(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency on Wednesday said President Muhammadu Buhari remains a “disciplined soldier” of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and would in all the coming elections, support only those candidates fielded by the party and no other. Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said said in a statement, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Executive Council has approved a total of N43.652 billion for road projects in the North East region of the country under the North East Development Commission (NEDC) Briefing State House Correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over byPresident Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank Group President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has been awarded Nigeria Global Brand Award of the Year 2021 by Blueprint Newspapers, a national daily print and newspaper in Nigeria. The award is in recognition for what the newspaper describes as Dr Adesina’s pragmatic and purposeful leadership. Often described as “Africa’s Optimist-in-Chief”, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health says that there are actually enough medical doctors in Nigeria. Ehanire stated this on Tuesday in Abuja during a media conference, saying that the number of doctors leaving Nigeria is less than 1,000. He stated that the Federal Government is working toward replacing any medical […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday attended the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting physically. Osinbajo is attending the meeting physically for the first time after he underwent thigh surgery at a hospital in Lagos State. He participated in last week’s FEC meeting virtually. The meeting holding at the Council Chambers of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is the most attacked president in Nigeria’s history. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu in a statement stated that since the opposition couldn’t defeat the president at the 2019 polls, they have resorted to other means as he reacted to an editorial by Guardian Newspapers. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A driver, Valentine Enwerem, was on Friday evening killed when gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, attacked his vehicle. The incident happened at Nkwo Orji market junction along Owerri-Okigwe Road in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State, South-east Nigeria. The slain driver was carrying two Catholic priests before the gunmen attacked […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps has declared rotational number plates illegal in the country. A statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday by Assistant Corps Marshal, Bisi Kazeem, said the declaration followed a video circulating on social media with rotational number plates showing different details. The statement read: “The attention of the FRSC […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Majority Leader of Anambra Assembly Hon. Nnamdi Okafor is dead. Okafor died on Tuesday night in South Africa. Okafor, a second term legislator, represented Awka-South 1 State Constituency. He came into the State Assembly in 2015 on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Details of his death are still […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said that the first malaria vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), will be administered in four doses to 5-month-old babies. WHO also said the vaccine will be effective against the deadliest parasite, especially common in Africa and it’s not for adults. The Minister of Health, Dr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labor and employment, says he can drive from Abuja to Kaduna without a security escort. Keyamo stated this on Tuesday in a pre-recorded interview aired on Channels TV. The African Examiner writes that the 155km Kaduna-Abuja highway is one of the feared roads as it has […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WaterAid, a frontline international not-for-profit organization, with funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF), has launched an 18-month project targeted at improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services in four communities within and around the Maiduguri Metropolis in Borno State. WaterAid currently works in 28 countries to change the lives of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly condemned what he calls “the unprovoked and cold-blooded murder of a Yobe State-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Goni Aisami, by a callous soldier he had offered a lift as confirmed by the Police.” This was contained in a statement issued and signed by Senior Special Assistant to the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch, has informed Nigerians that the ongoing strike will continue since the Federal Government is yet to engage the union. The ASUU’s branch chairman, Dr. Kassim Umaru, made this known in an interview with newsmen at the end of its Congress, held […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja declared that football remains the number one sport in Nigeria and a national asset stressing that his administration would resist any attempt to undermine its development. The President made the pledge while receiving the 10-year Football Development Masterplan submitted by the Minister of Youth and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 25-year-old man known as Elisha Tari has opened up about why he stoned his two children to death in his home. It could be recalled that the Adamawa State Police Command nabbed Elisha for stoning two of his children, aged 3 and 5 years old, to death. While being paraded on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria and the United States government have agreed concerning the return of over $23 million of the Abacha loot. This agreement signing ceremony was held in the office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami on Tuesday. Malami signed on behalf of the Nigerian government, and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, and spokesperson for the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that talks concerning the removal of fuel subsidy will begin next year. Keyamo stated this on Tuesday during the unveiling of The Progressives Forum in Abuja, He stressed that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has denied media reports that he will hand over federal universities to state governments if elected president in 2023. The media adviser to the former vice president, Paul Ibe, in a statement issued on Monday night in Abuja, described the report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action. Sources among the union’s NEC members told our correspondent on Monday that the meeting will hold at the union’s […]
