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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(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 […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(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 […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(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 […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(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 […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(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 […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(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 […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(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 […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(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, […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of 11 new Chief Executive Officers for agencies under the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, and Creative Economy: According to a statement issued on Friday and signed by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, those appointed are: (1) Tola […]
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has suspended all administered programmes by the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). Director Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Segun Imohiosen, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja. According to the statement, the action was taken following ongoing […]
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Friday, January 12th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court on Friday has affirmed Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, as the duly elected Governor of Kano State. The African Examiner writes that Yusuf’s victory in the 2023 Governorship Election was challenged after the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its governorship candidate in Kano […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Export-Import Bank has unveiled an online portal tagged ‘cocoaconnectafrica.com,’ to create market linkage among farmers, aggregators, and buyers in the cocoa value chain in Africa. Mr Abubakar Bello, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, NEXIM Bank, made this announcement on the sideline of one-day International Cocoa and Chocolate Forum 2024, on […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has commended President Bola Tinubu for reducing his travel entourage to 60 per cent but suggested he can still drop it further to 40 per cent. “It (cutting of entourage) is realistic and if possible the government can go further to reduce the number from 60 […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – To ensure residents of Anambra State, South East Nigeria enjoyed a peaceful and crime free atmosphere during the 2023 Christmas and new year festivities, the state police Command has revealed that it arrested thirty two suspected kidnappers, armed robbers and cultists were arrested during the season. It said also, fifty two arms ammunition and fire […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights organization, operating under the platform of Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has sought the intervention of Enugu state governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, over the continued unlawful detention of a 16 year old boy and secondary school student at the state police headquarters since October 2023, till date. .The group, in a petition addressed to the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The burial law prohibiting staging of flabonyant funeral ceremonies in Anambra State, has pitched the Catholic Church against governor Chukwuma Soludo of the State, as the Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese and Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, has picked holes on the law. The governor, and Cleric, were locked […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government says all gates removed from the Lekki area are intact and will be returned to the various zones of the residents association immediately after an amicable agreement is reached on modalities for re-installing the gates. Lagos Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, on Tuesday, said […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa on Thursday accused Israel of breaching the UN Genocide Convention, arguing that even the deadly October 7 Hamas attack could not justify such alleged actions, as it launched a landmark case at the top UN court. Pretoria has lodged an urgent appeal at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, on Thursday, charged the newly appointed Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and directors of the aviation agencies to optimally carry out their duties in the best possible way as outlined in the ministry’s key performance indicators. He also told the CEOs and directors to […]
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Thursday, January 11th, 2024
By George Elijah Otumu Facts have now emerged on the ignoble and shameful roles played by some highly placed traditional rulers in last year’s 2023 gubernatorial elections in Sokoto State. A well documented report compiled from a series of thorough investigations conducted by the Sokoto State government has revealed several high-handedness, manipulative, abusive and usurpation […]
