(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari, in the course of the week, embarked on official and spiritual journey to Saudi Arabia to thank Almighty Allah as he prepares to handover mantle of leadership to President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, on May 29. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Buhari departed Nigeria on Tuesday […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye has won the People’s Democratic Party governorship primaries in Kogi State. He polled 313 votes to defeat Idoko Ilonah who had 124 votes. Sunday Awoniyi had 77 votes while Musa Wada had 56 votes. …more soon
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared Dr Nasiru Idris of All Progressives Congress (APC) as Governor-elect of Kebbi. Recall that the INEC had declared the March 18 governorship election in the state inconclusive. A rerun election was held on Saturday in 142 polling units spread across 20 of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Yunusa Hudu Ari, in the early hours of Sunday, sneaked into Adamawa State Governorship collation and declared Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed of the All Progressives Congress winner of the state governorship polls. Binani according to official results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, prior to her declaration, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission has invited the Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner, Barrister Hudu Yunusa, over the declaration of the election held Saturday. The commission disclosed this on Sunday via its Twitter handle. It noted that the process has clearly not been concluded before he made the announcement. “The attention of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, was on Sunday morning declared the winner of Sokoto South senatorial district election. Tambuwal, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, defeated the current serving senator, Danbaba Dambuwa, with a total margin of 4,976. Announcing the results at about 11:55 am on Sunday at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Wide-spread violence has compelled INEC to cancel Saturday’s Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency rerun election in Akwa Ibom. Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom, Dr Cyril Omorogbe, told newsmen in Uyo that the rerun election in the area was abysmal. He said the election was cancelled in all the 17 polling units because of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Voting has ended in 206 polling units across 15 local government areas of Kano state where supplementary elections took place on Saturday. While party agents, election observers, and related bodies are following up the process at different collation centres in the state for transparency, security presence has been heightened in a bid […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Minister of State for Petroleum Timipre Sylva has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket for Bayelsa State. He was declared the winner of the APC election held on Friday and Saturday across 105 wards via the direct primary option in the oil-rich state. While declaring the results at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), says Nigerians no longer believe that government can do anything for them. Speaking virtually at the inauguration of the 100-member Abia transition council, Okonjo-Iweala, on Friday, said Alex Otti, the governor-elect, must run a clean and transparent administration. The WTO DG asked the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – Thousands of voters are expected to hit the polls today as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducts supplementary elections across 23 states. On the heels of the February 25 presidential/National Assembly elections, and the March 18 governorship/state assembly elections, INEC fixed Saturday, April 15 for governorship, national, and state assembly supplementary […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has stated that quick action is needed to protect the children suffering as a result of the conflicts in north-east Nigeria. In a statement on Friday, UNICEF stated that 96 out of 276 girls kidnapped from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno are still […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has commended members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for their large turnouts in the ongoing governorship primaries in the state. The African examiner reports that the APC is holding their governorship primaries across the 239 wards of Kogi. Bello gave the commendation on Friday, while speaking […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mike Igini, the former Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has alleged that the United Kingdom, UK, introduced Nigeria to election rigging. Igini made this assertion when he fielded questions concerning the conduct of the just concluded 2023 general elections on Arise Television’s Morning […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has reiterated his position on who will emerge as his successor. Gbajabiamila, in a tweet on Thursday, refuted a report claiming he was in opposition to the purported ambitions of Deputy Speaker Ahmed Idris Wase and others in the running for the office […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it has distributed materials for Saturday’s re-run election in six local government areas of Zamfara. The Residents Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Saidu Ahmad made the disclosure at a stakeholders meeting on Thursday in Gusau. He said the election was for Zamfara Central Senatorial District and two […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano State Command, says it has arrested no fewer than 93 suspects for various crimes in the state between January and March. Mr Adamu Salihu, the NSCDC state Commandant, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has stated that doctors are driven out of the country by poverty and insecurity. The African Examiner recalls that a lawmaker, Ganiyu Johnson, had sponsored a bill to amend the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act 2004 with a view to addressing the brain drain in the health […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 2 million vulnerable Nigerians have been impacted by projects implemented under the Federal Government’s National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy (NPRGS) for the year 2022, report says. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, in a statement on Thursday, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some Nigerians on Twitter are venting their spleens on Sam Omatseye, the chairman of The Nation Newspaper’s editorial board and ally of the president-elect after he posted a fake photo of Tinubu and President Buhari.The African Examiner recalls that after the election, president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, left Nigeria on March 2022 to rest […]
