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Thursday, August 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State Police Command on Wednesday busted a ritual shrine in a building along Asoro slope, off Ekenhua Road, Uzebu quarters in Benin, recovering 20 mummified bodies and arresting three male suspects. The Command, in a press statement signed by the Deputy Spokesperson, Jennifer Iwegbu, said the arrest was possible through […]
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Thursday, August 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South African health department on Wednesday appealed to citizens to overcome religious and cultural influences hindering donations of organs correctly. Foster Mohale, the spokesperson for the department said around 2,780 people were waiting for organ donations at present and transplants in the country, the organs included kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs. In […]
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Thursday, August 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has suspended the ongoing strike by two weeks. Mr Godfrey Abah, the Chairman, FCT chapter of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) said this in an interview in Abuja on Wednesday. Abah said that the suspension followed a meeting held with […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The death toll from the recent heavy rains and floods in Sudan has climbed to 75, the country’s National Council for Civil Defense said Tuesday. In addition, 30 people were injured, while 12,551 homes destroyed and 20,751 others damaged during the rain, the council said in a statement. The UN Office for […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The rotation of peacekeeping troops in and out of Mali has resumed after a month’s suspension by the Malian government, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. The rotations began Monday with a contingent from Bangladesh, said Stephane Dujarric, chief spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. No fewer than 400 soldiers from Senegal […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Morocco police have arrested four suspects, aged between 20 and 30, for deliberately starting a huge forest fire in the north of the country on Monday, the police said in a statement on Tuesday. The fire has burned more than 90 hectares of the Kodiat Tifour forest in the province of […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan security authorities on Tuesday appealed to the citizens and the business community to resume their normal daily activities following the conclusion of the Aug. 9 general elections. Joseph Kinyua, Head of the Public Service and Chairperson of the National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC), made the call in a statement. “I, therefore, […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Again gunmen unleash terror in kwara state, abducting six travelers . The abductors, numbering about five, were said to have waylaid the vehicle conveying the victims around Obo-Ile/Osi road, Ekiti local government area of the state on the fateful around 11.15pm. However, four of the victims on board the Hummer Bus with […]
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government ended in a deadlock on Tuesday. Sources familiar with the matter told one of our correspondents that the Federal Government’s team met with the representatives of ASUU at the headquarters of the National Universities Commission. “The meet with the […]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disgruntled aspirants who participated at the March 26 National Convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress have vowed to take the leadership of the party to court over its failure to refund the payment for their Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms. The development is coming four months after they were asked […]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World governing football body, FIFA, suspended India on Tuesday for “undue influence from third parties”. The country was also stripped of the right to host the Under-17 Women’s World Cup, scheduled for October. “The Bureau of the FIFA Council has unanimously decided to suspend the All India Football Federation (AIFF) with immediate […]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nasarawa Divisional Police Officer in Kano State, SP Daniel Amah, has been issued a certificate of commendation by the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, after the former rejected a bribe of $200,000 in a case of alleged armed robbery. According to available information, the armed robbery case involved a Kano-based […]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign, Festus Keyamo, has said the party-led federal government has reduced Boko-Haram’s dominance to “almost nothing.” Mr Keyamo, who is also the minister of state for labour and employment, said this on Monday in an interview with Trust TV. He was defending the performance […]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will Tuesday be meeting the representatives of the Nigerian government to possibly conclude talks on the renegotiated 2009 agreement, among other issues.. Speaking on Channels Television’s “Politics Today” on Monday, ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, said the University Transparency and Accountability Transparency (UTAS) […]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zamfara State government has signed into law a death penalty on anybody found guilty of banditry, cattle rustling, cultism, or serving as a bandits’ informant. This was announced by Governor Bello Matawalle in a broadcast to the people of the state on Tuesday morning. Matawalle said, “On the 28th of June this […]
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Liverpool forward Luis Diaz cancelled out Wilfried Zaha’s opener for Crystal Palace as the teams drew 1-1 in the Premier League at Anfield on Monday. Liverpool’s striker Darwin Nunez was sent off for a head-butt on his home debut. Liverpool dominated the opening half but it was Zaha who broke the deadlock, […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, stirred controversy on Monday when he criticised a claim by a Twitter user that about two million people would march in Kaduna in support of Peter Obi, an opposition presidential candidate. Mr El-Rufai’s comment on Twitter generated hundreds of mixed reactions with some in support and […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has emerged the “Man Of The Year’ in the 2022 Leadership Excellence Awards. In a 14-day Leadership Excellence Awards voting by Nigerians both home and in the Diaspora via online platforms, monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Obi was voted ahead […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Iyiochia Ayu has stated he has no plans to resign. He said he will not resign now or in the foreseeable future having been given a four-year mandate to lead the opposition party. There has been pressure on Ayu to resign in […]
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Monday, August 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 general elections, popular Nigerian Comedian, Mr Macaroni, has stated that he would never vote for the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) or Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Macaroni, however, didn’t disclose the political party or the candidate he would vote for in the forthcoming election. The comedian […]
