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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, […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, has died aged 97, according to Zambian news platform. He was the country’s founding father and ruled for 27 years from 1964 after it gained independence from Britain. Kaunda’s death comes days after reports that he was admitted to Maina Soko military hospital in the […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has called for global intervention over the killings in the South-West region, saying that “the bubble may burst soon”. He made the call in a letter to the Secretary General, United Nations (UN), the Chairperson of the African Union (AU), and the Secretary of […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Another set of female students of Federal Government Girls College have been abducted by Bandits in Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, according to Daily Trust. Details of the incident are still sketchy but there are reports that a security operative was shot dead during the operation. The attackers, who rode on motorcycles, were said […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 127 suspected traffic robbers were arrested in different parts of Lagos metropolis in three months, Commissioner of Police (CP), Hakeem Odumosu, has said. Odumosu, confirmed this in a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos by the Command’s spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi. The Commissioner of Police who addressed some officers […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was a tense atmosphere in an Ikeja High Court on Wednesday night as Francis Atuche, a former Managing Director (MD) of Bank PHB, begged Justice Lateefa Okunnu not to send him to prison following his conviction for defrauding the bank of N25.7 billion. Atuche and Ugo Anyanwu, a former Chief Financial […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hoodlums who reportedly disguised themselves as local vigilante groups in the early hours of Wednesday stormed the private residence of the immediate past Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Imo State, Chief Cyprian Akaolisa and set the building ablaze. African Examiner gathered that the multi-million naira modern building which situates at Ebenato Ward […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday June 17, visit Borno state. During the one day official visit, President Buhari would appraise the security situation and inaugurate some of the viable projects executed by the federal and state governments. Governor Babagana Zulum made this known in a special broadcast to the people of […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has called for urgent restoration of the people’s lost values of honesty and integrity in order to stamp out corruption in the country. The ICPC chairman made the call during a one-day Stakeholders Zonal Dialogue on the […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian actor, Olanrewaju James (popularly known as Baba Ijesha), has been denied bail on Wednesday before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for alleged sexual assault and attempted rape of a minor and equally transferred the case to Lagos high court The 48-year-old man was arraigned on a four-count charge […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The dates for the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states have been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The election in Ekiti State will hold on Saturday, June 18, while that of Osun State will hold on July 16. This was announced by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senior Prophet Celestial Church of Christ Genesis Global, Israel Ogundipe has blamed gospel singer, Tope Alabi, for criticising a popular Christian song, Oniduro Mi. African Examiner reports in a video making the rounds on social media, Tope Alabi said God isn’t her guarantor because He’s more than a guarantor. She said: “God […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says it is undemocratic for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to shift his constitutional responsibility of securing lives and property of Nigerians to state governors. The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, said the President is the Commander- In-Chief of […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday signed an agreement with South Sudan to provide meals to more than 530,000 children in the country. The meals will be provided in 1,100 schools across the ten states for a period of 19 months. Adeyinka Badejo, WFP Deputy Country Director for South Sudan, […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the health of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide is at risk from the illegal processing of old electrical or electronic devices. WHO raised the alert on Tuesday in a landmark new report on the toxic threat, entitled: “Children and Digital Dumpsites’’. In a statement coinciding […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo says the state governmant is working out a welfare package, including an insurance scheme, for the police personnel in the state. A statement issued in Owerri on Tuesday by Mr Oguwike Nwachuku, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, stated that Uzodinma announced the plan during a […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Consulate General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija, says no fewer than 1,328 passports produced at the mission are yet to be collected. Egopija stated in New York that the passports were among the backlogs cleared, but were yet to be collected by the applicants. The Nigerian envoy said […]
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government has released a date for the opening to traffic of the 2nd Niger Bridge. The Managing Director and Chief Executive of National Inland Waterways, NIWA, George Moghalu, disclosed that the 2nd Niger Bridge will be opened to traffic from February 2022. Moghalu stated this at the flag-off of a […]
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unidentified gunmen struck a drinking joint in Jos, Plateau State, fatally shooting no fewer than 10 persons dead on Sunday, the police have said. The gunmen drove in a Hilux van into Kashe (Sabon Layi) community, Kuru District of Jos South Local Government, sporadically shooting at the bar and leaving many dead […]
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunde Bakare, the senior pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, has stated that he should not be blamed for the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari. Bakare, who ran as vice president to Mr Buhari in 2011, described himself to the biblical prophet Samuel, who anointed Saul as Israel’s king saying that his […]
