(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Liberia’s outgoing president George Weah has said he has no plans to run for the top job again after his defeat in recent elections, local media reported Monday. Weah, 57, a former international football star, won the presidency in 2017 but lost in November polls to Joseph Boakai, who is due to […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian workers have expressed concern over the delay in the payment of the ₦35,000 wage award by the Federal Government to cushion the removal of fuel subsidy. Speaking on the delay in the payment, the workers who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hope Uzodimma has been sworn in for a second term as the governor of Imo State months after he was re-elected as the state’s leader. The governor took the oath of office at around 3:24 pm at the Dan Ayiam Stadium in Owerri, the Imo State capital. His inauguration came just minutes […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The management of the late Ilerioluwa Aloba, better known as Mohbad, has refuted claims that the singer left behind a will. The management disclosed that the artist died without writing a will on how his assets should be shared. The African Examiner recalls that Mohbad’s father, Joseph Aloba, in a recent interview […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The second group A game played at the Alhassan Outtara Stadium in Abidjan on Sunday, saw Equatorial Guinea take the lead in the 36 minute of play after Ivan Salvador curled a shot into the far corner of the Eagles net. The three-time African champions replied two minutes later with Victor Osimhen’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Daniel Bwala, then spokesman for Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 2023 presidential poll, says he informed his ex-principal of his meeting with President Bola Tinubu. “I informed Atiku Abubakar I was going to see the President,” Bwala said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, says the country could have been on fire had the Supreme Court sacked Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State during its epochal judgements last Friday. Galadima also congratulated President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for not interfering with […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Officers of the Rivers State Police Command have neutralised the leader of notorious Greenlanders cult group in the state. The deceased identified as Silas Oderereke also known as ‘General’ was believed to have been the head of the cult group in Ubie clan of the Ahoada-West Local Government Area of the state. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters marched in Washington, London and elsewhere on Saturday as part of a “global day of action” to demand an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza fighting and to oppose US and British support for Israel. In Washington, large crowds waved Palestinian flags as the mostly young protesters — many […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Assembly has postponed its plenary resumption to December 30, 2023. This comes two weeks after after passing the N28.7 trillion budget for 2024. Earlier, the lawmakers fixed their resumption for January 23. In a message addressed to all members of the House of Representatives, the Clerk to the House of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Super Eagles of Nigeria will begin their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) journey on Sunday when they battle Equatorial Guinea. That is in a Group A game in the country’s quest for a fourth AFCON title in the West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire. The group has Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the Dangote Group Aliko Dangote has commended President Bola Tinubu for his support following the commencement of production of diesel and aviation fuel at the Dangote refinery. In a statement he issued on Saturday, Dangote said Tinubu’s encouragement and advice were instrumental to the actualisation of the project. “We […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Special Presidential Panel to immediately undertake a comprehensive review and audit of existing financial frameworks and policy guidelines of the social investment programmes. The panel, headed by Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, is saddled with the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has successfully arranged a syndicated US$3.3 billion crude oil prepayment facility sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). An initial disbursement of US$2.25 billion has been made. A second tranche of US$1.05 billion is expected to be disbursed subsequently. United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) acted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, on Friday said the Supreme Court verdict that affirmed his electoral victory is proof that Nigeria can get it right. A five-member panel led by Justice Emmanuel Agim reversed the decision of the appellate court which sacked him. He tagged the verdict perverse because the issue of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Dangote Refinery has started production. The largest single-train refinery in the world located in Nigeria’s commercial hub began operations in the early hours of Friday. This followed the delivery of six million barrels of crude supply to the refinery. Although it was supposed to begin operations in June 2023, the oil […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cape Verde has become the third African nation to be declared malaria free, even as the disease continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people on the continent, the World Health Organization said Friday. The Atlantic archipelago of about 500,000 inhabitants follows Mauritius in 1973 and Algeria in 2019. Worldwide some 43 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Africa Cup of Nations kicks off on Saturday in Ivory Coast with the host nation and Mohamed Salah’s Egypt among the leading contenders to succeed the Senegal of Sadio Mane as continental champions. The 24-team tournament, which concludes with the final on February 11, is the first in the West African […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria football legend, Jay-Jay Okocha has slammed the national team over the treatment of Maduka Okoye after his blunder at the last Africa Cup of Nations describing it as “strange”. The African Examiner recalls that Okoye was at fault for Tunisia’s winner in Cameroon that sent the Super Eagles out of the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has implored governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to design and implement policies that prioritise all Nigerians and to always consider the national interest above political affiliations. The President, who received members of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) at the State House in Abuja, […]
