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Friday, February 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disagreement trails over wearing of hijab by Muslim students in Oyun Baptist High School (OBHS), Ijagbo, Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State has left one dead while others sustained different degrees of injuries. An anonymous source disclosed that unknown people armed with dangerous weapons unleashed terror on peaceful protesters at the […]
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Friday, February 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police have arrested 33 suspected criminals, including members of different kidnapping gangs terrorising motorists and travelers on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The suspected kidnappers, who were arrested by men of the Oyo State Police Command, included those operating at the Onigari section of the expressway, where some wedding guests were recently abducted. […]
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Friday, February 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting at Isabo, Ogun State, on Thursday has ordered four teenagers who allegedly murdered a 20-year -old girl, Sofiat Kehinde, be remanded in prison for two months. The defendants, Balogun Mustaqeem, 20; Majekodunmi Soliudeen,18; Abdulgafar Lukman,19; and Waris Oladeinde,18; were arraigned on two counts of conspiracy and murder. […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed Senate Deputy Minority Leader Emmanuel Bwacha to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Senator Bwacha, representing Taraba South, defected from the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP). He was presented to Buhari by Chairman of APC National Caretaker Committee Governor Mai Mala- Buni at the State House, […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension as hoodlums on Thursday evening attacked the campaign office of Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola after factional members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osogbo held their weekly meeting. African Examiner gathered the hoodlums invaded the premises of the campaign office Aregbesola used before his emergence as Governor around 5:30 pm. […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three Watford players have returned from international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations over the past week. The club made this known in a post on their website. William Troost-Ekong reported back to the London Colney training ground last week after Nigeria’s elimination, while Morocco pair Adam Masina and Imran Louza […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism, including 424 associates/supporters of the financiers. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known during a briefing on the anti-corruption fight of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s regime on Thursday. The minister also said the fraud […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele has joined the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe and a host of dignitaries including two state governors to commission a 400 metric tons per day mega rice mill in Kano state constructed by Gerawa Group of […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s four major aviation unions on Wednesday vowed to ground activities in the sector from Tuesday, February 8, 2022, over the failure of the Federal Government to release the negotiated conditions of service of aviation agencies since 2013 and the non-implementation of the National Minimum Wage/consequential adjustment since 2019. In a notice […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of Transition Implementation Committee in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State, Jare Olatundun, has been arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court. His arraignment was in relation to his alleged failure to offset a contract debt of N5m which he inherited from past administration in the council. The contract being owed […]
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fear has gripped the residents of Oguta Local government area in Imo State as a retired police officer, Chris Kpatuma was beheaded by Gunmen . African Examiner gathered that the retired policeman was murdered on his farm and his severed body brought back to his house by his attackers. A family source, […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 general polls, Enugu state people in diaspora have rejected the perceived existing zoning arrangement in producing governor, saying what should matter is competency, and not where the person hails from. They called on the electorate to rise up and join hands with them and all true democrats in […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nollywood Yoruba actor, John Adewuni, popularly known as Tafa Oloyede is dead. According to Osun state Secretary of the Theater Arts and Motion Picture Producers Association of Nigeria, Ademola Oyedokun, the late Tafa Oloyede died in Osogbo on Tuesday. He said, “He (Tafa Oloyede) is dead. I just left the mortuary. I […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Football Federation have confirmed the receipt of an in-depth technical report on the Super Eagles’ outing at the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroon from the team’s technical crew led by Augustine Eguavoen. The NFF Scribe, Mohammed Sanusi, in an official press statement issued Tuesday revealed that the […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The management of Abia State University Uturu, ABSU, has banned students from driving private vehicles on campus. The ban was contained in a press statement issued Tuesday by the Registrar, Dr. Acho Elendu. The action is believed to be part of efforts to avoid an ostentatious show of affluence or flagrance display […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Interior, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said 1,350,000 passport booklets were printed and distributed by the Federal Government in 2021, almost double of what was achieved in 2020. The minister spoke at a Lagos Business School, LBS, Forum themed, “Nigeria in Challenging Times: The Contributions of the Ministry of Interior […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Winner of BBNaija season 4 Lockdown edition, Mercy Eke aka Lambo has stated she can’t wait to experience pregnancy. The entrepreneur revealed this in a recent tweet in reaction to the news of Rihanna’s pregnancy for her boyfriend, A$AP Rocky. While the reality TV star divulged her thirst to experience conception at […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Happiness filled the air yesterday for non-immigrant visa applicants in Nigeria, following the kick-off of the no-interview visa renewal regime by the United States (U.S.) Mission in Lagos. The new visa application regime, which was unveiled at a briefing at the U.S. Consulate in Lagos, is a pilot project, which the mission […]
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has enjoined Nigerian youths to register and get their permanent voter cards (PVCs) so that they can vote in the 2023 elections. Ambode disclosed this in a statement shared on his verified social media platforms on Tuesday, saying that power is in the hands of the […]
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed the release of four of the 22 women recently abducted by insurgents in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno. African Examiner reports that 22 women and two men were abducted by insurgents in three separate attacks on Pemi, Kautikari and Korohuma areas of Chibok […]
