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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results of its West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates. The total number of candidates who registered for the exam was 85,600 out of which 80,904 actually wrote the exam between October 27 and December 20, 2023. According to a […]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A meeting between the Federal Government and organised Labour to shelve the planned strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress ended in deadlocked on Monday night. The Minister of State Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, hosted the meeting in Abuja but it couldn’t sway the unions to shelve the […]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has tasked state governors and council chairmen to take charge of their responsibilities as a solution to the food crisis and hardship in Nigeria. President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, stated that Nigeria would be better if governors and local government chairmen increased food production […]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 18 shops were confirmed to have been destroyed in a gas explosion that happened at Agbado Road in the Toyin area of Ifako Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State late on Tuesday. The Director, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, stated this in a statement issued to […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has blamed the governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the economic hardships Nigerians are facing. ”It is a fact that many of the PDP Governors have not paid N30,000 minimum wage to their workers since it took effect more than 4 years ago. […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government will soon make a pronouncement on the issue of employing underage house helps that are less than 18 years, to end cases of child abuse and violation. According to the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, there will be an enforcement programme to that end to be driven by […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Super Eagles winger, Emmanuel Amuneke, has stated that he is willing to take charge of the team after the uncertainties hovering around the future of head coach, Jose Peseiro. The African Examiner recalls that Jose Peseiro led the Super Eagles to a second-place finish at the recently concluded 2023 Africa Cup […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bitcoin spiked above $50,000 Tuesday for the first time in more than two years as investors grow optimistic that US approval of broader trading in the unit will ramp up demand. The cryptocurrency has enjoyed a strong run in recent months, fuelled by expectations US lawmakers would allow the creation of exchange-traded […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party has confirmed the appointment of a former President of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara, as the substantive chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees. Also, a former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, was appointed as the BoT Secretary, replacing former Minister of Special Duties Kabir Turaki. This announcement […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has conferred the national honour of Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) on every member of the Super Eagles that participated at the just concluded African Cup of Nations. President Bola Tinubu is presently hosting Nigeria’s national football team, the Super Eagles, at the Council Chambers of […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Faruk Abubakar has said that over 15,000 nurses and midwives left the country in 2023 to seek greener pastures. Abubakar said this while speaking on the controversy surrounding the nurses’ certificate verification on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s Morning Brief. The nurses […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain’s unemployment rate dipped in the final quarter of last year but wage growth eased as the country’s inflation stayed elevated, official data showed Tuesday. The unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent from 3.9 percent in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics said in a […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the military junta in Niger, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has vowed that the country will not rejoin the Economic Community of West African States. He also vowed that none of the three Sahel nations would rejoin the ECOWAS. Tchiani stated this on Monday in an interview he granted to the RTN […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mobile internet access in Senegal was suspended on Tuesday for the second time this month, the communications ministry said, after authorities banned a march against the delay to February’s presidential election. President Macky Sall’s decision to push back the February 25 vote until December plunged Senegal into a crisis which has seen […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Association of Corporate & Marketing Communications Professionals in Nigeria Banks (ACAMB) has extended its deepest condolences to Access Holdings Group on the tragic passing of its CEO, Dr. Herbert Wigwe, CFR. Recall that Dr. Herbert Wigwe, along with his wife, Doreen, and their son, Chizi, lost their lives in a tragic […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Access Holdings Plc on Monday announced the appointment of Ms. Bolaji Agbede as the Acting Group Chief Executive Officer. This follows the death of its former Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Herbert Wigwe. Wigwe died in a helicopter crash alongside his wife, son, and a former chairman of the Nigeria Exchange Group, […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has appealed to some Nigerian fans who have taken to social media to bully Alex Iwobi following Nigeria’s loss in the final match of the African cup of nations cup (AFCON). The appeal was contained in a post on Musa’s verified X account @ahmedmusa78. The post […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The First Prosecution Witness, PW1, in the ongoing trial of former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, Ogau Onyeka Michael, on Monday told Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Abuja, that former President Mohamadu Buhari, ex-secretary to the government of the federation, Boss Mustafa […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ndifreke Ukpong, a Nigerian author, has stressed the need for fostering independent thoughts in Nigerians as active followers in the polity and using literature to tackle contemporary issues facing Nigerian society. Speaking during a book review session at the weekend in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Ukpong shared the backstory of his novel, […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The statement by a former People Democratic Party (PDP) member, Bwala Daniel, exonerating President Bola Tinubu of any wrongdoing in the present economic hardship facing the country has sparked social media reactions.The African Examiner recalls that Daniel worked with the opposition party, People Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election and […]
