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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With many African countries struggling from the shackles of debt servicing amid the downward economic trend occasioned by COVID-19, a ‘New Deal’ worth 7.1 trillion dollars has been suggested as the only solution. This was the position of Mr Antonio Pedro, Deputy Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the ongoing […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police have confirmed the kidnapping of over 20 persons by bandits in Unguwan Gimbiya in Sabon Tasha, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to the police spokesperson in the state, Mohammed Jalige, who spoke on Channels TV, the assault took place in the early hours of Friday. Mr Jalige […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress are currently jostling to host the party’s national convention slated for February 2022. Apart from the governors, it was also gathered that some powerful stakeholders are making moves to determine the venue of the convention, where the party’s National Working Committee members would be elected. […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, better known by his stage name D’banj, and Akon added flavour to the ARISE Fashion show 2021 at the Armani Hotel, Burj Khalifa, Dubai . D’banj endeared himself to the audience with his stage craftsmanship. The Kokomaster carried the audience along with his hit songs and the audience sang […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rev. Yakubu Pam, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), has said that the Israeli authorities have agreed to look into the possibility of procuring a three-month group visa for Nigerian Pilgrims that would cover the pilgrimage period as against the two-week visa policy. Rev. Pam also stressed that Nigerians […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is no iota of truth in the report that two students of Bashorun High School, Ibadan, were on Friday turned to tubers of yam by a suspected ritualist. The Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Mr Abiodun Abdulramah, made this clarification, while addressing students, parents and guardians of the school when he […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, has authorised vaccine booster against the pandemic for eligible Nigerians. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), stated on Friday in Abuja, that the decision was reached, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and the agency. Shauib said […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Gbenga Ashafa, Managing Director, Federal Housing Authority (FHA), on Friday said the demolition of substandard and illegal construction across FESTAC Town in Lagos would continue. He said that some squatters would be relocated. Ashafa, represented by Mr Chinonso Omoke, FHA Executive Director, Project Implementation during a meeting with stakeholders at FHA […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, an angry mob has lynched an unidentified middle-aged man accusing him of turning students into tubers of yam. It was gathered that the suspect was arrested, killed and set ablaze on Friday morning by residents of Ashi, Bodija, and Akobo for allegedly turning two students of […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegal’s transport unions went on open-ended strike Friday over alleged police harassment and illicit competition, paralysing the capital Dakar and other regions. Many people were unable to go to work or send their children to school in the capital without buses or taxis to take them, AFP journalists and witnesses said. Patients […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB in Mgbowo Community in Awgu Council area of Enugu state, Mr. Ejiofor Stanley Oti, now at large after he was declared wanted by the Nigerian Army has called on Igbo leaders and international Community to come to his rescue. He said life […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Nigerian Navy has freed online Comedian, Abdulgafar Ahmad, aka Cute Abiola, from detention. Naval spokesperson, Commodore Suleman Dahun, confirmed the development to our correspondent on Friday. Cute Abiola was said to have been missing on Monday, November 15, 2021, when his colleague in the comedy industry, Debo Adedayo aka Mr Macaroni, raised […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government on Friday ordered the indefinite closure of Dowen College, Lekki, following the investigation into the death of Sylvester Oromoni, a student of the school. This was contained in a statement signed by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs, of the Lagos State Ministry of Education The statement read, “The […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Big Brother Naija‘Shine Ya Eye’ season 6 Winner, Whitemoney has released his long-anticipated single titled ‘Selense’. The musician and reality Tv star took to his verified Instagram to make the announcement. He wrote: “The moment you all have been waiting for…Without further Ado, I’d like to present Selense to you. I’m super […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was jubilation at the premises of the Court of Appeal in Akure by members of Sotitobire Praising Chapel as the church’s founder, Prophet Babatunde Alfa was set freed two years after he was taken into custody. Prophet Alfa and five other members of the church were arrested in 2019 over the […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – fashion designer, Rukayat Salami, has been hospitalised after men of the Lagos State Police Command allegedly shot her in the stomach at a checkpoint at Lucky Fibre, in the Ikorodu area of the state. Her husband, Ibrahim, was reportedly battered by the cops for complaining about the shooting. African Examiner gathered that […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Court of Appeal, sitting in Ibadan, on Thursday, discharged and acquitted a former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, over N11.5 billion corruption charges leveled against him by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Alao-Akala was discharged and acquitted along with a former Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. State’s Health Department, has confirmed second case of COVID-19 Omicron variant in Minnesota, a day after it reported first case of the new variant. The U.S. reported its first case of the Omicron variant in California on Wednesday. The concerned Minnesota resident, an adult male, had a recent travel history […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria’s security challenge will soon be resolved with the country coming out of such experience greater and stronger. The vice president disclosed this in Abuja while responding to the remarks made by members of the Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group, who visited him. He said they will […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested one Pastor Izuchukwu Anoloba, 35, and others for kidnapping a Catholic priest, Fr Fidelis Ekemgba. Parading the suspects and others, the state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, said that the suspects held the priest for over seven days and made him to […]
