(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger State Government has conditionally suspended its ban on mining activities in the state, a year after Governor Umaru Bago placed the restriction. Acting Governor Yakubu Garba announced the suspension at the Government House in Minna, outlining the conditions for mining companies to operate in the state. He said mining companies must […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of new Directors-General for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the Department of State Services (DSS). According to a statement on Monday by Ajuri Ngelale, the President’s spokesman, Amb. Mohammed Mohammed has been appointed as the new D-G of the NIA, while Mr Adeola Ajayi […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the incessant harassment and intimidation of journalists in Nigeria, saying recent incidents of abductions, arbitrary arrests, detention and other forms of attacks against media professionals by security and law enforcement agencies have reached alarming levels and posed a grave danger to media freedom and democracy in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nsukka local government area on Sunday emerged overall winner of the just concluded U- 15 Enugu youth games held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, with a total 21 gold 11 silver and 11 Bronze just as they smiled home with one Million naira. Oji River the first runners up went home […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the age long traditional practices that denies widows, girl-child, orphans, and other vulnerable persons rights to inheritance in Igbo land, a non governmental organization, Women and Orphans Rights to Family Assets Foundation WORFAF, has taken a sensitization campaign to the church as part of measure to change the ugly narrative. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged politicians in Nigeria to stop weaponising insecurity against their opposition in office. She spoke before a room filled with lawyers at the Eko Hotel & Suites in Lagos during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Annual General Conference of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Education Minister Tahir Mamman says underage candidates will no longer be allowed to sit for secondary school leaving examinations. He said the Federal Government has instructed the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) which administers the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) which organises the Senior […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Malam Jibrin Ndace, says the organisation is currently working in partnership with China to begin broadcasting in Mandarin, China’s official language. Ndace disclosed this on Saturday evening in Abuja, while speaking at a dinner organised by Southern African Development Community (SADC) group of ambassadors and High […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thundery and rainy activities across the country from Sunday to Tuesday. NiMet’s weather outlook, released on Saturday, forecast thunderstorms over parts of Borno, Jigawa, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi, and Gombe States in the northern region during Sunday’s morning hours. According to the agency, thunderstorms are expected […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug law Enforcement Agency NDLEA Enugu state command has vowed to fight drug abuse in the state through traditional rulers and town union president Generals (PGs) across the 17 local government areas in the state. State commander of the Agency, Mr. Abel Sanu Wadashi who stated this noted that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Anambra Government has banned all social events, weddings, shows and entertainment on public school premises. Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, state’s Commissioner for Education made this known in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Dr Ifeoma Agbaizu, in Awka on Saturday. Chuma-Udeh said the move was to protect school premises and infrastructure […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Ahmed Abubakar, Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), tendered his resignation to President Bola Tinubu on Saturday. Abubakar submitted his resignation to the President, after a routine briefing which was graciously accepted. The NIA D-G, speaking to State House correspondents, expressed gratitude to the President for the opportunity to serve […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the controversy surrounding the seizure of three Nigerian presidential jets by a French court, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has been accused of being the brains behind the fraud. In a viral video trending on social media platforms, one, Abisoye Oshodi, popularly known as ‘Balogun Eko’, urged Governor Abiodun to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says no fewer than 21,600 students are parading fake certificates obtained from degree mills institutions in Benin Republic, Togo and others. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this during a ministerial press briefing on his one year achievements in the ministry, in Abuja on Friday. According to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States government on Friday said that it was not planning the establishment of any military base in Nigeria. Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Ekman, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), West Africa Coordination Element Lead, Department of Defence, made this known during a media roundtable with select journalists in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian-born mixed martial artist Israel Adesanya, has visited his country home, Osun, with the UFC star set to be honoured by the people of Esa-Oke, in the State. Chief Akin Onifade, the Sajuku of Esa-Oke told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday that Adesanya would be honoured at the Esa-Oke […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The deliberate enhancement of entrepreneurship education in Africa, balancing theory with practice, is as critical as the efforts to eradicate youth unemployment and poverty. We need, desperately, to build a pool of entrepreneurial youth that will create jobs for themselves and others, instead of seeking jobs in an environment that is not […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Enugu-based non governmental organization NGO, Custos Care Foundation, (CCF), founded by Wife of the state Governor, Mrs. Nkechinyere Mbah, is set to host the biggest youth Boot Camp event in Enugu State under its Enugu Youth Aspire (E-ASPIRE) Project. The project is targeting 100 youths from across the state, made up […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Internal Revenue Service, ESIRS, has hinted that it’s application of disruptive innovation in tax collection has yielded tremendous dividends in the past one year, saying it generated N35.9 billion within seven months of 2024, as against 33.9 billion that the state collected in the whole of 2023. Recall that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, has opened up on the consequences of re-electing Donald Trump back to the oval office in the upcoming election. Harris, while speaking Late Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), reminded the audience of the “chaos and calamity” her Republican rival oversaw during his stay in […]
