(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- Real Madrid reached the Copa del Rey final for the first time since 2014 on Wednesday night in Barcelona. A Karim Benzema hat-trick and a Vinicius Junior strike earned a 4-0 Clasico victory over FC Barcelona at Camp Nou and a 4-1 triumph on aggregate. Eder Militao’s own goal at the Bernabeu had […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Benue State Governor-elect, Hyacinth Alia on Wednesday said the civil service in the state was near collapse, stressing that his administration would restore life to the system and make it productive again. According to him, the civil service was in such situation as being in Intensive Care Unit and needed urgent attention […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said that some wealthy Nigerians don’t feel complete until they have a home in the United Kingdom. Buhari spoke when the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Wendy Laing paid him a farewell visit at the Presidential Villa after four and half years tour of duty […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Lagos State says one Inspector was killed and a Divisional Police Officer seriously injured while enforcing the ban on the use of motorcycles in some parts of the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this on Wednesday in his verified Twitter handle. Hundeyin said that the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has secured $800 million from the World Bank to provide post-petroleum subsidy palliatives for over 50 million Nigerians ahead of June 2023. Addressing State House Corespondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, says the emergence of Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), is a result of the consequence of the “EndSARS movement”. The African Examiner recalls that the EndSARS movement was a peaceful protest against police brutality, held across Nigeria in October 2020. Soyinka, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alhaji Bayo Titilola-Sodo, the Special Adviser to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Labour Matters, says the governor’s second term would be better than the first term. Titilola-Sodo gave the assurance on Wednesday while hosting members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Council, to Iftar (fast breaking) at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tech executive and investor who worked on the Android and Cash apps, Bob Lee, has been stabbed to death in San Francisco. The 43-year-old founder was killed at 2:35am on Tuesday when officials were called to the 300 block of Main Street near the entrance of a high-rise, according to DailyMail on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that China had a “major role” to play in finding a path to peace in Ukraine, as he kicked off a three-day visit to Beijing. Speaking at a gathering of the French community in Beijing ahead of a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected unopposed for a third term as president of UEFA at a meeting of European football’s governing body in Lisbon on Wednesday. The 55-year-old Slovenian lawyer, first elected in 2016 following the downfall of Frenchman Michel Platini, will remain in the role until 2027. “I would like to thank […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Population Commission (NPC) has urged the National Publicity Committee for 2023 Population and Housing Census to ensure that the exercise was well publicised. Alhaji Nasir Kwarra, Executive Chairman, National Population Commission (NPC) said this while declaring open a one-day training for members of the committee in Abuja on Tuesday. Kwarra, who […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says total capital importation in Nigeria stood d at 1,060.73 million dollars in quarter four of 2022. The NBS said this in its Nigeria Capital Importation Q4 2022 report released on Wednesday in Abuja. The report said the Q4 figure was lower than the 2,187.63 million […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, a Cameroonian national, Vice President for its Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery complex. The appointment Akin-Olugbade, a seasoned senior executive with close to 31 years of experience delivering technical, managerial and strategic knowledge and leadership in capital markets, treasury, asset management and product […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Emir of Kano, Muhammed Sanusi has stated that the last elections have dangerously divided Nigeria along ethnic and religious lines. Sanusi disclosed this on Tuesday at the third Nigerian Leadership Colloquium in honour of the senior pastor of Trinity House, Lagos, Ituah Ighodalo, who marked his birthday recently. He regretted […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea wasted a host of chances to beat Liverpool as the troubled Blues were held to a 0-0 draw on Tuesday in their first Premier League match since Graham Potter’s sacking. Potter was axed on Sunday after the former Brighton manager’s disastrous reign climaxed with a wretched home defeat against Aston Villa. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. former President, Donald Trump, and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024 has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty when he appeared at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday in New York, according to media reports. The former president […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 10 students of Government Secondary School, Awon (a day secondary school) were kidnapped. The State’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan disclosed that the students were kidnapped on Monday to a yet-to-be-identified location. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Aruwan did not state where the students were […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has stated that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) delayed the uploading of results to its portal because of suspected cyber attacks in the presidential poll. Mohammed stated that the allegation of fraud as told by the opposition is because of ignorance of how the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The protracted internal wrangling bedeviling the Enugu State Chapter of the All progressive Congress APC, has gotten messier, as the State publicity Secretary, Charles Solo Ako (Esq), has accused the Embattled State Chairman, Mr. Ugochukwu Agballa of working against the party and it’s presidential Candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu during the just concluded […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Donald Trump was set Tuesday to plead not guilty to criminal charges in a New York courtroom in an unprecedented case that threatens to upend the 2024 White House race. Trump is the first sitting or former American president to be criminally indicted — a historic development that has propelled the United […]
