Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World football-governing body, FIFA has approved a total of 30 Nigerian referees to be placed on the international lists for the year 2024. Among them are eleven referees, eleven assistant Referees, four beach soccer referees and four futsal referees. According to the Nigeria Football Federation NFF Communication department, this was contained in […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger’s deposed president Mohamed Bazoum must be freed immediately from detention, where he has been held since a July 26 coup, the court of the West African bloc, ECOWAS, ordered on Friday. The court called for his “immediate and unconditional release” and ordered that Bazoum be reinstated, according to the judge in […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger’s ruling military has agreed to terms and conditions of a transition back to civilian rule, and will present the plan to a regional bloc, the chief diplomat from mediator Togo announced Thursday. Speaking on Niger’s national television, Togo Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said he had reached an agreement “on the content […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu, has met with wives of state governors in Abuja. Addressing the governors’ wives on Thursday in a statement signed by her SA Media, Busola Kukoyi, Senator Tinubu noted that it has become imperative for the forum to be held so that she can update them […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State on Thursday received the trophy of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), ahead of the opening of the tournament in the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in 2024. The trophy, arriving from Morocco, touched down in Lagos on Thursday. The trophy was presented to Sanwo-Olu by the […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has sent his condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of the late Dr. Thomas John, former Group Managing Director of the erstwhile Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday. The […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has sympathized with the Ezeife family, the people, and the government of Anambra state on the passing of Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, former governor of the state. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday and signed by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Thursday said the country’s inflation rate and the pressures on the exchange rate will reduce in the coming year. While the country’s inflation rate jumped to 27.33% for November – the highest in 18 years, the apex bank’s governor Yemi Cardoso projects a slump in […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmati were named as finalists for the FIFA best players of the year awards by world football’s governing body on Thursday. Messi was awarded a record-extending eighth Ballon d’Or crown in October in Paris, while Bonmati took the women’s prize after starring for Spain in their Women’s World […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The political tsunami sweeping Rivers State appears unabating as three more commissioners on Thursday resigned from Governor Sim Fubara’s cabinet. The latest to pull out of the cabinet are the Commissioner for Works George-Kelly Alabo – who served in the same capacity under Nyesom Wike’s government – and the Social Welfare and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian entertainer, Charles Oputa better known as Charly Boy has opened up about his recent battle with prostate cancer. In an Instagram post, he talked about his journey fighting cancer and how he “cheated death” this year. “Many things bin happen dis year 2023. The good, the bad and the ugly. […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has cautioned the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. According to Primate Ayodele, God has departed from Wike and President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, will fight the former Rivers State governor. In a statement by […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has stated that he will support whoever emerges as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the State Governorship Elections slated for September 21, 2024. Obaseki made this known in Abuja on Thursday during the PDP National Working Committee meeting with the party’s Edo State […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Aviation minister Festus Keyamo has ordered sacked directors of agencies in his ministry to hand over to the most senior officers. He said this in a statement signed by the ministry’s spokesperson, Odutayo Oluseyi, on Thursday. Mr Keyamo said the action was to effect reorganisation in the agencies under the ministry. According […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Isiogbo Nara Community, in Nkanu East Local government area of Enugu state, have appealed to the Enugu state Commissioner of police to use his good office to expedite action in unraveling the mystery surrounding the gruesome murder of their 32 year old kinsman late Mr. Joseph Chinedu who was […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Basking from the euphoria of winning the CAF Footballer of the Year prize, Super Eagles forward Victor Osimhen says the Nigerian side are in “high spirits” for the delayed 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). Osimhen broke a 24- years jinx to become the first Nigerian to win Africa’s most coveted individual […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governor of Rivers State, Chief Rufus Ada George has called on politicians to embrace peace and cease using provocative comments in the interest of the state. The elder statesman, who presided over the state in the 3rd Republic between 1992 and 1993, made the appeals via a statement he signed […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court will tomorrow (December 15th) deliver judgement on the appeal seeking to compel the Federal Government to release the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, from detention. A five-member panel led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun had in October fixed the date after counsel for both […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Acting Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, on Thursday, assured the people of the “Sunshine State” that he is prepared to serve upon assumption of office as acting governor. In his maiden speech in the state after the transmission of power to him by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who had been battling […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Controversial Nigerian singer, Azeez Adeshina Fashola better known as Naira Marley, has accused Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo of libel and demanding ₦500 million for damages and a public apology. In a letter dated December 12, 2023, the lawyer of Naira Marley highlighted a series of statements made by Ojo in September, stressing […]
