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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday urged authorities in Ethiopia to allow vital humanitarian work there to continue, following the recent decision to declare seven of the Organisation’s staff persona non grata and expel them from the country. Guterres said this while addressing the Security Council at UN headquarters in New York, […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 55 people died in a boat accident in the Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities confirmed . Many of people were still missing, spokesperson Jose Misiso said. The overcrowded boat was travelling on the Congo River and capsized close to the town of Bumba in the northern Mongala province in […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is heavy presence of security personnel at various polling units and flash points in Jos the Plateau state capital, and evirons, as all is set for the conduct of elections across the 17 Local Government Areas on Saturday. Our correspondent who visited some of the areas, reports that personnel of the […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A policeman reportedly sustained bullet wounds when unknown gunmen attacked Aguobu Owa Police Station in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State on Friday. It learnt that what would have been a bloody attack was repelled by officers on duty who put up appreciable resistance. An eyewitness said the gunmen stormed the […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission has disclosed that it has cancelled 62,698 voters card requests in Anambra State for multiple registrations. Chairman of the Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, made this known in his remarks during an emergency meeting of political parties in Abuja on Friday. The discovery of double or multiple registrants […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Malaria Control Programme in Jigawa, says it has treated 1.5 million children in the just concluded Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) campaign in the state. Malam Bilya Haruna, Coordinator of the programme, disclosed this in an interview on Saturday in Dutse. Haruna said that the exercise was conducted with the support of […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has said that its newly introduced Visa on Arrival (VOA) facility was to attract foreign investments to the nation. Mr Abdullahi Dalhatu, the Controller of immigration in charge of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), made the disclosure in an interview in Lagos. He explained that the […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) says the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited had made history for being the company with the highest share capital in the country. The Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, revealed this in Abuja, while presenting the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company to President […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has discredited the viral rumour circulating round that Senator Ademola Adeleke had promised him a private jet gift. The statement was issued by the Directorate of Media and Public Affairs of the Ooni of Ife’s Palace, Mr Moses Olafare, on Friday in Ile-Ife. […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu returned back to Nigeria after a three month medical trip to the United Kingdom. His media spokesman, Tunde Rahman, confirmed the return of the APC stalwart last night. In a statement he said: “His Excellency, Asiwaju […]
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – From Hello Fresh to the Spotify, subscription services are now so commonplace they’ve almost become the norm. Subscriptions started life in the media world, with newspaper and magazine subscriptions dating back centuries. But in the last ten years, the subscription business model has exploded in popularity across consumer industries including fashion, food […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than three persons were feared dead on Friday as soldier’s raided Izombe community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo. African Examiner also gathered that many houses, including the palace of the traditional ruler of the Aborshi-Izombe community, Pius Muforo, was razed down. Although the exact cause of the raid […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – California has made it illegal to remove a condom during sex without verbal consent, a practice popularly known as “stealthing.” Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Thursday that classifies the removal of a condom without consent as “sexual battery.” “By passing this bill, we are underlining the importance of consent,” the […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Muhammad Nami, the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), has said that only 41 million pay taxes in Nigeria out of the over 200 million population in the country. Nami made the disclosure at the ‘Public Presentation and Breakdown of the Highlights of the 2022 Appropriation Bill’ in Abuja on […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned Mr Embelakpo Apere and his wife, Beauty, before a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa. The couple was arraign for money laundering allegedly carried out in 2015. Embelakpo is a former aide on Sustainable Development Goals to the then Gov. Seriake Dickson […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, says the proponents of the legalisation of cannabis sativa cannot have what they desire. He disclosed this at the 2021 Ulefunta annual public lecture in Akure. In a statement by the agency’s Director Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi on […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsely Moghlau, has crossed over the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The 58-year-old had previously dumped the Young Progressive Party (YPP) after his underwhelming performance as a candidate in the 2019 presidential election. Moghalu announced his new […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, stated that Nigeria is setback in the nation’s leadership recruitment process. He stated this during a book presentation titled: “Leadership principles for junior commanders in the military,” in Abuja. The book was written by the acting Commandant, Nigeria Army School of […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has called out the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, for allegedly using “foul language against those in leadership”. Adesina, in a Facebook post on Thursday night, stated that Abaribe should be “cooling his feet in prison” after he “stood surety for […]
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Friday, October 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan on Friday held that the a former official of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kolawole Babalola had a case to answer in the alleged N8 billion currency scam instituted against him. Ruling in the no case submission filed before him, Justice Ayo Emmanuel said that […]
