Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)-Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa chose his 78th birthday to lift ban on inter-city travel and extend business operating hours from the 8am-4.30pm range to 6am-6.30pm range, as the Southern African country slowly reopens in the wake of Covid-19 lockdown. President Mnangagwa turned 78 on Tuesday. The lifting of ban on intercity travel is meant […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, has enjoined the Directorate of State Services (DSS) to desist from harassing former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr Obadiah Mailafia. African Examiner reports that Obadiah Mailafia have been given frequent invitation by both the police and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Godwin Obaseki, the Edo State governor of the People’s Democratic Party in the Edo State Election, has replied the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying Edo can’t be like Lagos. Tinubu had enjoined Edo electorates to reject Obaseki in the upcoming election. Reacting, to this development, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s playwright and Nobel laureate, has stated that he agrees with the statement of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, who stated that the country is drifting towards a failed and divided state. African Examiner recalls that Obasanjo had accused Buhari’s administration of mismanaging the country. “Today, Nigeria is fast drifting to a failed […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – All candidates in this Saturday Edo State governorship poll, election have signed a peace accord. While doing this, the promised to abide by the rules and regulations of the decisive poll, as stipulated in the electoral law. Speaking at the ceremony Tuesday, a former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd.) who is […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two dozen migrants are missing or dead after their rubber dinghy capsized off the Libyan coast, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday. “Most of them are believed to be Egyptian nationals,’’ IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli, told dpa from Geneva. Msehli said while two bodies had been recovered from the […]
Posted by African Examiner
Akintokunbo A Adejumo, Articles/Opinion, Columnists, Featured Contributors/Columnists, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo (akinadejum@aol.com) Jean-Pierre Legros, Author of “Diversium”, an interdisciplinary theory of Everything wrote: “Nothing is free. Because nothing exists without relationships with something else. Even when a thing is considered independently of the rest (or it considers itself independent), it is constituted by elements that are not. Obstacles to freedom both intrinsic […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Not less than 200 households with about 1000 persons have been forced out of their homes to upland in Ogbaru council area of Anambra state, Southeast Nigeria, following deadly flooding from overflow of the River Niger Bank. African Examiner gathered that the development has equally submerged huge hectares of farmlands in the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Borno Government has confirmed the death of the Emir of Biu, Mai-Umar Mustafa-Aliyu, who passed on in the early hours of Tuesday. The Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Alhaji Babakura Abba-Jato, confirmed the death in a statement in Maiduguri. Abba-Jatau said “Inna Lillahi wa innah ilayhi rajiun, his royal […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) at midnight on Monday said that the death toll for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria had jumped to 1, 083. The NCDC confirmed that there were 132 new infections. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle. It stated that one new […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)-South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) delegation that visited Zimbabwe recently to meet Zanu-PF leadership has torched a storm on either side of the Limpopo River for failing to broker “peace” in Zimbabwe and violating Covid-19 protocols. ANC secretary-general Elias Sekgobelo (Ace) Magashula led a six-member delegation comprising the party’s National Executive members Gwede […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of this year’s Africa’s Land Forum, stakeholders in the agriculture, development and other related sectors have reiterated the need to promote the ideals of land governance in the continent. The 2020 Africa Land Forum which is scheduled to hold from 15th to 17th of September, provides another opportunity for stakeholders to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Edo state gears up to vote for a new governor in a few days, Nigerians have taken to the social media to discuss the just concluded gubernatorial debate held on Sunday. The gubernatorial debate was between the two major contenders, Governor Obaseki of the PDP and Pastor Ize-Iyamu of the APC. […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Osun State former commissioner for Lands and Physical planning, Muyiwa Ige, has disclosed the reason why his father was killed. According to Muyiwa, the former Attorney General of the federation and Minister of Justice was killed because of envy. African Examiner recalls that that Bola Ige was murdered by unknown assailants in […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and three other workers’ unions of the Lagos State University (LASU), Monday locked out the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagboun, while protesting against the non-payment of the new salaries. Other workers unions which participated in the protest were the Senior Staff Association […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe has approached scientists in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States after its local laboratories failed to establish the actual cause of death of elephants in the country’s biggest national park. More than 20 jumbos have died in Pandamasue Forest near Victoria Falls since last month and the cause remains a […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operations of Arik Air were on Monday shut down by the aviation unions over alleged nonpayment of staff salaries since April after placing 90 per cent of the workforce on compulsory leave and other anti-labour practices. The unions included the National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) and Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some lawyers are signing a petition against the Attorney General of the federation, (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to strip him of his rank a senior advocate of Nigeria. According to the lawyers, this is because the AGF made some amendments to the rules of professional conduct for legal practitioners. […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Monday, September 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A driver and his passengers Monday in Lagos State escaped death by whiskers as the bus they were traveling with, rammed into a moving train around the PWD, Ikeja – inward Oshodi. The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the accident, disclosed that the bus suddenly veered […]
Posted by African Examiner
Business News, Columnists, Energy, Featured, Latest Headlines
Monday, September 14th, 2020
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has pledged to support ongoing initiatives by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to provide alternate energy source to Nigerians through aggressive activation of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) refill stations for motorists across the country. Speaking on TVC Business Show, Business Nigeria Live, the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, […]
