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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has urged northerners to suspend plans of travelling to the south-east. In a statement issued on Monday, by Mr Audu Ogbe, chairman of the forum, stated that the travel advisory became necessary following the killing of Ahmed Gulak, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Gulak, […]
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu has written the Senate seeking its confirmation of Maj.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya as Chief of Army Staff (COAS). Buhari’s request is contained in a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and read during Tuesday’s plenary. The letter reads: I hereby forward for confirmation by the Senate, the appointment […]
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ugandan Minister of Works and Transport, Gen. Katumba Wamal, on Tuesday survived an assassination attempt, the local broadcaster NBS News has reported. The news outlet however said that Wamal lost his daughter and driver in the failed assassination attempt. According to the news outlet, Wamala’s car was shot in a suburb […]
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police in Ebonyi arrested six suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and recovered five locally made pistols with 12 live ammunition from them. Police spokesperson in the state, DSP Loveth Odah, said this in a statement on Tuesday. Odah said the suspects were arrested during operations on […]
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has pledged to pay over 7000 students bursary, as parts of activities to mark his 100 days in office. The Secretary to the State Government, (SSG), Princess Oladunni Odu, said this at a news conference to reel out programmes marking the 100 days Akeredolu in office […]
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has revealed that it is currently considering equity participation in a number of private refineries in the country in line with a Federal Government policy directive which stipulates the mandatory participation of the Corporation in any privately-owned refinery that exceeds 50,000 barrels per day capacity in keeping […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abubakar Bello, governor of Niger state, has reportedly travelled abroad amid perennial insecurity and fresh kidnap of schoolchildren of Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Rafi Local government of the state. The African Examiner reports that bandits had invaded the school on Sunday evening. According to reports, the bandits arrived in their numbers […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia’s food reserve agency on Monday assured that the country was food secure and would remain so in the foreseeable future. Kelvin Hambwezya, Food Reserve Agency (FRA) Chairperson, said the 3.6 million tons of maize produced in the 2020/2021 season and the 840,000-carryover stock from the previous season meant that the country […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An ethnic group in Namibia has rejected the agreement proposed by Germany to recognise the crimes of the German colonial power more than 100 years ago in what is now Namibia as genocide. The group, called association of chiefs of the Herero and Nama ethnic groups, demanded that the planned signing ceremony […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 18,639 individuals has been nabbed for alleged illegal border crossing since December 2020, making up to 248 per cent yearly, China’s National Immigration Administration said on Monday. Since the Ministry of Public Security launched a special campaign in 2020, authorities have investigated 6,732 criminal cases involving actions that will […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ebonyi has discredited recent reports/ pictures flying on social media that a community in Ebonyi has been attacked by suspected gunmen in the early hours of Sunday. This is contained in a statement issued to reporters in Abakaliki on Sunday by the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah. According […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given two weeks’ extension to candidates genuinely unable to complete their registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The deadline for registration was May 29, 2021. A statement by JAMB’s head of information and protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, noted that such candidates […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An explosion has rocked parts of mile 3 market in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, Rivers State. The incident, which occurred around 6:30am on Monday, sent people especially at Mile 3 motor park running to different places for safety. Though no life was lost, many people were reportedly injured. A source […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former presidential candidate and publisher of online news medium, SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, has been “shot” by a police operative in Abuja. Sowore was reportedly shot on Monday by a female police officer at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. The politician was at a rally with some associates when the incident happened. An […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Social and economic activities were grounded in Awka, Anambra State capital, on Monday following the Sit-at-home order (on May 31) given by the proscribed Biafra agitators, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The group said ,it declared a Sit-at-home order in remembrance of more than five million Igbo people who died during […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command on Monday said it has launched a manhunt for the killers of former Enugu State High Court Judge, Justice Stanley Nnaji. Justice Nnaji was reportedly killed by gunmen suspected to be assassins on Sunday evening. A statement by the Enugu State Police Command, however, could not identify […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Okwudor, Njaba Local Government Area of Imo, has been gutted by fire set by unknown gunmen. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Prof. Francis Ezeonu, made this known in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday, in Owerri. He confirmed […]
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says the N200 billion facility earmarked for the Federal Government’s Social Housing Scheme was ready to commence disbursement for the project. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, in Abuja. The presidential aide […]
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress [APC)’s primaries were truncated in many parts of Lagos on Saturday by hoodlums and party officials allegedly favouring particular candidates ahead of the July 24 local government elections. African Examiner reports that hundreds of aggrieved APC members on Saturday kept vigil at the party’s state secretariat in Lagos […]
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has warned that traders who comply with the Monday’s sit-at-home order should be ready to forfeit their shops. Umahi issued the warning in a state-wide broadcast on Saturday in Abakaliki to mark the sixth anniversary of his administration. He was reacting to the order by the proscribed […]
