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Thursday, December 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected political thugs early on Thursday morning invaded the residence of Senator Lee Maeba in the GRA, Phase 3 axis of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Maeba is the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State. A source told our correspondent that the hoodlums came from a nearby […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Business, finance experts and other stakeholders were sharply divided on the implications and timing of the new cash withdrawal limits by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). They are concerned that the new policy might worsen the tight economic environment. The Senate has scheduled a debate on the matter for next Tuesday. […]
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Central America, Latest Headlines
Thursday, December 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced former President Otto Perez to 16 years in prison, finding him guilty of leading a massive customs fraud scheme while in office. Perez, who was forced to resign in 2015, was found guilty of racketeering and fraud targeting the customs system, Judge Irma Valdes said as […]
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Thursday, December 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The monarch of Oso Ajowa Akoko in in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Clement Jimoh, who was kidnapped, has regained freedom. The traditional ruler, who was abducted in his palace, was set free by the bandits after he had spent seven days in their den. According to a […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen on Tuesday night abducted a corps member, Adenike, and seven others in Extension 2 Relocation, along Arab Road, Kubwa area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Adenike, currently observing the mandatory National Youth Service, was kidnapped in her father’s home. The PUNCH reports. A source confirmed to our correspondent that Adenike […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has challenged the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar to point at any meaningful legacy project initiated and completed by his party.in 16 years in office. The group said this in response to claims by the former Vice President that the President Muhammadu […]
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Abuja, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said the current restricted power situation in parts of Abuja was as a result of truck loaded with gravel that lost control and crashed into the company’s 132 Kilo Volt (KV) transmission tower No 20, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, TCN’S General Manager, Public Affairs made this known […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Congress of University Academics (CONUA) has resolved to sue the Federal Government over the withheld salaries of its members. The government held on to the salaries of university lecturers for embarking on strike from mid-February to mid-October this year. The CONUA, in a statement on Tuesday, expressed disappointment with the Federal […]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Atiku Support Organisation has described the conduct of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, in Chatham House, London as disgraceful. ASO said watching Tinubu delegate questions directed at him to his party men at the conference room was proof that he has no atom of capacity to […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A traditional ruler, Oloso of Oso in Ajowa Akoko, in Akoko North West Local Government Area of Ondo State, Clement Olukotun, has been kidnapped. Reports on Friday indicated that the monarch was abducted from his palace by gunmen at around 10 p.m. on Thursday. The hoodlums were said to have surrounded the […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Ekpe Ogbu, has been kidnapped. He was kidnapped alongside Honourable Agbo Ode, one of his in-laws and the driver. It was gathered that they were kidnapped along David Marks Farm, after Akpa Otobi while on their way from Otukpo to Utonkon in Ado […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The APC Presidential Campaign Council has insisted that its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu will not attend Arise TV Presidential Town Hall meeting slated for December 04, 2022 adding that the campaign will not succumb to the station’s “blackmail”. The statement reads in full: “We find it shocking and downright anomalous that […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Son Heung-min wants his South Korea side to pull off “another miracle” and beat Brazil on Monday in the World Cup last 16 after their last-gasp heroics against Portugal. The Koreans’ tournament looked to be over until substitute Hwang Hee-chan popped up in injury time to score the winner in a 2-1 […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief Whip of the Senate and Senator representing Abia North in the 9th Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was never denied US visa as speculated. Kalu who took to his Facebook on Saturday to refute the report […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Abuja on Saturday to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for high-level bilateral engagements in the Southeast nation. The Osinbajo will meet with the President of Vietnam, President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc; Vice President Vo Thi Aah Xuan, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, other government officials and the […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cameroon defeated a second-string Brazil team 1-0 in their final Group G match at the Lusail Stadium on Friday in Qatar. The win, however, was not enough as the African side were knocked out of the competition. Cameroon finished third on four points, two points below second-placed Switzerland, who defeated Serbia 3-2. […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo Police Command says it repelled an attack on the building of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) located in Orlu LGA in Imo by the suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The command further disclosed that the hoodlums, who attacked the INEC facility, later retreated with bullet wounds […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) says the purported suspension of its Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) Director-General, Doyin Okupe, is null and void. Umar-Farouk Ibrahim, the national secretary of the party, said this when he addressed journalists in Abuja on Friday. The Ogun State chapter of the party had on Thursday announced the sack […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour Party in Ogun State has sacked the Director-General of the party’s presidential campaign council (PCC), Doyin Okupe, and 10 for allegedly not paying membership fees, high-handedness and financial recklessness. The State Chairman of the party in the state, Michael Ashade, announced this at a press conference in Abeokuta on Thursday. Flanked […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension gripped Ughelli town in Delta state over the kidnap of Imam of the Ughelli Central Mosque as gunmen attacked worshippers shortly after prayers Friday morning. At least 11 persons were injured by the gun-wielding hoodlums who stormed the mosque, reportedly seen in an ash coloured Toyota Sienna. The gunmen, said to […]
