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Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday cracked down on illegal sachet water production in Dutse Alhaji and Dawaki, Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The enforcement exercise led to the confiscation and closure of multiple facilities producing sachet water in unsafe environments, using substandard equipment, and failing […]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Local Government (LG) Chairmen in Rivers who were sacked in 2015 under Gov. Nyesom Wike administration have vowed to return to take over LG councils in the 23 local government. The former Chairman of Andoni Local Government Area (LGA), Benson Imie, disclosed this on behalf of the 23 LGAs Chairmen […]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Catholics world wide begins their Lenten season that would culminate into the Easter celebration, the Bishop of Enugu diocese of the church, Most Rev Callistus Onaga has urged officials of the Nigerian government, politicians, individuals especially christian faithfuls to abstain from sin. He harped on the need for total repentance during […]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – New statistics by the Transmission Company of Nigeria revealed that power generation climbed to 5,713.60 megawatts on Tuesday. The latest data by TCN pushes the country’s 2025 generation feat to the highest since four years ago. According to the TCN, the whole of the 5,713MW recorded on Tuesday was successfully transmitted. The […]
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has only one presidential candidate in 2027. While emphasising the need for an Igbo president, the former Abia State governor said 2027 is out of the question as President Bola Tinubu “must complete 8 years” in […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended Alhaji Kabir Sani-Giant, Special Adviser to Gov. Nasir Idris on Power and Politics, with immediate effect. A statement signed by the party’s Kebbi State Secretary, Alhaji Sa’idu Muhammad-Kimba, announced the suspension in Birnin Kebbi on Sunday. He revealed that on Feb. 8, 2025, Sani-Giant brought […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu, on Monday urged Muslims to use the holy month of Ramadan to embrace peace, patience, sacrifice and service to humanity which are the true essence of islam. Tinubu, represented by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, made the call in his remarks at the opening of the Qur’an Tafseer for the 2025 […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka, Anambra state has debunked allegations of a contract scandal involving the institution recently published by an online media, describing the publication as malicious. The reports claimed that NAU’s Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ikechebule, awarded a perimeter fencing contract twice—first to Abdullah Hawavo Construction […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State House of Assembly has given Governor Siminalayi Fubara 48 hours to present the 2025 budget to the lawmakers for consideration. They made this known during plenary in Port Harcourt on Monday with the motion moved by the deputy speaker Dumle Maol. “That pursuant to the order of the Supreme […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rev. John Hayab, a clergyman, has called on well-meaning elders to intervene in the feud between the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio and Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central. Hayab, who is the Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have reinstated Mudashiru Obasa as the Speaker, ending 49 days of the speakership crisis. Obasa returns as the Speaker following the resignation of the former speaker, Mojisola Meranda, during Monday’s plenary. The former Majority Leader, Noheem Adams, moved a motion to nominate Obasa while […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has impounded over 350 vehicles with unauthorised number plates within one month nationwide. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. NAN reports that on Feb. 3, the […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has assured the people of the oil-rich state that his administration will implement the Supreme court verdict after carefully reviewing its Certified True Copy (CTC). This followed the Friday judgment of the apex court, which declared the LG election conducted in the state on October 5, 2024, […]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has rejected plans by the Federal Government to regularise electricity tariffs for customers for Bands A, B and C. In a communique released on Sunday after the National Executive Council (NEC) in Yola, Adamawa State, the labour union vowed to lead mass nationwide protests across Nigeria should […]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Nigeria continues to grapple with the issue of Separatists agitation in parts of the country, the Director, Institute For Peace, Conflict and Development Studies, Enugu State University of Science and Technology(ESUT) Professor Felix Asogwa, has advocated convocation of Regional level peace dialogue at the different geo-political zones of the country, especially […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The suit filed by the former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, challenging his removal as speaker, on Friday resumed before an Ikeja High Court. The respondents in the suit are members of the state assembly and the current speaker, Mojisola Meranda. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Friday signed the N54.99 trillion 2025 Appropriation Bill into law at the State House, Abuja. The bill, which was passed by the National Assembly on Feb. 13, after increasing it from the initial N49.7 trillion submitted by President Tinubu, was signed in a brief ceremony in the President’s […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Former Anambra State governorship candidate, Valentine Ozigbo, has stated that Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential aspirant of the Labour Party will not be contesting the position in the same platform in 2027. Ozigbo resigned his membership in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in 2022 and joined LP to support the presidential ambition of […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ireti Kingibe, the senator representing the federal capital territory (FCT), has stated that Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Kogi central lawmaker, has received more privileges than her other female colleagues in the national assembly. Kingibe stated this on Friday during an interview on Arise News Nwa Diokpa. It is worth recalling that a few […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have insisted that Mrs Mojisola Meranda remains Speaker of the parliament and has not resigned. The Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Strategy and Security, Stephen Ogundipe, made this declaration in Lagos on Friday. Recall that ousted Speaker Mudashiru Obasa declared on Thursday […]
