(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian national, Eze Ndubuisi, has been arrested in India for duping a trader using fake websites. The 42-year-old was arrested in Navi Mumbai where he was residing, following a complaint from a trader from Tuticorin, Panimaya Manoj. According to Times of India, Manoj filed a complaint with the cyber police stating […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in signed the 2023 Budget of N21.83 trillion along with the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill into law. Speaking at the signing of the eighth and final annual budget of his administration, the President said the aggregate expenditures of N21.83 trillion, is an increase of N1.32 trillion over […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, says he pities his Labour Party, LP, counterpart, Peter Obi, following his endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Tinubu said Obasanjo cannot win his polling unit; hence Obi is at risk for associating with the former president. Speaking through the Director of Media […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation says the “subjective support” for Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, by former President Olusegun Obasanjo is his personal wish. The Spokesperson of the organisation, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said in a statement in Abuja that Obasanjo’s wish did not reflect the opinion or position […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director, of New Media of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has stated that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of Labour Party (LP)’s presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi is “inexplicable and an exercise in futility”. Fani-Kayode disclosed this on his social media accounts as he responded to Obasanjo’s New Year […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former minister of Foreign Affairs, Bolaji Akinyemi, says that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo is the foundation of Nigeria’s problem. Akinyemi disclosed this when he appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics as he reacted to the recent endorsement of Obasanjo to the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for the presidency in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pa Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere has stated that Nigeria will be in trouble if Labour Party presidential aspirant, Peter Obi loses the forthcoming election. The 94-year-old elder statesman stated that he was not surprised that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo supported Peter Obi as Obasanjo has always […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi as his preferred contestant for the 2023 general elections. In his 2023 New Year message personally signed by the ex-President which was delivered through his spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi. Obasanjo described Obi as his mentee and said the […]
….Donates Campaign Office In Abia (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 general polls in Nigeria, a campaign support group for the ruling All progressive Congress APC presidential project under the platform of South East progressives Movement for Tinubu/Shettima has vowed to mobilize not less 3 million votes for the party’s flag bearer and his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has declared that Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has renewed hope for free, fair and credible elections this year with his recent warning, charging security agencies to maintain a high sense of professionalism and desist from behaviour that would bring disrepute to the service as well as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Kaduna state, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, has approved the release of 11 prisoners from the Nigerian Correctional Service in celebration of the new year 2023. This is an exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 212 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria(as amended) and on the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has opened up concerning the political war that led to the removal of Uche Secondus as national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Wike, while speaking at the Eneka Road Roundabout, venue of the flag-off ceremony for the construction of Eneka -Igbo Etche Road dualisation project […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that any activity intended to disrupt the 2023 general election will be met with “full force of the law“. Buhari disclosed this during his 2023 New Year message to Nigerians, which was released on Saturday. Buhari said: “In year 2023, Nigerians go to the polls to exercise […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel on Saturday visited his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike in Port Harcourt. Emmanuel, accompanied by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, held a closed-door meeting with Wike that lasted for three hours. The details of the meeting could not be ascertained, but it may not […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a New Year message to Nigerians as the people await 2023. The President’s message captured some pressing national issues. Prominent among them is the 2023 general elections. Buhari, who will leave the Presidential Villa in May, 2023, also noted the fact that this would be his last […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has sacked Dr. Muhammad Tahar Adam, the state’s Commissioner for Religious Affairs. The news of Adam’s sack was contained in a statement on Saturday by the Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Muhammad Garba, adding that the decision is with immediate effect. According to the statement, Adam […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has called on the Department of State Security Services (DSS) as a matter of urgency to release Mr. ifedi Sunday and his wife, Mrs Ifedi Callister who were Unlawfully arrested by its Operatives and have been in their custody for the past one year. A statement issued […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has suspended the Executive Secretary of Osun Health Insurance Agency, Dr Niyi Oginni, and the Head of the Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr. Adebukola Olujide. The governor also directed investigation of the Public Procurement Agency otherwise known as the Due Process Office to determine […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep sadness over the death of Professor George Obiozor, the President General of apex Igbo Socio cultural body, Ohaneze Ndigbo, worldwide. He extends his heartfelt condolences to Obiozor’s family, the government and people of Imo State as well as Ndigbo, at home and in the Diaspora. […]
President Buhari has reappointed Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). The Resident Media Consultant of NAFDAC, Sayo Akintola, told The Nation that her reappointment was with effect from December 1, 2022. Prof. Adeyeye was first appointed as Director-General in November 2017. On November […]
