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Monday, August 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS), on Monday, seized a phone belonging to a Vanguard Photojournalist, Mr Gbenga Olamikan, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The DSS operatives confiscated the phone following Olamikan’s bid to take snapshots of the 12 detained associates of Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday […]
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Monday, August 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Below is the current medals table of the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo at the end of Sunday’s events across all the sports and at all the venues: Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze […]
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Monday, August 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos government has demolished all shanties and illegal structures on Lekki coastal road which serves as alternative to Lekki-Epe route. The demolition was carried out after a three-day removal notice had reportedly been issued to affected persons. Chairman of the State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Task Force), CSP Shola Jejeloye, confirmed […]
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Monday, August 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It was another “near miss” for Team Nigeria on Monday at the ongoing 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as medal hope Tobiloba Amusan failed to deliver. Amusan, running from lane 6 in the women’s 100 metres hurdles final at the Olympic Stadium finished fourth after a time of 12.60 seconds. It was […]
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Monday, August 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara State Government says it will enact laws to regulate social media against spread of fake news in the state. Matawalle disclosed this in Gusau on Sunday at the inauguration of the newly-elected state executives of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ). Matawalle, represented by the State Commissioner of Information, […]
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Monday, August 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, has counselled the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against threatening a lockdown in the South-East Zone every Monday. Okechukwu gave the advice in a statement on Sunday in Enugu. IPOB, in a statement on Friday through its Publicity Secretary, […]
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Sunday, August 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The agonising traffic gridlock on the Apapa road leading to the port has constituted a major headache to the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), its acting Managing Director, Alhaji Mohammed Bello-Koko, has said. Bello-Koko told newsmen on Sunday in Lagos that the traffic congestion problem had defied solutions “for more than 10 years […]
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Sunday, August 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has returned home after he was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Saturday. Saraki, who spent a few hours with operatives of the EFCC told THISDAY that he met with officials of the commission after an invitation to clarify some issues. “They asked […]
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Sunday, August 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Head Coach of kickboxing in Ogun State, Olufunke Ogunsuyi, has been confirmed dead. She died in Ilorin on Saturday while participating in the Kwara Zonal and Invitational Kickboxing Championship. She officiated in the competition and also fielded two athletes. The corpse of the former kickboxing champion was picked up in her […]
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Sunday, August 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission (PSC) has stated that they find it strange that a US Court would call for the arrest of a Nigerian living in Nigeria. PSC on Saturday stated that it is yet to get a formal report on the allegations against Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). […]
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Sunday, August 1st, 2021
Photos above show Usman Kyari Flaunts Expensive, Luxury Cars On Instagram as his brother, Abba Kyari, who is a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) is indicted by the United States Court over alleged $1 million bribe allegedly received from Hushpuppi, Nigeria’s famous fraudster currently facing trial in California.
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Sunday, August 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday organised parallel ward congresses in Abia, as leadership crisis continues to rock the party. The congresses came barely two days after the party re-affirmed the suspension of its chieftain, Chief Ikechi Emenike. Emenike is the leader of a faction of the party, challenging the Donatus […]
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Sunday, August 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Peace, Reconciliation and Outreach Committee on Saturday in Enugu held a closed door meeting with Mrs Bianca Ojukwu. Mrs Ojukwu is the wife of late national leader of the party, Chief Chukwuemeka Ojukwu and former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain. The delegation which included the Speaker, Anambra […]
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Sunday, August 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday in Abuja confirmed the arrest and detention of the former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the spokesperson of the commission said that Saraki was invited for questioning over allegations of corruption and money laundering. He said the former senate president […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunde Rahman, Special Adviser on Media to National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has denied his principal is dead or hospitalised. Rahman made this known on Saturday in a statement following rumours the former Lagos Governor has passed on. The statement reads: “His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Officers of the Department of State Services have been feeding the 12 aides of the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, with a soup known as “engine oil”, counsel for the detained persons, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has alleged. The lawyer, who said he was at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Team Nigeria’s Grace Nwokocha has crashed out of women’s 100m at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. She crashed out after finishing fifth in heat 3 of women’s 100m semis with a time of 11.07 seconds. Earlier, Blessing Okagbare and Grace Nwokocha on Friday qualified for the semifinals, giving Nigeria hope of winning a […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Doctors under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have unanimously agreed to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday, August 2, 2021. This is coming at a very critical time when the country is currently experiencing a rise in COVID-19 infections; the signal of a third wave of […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday declared every Monday, effective August 9,2021, a sit-at-home day to press for the release of its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. But Igbo apex socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has criticized against the move, warning that it could worsen the economic situation in the region. Spokesman […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Team Nigeria’s Divine Oduduru has been disqualified from Heat 5 of men’s 100m for a false start at the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Meanwhile, Ese Itsekiri representing the country in the 100 metres at the Olympics qualified for the semi-final after finishing 3rd respectively in his heat. Itsekiri finished in 10.15 seconds […]
