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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Tax Appeal Tribunal (TAT) sitting in Lagos has ordered Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of cable television services, DSTV, to pay 50 per cent of N1.8 trillion tax backlog to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Mr Abdullahi Ahmad, the Director, Communications and Liaison Department of the FIRS, made this known in […]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Delta government has confirmed the outbreak of Avian influenza in the state, with 164, 173 birds reported dead. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Julius Egbedi, made this known while addressing a newsmen on Wednesday in Asaba. ”Government has taken action to curtail the spread of the disease. ”So far, some poultry […]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UK Government has awarded Five Persons with Disabilities the prestigious Chevening Scholarship for the 2020 to 2021 session, to foster their inclusion in the society with equal opportunities as others. Ms Gill Atkinson, Acting Head of British High Commission in Nigeria disclosed this in Abuja, during a presentation to showcase the […]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has said that it had not and would not enlist former or repentant Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists into the service. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, made the clarification in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said an online video circulating in […]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, was on Tuesday factionalised with the emergence of two acting national chairmen. The two Deputy National Chairmen of the party, Yemi Akinwonmi (South) and Senator Suleiman Nazif (North), in separate announcements on Tuesday, claimed to be the party’s acting National Chairman. Our correspondent gathered […]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – If you think that the problems of Haiti do not concern you, I am afraid, you may be mistaken. Haitian’s are descendants of slaves mostly from West Africa, including Nigeria. Some of these slaves might well have shared the same lineage with your ancestors hundreds of years ago. Besides, as a country […]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The US Department of Justice has agreed to hand FIFA $201 million (171m euros) confiscated from corrupt football administrators, the governing body of world football announced on Tuesday. Most of the cash comes from US legal actions in the wake of the “FIFAgate” scandal, which erupted in May 2015 with the dramatic […]
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed its excitement over the emergence of a youthful Olu of Warri, His Royal Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse II, Tsola Emilio. In its congratulatory message to the monarch on his ascendancy to the throne as the 21st Olu of Warri, said his emergence is line with their […]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was tension on Tuesday as the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) split into two factions. Deputy National Chairman (South), Elder Yemi Akinwonmi leads one faction while the Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Suleiman Nazif, has taken charge of the other. Akinwonmi and Nazif are laying claim to the […]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola has directed the caretaker chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Prince Gboyega Famodun to discontinue the suit instituted against the loyalists of his predecessor, Rauf Aregbesola. African Examiner reports the party caretaker Secretary, Hon Rasaq Salinsile; ex-APC chair, Elder Adelowo Adebiyi; Ex-commissioner for Works and Transports, Engr. […]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s foremost military university, the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna was on Tuesday attacked by bandits who killed two officers and abducted one other. The bandits invaded the permanent site of the institution located along Airport Road, Afaka, in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State around 1.00am. A source told our correspondent […]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja, ,has ordered the National Association of Resident Doctors to suspend its strike, which commenced on August 2, 2021. Justice John Targema made the order while delivering his ruling on an ex parte application brought before the court by the Federal Government. The court stated that […]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Zamfara has confirmed that gunmen killed four persons and abducted 50 others in Goran Namaye town in Maradun Local Government Area. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu, made the disclosure to newsmen in Gusau . Shehu said the attackers, who came in large number, invaded the […]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, on Monday, presided over an emergency security meeting that lasted seven hours. The closed-door emergency meeting, called at the instance of the governor, was attended by stakeholders who looked at the security challenges facing the Northwest state. Those who attended the meeting which held at the Government […]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has not declared interest in the 2023 presidential race. Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said videos, banners and other materials linking Osinbajo to the 2023 presidential […]
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
By Wole Arisekola (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In Africa, most especially the South-Western part of Nigeria, it is believed that when a mother hen is crying out to the world that an eagle stole its chic, it is not because it can do anything to retrieve it but to let the world hear its voice. It […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than seven people have been confirmed dead following an outbreak of what is suspected to be cholera in Tella Town, Gassol local government area of Taraba. The state Commissioner for health, Dr. Innocent Vakkai, who confirmed the incident in Jalingo, on Monday, also disclosed that several others had been hospitalized […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pere, Maria, Queen, Sammie, Cross, and JMK, have been nominated for eviction in week five of the Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye season. This was announced during the Monday nomination show where each housemate had to nominate two other housemates for possible eviction. The accumulation of their nominations led to the […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two Katsina state House of Assembly members on Monday wept openly at a plenary deliberating over the issue of insecurity afflicting many Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state The Deputy Speaker of the house, Alhaji Shehu Dalhatu-Tafoki had earlier presented a motion of urgent public importance over the level of insecurity […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police have arrested four suspected land grabbers and cultists in connection with the mayhem in Gberigbe town in Ikorodu area of Lagos. The arrest of the suspected land grabbers and cultists, including one Sola a.k.a. Baba Esu”, followed the killing of three persons, including a Police Officer, who had come to […]
