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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 […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the family of late Michael Okpara, Premier of Eastern Nigeria during the First Republic, on the passing of Adanma. Adanma, who hailed from Afugiri Ohuhu clan in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia, died at 97. The president, in a statement by his spokesman, Mr […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has been ordered to suspend its ongoing National Industrial Court, Abuja division suspend its nationwide strike. NIC’s judge John Targema, gave the order while ruling on an ex parte application by the Federal Government, The Cable reports. The government had asked the court for an order […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Wife Of Ex- Head Of State, Mrs. Ironsi is dead. She died Monday 23rd August 2021 at the age of 97. Mrs. Aguiyi-Ironsi who would have been 98 years on 21st November, died when her family members and all well- wishers were preparing for her birthday bash. Fondly called “Ironside”, her husband […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Customers on Monday were stranded as banks failed to open in Owerri, the capital city of Imo State. This is even as markets, schools, eateries, shopping malls and supermarkets also failed to open for the day. Our correspondent who monitored the situation around the state capital saw bank customers stranded at Bank […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A frontline multinational commercial bank, Access Bank Plc has decried the declining statistics on blood donation in Nigeria. Access Bank’s Group Head of Corporate Communications, Amaechi Okobi stated this in a statement made available to the media today. Okobi said Nigeria’s National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) revealed that only about 25,000 blood […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Joe Igbokwe, an aide to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has alleged that his life is being threatened by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Igbokwe alleged that IPOB was threatening his life since he is against the philosophy of the group and the Eastern Security Network, ESN. In an open […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said Big Brother Naija Lockdown housemate, Dorathy Bachor, lied that she was at home when the anti-graft operatives broke into her residence in the Lekki area of Lagos State. EFCC in a statement on Monday also said “nine alleged internet fraud suspects were apprehended in […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ebonyi and other security agencies said they would embark on a state-wide intensive patrols as part of efforts to protect lives and property over the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). African Examiner recalls that IPOB had fixed Monday every week for its sit-at-home […]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the current insecurity challenge facing Nigeria continues unabated, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev. (Dr) Agustine Akubueze Sunday declared that the change of service chiefs by the Federal Government was yet to produce the desired effect. He spoke during the ongoing second plenary of their Conference […]
