(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu will make its first official visit to Enugu State on Saturday to inaugurate some projects executed by the Gov. Peter Mbah administration. Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, the Secretary to the State Government disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Enugu. Onyia said, “The Enugu State Government is happy to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Borno State Urban Planning and Development Board (BSUPDB) has banned street hawking and other illegal activities in Maiduguri metropolis. The General Manager of the board, Mr Limán Mustapha, in a statement on Friday, said the ban was in accordance with the Borno State Urban Planning and Development Law of 2002. He […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has applauded lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi. Obi, in a tweet on Friday, after his visit to Farotimi, who recently came back from a correctional facility in Ekiti stated that Farotimi was in high spirits irrespective of what he went […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that Peter Obi’s New Year message is “misleading and an attempt to score cheap political points”. It is worth recalling that Obi was the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections. During his New Year message to Nigerians, Obi slammed President Bola […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has slammed the reforms being implemented by President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Rhodes-Vivour, the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Lagos during the 2023 elections, speaking on Channels Television’s programme, Politics Today, claimed that the only people benefitting from the reforms are the president’s friends. It is worth recalling that President […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A wedding in Jigawa State went from merry making to tragedy after a bride allegedly poisoned food served at the reception. According to reports, the incident is said to have left the groom seriously ill and one of the wedding guests dead. The incident happened in the Jahun Local Government Area of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has restated the commitment of Nigerian Armed Forces in ensuring that the nation is secured by getting rid of criminal elements causing security breaches across the nation. General Musa said this while speaking to journalists after the visit to the military cantonment in Samaru, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, Karl Toriola, says telecommunication companies are unanimously proposing a 100 per cent increase in tariffs to the Nigerian government. He noted that the rising operational cost, inflation and naira devaluation have made the increase in tariffs very necessary for the survival of the industry. “We […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police command in Osun has confirmed the killing of a pastor, Mr Sina Olaribigbe, by a husband who suspected him of having an affair with his wife. CSP Yemisi Opalola, Police spokesperson of the command, confirmed the incident on Thursday in Osogbo. Opalola said the husband met the pastor in his […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu deserves the support and patience of Nigerians to consolidate on the deep economic foundation he has laid, says the All Progressives Congress (APC). This comes after Mr Peter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, claimed in his New Year message that the country’s political, economic, and security situation […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than seven persons lost their lives in an auto crash on Kaltungo – Cham Road in Gombe State. Mr Samson Kaura, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, confirmed the incident on Thursday in Gombe. He said that 31 other persons sustained varying degrees of injuries […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Rivers has confirmed the arrest of a couple for allegedly raping and beating a 13-year-old girl in their residence in Port Harcourt. The command’s Spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt on Thursday. NAN reports […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police authorities in Borno State have recovered three projectiles in Borno State, averting an explosion. The spokesman of the Borno Police Command Nahum Daso said the projectiles were recovered in the Dala Kafanti Area of Maiduguri, the capital of the North-East state. “On 2nd January 2025, at about 0925HRS, following a report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Political economist, Prof Pat Utomi, says successive governments in Nigeria have treated young people like idiots. “It has treated young people like they are idiots, repeatedly, and this is sad because most governments in Nigeria were first run by young people. “If you think about military rule, they were in their 20s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed the ₦1.1 trillion 2025 Budget into law. Fubara, in a speech after signing the bill into law on Thursday, January 2, 2025, thanked the Victor Oko-Jumbo-led State Assembly for doing a good job. The governor insisted that the only House of Assembly existing in the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday in Lagos, emphasised the critical role of state governors in driving Nigeria’s development and prosperity. He said their leadership at the subnational level was central to achieving food security, economic prosperity and rapid national growth. During a New Year homage by Vice President Kashim Shettima and members […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu said his administration is encouraged by the National Assembly’s support over the last 19 months and is determined to take Nigeria to the Promised Land. The President spoke Wednesday while receiving Vice President Kashim Shettima, the leadership of the National Assembly, and former principal officers of the National Assembly […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that all their sacrifices to support his government would not be in vain In his new year message to Nigerians, the President said his administration would work towards ensuring that the year “will bring us closer to the bright future we all desire and the Nigeria […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has granted various forms of prerogative of mercy to eight inmates of Correctional Centres in the state on parole. A statement released by the Governor’s media aide, Mr. Uche Anichukwu, on New Year’s Day, 1st January 2025, hinted that the decision was communicated to the Comptroller, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja has okayed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s application to freeze 24 bank accounts domiciled in different banks over allegations bordering on terrorism financing. Justice Nwite granted the application after EFCC’s lawyer, Martha Babatunde, moved an ex-parte motion to the effect. […]
