(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, has refuted claims that the attacks in the north affect only Christians, saying that they affect Muslims too, as they stem from social causes. Parolin stated this on Tuesday in Rome while speaking on the sidelines of the presentation of a report on religious freedom, compiled […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) — Brussels, Oct. 10, 2025 (dpa/NAN) The European Commission is demanding information from U.S platforms Apple, Snapchat, Google and YouTube over allegations of insufficient child protection, European Commission Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said on Friday. European Union legislation “clearly says that when minors are using online services, very high levels of privacy, security, and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yemi Kale, former statistician-general of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has stated that approximately 89 million people, or 40 per cent of Nigeria’s population, are living below the poverty line. Kale, who is presently the group chief economist and managing director of research and trade intelligence at Afreximbank, stated this at […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Japan has refuted claims of planning to establish a special visa category for Nigerians who intend to relocate to Kisarazu, a city it recently designated as “hometown” for Nigeria. In the 9th Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD9) last week in Yokohama, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) disclosed the launch […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, has welcomed the show of unity at the Ukraine summit in Washington, while stressing that territorial concessions to Russia are not an option for Kiev. “The images from Washington yesterday were perfect. “They show that the democratic world is standing together,” Makeiev told German broadcaster ZDF’s […]
(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. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oil prices rose on Monday after the U.S. reached a trade deal with the European Union (EU) and may extend a tariff pause with China, reducing concerns that potentially higher levies would limit economic activity and impact fuel demand. Brent crude futures inched up 22 cents, or 0.32 per cent to 68.66 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kyiv has proposed to Moscow a new round of peace talks next week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday, after negotiations stalled in early June. Two rounds of talks in Istanbul between Moscow and Kyiv have failed to result in any progress towards a ceasefire, instead yielding large-scale prisoner exchanges and deals […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States Department of State has limited non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to citizens of Nigeria to a single-entry with a three-month validity period. In a statement on Tuesday, the US Mission in Nigeria said the move aligned with the Donald Trump administration’s reciprocal non-immigrant visa policy, impacting several countries, including […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Donald Trump said the U.S. would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on countries aligning themselves with the “anti-American policies” of the BRICS group of developing nations. Leaders of the BRICS group kicked off a summit in Brazil on Sunday. With forums such as the G7 and G20 groups of major […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions for a 60-day ceasefire in the Gaza war and it is now up to Hamas to accept the deal, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. During the two-month period, the United States will work with all parties to end the conflict, Trump wrote on […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The climate crisis is threatening the right to life, the UN human rights chief warned Monday, as a heatwave roasted southern Europe. Volker Turk hit out at fossil fuel companies, saying they were peddling falsehoods to distract from the damage caused by climate change while they rack up profits. “The climate crisis […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that their fellow countrymen residing in Iran are safe, irrespective of the recent security concerns in the region. This reassurance came via the Nigerian in Diaspora Commission and the Nigerian Embassy in Tehran. So far, there have been no reported cases of injuries or causality that […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – NATO leaders are set to sign off Wednesday at their Hague summit on a defence spending pledge to satisfy US President Donald Trump’s demand for a headline figure of five per cent of GDP. Here are the details of what NATO is signing up to: Trump has insisted NATO countries hit the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An angry Donald Trump berated Iran and Israel Tuesday for violating a ceasefire deal, adding that he was “really unhappy” with Israel in particular. The two countries have been “fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing, do you understand that?” the US president told […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire after close to two weeks of violent conflict between the two countries. Trump took to his Truth Social on Monday evening to announce that both countries had agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire”. According to him, […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oil prices wobbled and stock markets wavered Monday as traders awaited Tehran’s response to US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend. US and European stocks retreated while Asian equities were mixed, with markets keeping a close eye on whether Iran will block the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which carries one-fifth […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iran’s judiciary said it executed on Monday a man found guilty of spying for Israel, as fighting between the two countries entered its 11th day. “Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh was hanged this morning for intelligence cooperation with the Zionist regime,” the judiciary said, using Iran’s term for Israel. Shayesteh was alleged to have […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Sunday that massive overnight strikes by the U.S. on Iran’s nuclear facilities would only increase the risk of a wider war. Guterres, at an emergency meeting convened by the Council on threats to international peace and security, said the strikes had also done […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Donald Trump warned Iran on Sunday that it would experience “the full strength” of the US military if it attacks the United States. He reiterated that Washington “had nothing to do” with Israel’s strikes on Tehran’s nuclear and intelligence facilities. Israel’s operation, which began early Friday, has targeted Iranian nuclear and military […]
