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Friday, August 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Prof. Ishaq Oloyede as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for another five years. Buhari also approved the reappointment of the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) Prof. Adamu Rasheed, for another five years tenure. The approval is contained in a […]
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Friday, August 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular cross dresser, Bobrisky has disclosed the musical performance to anticipate in his forthcoming 30th birthday celebration. The Instagram celebrity, who has been keeping his fans and followers abreast the highly anticipated celebration disclosed Fuji king, K1 De Ultimate will be performing at his birthday bash. In a video shared by the […]
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Friday, August 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State Government has refuted claims that the state has not accessed N715 million counterpart funds for Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for year 2020 Intervention Projects. The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr Nureni Adeniran, in a statement in Ibadan affirmed that the state had paid […]
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Friday, August 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has admonished fifth columnists and naysayers to stop spewing negative and false narratives around Boko Haram members who are surrendering in droves in the North-East. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the admonition in an interview on Friday in Washington. African Examiner reports that that […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) just accented to by President Muhammadu Buhari will transform the nation’s petroleum industry into a hub of business opportunities, Mallam Mele Kyari, has said. Kyari, who is the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), also said the Act will also attract huge capital globally […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has constituted a presidential delegation ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Kano for the marriage of his son, Yusuf Buhari, to Zahra Bayero, on Friday. Zahra is the daughter of Nasiru Ado Bayero, the Emir of Bichi in Kano State. A statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has accused some revenue generating agencies of the federal government of concealing their revenue while the Buhari regime continues to borrow humongous loans abroad. The parliament says such malpractices are making proper budgeting hard for the government. Criticising the way the country resorts to borrowing N5.62 trillion to […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many demonstrators flooded Afghan cities on Thursday as popular opposition to the Taliban spread across the Middle East nation facing forceful takeover of power by the extremist group. A witness said several people were killed when the militants fired on a crowd in Asadabad in the east. “Our flag, our identity,” a […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The ex- governor, who has been on the commission’s watch list, was intercepted at about 10 am this morning and brought to the headquarters of the EFCC at […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headsets could hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves. The beta test of Facebook’s Horizon Workroom app comes as many companies continue to work from home after the Coronavirus […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The fate of Afghanistan after a 20-year war led by U.S. means the West’s resolve is now perceived as weak by major adversaries. According to the British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, the adversaries include Russia. Afghanistan’s war has cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars but the militant Islamist Taliban are […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The family of the late Mohammed Fawehinmi on Thursday, said he died of complications from COVID-19 infection. The younger brother of the deceased, Mr Saheed Fawehinmi, who spoke on behalf of the family, disclosed this at a news briefing at his residence, Fani Kayode Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos State. Fawehinmi said […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, held a meeting behind closed doors in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The meeting is ongoing as of the time of filing this report. Secondus arrived at Obasanjo’s Penthouse residence at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Oke […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan yesterday rejected a request by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami (SAN) to stop hearing a suit instituted against the Federal Government by Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemi(aka Sunday Igboho). Adeyemi had filed the suit challenging the invasion of his Ibadan residence […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says Nigeria is not a failed state and cannot go the way of Afghanistan where terrorist group has taken the rein of power. The minister stated this in Washington DC during his engagements with international media organisations including the BBC Radio and Television, […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government said it has rescued a total of 728 street beggars, hawkers and destitute persons in the last seven months, the Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Mr Olusegun Dawodu, said. He stated in a news conference in Ikeja that the 728 beggars, destitute persons and hawkers, comprising 347 […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed on Jos North Local Government Area, following the killing of commuters along Rukuba road in the area on Aug.14. In a statement issued by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Dr Makut Macham in Jos Lalong said the curfew had […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former bank staff has said his decision to quit the white collar job has proven to be a wise move in hindsight as he now earns much better. Ali Dahiru, who resigned his job in Zenith Bank and took to selling bread, says his decision has turned out to be a […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria in Anambra has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to engage agitators in the country in a peaceful dialogue, noting that using force against them will worsen secession threats. Moses Ezedebego, the PFN chairman, made the call while addressing reporters on Tuesday in Amawbia, Awka South local […]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue says that his administration would not back down on the ongoing privatisation of some moribund government enterprises, in spite of criticisms in some quarters. Ortom told newsmen on Wednesday in Makurdi that negative narratives being churned out on the exercise were the handiwork of those he called […]
