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Sunday, October 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nnamdi Azikiwe University, (Unizik), Awka, Anambra state, South East Nigeria, has won the hosting rights of the 23rd International Conference/ Annual General Meeting of African Council for Communication Education, ACCE). According to the institution, the hosting right was awarded to the Department of Mass Communication of the University. Head of the […]
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Sunday, October 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly elected Chairman of Enugu State Chapter of All Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adolphus Ude, has mocked the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its pledge to rescue Nigeria. Ude, said before rescuing Nigeria, PDP should first account for the uncountable underdevelopment obstacles the party is embedded in the system, prior […]
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Sunday, October 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Iyorcha Ayu has been elected the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), as Taofeek Arapaja also emerged the National Deputy Chairman (South). African Examiner reports that Ayu, who was the consensus candidate at the party national convention in Abuja, got 3,426 affirmative votes out of 3,511 accredited voters. However, […]
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Sunday, October 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security forces shot dead three people during nationwide protests in Sudan on Saturday, a doctors committee said, as hundreds of thousands of people demanded the restoration of a civilian-led government after a military coup. In Khartoum, security forces used tear gas and gunfire to try to disperse a huge crowd after protesters […]
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Sunday, October 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says Nigeria’s banking sector has contributed immensely to the development of the country and indeed the continent. She, however, says there is still so much to be done. Okonjo-Iweala spoke virtually on Saturday at the 2021 Fellowship Investiture programme of the Chartered […]
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Sunday, October 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army (NA) says it has uncovered the antics of sponsors of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its Eastern Security Network (ESN) to peddle falsehood and disinformation to remain relevant in the South East. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said this in a statement, titled, […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester City suffered a 2-0 defeat in the hands of Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Wilfried Zaha scored early while Conor Gallagher grabbed a late second as City finished the game with 10 men after Aymeric Laporte was sent off in the first half. Pep Guardiola’s side slipped to […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bandits struck at Dangilmi community in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State, where they abducted 9 villagers. While confirming the incident, Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN) in Kaduna state, Rev Joseph John Hayab,said the bandits had demanded for a N50 million ransom on the abductees. The affected […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has extended the deadline for NIN-SIM data verification to the end of 2021. This was contained in a joint statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs of the Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, and the Head, Corporate Communications at Nigeria Identity Management Commission, Mr Kayode Adegoke issued […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate Minority Leader, Eyinnaya Abaribe, says that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu and his group never said that election should not be held in Anambra State. Abaribe disclosed this in a town hall meeting with the leadership and students of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim says he will contest for presidency in 2023 whether the People’s Democratic Party will zone it to South East or not. Anyim made the disclosure on Saturday in an interview with newsmen. He said that the party was being repositioned. The former Secretary to the Government […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Northern states’ governments are indebted to the National Examinations Council NECO to the tune of N 2.8 billion, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, Registrar and Chief Executive, NECO, has said. “State governments offer to pay examination fees for candidates from their states but when it comes to the actual payment, they don’t do it, […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Saturday debunked a report attributed to him that terrorists were collecting taxes in the northern parts of the country just as “Area Boys’’ extorted commuters in the southern parts. The minister said in a statement issued in Abuja by Mr Joe Mutah, his […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The head coach of Sierra Leone’s women’s football team has been arrested over allegations of sexual harassment, a police officer said on Saturday. The officer, who requested anonymity, said police arrested head coach Abdulai Kaloga Bah on Friday and that he spent the night in detention in the capital Freetown. Bah was […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has urged the military to show restraint and not to create any more victims as mass civil protests against the military coup planned for Saturday in Sudan. Guterres made the appeal while speaking to journalists in Rome on Friday, ahead of the weekend’s G20 Summit in the Italian […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kano Police Command has announced the arrest of no fewer than 59 suspected armed robbers and drug dealers during the just concluded ‘Eid-Maulud’ celebrations, according to the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa. In a statement issued in Kano, Haruna-Kiyawa said 35 suspects were arrested for armed robbery, while the […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Emmanuel Osodeke, has revealed how the union, during its last negotiations, rejected Federal Government’s plan to increase school fees of all university students to N1m. He said government’s plan was to open an education bank and give each student a loan of […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, has denied media reports that the commission’s operatives carried out an operation in Justice Mary Odili’s house, in Abuja. Bawa made the denial on Friday night while featuring on Channels Television, in Abuja. He stated that the news emanated from some mischief […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, have reopened the institution closed on Oct. 2, following a protest by the students.. This is contained in a statement by the University’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Abiodun Olarewaju on Friday in Ile-Ife. Olarewaju said that the decision to reopen the University was […]
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Saturday, October 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – How did Africans, and people of African descent become so detested in the Western world? How is it that black skin color became so resented by some Europeans when in fact Africans were the first human beings in the world and all other “races” evolved from Africans? How did the concept of […]
