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Thursday, October 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a 22-year-old primary school teacher, Margret Obano, for allegedly brutalising her two-year-old daughter and burning her buttocks. African Examiner learnt that the incident happened on Friday, October 14, 2022, in the Bariga area of the state. An Instagram platform, Instablog9ja, while speaking […]
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Thursday, October 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, Patrick Achi has urged the coalition of public development banks to do more to support the private sector and for the development of renewable energy. The prime minister gave the charge in his opening remarks at the ongoing third edition of Finance in Common Summit (FICS) in […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some physically-challenged persons on Wednesday staged a protest in the Surulere area of Lagos, causing a traffic gridlock which kept motorists on the roads for hours. Many who were on their way to work were forced to abandon commercial vehicles and trek long distances to beat the traffic, especially along Funso Williams […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has signed Nigeria’s Startups Bills into law, activating the Nigeria Startups Act 2022. Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Pantami, who disclosed this to State House Correspondents after the quiet signing ceremony at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, also disclosed that the new Act will be establishing […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Wednesday, confirmed that the construction of the 2nd Niger bridge is now completed and will soon be released to the public for use. He stated this at an ongoing press briefing to present the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.) scorecard in Abuja. […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali’s foreign affairs minister on Tuesday said the military government would exercise its right to self-defence if France continued to undermine the West African country’s sovereignty and national security. Speaking at a United Nations Security Council briefing on Mali in New York, Minister Abdoulaye Diop repeated allegations that France had violated its […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Illegal gold-mining is destroying tracts of pristine rainforest in Congo’s Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site meant to be a haven for the endangered mammal nicknamed Africa’s unicorn, environmental organisations have warned. Industrial activities are supposed to be banned in the 13,000 square kilometers of the reserve in northeast Democratic […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda’s state-run sector regulator on Wednesday said Uganda coffee exports declined in September due to the impact of drought affecting many growing areas across the country. Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), in a report said the country shipped a total of 503,695 60-kg bags of coffee beans in September, down 14 per […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, says the impact of Tigray airstrikes on civilians is ‘utterly staggering’, calling all parties to the conflict to cease hostilities. Türk, in a statement on Tuesday, said parties to the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia must cease all hostilities […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
By Farooq Kperogi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I frankly don’t get what people are mocking in Bola Tinubu’s characterization of climate-change policies for poor countries as “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.” Tinubu merely just deployed familiar ecclesiastical metaphors to capture the dilemma that developing countries face […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party, Lagos State chapter, has condemned the endorsement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu by his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike. The endorsement was issued at the 22nd conference Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials, held in the state on Tuesday. Speaking at the event, Wike, a member of the […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, on Tuesday, continued the trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, who was alleged to have killed the Chief Executive Officer of Super Tv, Usifo Ataga. Ojukwu, an undergraduate of the University of Lagos, Akoka, was arraigned alongside Adedapo Quadri and Chioma Egbuchu on October, […]
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West Africa Examination Council has announced plans to make its certificates available to candidates of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination once their results are released. The Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan, made this known on Tuesday at a luncheon organised by the exam body in Lagos. He also […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was pandemonium on Monday when hoodlums invaded the Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign mega rally in Kaduna and launched an attack on the crowd. The hoodlums came into the Ranchers Bees Stadium venue with sticks and machetes and started attacking the crowd, leaving many injured. The hoodlums invaded the venue three […]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Naira on Monday appreciated slightly against the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, exchanging at N441.25. The figure represented an increase of 0.03 per cent compared with the N441.38 it exchanged for the dollar before the close of business on Oct. 14. The open indicative rate closed at N439.63 to […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Lagos said that four murder cases were reported and recorded in the state in the last seven days. The Police Public Relations Officers (PPRO) in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident to journalists on Saturday. Mr Hundeyin said that four persons were arrested in connection with the cases. He […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has come under fire following his advice to Northerners that they should vote for him in the 2023 election because he hails from the northern region. Atiku, who stated this during an interactive session with the Arewa Joint Committee in Kaduna […]
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Sunday, October 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Femi Adekanmbi, says the party’s presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has all it takes to make Nigeria great if he is given the opportunity to be Nigeria’s president come 2023. Adekanmbi, a former Commissioner for Special Duties, Culture and Tourism in Ondo State, said […]
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Sunday, October 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Real Madrid leapfrogged FC Barcelona at the summit of LaLiga as goals from Karim Benzema, Federico Valverde and Rodrygo sealed a 3-1 triumph in El Clasico on Sunday. Barca had conceded just one goal in eight league games this season prior to the visit to the Santiago Bernabeu. But two clinical finishes […]
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Sunday, October 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Liverpool handed Manchester City their first English Premier League (EPL) defeat of the season on Sunday, thanks to a Mohamed Salah strike in an enthralling encounter at Anfield. The Egyptian raced onto a long pass from Alisson with 14 minutes remaining before slotting past Ederson to give the Reds just their third […]
