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Sunday, June 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Navy has arrested 10 suspected vandals conveying 210,000 litres of diesel, Automotive Gas Oil (AGO), concealed in water tanks inside a large wooden boat around the Lagos Anchorage. A statement by the Information Officer, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) BEECROFT, Sub-Lt. Veronica Effiong, on Saturday, said the vandals were arrested on […]
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Sunday, June 20th, 2021
(AFRICAAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has reaffirmed that construction of the Second Niger Bridge would be completed next year. The minister gave the assurance at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, to mark the sixth-year anniversary of the present administration. According […]
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Sunday, June 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities in Dubai has announced a revision in procedures for travellers coming from South Africa and Nigeria on June 19. This is contained in a statement issued by the UAE Embassy in Abuja. According to the statement, the new rules issued by the Supreme Committee of Crisis […]
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In spite of the outcry against the plan to retrace and recover grazing routes across the country, the Federal Government is not showing signs of relenting. African Examiner revealed that stock routes, popularly called grazing routes, are currently being retraced and recovered by the Federal Government for herders to graze their cattle. […]
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bishop David Oyedepo, Chancellor, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara, on Friday called for urgent steps to check students’ unregulated access to social media. “We must wake up from our slumber to deal with this monster. It unconsciously robs people of their future by robbing them of their time,’’ Oyedepo, said at the 7th […]
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ongoing violent clash among youths of Inalende, Abebi and Oopo areas of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has claimed more casualties. Though, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Adewale Osifeso, while confirming the incident, said he has yet to establish the number of casualties, a witness insisted that the casualties increased […]
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus says every region has countries facing a steep increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths, with cases in Africa on rapid increase. Ghebreyesus, who spoke on Friday at COVID-19 news briefing at WHO headquarters in Geneva, expressed concerns that COVID-19 cases in Africa had increased by […]
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister for Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, on Friday commended the dedication of former Super Eagles Captain, John Mikel Obi. He also announced Mikel Obi as an Ambassador of the sports ministry. The minister gave the commendation at a press conference held in Mikel-Obi’s honor at the National Stadium, Lagos. […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Kebbi has confirmed that the vehicle used to abduct students from Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi, belongs to a high court judge in the state. Nafi’u Abubakar, Kebbi police spokesman, stated that the van was hijacked by bandits on Birnin Yauri road. Abubakar disclosed that the police […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With the goal of stirring youth to work, Adedolapo Adekanbi, popularly known as DolapoTheVibe is a fast-rising Nigerian-American singer, songwriter and performer on Friday released first official single for the year 2021 titled, WORK. “Work” is created with the aim of encouraging listeners to work for whatever they want, because of course […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says it will soon begin prosecution of fans exhibiting hooliganism at match venues. NFF’s First Vice-President, Seyi Akinwunmi, said this while addressing participants at the Nigeria National League (NNL) Football Development Summit for Club Administrators and Media, in Abuja on Friday. Akinwunmi, who declared the event open on […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of five new Permanent Secretaries into the civil service of the federation. This followed the recent successful conduct of the selection process of permanent secretaries. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan made the announcement in a statement by […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW) has distanced itself from the violence that claimed lives and properties with many sustaining varying degrees of injuries at Iwo Road Ibadan and equally shift the blame on the Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State for empowering Mukaila Lamidi (aka Auxilliary) who is responsible […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Gov. Nasir El’ Rufai of Kaduna State has disclosed that 99 political appointees were sacked as part of government right sizing. El-Rufai, who made the disclosure at news briefing, said that the government was yet to disengage any state civil servant in the state. The governor explained that the disengaged political appointees constituted […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka as Sunday Igboho, is set to visit Lagos for Yoruba Nation rally. African Examiner reports Yoruba nation protesters have held rallies across southwest states, including Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, and Ondo. Igboho in the past weeks expressed dissatisfaction over the continuous activities of killer herders in the […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three bodies have so far been recovered from the scene of Thursday night’s tanker explosion on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos State. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, confirmed the development in Ikeja on Friday. Our correspondent reports that […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North) of N322 million money laundering charge Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke held that the agency failed to prove the elements of the offences for which it charged the lawmaker. Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, represents Delta North […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) says the new management of the fund is not under probe by the Public Accounts Committee of the Senate over alleged N62 billion fraud. Ms Alexandra Mede, Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs, NSITF, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Mede said that the […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of the All-Progressives Congress, APC, ward seven, Igbo Eze North Council Area of Enugu State, Southeast Nigeria, Mr. Nwokedi Ugwoke has been sacked from office, over alleged anti-party activities. Following the development, a new chairman, Mr. Nduka Obeta has been sworn in as his replacement. Disclosing this to newsmen on […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ekiti on Thursday said it has arrested a 65-year-old man, Durodola Ogundele, for allegedly having canal knowledge of his stepmother. A statement by the command’s Spokesperson, Mr Sunday Abutu, in Ado-Ekiti, said Ogundele was apprehended by the Ido-Osi Divisional Headquarters of the command on Wednesday at in Ido-Osi, […]
