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07/11/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Adams Oshiomhole, the senator representing Edo North, has tasked Monday Okpebholo, the governor of Edo State, to investigate Godwin Obaseki, the immediate past governor of the state. Oshiomhole, who was also a former governor of the state and Obaseki’s predecessor, stated this on Thursday during an event to celebrate the Supreme Court judgement which affirms Okpebholo’s election victory....

07/11/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The Vice Presidency office has refuted claims connecting Vice President Kashim Shettima’s remarks at a book launch in Abuja to recent happenings in Rivers State, which involved Governor Siminalayi Fubara and President Bola Tinubu. In a statement on Friday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications (Office of the Vice President), Stanley Nkwocha, said that the media interpretations as “gross misrepresentation” and “reckless endangerment of national cohesion.”...

07/11/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Ex-Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has stated that the party will not use a Northerner as its presidential candidate in the forthcoming 2027 general elections. George made this revelation on Thursday during a meeting held by the Lagos State chapter of the PDP to celebrate what members of the party described as the party’s restoration....

07/10/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, has opened up about his past engagements with Sani Abacha, former military head of state. The African Examiner recalls that Abacha was the military head of state from November 1993 to June 1998, and his administration was characterised by lots of corruption, mismanagement of public funds, and clampdown on human rights....

07/09/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results, following the conclusion of the Award Committee meeting at the Council’s headquarters in Minna, Niger State. According to a statement issued on Wednesday by NECO’s Acting Director of Public Affairs, Azeez Sani, a total of 179,201 candidates registered for the examination across 12 subjects....

07/09/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The chairperson of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), Justice Mobolanle Okikiolu-Ighile, says no political party is restricted from participating in the local government election coming up in the state on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Justice Okikiolu-Ighile refuted the claim that the Labour Party was barred from the election over its internal crisis that has balkanized the party into factions....

07/09/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - New signing Joao Pedro scored twice on his first start as Chelsea eased to a 2-0 win over Fluminense on Tuesday to seal a spot in the final of the Club World Cup. The Brazilian striker opened the scoring in lethal fashion in the 18th minute of the last-four clash at the MetLife Stadium and struck again shortly before the hour mark as Chelsea set up a showdown with either Real Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain in the final on Sunday....

07/09/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has cautioned Nigerians against placing hope in political coalitions, describing such arrangements as unrealistic within the country’s electoral system. Speaking during the House of Representatives Open Week in Abuja, Senator Akpabio stressed that only political parties—not individuals or coalitions—are legally empowered to contest elections. According to him, the idea of one person belonging to two political parties simultaneously is both deceptive and impractical....

07/09/2025

(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 Nigeria. “Effective immediately, most non-immigrant and non-diplomatic visas issued to citizens of Nigeria will be single-entry visas with a three-month validity period,” the statement read....

07/09/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The Federal Capital Territory Wing of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has suspended a strike embarked upon by primary school teachers in the FCT on March 24, 2025. The union urged all primary school teachers to resume school on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. This was contained in its communique after a State Wing Executive Council Meeting dated 4 July, 2025, and made available to Channels Television on Tuesday, July 8, 2025....

07/08/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Education Minister, Tunji Alausa, has stated that the federal government has set the minimum age for tertiary school admissions at 16 years. Alausa stated this in Abuja on Tuesday at the 2025 policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). It is worth recalling that in July 2024, Tahir Mamman, the former minister for education, had set 18 as the minimum age for university admission....

07/08/2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo, has come under attack on social media after he alleged that 99.9% of arrested criminals, kidnappers in Anambra State are Igbo youths. The African Examiner writes that in a video that has gone viral, Governor Soludo was seen saying in a gathering, “Since my inception in office, if we arrest 100 criminals, 99.99% of them are original Igbo.”...

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