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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ohanaeze Ndigbo has applauded the federal government for contemplating a political solution for the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the Yoruba successionist activist, Sunday Igboho. It could be recalled that the Nigerian government had stated that it is open to all kinds […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Saturday, leave Paris for Durban, South Africa, at the special invitation of President Cyril Ramaphosa, to the inauguration of the second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2021. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman confirmed this development in a statement on Saturday, in Abuja. The event, billed for Nov. […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN peacekeeping chief, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, says fighting terrorism remains the biggest challenge in the Africa’s Lake Chad Basin as lives are lost daily to terrorist attacks. Lacroix told the UN Security Council on Friday that the situation in the Lake Chad Basin region remained highly volatile, highlighting a rising tide of extremist […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria, is among prominent Nigerians that will receive the Zik Leadership Merit Award on Nov. 16. Mr Chineme Onyeke, Director-General (D-G) of Igbo Nsukka United Front (INUF), disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday in Nsukka. Onyeke said the event, scheduled to hold at Shehu […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres, has urged Libyans to forge a spirit of national unity and overcome any remaining differences ahead of landmark presidential and parliamentary elections in December. Guterres made the appeal in a video message to the Paris Conference on Libya, convened on Friday by French President Emmanuel Macron. Some 30 […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General of Budget Office (DG), Dr Ben Akabueze, has lamented that over 30 million Nigerians who are generating taxable incomes are not paying tax, compounding the effort of the government to broaden its revenue. Speaking at an interactive forum with the media and civil society organizations in Abuja, Akabueze stated that […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians in the Diaspora to always abide by the norms and rules of their host countries. President Buhari gave the charge during a meeting with Minister of State Foreign Affairs of United Arab Emirates (UAE), His Excellency Shaikh Shakboot Alnahyan, at the sidelines of the Paris Peace […]
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dele Momodu, a 2011 presidential candidate and veteran journalist, has opened up on why he opposes President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Momodu, Buhari’s administrative style is horrible; hence his opposition. In a post on his Facebook, the celebrity journalist accused Buhari of taking Nigeria back to the Stone Age. Stressing that the […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many people were feared dead and others burnt beyond recognition while five others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a ghastly auto accident on the Ore-Okitipupa axis of Ondo State. African Examiner reports that the accident which resulted into an inferno occurred due to a head-on collision involving a white Toyota Coaster […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution companies and all meter asset providers. The circular, […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says revenue recently flowing into the nation’s treasury are majorly from non- oil and gas exports. This is contained in a statement by Josephine Ademu, Press and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation on Friday, in Abuja. The Vice President said this at […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Europe has become the epicentre of the pandemic again, prompting some governments to consider re-imposing unpopular lockdowns. This is in the run-up to Christmas and stirring debate over whether vaccines alone are enough to tame COVID-19. Europe accounts for more than half of the average seven-day infections globally and about half of […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 15 people have been wounded in an explosion inside a mosque in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, an official said on Friday. The Taliban’s local director of information and culture, Hanif Nangarhari, said the blast happened during Friday prayers in the province’s Spin Ghar district. Initial information indicated that […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Governorship candidate in the Nov. 6 election in Anambra, on Friday received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the state Governor-Elect. African Examiner reports that the INEC National Commissioner Supervising Anambra, Mr Festus Okoye, presented the certificate […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court has remanded eight men for allegedly setting ablaze Makoko Police Station. The court ordered that they should be detained at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending advice from the state Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The defendants are Ebenezer Ayah, 27; Biola Rawa, 20; Jacob Safaru, 21; Yusuf Olowookere, […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Sherifat Solebo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has remanded Chima Igwe, a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, over alleged certificate fraud. African Examiner had reported that The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission would arraign a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A hit-and-run driver, Itoro Clement has confessed to knocking down the missing Vanguard reporter, Tordue Salem. Salem had been declared missing since October 13. Parading the suspect on Friday at the IRT premises in Abuja, Itoro said he hit Salem at the Mabushi area on October 13 and sped off. Details later… […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Merchant Navy (NMN) in Lagos has claimed that one of its personnel was killed during the Police raid on its Ogudu camp on Wednesday. Cdr. Ichuku Agaba, its training commander in Lagos, stated on Thursday that four others were still missing after the raid. “The Police came to the camp […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Anambra Governorship election, Senator Andy Uba, has rejected the outcome of the vote as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Uba also has decided to contest the election outcome in court. According to African Examiner, Uba, who came third after […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has charged the former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, to explain why he was gifted 25 exotic vehicles worth billions of naira by an oil magnate currently standing trial on corruption charges, rather than attempting to stall discussions on publicly available information […]
