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Thursday, December 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government, yesterday, blamed the high level of poverty in the country on state governors, who it said operate only in state capitals, pay more attention to building flyovers and airports, rather than improvement of life in the rural areas. The Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, made […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunisia bowed out of the 2022 World Cup with their heads held high as they defeated reigning champions, France 1-0 on Wednesday at the Education City stadium. Skipper Wahbi Khazri scored what would have been a decisive goal for the Carthage Eagles had it been Denmark drew with Australia in the other […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A student of Federal University Dutse (FUD), Aminu Muhammad, has been remanded in prison because of his tweet on Aisha Buhari. African Examiner writes that Muhammad, who is from Azare in Bauchi state, is a final-year student at the department of environmental management and he was arrested by the police because of […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICA EXAMINER) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a National Language Policy for use in all primary schools across the country. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, made this known to State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja. He […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government said state governors were responsible for the rising rate of poverty in the country. The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, made this assertion at a press briefing in the State House in Abuja on Wednesday, shortly after this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting chaired […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force has denied disregard for court order by the current administration of the Office of the Inspector-General of Police (I-G). The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Adejobi said the current Office of the I-G was not aware of […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah has expressed his government’s readiness to hold general elections in the country, calling for local and international pressure to complete the laws regulating the elections. Dbeibah made his remarks during a conference organised by the National Elections Commission in the capital Tripoli under the slogan “Together we […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Manchester United star, Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly agreed a record-breaking £172.9million per year contract with Saudi Arabian club, Al Nassr. According to Daily Mail UK, Ronaldo is said to have sensationally agreed to a two-and-a-half year deal with Al Nassr, worth a whooping £172.9million per year, that will see him play […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State on Tuesday announced the killing of its women leader, Victoria Chintex, by suspected gunmen in the Kaura Local Government Area of the state. The publicity secretary of the party in the southern Kaduna zone, Edward Buju, in a statement said she was shot dead at […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cameroon’s first choice goalkeeper in the ongoing 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Andre Onana, is set to leave Qatar after a fallout with the country’s coach, Rigobert Song. Onana was removed from the country’s squad in their dramatic 3-3 match with Serbia on Monday afternoon, having been reportedly involved in a face-off […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to three months in prison for flouting a 2011 court order. The IGP’s committal followed a suit that was filed by a police officer, Patrick Okoli, who was unlawfully and compulsorily retired from the Nigerian Police […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday warned Nigerians that if the Federal Government kept withholding their pay, a new crisis in the country’s universities would transcend break out. It urged interested parties and well-meaning Nigerians to pressure the Federal Government into paying its members’ withheld eight-month salaries across the nation. […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State wing of the Southwest Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corps has recovered AK-47 rifles, military camouflage and other items hidden in a forest in the state by suspected kidnappers. Commandant of the corps in Oyo State, Col. Olayinka Olayanju (retd.), told newsmen in Ibadan, on Monday, that the corps recovered […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fire has razed 150 improvised shops at the Kachako Central Market in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State. This news of the fire incident is contained in a statement issued in Kano by the spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi. He said the incident occurred on Monday […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 24 hours after his inauguration, Osun Governor Senator Ademola Adeleke has sacked 12,000 workers and ordered the dethronement of three monarchs. The Governor also nullified the appointment of 30 Permanent Secretaries and suspended the chairman and members of Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). The affected monarchs include Akinrun of Ikinrun […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 14 people Sunday died from a landslide that occurred during a funeral ceremony in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Al Jazeera reported that the number of confirmed death was given by the regional governor, Naseri Bea, as rescuers continue to search for dozens of others who remain missing. Mr Bea described the area […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three persons died on Saturday while nine others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Nissan car and a Toyota sienna at Fidiwo bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Sector Commander of the FRSC in Ogun, Ahmed Umar, confirmed the incident to journalists in Abeokuta on Sunday. Mr Umar explained that the […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) —Hoodlums have set ablaze the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, destroying, among others, 340 ballot boxes and yet to be determined quantity of Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs. The attack is the third on INEC’s local government offices in less than three weeks, […]
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Sunday, November 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A war of attrition is quietly raging in the Presidency between the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami over the constitution of the proposed Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The arrowhead in the contest of wit and influence […]
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Friday, November 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigeria captain, John Mikel Obi, has stated that he has never been a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo. Mikel Obi stated he has always preferred his 37-year-old rival, Lionel Messi. Ronaldo is presently a free agent after Manchester United terminated his contract this week. “I’ve never been a Ronaldo fan really. “For […]
