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Friday, July 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The French and German Governments have boosted humanitarian support work in crisis-ridden North-East region of Nigeria with additional €400,000. The amount is aimed at supporting the continued operations of the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) operated by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the West African nation. The ongoing conflict continues […]
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Friday, July 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has announced the death of its Provost Marshal, Maj.-Gen. Hassan Ahmed, who was killed by gunmen on Thursday. The death was announced in a statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, on Friday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said the incident occurred when the senior officer’s vehicle was […]
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Friday, July 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ondo State Council, has declared seven days of mourning to honour a departed colleague, Mr Olubunmi Afuye, who was killed on Thursday when armed robbers stormed a bank. Afuye, popularly known as ‘BUMBAM’, was killed alongside two people, including a policeman and motorcyclist, on Thursday at […]
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Friday, July 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday assured that there was no indication of an imminent lockdown, as the nation braces up for COVID-19’s third wave. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, stated this in a briefing to State House correspondents after the virtual NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi […]
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Friday, July 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, has said that the decision of the Senate to subject INECs constitutional power to conduct elections to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and National Assembly is patently unconstitutional. Tambuwal, who is also the governor of Sokoto State, in a statement he issued in Abuja […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A resolution by the Senate empowering the National Communications Commission (NCC) to determine that a network is adjudged secured and approved by the National Assembly before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) can transmit election results electronically, on Thursday, led to uproar in the Upper Chamber. Deputy Chief Whip Aliyu Abdullahi had […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Viral reports on several news blogs and broadcast on social media platforms especially Whatsapp stated the Federal Government on Tuesday announced three-day Eid-ul-Adha holidays from July 20 to 22. This is false and misleading because the Federal Government is yet to make any official pronouncement or declaration for the Eid-ul-Adha holiday in […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Thursday passed the harmonised Petroleum Industry Bill which was produced by a conference committee of both chambers of the National Assembly last week. The harmonised version of the PIB was submitted for consideration by the federal lawmakers on Thursday at plenary. Prior to the approval of the proposed legislation […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A lady has lamented how Nigeria has failed her after she was abducted, raped daily and her relations were later made to pay N2 million for her freedom to the kidnappers. According to the lady with twitter handle @Blessedcindy0, in a twitter thread with her battered face stated that two of her […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senators in the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly are poised for a showdown this morning as the Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission pushes for the confirmation of Prof. Sani Adams, whose nomination was stepped down on Tuesday. Adams and a presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, were not cleared by […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party has named Senator Ibrahim Dambaba (Sokoto South) as the new Senate Minority Whip. He replaced Senator Sahabi Yau from Zamfara State, who defected to the All Progressives Congress recently. Details later…
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of eleven Candidates, including an Ex- Military Administrator (MILAD) of Gombe state, Group Capt. Joe Orji (rtd) have indicated interest to vie for the Enugu State All progressive Congress APC Chairmanship position in the coming elective Congress of the Nigeria’s ruling party. African Examiner Recalled that Orji, an Aircraft Engineer, […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Kolade Alabi, National President, Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), has declared his support for state police in the country. Alabi expressed his support in a statement released to newsmen in Enugu, on Wednesday, at the end of the Association’s National Executive Committee meeting in the state. He urged the […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the supplementary recruitment of 44 candidates by the Nigerian Navy, for allegedly violating the principle of Federal character. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance by Rep Ben Igbakpa (PDP-Delta) at the plenary on Wednesday, in Abuja. Moving the […]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) = The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), has approved a uniform template for the implementation of the Memorandum of Action on financial autonomy for State legislatures and judiciary. The forum disclosed this in a communiqué signed by its Chairman and Ekiti State Gov. Kayode Fayemi, on Thursday night, in Abuja, after its 32nd teleconference […]
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The management of the University of Lagos has shut down the student hostels over reported cases of coronavirus on the campus. Also, the management also approved that lectures for the rest of the semester should be delivered virtually with effect from 26th July 2021. The decision was reached at an emergency senate […]
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some ram sellers in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Area of Ogun have expressed concern over low patronage of buyers, ahead of the forthcoming Eid-el Kabir festival. The ram sellers stated this known in separate interviews on Wednesday in Ota, Ogun. Mr Musa Abdullahi, a seller at Toll-Gate ram market, Sango-Ota, attributed the low patronage […]
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has stated that her life was threatened for saving Nigeria huge sums of money during the oil subsidy scam when she served as the country’s finance minister. She disclosed this when she spoke in an interview organised by Atlantic Council, a United States […]
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, in Edo State has said that no fewer than 85 persons lost their lives and 279 others got injured in various road traffic crashes (RTCs) recorded in Edo between January and June. African Examiner reports that Mr. Henry Benamaisia, the corps Sector Commander who made this […]
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday disclosed that it has arrested more suspects in the murder of Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, as an “afterthought”. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Wednesday stated that it has also established a “conspiracy” in the circumstances which led […]
