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Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unknown gunmen on Sunday, set ablaze the offices of the Directorate of State Service (DSS) and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Nnewi, Anambra State, leaving two people dead on their trail. Also affected was the country home of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Joe Igbokwe who is […]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) personnel have arrested a suspected fake soldier, Hayatu Galadima and his accomplice, Hamisu Adamu. They were in possession of hard drugs, ammunition and communication equipment suspected to be for use by bandits in Kaduna State. NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said in a […]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Sao Tome and Principe is an important and strategic partner to Nigeria. The vice president said that Nigeria’s relationship with the twin-island Central African nation had been growing over the years and would be further strengthened. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said the […]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Zamfara on Saturday announced the rescue of five family members of Zamfara Assembly Speaker, Nasiru Ma’azu Magarya, abducted by bandits on Aug. 5.The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ayuba Elkanah, confirmed this while presenting the rescued victims before reporters in Gusau. Elkanah said the 16 victims, including a […]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Bayelsa has confirmed the release of Chief Gbalipre Turner by his abductors. The 70-year-old father of the Chairman of Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa, Mr Marvin Turner, was abducted on Sept. 5, at Kpansia, Yenagoa. In a statement on Saturday, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), SP […]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Brighton & Hove Albion created a slew of chances but failed to get many of them on target as they were held to a 0-0 draw by a rudderless Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday. On a wet, blustery evening, Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka got the game off to a promising start […]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Joe Biden has mourned the about 700,000 Americans who lost their lives to COVID-19. Biden, in his twitter handle on Saturday night, said: “Today, we mark another grim and heartbreaking milestone in this pandemic: over 700,000 Americans lost. “As we acknowledge the tragic scale of this death toll, we must […]
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin has sentenced one Jamiu Isiaka to 28 years at the Mandala Correctional Centre, Ilorin, for impersonating presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, to commit fraud against a South Korean national. The prosecution claimed that Isiaka had presented himself as the Special Adviser to the President on Media […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has announced the death of its Director-General, Dr Timothy Olawale. NECA Secretariat said in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday that Olawale passed on, on Friday, Oct. 1 in a hospital in Abuja. “It is with deepest sadness that we announce the passing of Dr […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Zamfara has arrested a notorious bandits commander, one Bello Rugga and neutralised five others during a raid in Gummi Local Government Area of the state. Mr Ayuba Elkanah, the Commissioner of Police, made the disclosure while parading the kingpin alongside 21 other suspected bandits and their collaborators, on […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said that he was retiring from politics and has decided not to run for vice president in next year’s elections. This, he said, was amidst surveys showing Filipinos believed it would violate the constitution. Duterte, whose six-year term as president ends 2022, instead endorsed his long-time […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday travel to Ethiopia to attend the inauguration of the country’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for a second five-year term in office on Monday in Addis Ababa. This was disclosed through a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, says he is fine but only undergoing physiotherapy in London. He stated this while addressing members of the House of Representatives northern caucus that visited him in London on Friday. The former governor, who has been in the United Kingdom for the last three months […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Training Depot Commander of the Nigerian Merchant Navy Coastal Defence Force, Lagos, Ichuku Agaba, says the force has identified criminal hideouts on Lagos waterways. Agaba stated this in Lagos that the force was prepared to take battle to the criminal hideouts. He said also that the group had joined forces with […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A group of Anambra Women for Peace has slammed the state governor Chief Willie Obiano for spiraling insecurity in the state, saying the governor’s ineptitude has turned the state into the epicenter of insecurity in southern Nigeria. The group asked security agencies to investigate the complicity of the governor in the current […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – British care home workers who are not prepared to get the COVID vaccine should “get out and get another job,’’ Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Saturday. Javid brushed off appeals from providers to pause the legal requirement for staff in England to be fully vaccinated, amid warnings some homes will be […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief Oshadumo, who was kidnapped, has died in a crossfire between his abductors and rescuers. Oshadumo was kidnapped two Sundays ago when gunmen attacked the ECWA church in Okedayo-Kabba, Kogi State, where one person was killed, and his wife and other worshippers were shot. The attack came barely seven days after the […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A proposed law to compel the Executive Arm of government to regulate prices of food and other items, in order to guarantee food security and lessen the economic hardship on majority of Nigerians, is underway in the House of Representatives. The Bill seeking that regulation, is entitled: “An Act to Alter the […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – APC has postponed the flag-off of its Anambra governorship campaign scheduled for Saturday in Onitsha, Anambra, in honour of victims of various attacks in the state. The governorship election holds in the state Nov. 6. The governorship candidate, Sen. Andy Uba, announced the postponement in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja. […]
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 161 new cases of COVID-19 in the country as of Oct. 1. The NCDC said on its website on Saturday morning that the additional 161 infections brought the total of infections in the country to 205,940. It said 193,812 cases had been successfully […]
