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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Ondo State have arrested two 35-year-old serial kidnappers, Olaoye Oluwatosin and Taiwo Olamide. The suspects allegedly kidnapped three persons in Ofosu, Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State between 2021 and 2022. Police spokesperson, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, paraded the duo before newsmen on Tuesday in Akure. Odunlami said they kidnapped […]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The team of the Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has pulled out of the campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. Rising from their stormy meeting at the country home of Wike in Obio-Akpor on Wednesday morning, members of the team vowed not to partake […]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students has said its members will block the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja and Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Wednesday (today) as part of its protest against the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. African Examiner had reported that students, on Monday, blocked the access […]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, says the All Progressive Congress Presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is his “respected elder brother”. He stated this during in an interview on #WithChude. Obi said: “Tinubu is my respected elder brother. The only thing I’m saying is where we are today. It is a job […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Ebonyi State on Monday arraigned a 40-year-old-man, Uche Awegbe, before an Abakaliki Magistrate’s Court for allegedly threatening to kill the state governor, David Umahi. The police said Mr Awegbe had shot two residents of the state dead and caused communal crises in Effium, a crisis prone-community in Ohaukwu Local […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Debt Management Office (DMO) said Nigeria’s total public debt stock, which was N41.60 trillion ($100.07 billion) in March, rose to N42.84 trillion (103.31 billion dollars) by June. According to a statement obtained from DMO’s website on Tuesday, the total debt represents the domestic and external debt stocks of the Federal Government […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate will on Wednesday screen the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, it has been learnt. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, disclosed this in his address of welcome to Senators from their Annual Summer Recess during plenary. He said the Senate will also work on the Medium Term Expenditure […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The stakeholders’ meeting called by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, over the lingering face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities has commenced. The meeting started about 3:45pm. Gbajabiamila had summoned a stakeholders’ meeting for 3pm to resolve the crisis that had led to […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Katsina State has arrested three suspected armed robbers who specialise in using charms to break houses in Daura Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Gambo Isah, stated this in a statement released to newsmen on Tuesday in Katsina. He said, “On Sept.12, 2022 […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Myanmar’s ruling junta, on Tuesday, warned the public against showing moral support for a “terrorist” resistance movement. The junta also threatened jail terms of up to 10 years just for liking or sharing its content on social media. Myanmar has been plagued by violence since the military seized power in 2021 with […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda health ministry on Tuesday announced that the deadly Ebola virus has broken out in the central part of the country. According to local authorities, a person was admitted at Mubende regional referral hospital on Sept. 15 after presenting Ebola symptoms and died on Sept. 19. The authorities said six other deaths […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Average price of 5kg cooking gas increased from N4,397.68 in July to N4,456.56 in August. The assertion was made by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in its Cooking Gas Price Watch issued on Tuesday in Abuja. It noted that the price in August indicated a 1.34 per cent increase on a […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 31-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, was on Monday, sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Ikeja Special Offences Court for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old student within a school premises. The convict was charged with defilement. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo held that the prosecution failed to establish the charge of defilement against the convict, […]
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Monday, September 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Officers of the Lagos State Police Command, Lagos Airport Police Command and students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, may be set for a showdown over the students’ plan to ground the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday (today). The students’ planned mass action is in […]
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Monday, September 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nineteen persons have been confirmed killed while eight others were injured in a Sunday auto crash at Yangoji-Gwagwalada Road in the FCT. Mr Dauda Biu, Acting Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, confirmed the figures to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) when he visited the accident scene. Biu said […]
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Monday, September 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Osun have taken custody of a 28-year-old man, Ismail Adewuyi, found with a freshly-cut woman’s head and intestines in Ede area of the state. Police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated in Osogbo that the suspected ritualist was arrested on Saturday by one Isa Usman, a member of the Nigerian Hunters […]
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Monday, September 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in New York for the high-level meetings of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Buhari arrived at the JF Kennedy International Airport in New York at about 6.20 pm local time. […]
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Sunday, September 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC) took a different turn as the party’s leadership expelled its 2023 presidential candidate, Dumebi Kachikwu, over alleged anti-party activities. His expulsion came exactly two weeks after a faction loyal to the ADC long serving national chairman, Ralph Nwosu, announced his suspension. Mr Kachikwu and […]
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Sunday, September 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Zamfara State have arrested 10 people suspected to be informants and suppliers of ammunition and other equipment to terrorists operating in parts of the state. Some of the items the police claimed it recovered from the suppliers include arms, ammunition, military uniforms, food items and motorcycles. In a statement, […]
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Sunday, September 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Lagos State says it has reduced crime to the barest minimum in the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, gave the assurance during an interactive session with journalists in Lagos on Saturday. He said that criminal activities in the state had dropped much through effective […]
