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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
By Eric Ojo African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms will be inaugurated at the on-going Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday this week. The Declaration, which is a Pan-African initiative to promote human rights standards and principles of openness in internet policy formulation and implementation on the continent, will also be […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
In fulfillment of the promise by President Goodluck Jonathan for more federal presence in the state, a team from the Federal Ministry of Lands and Housing, Abuja Wednesday visited Ekiti State to begin work on a Federal Secretariat in the state. A statement in Ado-Ekiti by the Chairman of the Transition Committee, Chief Dipo Anisulowo, […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen Sequel to outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the West African sub region in March this year and the alarming rate of its casualty, the Saudi Arabia authorities have suspended granting visas to workers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leon. The measure which was taken by the Saudi’s Ministries of Foreign […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
The All Progressive Congress (APC) National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has replied the allegations levelled against him by Chief Tom Ikimi, describing him as a traitor planted in the party by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to destabilise APC. Tinubu, in a statement issued on Tuesday in which he personally signed said ordinarily he would […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
By Niyi Adeyi Former Vice President (VP) and Presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress (AC) is set to formally declare his Presidential ambition under the platform of the leading opposition, the All Progressives Congress (APC). African Examiner’s investigations indicated that the formal declaration which is bill for later this month in the Federal Capital […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
By Nwaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned Saturday’s Pro-Jonathan rally organised in the Rivers State capital, Port Harcourt, by the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), a group alleged to be secretly sponsored by the Presidency to promote President Goodluck Jonathan’s third term ambition. “President Jonathan and […]
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked Ms Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court (ICC) to use her office and position to urgently investigate allegations that certain high ranking public officials and politicians are among the sponsors of Boko Haram that has continued to engage in unlawful killings and destruction of civil property, […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2014
By Ayo Balogun The Federal Government says it has ordered for the Ebola experimental drug from Japan to be tested on three Ebola patients in Nigeria. Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu disclosed this on Monday at the 2nd National Council of Health meeting in Abuja, adding that 278 contacts under surveillance in Lagos have […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2014
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen/Ayo Balogun The Federal Government has convened third emergency meeting of the National Council on Health (NCH), in Abuja on the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The meeting, it was gathered is at the instance of the latest Ebola casualty, Dr Ike Enemuo, in Rivers State. It was specifically meant to check […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2014
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen A week after declaring Gwoza town as part of an Islamic Caliphate, Boko Haram’s insurgents have reportedly struck again Monday by attacking another troubled settlement – Bama, in Borno State, North Eastern Nigeria. Our correspondent reports that BBC indicated that members of the group this morning launched fresh attack on the town. […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2014
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen Contrary to its decision, the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) screening committee, which disqualified the Adamawa state Acting Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has rescinded its decision and given him go ahead to contest the primary slated for Saturday, September 6, 2014. The party’s governorship screening appeal panel gave the latest approval Sunday, after […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2014
By Niyi Adeyi The Federal Government has been called upon to beef up security in the Nigerian borders and ports so as to avoid further spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. The call was made Sunday in a communiqué issued at the end of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) National Executive Council […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2014
Oyewale Oyelola Dangote Cement Plc has assured Nigerians that the price of cement will soon reduce due to increase production in all its three key plants in the country with simplify distribution network. The company in a statement made available to African examiner on Sunday said the planned production increase would result to crash the […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan is expected to leave for Nairobi, the Kenya capital today, to participate in a meeting of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council scheduled for Tuesday. The Nairobi meeting according to a statement issued Sunday by Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati is a follow-up talks by Mr. […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2014
Oyewale Oyelola THE Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday said the Saturday’s Niger-East senatorial bye-election was inconclusive due to irregularities in some polling units. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Niger State, Dr. Emmanuel Onucheyo, said this in Minna at the end of the collation of results. He said that fresh election would be held […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2014
Written by Obinna Akukwe The Boko Haram insurgents have finally chased away the predominantly Christian community of Gwoza and hoisted their black and white flag in the conquered territory. Succinctly put, they have captured the Christian community of Gwoza and declared it an Islamic state. This is just the beginning. There are reports that they […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2014
A socio-political group made up of young Nigerians across the country, Democratic Young Patriots, DYP, has called on PDP delegates in Adamawa to support the governorship aspiration of former Lagos state military administrator, Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa in the interest of the state and the North East zone. The group in a statement released in […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2014
Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm that valuable assets and properties of the state are being sold at give away prices by the outgoing Kayode Fayemi administration. The party also alleged that the items are being sold to chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and cronies of […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2014
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following his disqualification from contesting the gubernatorial seat of the State in the forthcoming bye election, the Acting Governor Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has said the Ibrahim Mantu led committee has no legal and constitutional powers to disqualify him. Fintiri in a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Solomon Kumangar […]
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Sunday, August 31st, 2014
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to promote a right-based approach to healthcare for millions of disadvantaged Nigerians to control and combat the Ebola disease. In a statement on Sunday signed by SERAP’s Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organization said that, “We note that the government’s reaction so far […]
