All Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and join the opposition APC. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting in Kano on Thursday, Ganduje, a former governor of the […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(African Examiner) – The President of the Nigeria Labour congress, Joe Ajaero, has stated that Nigerians have been suffering due to the increase in the price of fuel. Ajaero also stated that Nigerians shouldn’t have adapted to the increase in fuel prices. He made this known in the 21st Daily Trust Dialogue themed “Tinubu’s Economic […]
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Friday, January 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, says he cannot be intimidated out of the Sept.21 governorship election, because he has all its takes to win. Shaibu, stated this when he returned his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nomination form for the governorship election, at the party national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday. The deputy […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the recent publication claiming that paracetamol drugs in Nigeria are under-dosed is fake. Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of NAFDAC, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. Adeyeye said that the publication […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have intervened in the crisis rocking the State House of Assembly following the impeachment of the Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo. On Tuesday, 18 of the 26 members of the Ogun assembly ousted Oluomo as speaker. He was impeached over allegations bordering on […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) blamed gas constraints on thermal generating companies for the drop in power supply nationwide. TCN General Manager of Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement, saying the situation had impacted the quantum of bulk power available on the transmission grid for onward transmission to […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of Tonye Cole and the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the election of Siminalayi Fubara as Rivers State governor for lacking in merit. Affirming Fubara as the duly elected governor of Rivers State, the court held that the appellant did not prove the allegations of […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Agbu Kefas as governor of Taraba State. The apex court in a unanimous decision dismissed the appeal by Professor Yahaya Sani of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) for grossly lacking in merit. Professor Sani had asked the apex court to set aside the […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Nigeria joins the world to mark the 2024 International Day of education, the United nations children’s fund UNICEF, has stressed the need for all relevant key stakehlders, including the media to join hands in addressing the issue of attacks on education facilities in the country. It said “we stand united in protecting […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Agu-Umabor Community in Nsukka Council area of Enugu state, have sent a Save our Souls (SOS) massage to the state governor, Dr. Peter Mbah over a heavy Gully that is at the verge of cutting off the only road that links the locality with other areas. A group in the […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured the people of Keana Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, of its readiness to conduct a free and fair re-run election in the affected ward. Malam Kudu Haruna, INEC’s National Commissioner, North Central, gave the assurance at a stakeholders’ meeting on Wednesday in Keana. He […]
