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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Directorate of Road Traffic Services on Thursday crushed over 1,400 impounded motorcycles. FCT DRTS Director, Mr Wadata Bodinga, said that the commercial motorcycles were seized between January and June from operators within the city centre. Bodinga said that there were 600 more motorcycles undergoing the process of […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Premier League have postponed four more matches this weekend as the coronavirus crisis wreaked further havoc on the English top-flight on Thursday. Covid outbreaks across the Premier League forced officials to cancel Southampton’s game against Brentford, Watford’s meeting with Crystal Palace and West Ham’s fixture against Norwich on Saturday. Leicester’s trip […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Judicial Council (NJC) has barred erring judges from being promoted over their roles in the legal brawl involving former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus. Soji Oye, NJC Director of Information who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, said the decision was taken during the council’s […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Interim Super Eagles boss, Augustine Eguavoen, has stated that he was shocked when his name was mentioned as the next coach of the national team. African Examiner recalls that Franco-German gaffer, Gernot Rohr was sacked by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) over the weekend after a series of poor performance in the […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Experts, stakeholders and representatives from agencies dealing with migration and other related issues converged at the auditorium of Nile University of Nigeria penultimate Tuesday to brainstorm on the implications of irregular migration for Nigeria and the way forward. Irregular migration and human trafficking has remained a global scourge, with Nigeria acting a […]
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Europe, Latest Headlines
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Turkish security forces on Thursday detained 14 suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) in Turkey’s financial and cultural hub Istanbul. The Ihlas news agency said police units carried out simultaneous operations in nine districts and captured 14 suspects, including 13 foreigners whose identities were not immediately clear. The suspects have been […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A businesswoman, Mrs Loveth Oyakhilome, has told an FCT High Court in Kubwa that a 34-year-old church usher, Patrick Ekene defiled her eight-year-old daughter. Ekene is charged by the police on one count of rape. Oyakhilome, who, was led in evidence by the Prosecution Counsel, John Ijagbemi said the defendant called her […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially declared Thursday the end of the 13th Ebola outbreak, which killed six people in its northeastern province of North Kivu. Since the beginning of the epidemic declared on Oct. 8, 2021, a total of 11 cases have been recorded, including six deaths in the […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Local Government Councilor representing Ward 5 in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Hon. Jude Adjekpogu, who was shot by suspected Fulani herdsmen some days ago is dead. The councilor passed on early hours of Thursday at Warri where he has been receiving treatment in an undisclosed private hospital. […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leader of pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Thursday, berated former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, for saying he (Adebanjo) disturbed APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now stays. The 93-year-old Afenifere leader, who disclosed how he gathered […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Authorities in Anambra state, South East Nigeria, has arrested 24 suspected members of a cult group allegedly involved in a recent deadly shooting incident that recently claimed two lives in the state. The Command’s Spokesman, Toochukwu Ikenga, made this known to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra state capital. Two Police officers […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Members of the National Assembly have criticised the Department of State Services for going public with its warning to lawmakers without a formal security notice to the parliament on potential threats. Several lawmakers who were contacted by our correspondent on Wednesday denied getting any advisory from the DSS to the National Assembly. […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Thursday leave Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made this known in a statement on Thursday. The summit, themed, ‘Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity,’ […]
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Asia, Latest Headlines
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Israeli Nurses Association (INA) on Wednesday declared a 24-hour strike in all hospitals and clinics nationwide in protest of violence against nurses in the country’s health system. Ilana Cohen, Chairperson of INA, in a statement demanded the immediate implementation of a government plan to eradicate violence against them in hospitals. “This […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Structural Engineer, Mr Muritala Olawale, has narrated how Fourscore Heights altered a four storey building plan to 21-storey building which collapsed on Nov. 1 at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. African Examiner reports that Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering, made the revelation while responding to questions from Mr Akin George, counsel […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed two executive orders restructuring how the federal government coordinates transnational criminal investigations, and expanding the sanctions programme to target narco-trafficking persons and organisations. Biden, in a statement from the White House, said the Administration was formally establishing the U.S. Council on Trans-national Organised Crime. ”The […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sacrilege being perpetrated against the traditional institutions in Imo State, South East Nigeria, has continued unabated, as another Monarch was whisked away on Wednesday by unknown armed men. This time around it was the traditional ruler of Umuezeala-Ama Autonomous Community in Ehime Mbano Council Area, Eze Aloysius Igwe, who was kidnapped […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team have arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and gruesome killing of one Mrs Nneka Kalu, earlier reported missing. She was found dead in a cassava farm on August 29, 2021, in Ngugworo community in Nguzu Edda in Afikpo South, Ebonyi State. […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
….Heap Blame On Umahi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular human Rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of law, (InterSociety) has raised questions on the 3rd November 2021, abduction and disappearance till date of five Engineers working with Nelan Consultant-Engineers, in Ebonyi State, insisting that an independent forensic investigation be carried out on the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barcelona striker, Sergio Aguero, on Wednesday stated that he is retiring from football. Aguero disclosed this during an emotional press conference at the Nou Camp, in which he appeared along with club president, Joan Laporta. The 33-year-old broke down in tears before he was able to say a word. Aguero said: “This […]
