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Friday, March 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- An election observation mission from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is in Benin for the 11 April presidential election. The 10 experts, who are members of the ECOWAS long-term Election Observation Mission to be deployed throughout the country, arrived on Tuesday and will spend 25 days. Members of the team, […]
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Thursday, March 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The donation of N50m to victims of Katsina Central Market fire by All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, has been raising dust on social media with many Nigerians criticising the former Lagos State governor while his supporters have also taken to his defence Reno Omokri, a former social media aide to ex-President […]
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Thursday, March 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila has advised police authorities to take drastic efforts to trash out bad eggs in building a force that will be enviable Speaking while declaring open a one-day public hearing on a bill to repeal and re-enact the Police Service Commission bill as well as a bill to establish the […]
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Thursday, March 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab has killed at least three civilians, including a mother, her infant, during an attack on the United Nations and African Union headquarters in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu The police disclosed on Thursday At least five others were injured during the mortar attack on the heavily fortified camp Halane, […]
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Thursday, March 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) 28 year old Abubakar Suleiman was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for trafficking 30 women to Libya by a Federal High Court in Kano The National Agency for the Prohibition In Persons (NAPTIP), charged Suleiman, who resides in Kadawa Miltara Quarters of Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano, with one count of trafficking […]
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Thursday, March 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Organizers of fan-favourite reality show, Big Brother Naija (BBN), has announced its projected 2021 season six show This year would take a new twist with early auditions set to begin from March 24 to March 31, 2021 by the reality show’s official handles @ gotvng The auditions will be strictly available […]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was wild jubilation by some residents of Maiduguri town following the restoration of electricity on Wednesday evening after two months of total blackout. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the two months blackout was caused by the destruction of some of the towers supplying electricity to the city from the […]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African finance ministers have expressed their joint concern over the slowness in accessing Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines as they appealed funding for vaccine equity. In their joint communique issued late Tuesday concerning Special Drawing Rights (SDR) for low-income and middle-income countries, the ministers noted with deep concern the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Morocco aanounced on Wednesday that it had suspended all flights to and from Mali, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, and Libya, to curb the spread of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variants. The Moroccan National Airport Office (ONDA) disclosed this in a statement posted on its website. It added that […]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FIFA said Wednesday it had extended the ban on its former president Sepp Blatter and former secretary-general Jerome Valcke by six years and eight months, in relation to the receipt of huge bonuses. Blatter, who is 85, received 23 million Swiss francs ($24.6 million) in “extraordinary bonuses” linked to the 2010 World […]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – JAMB says it has started the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration. A statement issued in Bwari, FCT, by its Head, Public Affairs and Protocols, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Wednesday says all potential candidates must provide their National Identity Number (NIN) at the point of registration. “This […]
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
By Christopher Adelabu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Frequently described as overstretched and underfunded, Nigeria’s military forces are fighting jihadists in the North-East and armed gangs in the North-West as well as dealing with communal conflicts in central regions, separatist tensions in the South-East and piracy in the nearby Gulf of Guinea. According to Ikemesit Effiong, head […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo’s veteran president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has been re-elected with 88.57 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso, 77, has been in power for an accumulated 36 years, first taking the helm of the central African state in 1979. His landslide first-round victory, announced […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
….. …Forfeit N206m, cars, houses to FG (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced two men, Tobiloba Ibrahim Bakare and Alimi Seun Sikiru, to three years imprisonment each, for hacking the emails of British Airways, Turkish Airways and KLM, and stealing no fewer than $750,000 and N120million Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, who convicted […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has said that it was abnormal to produce Nigerian passports outside the country in view of its security features Rep Timehin Adelegbe, Vice Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said this at the public hearing on incessant malpractices associated with diplomatic postings and deliberate draining of resources in […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has described the recently approved rehabilitation exercise of the 210,000 barrels per day capacity Port Harcourt Refinery as a worthy undertaking embarked upon after diligent consideration and in strict adherence to industry best standards. Speaking to reporters at […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In a bid to address the cumbersome process of voter registration at the various centers in Nigeria ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, has said part of the registration exercise will be done online while biometric data capturing would take place at designated centers The new initiative […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ondo State will not be part of the sovereign Yoruba State being agitated for by some groups, Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu declared on Monday in Akure Akeredolu said this while swearing in Princess Oladunni Odu as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and other Special Advisers in Akure “Our people are […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said about 122,410 persons have been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccines Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency ((NPHCDA), said this while speaking at the National PTF briefing on Monday in Abuja Shuaib said only Kogi, Kebbi, Zamfara and Oyo […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – THE Nigerian public should ensure that the COVID-19 AstraZeneca Vaccine being administered on them has the original label, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control stated NAFDAC in a statement by its Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the advice became necessary to ensure that people were not at risk […]
