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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has dissolved his cabinet ,relieving 20 of his 28 commissioners of their duties. At the end of the usual weekly Executive Council meeting, Wednesday, the Governor said the dissolution became necessary to rejig and reenergize the system for maximum productivity. The ministries whose Commissioners were retained in […]
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has promoted 6, 332 officers and men of the service, following the approval of the Civil Defence, Corrections, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB). The Public Relations Officer (SPRO) of the Service, Controller of Corrections (CC), Mr Francis Enobore, said this in a statement made available to […]
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Primary school teachers in Bayelsa have expressed disappointment that their April salaries did not reflect increases following promotions, despite the pledge by Gov Douye Diri. According to official sources, the state government made available about N200 million and had promised to commence the implementation of salary increases following the promotion of primary […]
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has arrived in Kampala, Uganda, to represent Nigeria at the inauguration of re-elected Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni. The event, which comes up on Wednesday at the Independence Grounds in Kampala, will be Museveni’s sixth inauguration as a democratically-elected leader. Museveni was declared winner of the January 14, 2021, […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) has said the Eid-el Fitr festival will hold on Thursday. It asked Muslims in the country to observe Ramadan fast on Wednesday. The NSCIA, which made the clarifications in a statement in Abuja, said the crescent has not been sighted to end Ramadan fast. […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester City was crowned Premier League champions for the third time in four seasons after Manchester United crashed to a 2-1 defeat against Leicester on Tuesday. Pep Guardiola’s side are 10 points clear of second-placed United and have wrapped up the title with three games to spare. City, top-flight champions for the […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Usman Yusuf, former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), says bandits “want genuine peace”. Yusuf disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on Arise TV saying that he has learned from several meetings with the bandits that they are willing to listen to religious leaders. “This is what we […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says attacks on security operatives are a declaration of war against the country. The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammad, disclosed this in a press conference on national security in Lagos State . The statement read, “Now, there is a growing dangerous trend which I will like to comment on. […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It was a free flow of emotions on Tuesday afternoon as the remains of Pastor Dare Adeboye was interred. The cleric was buried after a Farewell Service at the Youth Centre, Redemption Camp, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. In attendance at the farewell service were his wife, Temiloluwa; his three daughters; his brother, […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has ratified new security measures for the Southeast and South-South regions of the country. This was one of the outcomes of the series of security meetings held in the last eleven days and concluded on Tuesday in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Outspoken Enugu Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has announced a one-month shutdown of the Adoration Ministry. The Priest made the announcement in a notice on Tuesday morning. This decision, it was gathered, followed the order to him by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Bishop Calistus Onaga to embark on a […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, states that the government is committed to clean up the state by confiscating abandoned properties, demolishing shanties and illegal structures in order to arrest insecurity . Sanwo-Olu said this during the Security Stakeholders Town Hall Meeting at Ikeja. He said that the shanties, abandoned buildings and […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has inaugurated an 11-member committee to investigate activities of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). President Muhammadu Buhari has earlier approved the recommendation of the Amaechi for the setting up of an Administrative Panel of Inquiry to investigate the Management of the NPA. Amaechi, while inaugurating the […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has re-introduced a nationwide 12am to 4am curfew as part of efforts to curtail further spread of COVID-19. The National Incident Manager, Mukhtar Mohammed, disclosed this at a press briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 in Abuja. Mohammed said the curfew would take effect from midnight on […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has shut down bars, night clubs and recreational centres in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus in the country. The government also reintroduced COVID-19 restrictions across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The Head of Technical Secretariat of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Dr […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that a ministerial delegation be sent to Ghana to resolve the lingering conflict between Nigerian traders and Ghanaian authorities. The delegation will be led by Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, according to a statement issued on Monday by the Special Assistant to the […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has declared Wednesday and Thursday as Public Holidays to mark 2021 Eid-eI-Fitr celebration. A statement by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Shuaib Belgore, stated that the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, while making the declaration on behalf of the federal government, congratulated the Muslim faithful on the […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu has said security agencies in the state were on top of threats by Oodua Republic and the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) agitators to disrupt law and order, and attack soft targets, respectively. He stated this at a stakeholders’ forum on security chaired by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) says that mock examination slips for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) can now be printed out in preparation for the exercise. JAMB made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar and made available on Monday in Abuja. “Candidates who […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation human rights agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has explained that he never insulted nor mocked the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, over the demise of his son, Dare. African Examiner reports that Igboho stirred the hornets’ nest when he rained […]
