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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has shut down Bab Fafunwa Millennium School, Ojodu, formerly Ojodu Grammar School until January 2022. A trailer had on Tuesday crushed some pupils of the school. Some of the students died on the spot, while some others were injured. The incident sparked outrage among the students and inhabitants […]
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Latest Headlines, Sports News
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US tennis star, Serena Williams, will not compete at the Australian Open in January on the advice of doctors, organisers announced on Wednesday. The seven-time winner, 40, is still one behind the all-time record of grand slam tournament victories with 23. She said, “While this is never an easy decision to make, […]
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Entertainment, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye housemate, Maria Chike, on Wednesday revealed that she has been tested positive for COVID-19. She made this announcement via her Instagram page where she also appreciated her fans for showing concern about her well-being. Taking to her Instagram stories, Maria wrote, “My heartbeats, I heard […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was rampage in Idogbo Secondary School, in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, as students of the school in a viral video , went haywire, setting a section of the school ablaze, equally vandalizing the principal’s office. They were said to have also harassed a policeman on duty in the […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was great outburst of emotions as some mothers protested on Wednesday at the gate of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos where a 12 year old Sylvester Oromoni was allegedly beaten to death by some students of the school. In the video , monitored on BBC News Pidgin, the group also called on […]
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Europe, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was under fire Wednesday after a video emerged of his senior aides joking about holding a Christmas party at Downing Street last year when social gatherings were banned under Covid rules. The government has been accused repeatedly of hypocrisy over breaches of lockdown rules and in a […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions on Uganda’s chief of military intelligence, Major General Abel Kandiho, over alleged human rights abuses committed under his watch. Uganda’s military said it was disappointed by the decision and would seek clarification from Washington, for whom Kampala has been a security partner against militancy […]
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Asia, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The death toll of a military helicopter crash in India on Wednesday has risen to four, sources from the Tamil Nadu Police told Sputnik. Earlier in the day, sources said that two people died and three others suffered injuries. In total, there were nine people aboard the helicopter. According to sources, Chief […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anger reigned in the two chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly as senators, and members of the House of Representatives, separately, condemned the United Kingdom’s inclusion of Nigeria in her COVID-19 red list without justification. This is even as governors of the 36 states of the federation expressed angst over the UK government’s […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was confusion among power sector operators on Tuesday after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), fired the management of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company as a result of the strike embarked upon by the AEDC workers the preceding day. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Power said the management of […]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday repatriated another 180 stranded Nigerians in Libya. Mr Kabiru Musa, Charge d’ Affairs of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. Musa said that the 180 stranded Nigerians, who departed from Mitiga Airport, […]
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Europe, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two people were killed and three injured in a shooting in a public services center in southeastern Moscow on Tuesday, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. Earlier in the day, a police source told Sputnik that two people were killed during the shooting. “A tragedy occurred in the Ryazansky public services center. “As a […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) –No fewer than 15 students have lost their lives by a hit-and-run truck driver along Ogunusi Road, Grammar School bus stop, Lagos State. It was learnt that the pupils were going home after closing time and wanted to cross the road when the truck ran over them. The driver was reportedly chased to […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The president of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, Yerima Shettima, has stated that 2023 is already too late for the Southeast to produce Nigeria’s president. Shettima stated that the Southeast should look beyond 2023 because the next two years might be too late to produce the country’s president. The Arewa youth leader […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, has stated that the reputation of President Buhari is already established irrespective of whether he signs the electoral bill or not. It could be recalled that Buhari received the electoral act amendment bill from the National Assembly in November and has 30 days to make a […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Orji Uzor Kalu, the Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate and former Abia governor has refuted claims that he told the Department of State Service (DSS) to starve the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is presently detained on the order of Justice Binta Murtala Nyako-led […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, seeking the consideration and subsequent passage of the 2021 Finance bill that will guide the implementation of the 2022 appropriation In a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan and read during plenary on Tuesday, President Buhari said that the bill […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has confirmed that three students of Dowen College in the Lekki area of the state are currently in police custody while the other two are at large for alleged assault of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni. Odumosu, disclosed this Tuesday morning that two other students of […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association (SEAMATA), has sent a “Save Our Souls (SOS)” signal to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over multiple and indiscriminate charges and deductions on customers by commercial banks. SEAMATA is the umbrella association of traders in all the markets in the South East geo-political zone […]
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Asia, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Russian state commission (Roscosmos) has authorised the launch of a Soyuz-2.1, a rocket with a Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft, which will carry two Japanese space tourists. Roscosmos on Tuesday said Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano, along with famous Russian cosmonaut, Alexander Misurkin will leave for orbit on Wednesday. Roscosmos in a statement […]
