(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) has assured that he will lift 130 million people out of poverty if he is voted into office come the 2023 general election. Obi stated this after attending the NKST Synod in Mkar, Gboko Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has tasked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to negotiate with the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi ahead of the 2023 elections. Fayose also enjoined the PDP leaders to solve the crisis with rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike’s faction of the party. The former governor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the payment of funds owed to states in the Niger Delta since 1999. Wike stated this on Friday at the inauguration of the Nabo Graham Douglas campus of the Nigerian Law School in Rumueme, Port Harcourt. Wike stated that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Founder and Executive Director of PROMAD, an Abuja-based civic-tech non-profit organisation, Daisi Omokungbe has warned that Nigeria cannot win the war against poverty and hunger without conducting needs assessment. Omokungbe said the practice of making the government annual budget without quality needs assessment to harness citizens’ voices is responsible for the high […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has discharged and acquitted a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, and five others from the N544 million grass-cutting contract fraud offences brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The Court on Friday held […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – EFCC arrested 18 internet fraudsters in Ilorin on Friday. Its spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, stated that “the suspects were smoked out of their hideouts at different locations following credible intelligence information. “They were arrested at Sobi, Akerebiata and Las Vegas Estate, Asa Dam, Ilorin. “The suspects, mostly in their early twenties, include […]
The Minister of Sports and Youth Development Sunday Dare has confirmed the sack of the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General, Mohammed Fadah. There were rumours of Fadah’s sack Thursday evening with many online platforms quoting discreet Presidency sources. All efforts to confirm the report late Thursday night were unsuccessful as reliable […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Ekiti State Police Command, on Friday botched attempts by hoodlums to burn down the Ekiti Assembly complex. The Nation reliably gathered that the incident happened around 4am when the hoodlums were said to have scaled the fence and made spirited efforts to raze […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A soldier of the 25 Task Force Brigade in Borno ran amok on Thursday and shot a female humanitarian aid worker to death while injuring a UN pilot. He also shot and killed another soldier. Reports said he would have taken more lives, but for the quick intervention of his colleagues who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Enugu 2023 Governorship flagbearer of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA in Enugu state, Hon. Frank Nweke (Jnr) has said that money being voted for the office of the governor in the State in the budget was too high. He recalled that in the 2022 budget, a […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said it would address all issues raised concerning the national register of voters. INEC had this month made the entire register public on its website for the first time in the nation’s electoral history. However, many Nigerians have identified numerous […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 General Election, Nigeria’s foremost media capacity development organization, has announced plans to train and mentor 140 female journalists on election reporting. The IPC is the lead partner of component 4 (Support to media) of the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria-Phase II (EUSDGN II) project and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party has opened up on the verbal attack on Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate by Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State. African Examiner recalls that Soludo sparked reactions after he stated that Obi knew he would not win the election but was merely playing drama. Labour Party reacting […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, stated that those criticising him concerning his choice of Kashim Shettima as his running mate in the 2023 polls had met him for the position. He stated that most of them were close to him and they had indicated […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State says that the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu will take care of Igbos if elected. Umahi disclosed this during the inauguration of the Ebonyi Governor’s Lodge on Wednesday in Abuja as he assured Tinubu that the South-East would vote for him in 2023. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday pledged to provide “logistics support” for the campaigns of Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Wike also said Obi, a former Anambra State governor, has all the characteristics to lead Nigeria. The Rivers governor made this known to the LP presidential candidate in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has stated that 133 million Nigerians are multidimensionally poor. The NBS disclosed this on Thursday in its latest National Multidimensional Poverty Index Report. According to the report, 63 per cent of Nigerians are poor because they lack access to health, education, and living standards, alongside unemployment […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has apologised to Adams Oshiomhole, former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for supporting the re-election of Godwin Obaseki as Edo governor. Wike disclosed this on Wednesday at the inauguration of the Rumuepirikom flyover in Obio-Akpor LGA of the state as he stated that he […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he picked former Borno Governor Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate. The choice, he said, was based on strategic and not religious considerations. He denied it was also an attempt to suppress the Christian community in Nigeria. He said […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to brain storm on the alarming insecurity challenges facing parts of the country, the police on Wednesday kicked off a two-day workshop for stakeholders of Community Policing in South East geo-political zone of Nigeria. The workshop designed to educate the stakeholders on the importance of community Policing and […]
