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Friday, May 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Peter Obi, presidential aspirant for the 2023 general elections on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), says he will prioritise poverty reduction through tackling unemployment if elected. Obi stated this at a meeting with the PDP stakeholders and delegates from Sokoto and Zamfara states on Thursday at the party […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the resort to self-help by the mob in sokoto, resulting in violence, destruction and killing of a second-year student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, following an allegation that she had blasphemed Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam last Thursday. Buhari said the news of […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has said the death of United Arab Emirate (UAE),President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed “has robbed the world of one of its visionary and most remarkable leaders of modern times.” Buhari, while reacting to the demise of Khalifa yesterday in a statement issued yesterday by his Senior Special Assistant on […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2022
….Vacant Positions To Be Filled With Immediate Effect (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday bade farewell to outgoing members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). Speaking at a valedictory session for the ministers leaving the cabinet to pursue political ambitions, the President said significant number of them have been sufficiently equipped to aspire […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A woman found in possession of a human skull has been arrested by the police in Edo State. The police spokesperson in the state, Kontongs Bello, disclosed this on Thursday in Benin City, while briefing reporters on the activities of the command within the last two weeks. Mr Bello, a superintendent of […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Voters Cards registered online between June and December 2021 are invalid. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in charge of Zamfara State, Prof Sa’idu Babura, disclosed this while speaking to journalists in his office in Gusau on Thursday. Babura said, “After the authentication exercise, it was discovered that out of the 2,523,458 registrants nationwide, […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Sokoto State on Thursday says it has arrested two students of the Shehu Shagari College of Education (SSCOE), Sokoto, in connection with the killing of their female colleague. African Examiner reports that the Sokoto State Government had on Thursday confirmed the death of a student at the college, […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah did not mince his words when defending his place as he declared he is the best player in the world in his position. The Egypt international is on track to win the English Premier League Golden Boot. He also boasts of the highest assist tally in the top-flight, […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some students of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, on Thursday, lynched a female student, identified simply as Deborah, over allegation of blasphemy against Muhammed, a prophet of Islam. The deceased was violently stoned to death and later set ablaze by the angry mob, who are mostly students of the college. The […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Scores of travelers have been allegedly kidnapped when gunmen hijacked three vehicles along the Emuoha area of the East-West road in Rivers State. This came few days after three kidnapped passengers along the kalabari-Emuoha road regained their freedom. In the latest incident, it was learnt that the gunmen diverted the passengers to […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reverend Father Joseph Akete of the St. John Catholic Church, Kudenda in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, who was abducted eight weeks ago, has died while in his captors’ custody. The Chancellor, Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, Rev. Fr. Christian Okewu Emmanuel, announced this in Kaduna on Wednesday. African Examiner recalls […]
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Thursday, May 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Elder statesman and former Federal Information Commissioner, Chief Edwin Clark, has berated former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, calling him a “traitor”. Clark accused Kalu of betraying the Igbo cause, adding that despite the fact that Kalu was one of the oldest vocal frontline politicians in the South-East, he doubted […]
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A gateman with Mabila Hotel in Ikorodu, Lagos State, was killed in the early hours of Wednesday by some unknown gunmen and robbed some officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) that lodged there. The Police spokesman for Lagos Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident . He said that […]
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Ministers aspiring to be President in 2023 to resign immediately. He applauded the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba for braving the odds to quit to avoid conflict of interest. But other Ministers seeking to be Governors, Senators and House of Representatives members were busy trying to […]
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ogun State High Court has ordered prompt detainment of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos and Superintendent Tijani Taofiq for contempt. The Police officers had disobeyed the court order that asked both the AIG and Taofiq to pay N500,000 and N50,000 respectively as damages in favour of […]
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Football federation is about to announce a new Super Eagles coach on Thursday. The president of the association, Amaju Pinnick, told a local media that Portuguese tactician, Jose Peseiro is one of the leading contenders. It could be recalled that the NFF had sacked Gernot Rohr in December 2021 after […]
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, yesterday vowed to join the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, if the federal government failed to address issues raised by the union and put an end to their action. President of TUC, Quadri Olaleye, who made the vow on behalf […]
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Portuguese chair umpire Daniel Zeferino has been banned from tennis for life after being found guilty of match-fixing and helping betters, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on Tuesday. The London-based agency said Zeferino had been “manipulating” scores inputted into his electronic scoring device at an ITF M15 event in 2020, […]
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has dismissed Chief Roberts Clarke’s call for the extension of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration by six months. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. He restated that Buhari would handover to democratically elected winners of the […]
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will not face criminal charges after punching a man multiple times before a flight out of San Francisco last month. The announcement came on Tuesday following an investigation by the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. It says the circumstances preceding the April 20 confrontation led […]
