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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Thursday leave Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made this known in a statement on Thursday. The summit, themed, ‘Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity,’ […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Israeli Nurses Association (INA) on Wednesday declared a 24-hour strike in all hospitals and clinics nationwide in protest of violence against nurses in the country’s health system. Ilana Cohen, Chairperson of INA, in a statement demanded the immediate implementation of a government plan to eradicate violence against them in hospitals. “This […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Structural Engineer, Mr Muritala Olawale, has narrated how Fourscore Heights altered a four storey building plan to 21-storey building which collapsed on Nov. 1 at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. African Examiner reports that Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering, made the revelation while responding to questions from Mr Akin George, counsel […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed two executive orders restructuring how the federal government coordinates transnational criminal investigations, and expanding the sanctions programme to target narco-trafficking persons and organisations. Biden, in a statement from the White House, said the Administration was formally establishing the U.S. Council on Trans-national Organised Crime. ”The […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sacrilege being perpetrated against the traditional institutions in Imo State, South East Nigeria, has continued unabated, as another Monarch was whisked away on Wednesday by unknown armed men. This time around it was the traditional ruler of Umuezeala-Ama Autonomous Community in Ehime Mbano Council Area, Eze Aloysius Igwe, who was kidnapped […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team have arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and gruesome killing of one Mrs Nneka Kalu, earlier reported missing. She was found dead in a cassava farm on August 29, 2021, in Ngugworo community in Nguzu Edda in Afikpo South, Ebonyi State. […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Omicron variant is spreading faster than other variants as it is now present in 77 countries. WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a news briefing at WHO headquarters in Geneva that it would be a mistake to dismiss the COVID-19 strain as mild. “Omicron […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Service, DSS, yesterday dared terrorists, their sponsors and other criminal elements causing mayhem in the country to urgently stop all forms of atrocities in the land or be crushed. The DSS warned that the malevolent elements had carried their luck too far and had unwittingly crossed the red […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The naira continued its downward trend as the dollar was sold for N570 in the parallel market on Tuesday. Operators, who spoke to our correspondent, said the dollar was bought and sold for N567 and N570 respectively on Tuesday, compared to N550 and N555 three weeks earlier. Some Bureau de Change Operators […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 37-year-old man, Azeez Ilias, identified as the son of a traditional ruler in the Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, and a woman, identified only as Deborah, have been found dead in a car parked in front of a building in Ago Egun, Idiroko. While they were found naked, their […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – The Bauchi Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the attitude of the Federal Government towards the implementation of the 2009 agreement with ASUU is forcing its members to embark on an indefinite strike. The Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Lawan Abubakar, said this at a press conference in […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – TabithaNewLifeFoundation, a non- governmental organization is set to feed 500 widows and widowers at their annual event tagged Dorcas Heart ,’Taking Over” It has been a normal and consistent way of improving life most especially on the part of the less privileged in the society. Reaching out to widows and widowers to […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the gruesome murder of the Katsina State Commissioner of Science and Technology, Dr Rabe Nasir, at his residence last Wednesday, the state Governor, Aminu Masari, has said Nasir’s death has nothing to do with banditry. This is as he said all States in the Northwest must collaborate to address the security […]
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Asia, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hanoi People’s Court on Tuesday sentenced Pham Doan Trang, a prominent Vietnamese activist, and dissident who has won European human rights awards, to 9 years in prison. Trang was charged with disseminating “anti-state propaganda,’’ although the authorities dropped another similar charge that would have seen her jailed for up to 20 years. […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – Gunmen have abducted 70 year old Hajia Zuliehat Raji, the mother of the Chief of Staff to Kogi Governor, Mr Abdulkarim Asuku. The septuagenarian was abducted from her residence at Nagazi in Adavi Local Government Area of the state by the gunmen at about 7.40 p.m. on Monday. An eye-witness, who craved […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Tuesday said that the rate of COVID-19 infections due to the Omicron variant had sky rocked. He said this was signaling that the southwestern African nation was now in the fourth COVID-19 wave. Geingob said this on the 38th occasion of the COVID-19 public briefing on national […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The nation’s Total Public Debt rose to N38.005 trillion as at September 30, 2021. This was contained in the debt data released by the Debt Management Office (DMO), this evening. The figure showed that Nigeria’s Public Debt increased from N35.465 trillion at the end of Q2 2021 by N2.540 trillion to the […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square, on Tuesday discharged and acquitted a woman, Christiana Odo, accused of stabbing her husband to death during a fight. Justice Yetunde Adesanya, discharged and acquitted the defendant after the evidence of self defence was established by the testimonies of the witnesses. The judge, […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Kingdom has said Nigeria and 10 other countries will be removed from its travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. The move follows anger from Nigeria and other African countries, with the United Nations describing the ban on non-UK residents entering England as “travel apartheid.” The British government had on […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) has stated that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), enjoys full rights in custody. Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesperson, disclosed this at a media briefing on Tuesday in Abuja. It could be recalled that IPOB had alleged that Kanu was starved of food […]
