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Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution on Lekki Toll Gate Shooting Incident and Cases of Police Brutality as well as human rights violations has indicted the Nigerian Army and the Police of complicity in the death of protesters at the Lekki Toll gate in 2020. The 309-page report […]
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Abuja, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A lady, identified as Susan, has been electrocuted at the Hustle and Bustle club in the Aminu Kano Crescent area of Wuse, Abuja. Hustle and Bustle is a club and restaurant co-owned by a popular socialite, Obi Cubana. It was gathered that the victim, who went to the club on Saturday, was […]
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Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) electricity consumers are not required to pay directly for the meters issued to them. This is contained in a statement NERC issued in Abuja . “We wish to reiterate that the NMMP designed to provide all consumers of […]
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has said the partial or full vaccination against the dreaded COVID-19 is not enough reason to drop non pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) guard, or a guarantee against infection. Ehanire said this in Abuja, at the national briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19. “Nigeria […]
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal government has called for a full autopsy over the death of a Nigerian and Oyo State indigene, Itunu Babalola, who died in Cote D’ivoire. African Examiner had reported that Itunu who was wrongfully jailed in Cote D’ivoire, died on Sunday. According to available information, Itunu was said to have contracted […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Detained American journalist, Denny Fenster, has been released and deported amid growing international pressure after a Myanmar court sentenced him to 11 years in prison. According to his employer, Frontier Myanmar, “we are relieved that Danny is finally out of prison, somewhere he never should have been in the first place.” Frontier’s […]
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Latest Headlines, Sports News
Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cristiano Ronaldo conceded that Sunday’s 2-1 defeat to Serbia was “tough” but vowed that Portugal’s hopes of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup are “still very much alive.” In spite an early goal from Renato Sanches in Lisbon, an equalizer from Dusan Tadic and a 90th-minute Aleksandar Mitrovic header saw Serbia leapfrog […]
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Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), called the Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, has decried the plan to sell pre-payment meters to electricity consumers in the country. The group’s position is contained in a statement issued by its President-General, Goodluck Ibem, and made available to newsmen in Owerri on Monday. It called on the […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security Minister Maxime Kone, on Monday said that within three days two terrorist attacks left 27 people dead in Burkina Faso. Kone said one civilian and 19 gendarmes were killed in an attack on a gendarmerie post in the northern province of Soum on Sunday. According to a military spokesperson, around 60 […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday remanded two brothers, Sodiq Hamzat, 22, and Taoreed Hamzat, 22, for allegedly beating a motorcyclist to death. Sodiq and Taoreed, whose address was unknown, were charged on two-count bordering on conspiracy and murder. The Magistrate, Mrs Munirat Giwa-Babalola, who did not take plea […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday has given the Federal Government an ultimatum of three weeks over failure to fulfill lingering demands. This is coming as the Senior Staff Association of Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities met today to deliberate next moves over the failure of the […]
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Asia, Latest Headlines
Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chinese authorities on Monday set the latest example of strict Coronavirus (COVID-19) measures when it sent several thousand students into quarantine. More than 10,000 students were required to stay in their dormitory rooms or go to quarantine hotels in the north-eastern city of Dalian. The authorities were reacting to an outbreak among […]
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Europe, Latest Headlines
Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bank robbers seem to be a dying breed in Germany, the number of robberies at banks, savings institutions and post offices have dropped by 95 per cent over the past three decades. This is according to a 1993 report, in which the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) counted 1,623 robberies of “financial […]
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Asia, Latest Headlines
Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – India’s Supreme Court on Monday orders authorities to shut offices in the capital and nearby cities amid hazardous air pollution. The court also permitted millions to work from home as officials seek ways to reduce the air pollution that led to the closure of schools. Authorities in New Delhi, has been battling […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ilorin (Unilorin) Chapter, has condemned the attack of a female lecturer of Faculty of Life Sciences, Mrs Rahmat Zakariyyah, by a student of the institution. Prof. Moyosore Ajao, the Chairman of the association, made the condemnation during an interview on Monday in Ilorin. […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police in Jigawa have confirmed the murder of husband and wife in Malammadori Local Government Area of the state by suspected assassins. ASP Lawan Shiisu, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Jigawa Command, confirmed the incident in Dutse on Monday. Shiisu said that the incident occurred on Nov. 13, at about […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Redeem Christian Church of God pastor, Sunday Adeniran, has regained freedom. Adeniran and two other persons were abducted on Saturday by yet to be identified gunmen in Calabar. A source who pleaded anonymity stated that they were released at about 2: am this morning near Scanobo filling station, Ikot Ekpo 8 […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission may be forced to use serving members of the National Youth Service Corps to monitor political parties’ direct primaries across the country if the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), signs the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. This is because of the large number of personnel that will […]
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Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected ritualists for unlawful possession of a fresh human head. The suspects, Monday Karezu, 32, a national of Benin Republic, and Anagonou Kamelan, 44, a Togolese, were arrested at the house of a herbalist while attempting a money ritual. The state Police […]
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Monday, November 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says a flash flood caused by downpour on Sunday damaged several houses and vehicles in some parts of the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. NEMA also advised residents and motorists in the area to exercise utmost caution as some electric poles fell due to […]
