Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has nominated former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa (rtd.), as Nigeria’s new Minister of Defence. Tinubu announced the nomination in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, naming Musa as the replacement for Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, who resigned from the position on Monday. According […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s defence minister, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned his appointment with immediate effect. This was announced on Monday night in a press release issued by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr.Bayo Onanuga. In a letter dated December 1, sent to President Bola Tinubu, Abubakar said he was quitting […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Monday, December 1st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Enugu state Police operatives serving in the Trans-Ekulu Division have arrested a 26-year-old male suspect, Chibuike Joshua Ugwuja, for staging his kidnap and demanding thirty-five million naira (₦35,000,000) as ransom from his family. According to SP Daniel Ndukwe, Spokesman for the Command who disclosed this to newsmen on Monday […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Sunday, November 30th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Government of Enugu state, South East Nigeria and the European Union, EU, have committed to strengthening their partnerships across various sectors of the economy. This was made known over the weekend during a courtesy visit to the Enugu State governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, by a delegation of the EU at Government […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, November 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the Federal Government to stop negotiating with terrorists and take firmer, more decisive action against the worsening insecurity across the country. Speaking at the Plateau State Unity Christmas Carol and Praise Festival in Jos on Friday, Obasanjo condemned the rising wave of killings, abductions, and attacks […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, November 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A political pressure group, operating under the platform of Enugu Coalition Assembly (ECA), has faulted the recent appointment of Imo state governor, Senator Hope Uzodinmma, as the Renewed Hope Ambassador by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying “it’s was a wrong choice”. The appointment was contained in a press statement released by the […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, November 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) — President Bola Tinubu has approved the constitution of the Nigerian side of the US-Nigeria Joint Working Group as part of steps to deepen collaboration in tackling security challenges in the country. This was contained in a press release issued on Thursday by Special Adviser to the President , Information and Strategy. Mr. […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, November 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop fixating on his political decisions and instead address the unresolved questions surrounding the identity and age of their own leaders. In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Atiku […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, November 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, says he is ready to resign from office if President Bola Tinubu does not win the state in the 2027 presidential election. Speaking during an interview on AIT, Okpebholo expressed strong confidence in the All Progressives Congress (APC), insisting that the party now dominates Edo’s political landscape […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, November 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has transmitted a second batch of 32 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, days after forwarding an initial list of three nominees. Presidential Spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, announced this in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja. Tinubu, in two letters to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, November 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has declared a nationwide security emergency in view of the emerging security situation in the country. He also called on the National Assembly to begin reviewing laws to allow states that require state police to establish them. Tinubu in a statement on Wednesday also ordered additional recruitment into the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prominent personalities from ‘Agbaja’, a culturally related people found in Udi, Ezeagu, and parts of Enugu North, Enugu south Council areas of Enugu state and have excelled in their various fields of human endeavours have stressed the need for Nigeria to start focusing on producing youths that possess both academic qualifications and […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar has accused the administration of President Bola Tinubu of allowing terrorists and bandits to operate as an “alternative government” across Nigeria. In a statement released by his media office on Wednesday, Abubakar faulted comments made by Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, during […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has welcomed the release of the 24 students abducted by terrorists from Government Girls Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi state last Monday. Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga disclosed this on Tuesday in a press release. Terrorists struck at the school at dawn on […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
African News, Agabus Pwanagba, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the national launch of the Federal Government’s Ward Development Programme, President Bola Tinubu has appointed Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State as the Renewed Hope Ambassador. This was contained in a press release issued on Tuesday and signed by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga. […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Monday, November 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has officially joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the coalition-backed party he is expected to align with ahead of the 2027 general elections. Atiku announced on Monday via his X handle, sharing a photo of himself holding his ADC membership card with the caption: “It’s official.” The […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Monday, November 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Christopher Musa says Nigeria cannot rely on foreign powers to solve its security challenges, urging citizens to recommit to unity and nation-building. Speaking on Sunday at the cultural night and unity ball organised by the Unity Schools Old Students’ Association (USOSANS) in Abuja, Musa said the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Sunday, November 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2027 general election, a group, under the banner of Emerging Leaders Institute, ( ELI), has rekindled a call for Nigeria president of Igbo extraction, in 2027 to redress imbalance in the governance equation in Nigeria where South East seems to have been neglected or relegated to the background. The […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Sunday, November 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has ordered the withdrawal of police officers currently providing security for Very Important Persons (VIPs) in the country. Henceforth, police authorities would deploy them to concentrate on their core police duties. Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga in a press release issued on Sunday […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, says the conviction of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), could further inflame tensions in Nigeria’s south-east. Kanu was recently sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of terrorism. Reacting in a post on […]
