(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has announced plans to commence interest-free loans for traders in the state starting January 2025. He disclosed this on Thursday at the New Festival Hall of Government House in Benin during a congratulatory visit from the Edo State Association of Commodity Market Women and Men. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has revoked lands belonging to former President Muhammed Buhari, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas; and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume. Also, 759 other prominent figures and organisations in Maitama II, Abuja. were also affected by […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the 2025 budget proposal presented by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, describing it as “unrealistic, opaque, and insincere.” PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement on Wednesday said the budget was anti-people, warning that its implementation would worsen insecurity, poverty, and despair across the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security agencies, including the police, military, and intelligence services, have been identified as the worst enemies of the media in Nigeria in recent years and were responsible for the highest number of attacks against journalists in 2024. This was contained in an annual state of media freedom report for the year released […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu Wednesday in Abuja assured Nigerians of better days ahead as economic reforms begin to yield positive results, with noticeable signals in improved security, education, health care, and a globally acknowledged 3.4 per cent GDP growth in third quarter of 2024. Tinubu gave the assurance at the National Assembly during […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the reconstitution of the Executive Management of 12 River Basin Development Authorities under the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. According to a statement issued by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, the newly reconstituted Executive Management are: OGUN-OSUN RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, ABEOKUTA (Lagos, Oyo, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu says the Federal Government targets N34.82 trillion revenue to fund the N47.9 trillion 2025 budget. Tinubu stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while presenting the 2025 Appropriation Bill to the joint session of the National Assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the N47.9 trillion budget was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Assembly has extended the implementation of the 2024 Budget by six months, Senate President Godswill Akpabio said on Wednesday during the 2025 Budget presentation by President Bola Tinubu. “We shall continue on the part of nationalism and service to our country,” Akpabio said before a joint sitting of the Senate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In what could pass as comic relief during the serious business of budget presentation on Wednesday, President Bola Tinubu jocularly referred to a joint session of the 10th National Assembly as the 11th National Assembly. Christened the ‘Budget of Restoration’, the President presented his second budget estimate of N47.9tn before members of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has flayed critics of President Bola Tinubu’s tax reforms as lacking an understanding of what the initiatives were truly about. Akpabio disclosed this during his remarks at the presentation of the 2025 budget estimate by President Tinubu to a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The University of Nigeria Nsukka UNN, will on Friday, December 20, 2024 award different degrees and Diploma to a total of eleven thousand one hundred and forty three, (11,143) of it’s graduating students, with 195 smiling home with First Class honours during her 53rd convocation ceremony. Acting Vice Chancellor of the University, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo, on Tuesday, performed the ground-breaking ceremony for the Abia Airport project. In a speech at the event held at Ubaha-Nsulu in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area, Keyamo said that the project was upgraded from an airstrip to an international cargo airport. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the suspension of chairmen in the 18 local governments (LG) of Edo by the House of Assembly. A statement by Dr Anthony Aziegbemi, the state PDP Chairman on Tuesday in Benin, described the action as unconstitutional, null, and void. He noted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has paid tribute to his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari on his 82nd birthday and said his government will continue to build on the latter’s legacy. Tinubu described Buhari whom he took over the reins of office in 2023 as a dogged person who inspires others never to give up on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has stated that Abia State governor, Alex Otti is a prodigal son, and will return to the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC. It is worth recalling that Governor Otti left the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA, for APC in 2020 and after […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Anambra State Police Command says it has commenced investigations into the alleged murder of one Mr Fabian Osita Chinedu, a staff of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University UNIZIk, Awka. The deceased was allegedly shot by unidentified gunmen on Monday, 16th December, 2024 at 10.10 pm at Aroma Junction. Perpetrators of the barbaric […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Bureau of Statistics has stated that Nigerians paid a total of N2.23tn as ransom between May 2023 and April 2024. According to the agency, the sum was paid by households who were affected by kidnapping incidents. The bureau also stated that the latest Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey report […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has offered amnesty to criminals in the state, announcing that they have until the end of February 2025 to lay down their arms. He also stated that there are plans to launch a joint security operation to tackle insecurity in the state. According to Soludo, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, issued a resolution suspending chairmen and vice chairmen of the 18 local government councils for two months. Also, the House directed the leaders of the legislative arms to take over leadership of their respective councils. The suspension of the council chairmen and their deputies […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has appointed Aisha Garba, an international development specialist, as the Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education (UBEC). Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga announced the appointment in a press release issued on Tuesday. Garba, a Senior Education Specialist with the World Bank, brings more […]
