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Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana’s defence and environment ministers were killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, the Ghanaian presidency said, hours after the armed forces reported a chopper carrying three crew and five passengers dropped off the radar. Edward Omane Boamah became President John Mahama’s defence minister earlier this year, shortly after Mahama’s swearing-in in […]
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State Government said it has banned the activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) over the illegal collection of revenue in the state. It said this followed the alarming resurgence of illegal revenue collection by certain unions and […]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)– No fewer than six persons have died after a building collapsed during a heavy downpour in Dankama Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Tuesday while the victims were asleep, claiming the lives of a mother and five of her children. The victims’ husband and father, […]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WhatsApp says it has banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam centres and introduced new safety features to protect users and prevent fraud on the platform. The Vice President of Public Policy for Africa, Middle East and Türkiye at Meta, Mr Kojo Boakye, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. […]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, says the newly formed African Democratic Congress, ADC-led coalition, is a journey heading to nowhere. Keyamo stated this when he appeared on Arise News on Tuesday, saying that the coalition is shallow and is set up to fail from the outset. According to […]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has stated that his name has never been connected with thuggery, rigging or any form of electoral malpractice. Obi, in a statement on his X page on Tuesday, challenged Nigerians to look into his record, insisting that none of his political contests […]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anambra State Chapter of apex Igbo socio cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide has cautioned Mr Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, VDM, over his alleged inciting comments regarding the insecurity in South East and burial of an Anambra-based entrepreneur, Martins Onyekesi, who was recently murdered by gunmen. The deceased who was […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, says that the South-East will produce Nigeria’s President one day but not in the 2027 elections. Umahi, who stated this in a statement, appealed to people of the zone to rally around President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid. He was reacting to an online publication titled, ‘The […]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian billionaire, Femi Otedola, has opened up about his experience in the business world revealing that banks became hostile to him after his fortune decreased in 2009. It is worth recalling that Otedola came into the Nigerian mega business scene with Zenon Petroleum, which increased from selling diesel in drums to acquiring […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ethiopia’s Government Communication Service said that as of July 31, it had planted more than 103 tree seedlings across the country in a single day’s Green Legacy Initiative campaign. ENA, a partner of TV BRICS, reported that in the early hours of the morning, Ethiopia had witnessed millions of nationwide turnouts to […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On the surface, it is another exam season in Nigeria — the stress, the supervision, the silence in classrooms. But beneath that surface lies a digital underworld of leaked questions, fintech-fueled payments, and WhatsApp groups selling success to the highest bidder. Investigations show that there are WhatsApp groups where National Examinations Council […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – How long can the euphoria that greeted the recent official adoption of African Democratic Congress (ADC) as the platform for the 2027 general elections by some key opposition figures in Nigeria last? This is the germane question agitating the minds of some analysts and watchers of the unfolding political events in the […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many retired soldiers have protested over unpaid entitlements, demanding for the immediate payment of outstanding shortfalls in their gratuity, parking allowance ans Security Debarment Allowance (SDA, The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the First and second quarter voluntary discharged soldiers of 2023, who disengaged from the army in February, 2024, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos based Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has condemned the closure of Badegi 90.1 FM, a private radio station based in Minna, Niger State, on the orders of the state Governor, Mr. Mohammed Umaru Bago, describing the action as illegal, arbitrary and a dangerous assault on broadcasting freedom. It therefore called on the […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Oyo State Governor, Rashidi Ladoja, has been nominated as the 44th Olubadan of Ibadan land. Ladoja was nominated by the Olubadan-In-Council on Monday, in a meeting at the Olubadan Palace in Oke-Aremo, Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State. The meeting was chaired by the Balogun Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All-Progressives Congress, APC, says that former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, is trying to impose former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC. The APC alleged that El-Rufai and his allies in the ADC are trying to undermine Nigeria’s power rotation arrangement by […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians have reacted on social media as they expressed their mind after President Bola Tinubu gifted D’Tigress for winning the 2025 Women’s Afrobasket in Cote d’Ivoire just as he did for Nigeria’s Super Falcons. The African Examiner had earlier reported that Nigeria on Sunday defeated Mali 78-64 in the final that was […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West African Examinations Council has released the results for the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates. This was announced in a statement issued via X on Monday, the examination body confirmed that candidates who wrote the exam can now access their results online. “The West African Examinations […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the 2027 general Election clock ticks, an influential political group under the platform of Enugu State Patriots, made up of political bigwigs from various parties, have harped on the need for the maintenance of the existing gubernatorial zoning arrangement in the state. As a result, the group endorsed Governor Peter Mbah […]
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria overcame a resilient Mali in the final game of the 2025 Women’s AfroBasket in Abidjan to become the first team to win the tournament five times in a row. With this win, Nigeria extended their winning streak to 29-0, dating back to the third-place game of the 2015 tournament in Yaoundé, […]
