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Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – House of Representatives, Wednesday approved direct and indirect primary clauses as a mode of electing candidates by political parties for general elections. This was originally the provision in the extant law, the Electoral Act of 2010 before the National Assembly in the course of tinkering with the Act expunged ‘indirect’ primary mode. […]
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court in Abia State has ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N1 billion to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and issue a letter of apology to him. Kanu had approached the Court demanding N5 billion over the invasion of his father’s house […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A middle-aged man, Olakunle Obaoye, 25 has committed suicide over some huge debts he couldn’t pay. The deceased was found dead inside a bush at Erinmope village near Ayedun in Oke Ero local government area of Kwara State. Public Relations Officer of NSCDC Babawale Zaid Afolabi confirmed the incident to journalists in […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – I’ve always loved the idea of being a judge and I think it’s a fun thing to do,” were the words of songstress, Simi, who is excited over her new role as a judge of the sixth edition of Nigerian Idol. Continuing, the ‘Duduke’ singer said, “ I plan to be very […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have killed three policemen and two vigilante group personnel who were part of the Joint Taskforce in Kwanan Dutse in Mariga Local Government Area of the Niger State. The incident, which occurred on Monday evening at about 4:00 p.m. was said to have been an ambush by the gunmen. An unspecified […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hoodlums, suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, on Tuesday, stormed the St Theresa Catholic Church, Calcutta Parish, Awada, near the Ukaegbu junction, Onitsha, in a bid to enforce the sit-at-home directive. The young men in their large numbers were said to be heavily armed with machetes and kegs […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, says the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has not directed any official in his regime to implement the removal of petroleum subsidy. Lawan disclosed this to State House correspondents on Tuesday after a meeting with the President at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. According to him, […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Babafemi Ojudu, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Political Matters, has stated that he won’t be supporting the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ojudu disclosed this in a statement he signed saying that he would not support Tinubu’s presidential ambition because of his “principled […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has granted a Dubai- based internet celebrity, Ismailia Mustapha, aka Mompha bail of N200 million with two sureties in the like sum. The court granted his application for bail filed through his lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole (SAN). Justice Dada ordered that one of two […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress has announced that its national convention will hold on February 26. This was stated by the Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday. He was speaking at the Progressives Women Congress held in Abuja. Details later…
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a 1.2 million -bag paddy rice pyramid, in Abuja. President Buhari commended the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for Initiating the Anchor Borrowers Programme, through which the massive rice production was achieved. In his address at the event this morning, the […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The planned re-arraignment of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafran (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu on an amended terrorism charge was stalled on Tuesday before a Federal High Court in Abuja. At the mention of the case, lead defence lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) sought for time to enable him study the amended […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila has declared that the Green Chamber will reintroduce the Electoral Act amendment bill on Wednesday. He said the House has resolved to rework the bill and send back to the President as quickly as possible for assent. He also announced the first set of amendments […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered prisons’ officers to shoot dead anybody who attempts to attack any prison in the country. The minister gave the order while inspecting the facility at the Agodi Custodial Centre in Ibadan. Aregbesola said any attack on any prison is an attack on the state and […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hoodlums enforcing the suspended sit-at-home yesterday unleashed terror as they destroy vehicles and flogged traders in Enugu State for disobeying the directives They flogged traders and destroyed their wares at about 8 am. The hoodlums, who came into the commercial town on motorcycles, beat up traders who had opened for business. They […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles head coach, Austin Eguavoen, says his team will go for the maximum three points against Guinea-Bissau in their final Group D game at the Roumdé Adjia Stadium in Garoua on Wednesday. The Eagles are top of the group on six points and are already through to the round of 16, […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States and the British Government have turned down a request by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to send representatives to observe the his trial holding at the Federal High Court, Abuja Division on January 18, 19, and 20. While the US said it was limiting […]
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Monday, January 17th, 2022
AFRICAN EXAMINER – President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has charged African leaders and citizens to be united in the promotion of the continent’s intrinsic greatness through improved trade relations amongst African countries. Speaking at the formal launch of the Pan-African Payment & Settlement System (PAPSS), which is a centralised payment and settlement infrastructure platform […]
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Monday, January 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government on Monday, entered fresh terrorism allegations against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. FG, in the amended process it filed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, increased the counts in the initial charge it preferred against Kanu. The IPOB leader […]
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Monday, January 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, on Monday, trooped out of their campus to protest against the alleged harassment and extortion by some people suspected to be thugs and cultists at the second entrance of the institution. During the protest, the students barricaded the road that led […]
