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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun government on Tuesday deployed 10 patrol vans and 20 motorcycles in the Yewa axis of the state as part of efforts to check the herders/farmers’ crisis in the area. Governor Dapo Abiodun, at the vehicle presentation ceremony in Abeokuta, said the measure is a fulfilment of his promise to return […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Anambra House of Assembly has shown concern over the alarming rate of crimes in the state and called for urgent measures to address the menace. Mr Noble Igwe, representing Ogbaru 1 Constituency, while speaking on a matter of urgent public importance, on Tuesday, lamented that the rate of crime had triggered […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) Kano state branch has commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the prompt measures it has taken to address the fuel scarcity which resurfaced a few days ago. The IPMAN Chairman, Alhaji Bashir Danmalam, made the commendation on Tuesday in Kano while inaugurating an ad-hoc […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun, on Tuesday sentenced a 39 year-old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death by hanging for murder of a two-year-old baby. Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, also found the convict guilty for attempt to kill one Rabi Yakubu, and accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment. The convict was tried […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A morning fire touched part of the Nigerian Army Headquarters complex in Abuja on Tuesday but was later brought under control and prevented from escalating. Brigadier General Mohammed Yerimah, the Nigerian Army Director of Public Relations, disclosed this in a statement. He stated that the fire was from faulty electrical installations. The […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Frederick Shava was sworn in as Zimbabwe’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade at the State House in the capital Harare on Tuesday. Shava, who has held various portfolios in government since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month following the death of Sibusiso Moyo, […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egypt and Sudan on Tuesday signed an agreement for military cooperation between both countries. The agreement was signed during a visit by Egypt’s army chief of staff, Mohamed Farid, to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, a Sputnik correspondent reported. “We reached a goal regarding the national security of the two countries to build […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Somali President Mohamed Farmajo has called for consultative talks on March 4, with federal member state leaders to break an election deadlock and avert a constitutional crisis. Farmajo said in a statement that the day-long event would take place in Mogadishu to help finalise talks on delayed elections and findings tabled by […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has tasked the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to develop a robust scheme for the protection of schools across the country. This, it said, was born out of its resolve to ensure the safety of children everywhere, especially within the school environment, from the incessant attacks by […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Osun on Monday announced the arrest of a seven-man armed robbery gang terrorizing Osogbo and its environs. The Osun Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Olawale Olokode, while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Osogbo, said the suspects were arrested when a victim reported an attack on […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed “tremendous joy” over release of abducted female students of Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe, in Zamfara. While reacting to the development in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday, the President said: “I join the families and people of Zamfara in […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some southern state governments and farmers have dismissed the blockade by northern food suppliers, saying it is an opportunity for the South to boost its food production capacity. Officials of the states including Lagos, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Enugu and Ondo in separate interviews on Monday explained their actions to ensure […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo will pick dates they will be vaccinated publicly, with the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which is about four million doses, expected to arrive in Nigeria on Tuesday. The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara says no ransome was paid for the release of the school girls .Repentant bandits in the state assisted security agencies in the operation that led to the rescue of Jangebe school girls. The governor, who received the girls at about 5a.m on Tuesday in Gusau, said the […]
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ondo Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has banned activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) from all motor parks in the state. Both unions were warned to stop collecting dues and levies from commercial drivers in the state. Akeredolu, who spoke through […]
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has appealed to members of the public to ignore an advert on WhatsApp allegedly seeking to enlist young Nigerians into the anti-graft agency. EFCC’s Head, Media and Publicity, Mr Wilson Uwujaren disclosed in a statement, on Monday that the recruitment exercise was the handiwork of […]
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State Government on Monday asked the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to sanction marketers hoarding petroleum products in the state. The State Commissioner for Public Works and Transport, Prof. Daud Sangodoyin, who made the call in Ibadan, said the sight of long queues of vehicles in some filling stations in […]
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization on Monday accepts an apology from a Swiss newspaper that had dismissed the seasoned international professional as a grandmother. “It is important & timely that they’ve apologised,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in a tweet. She took over as the new WTO […]
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu on Monday labelled Senator Smart Adeyemi as a mad man. He disclosed this during the unveiling of a book written by the Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, titled: “Made in Aba” noted that there was no need to envy a mad man Ikpeazu was […]
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Russia’s communications regulator blamed Twitter on Monday of violating Russian law, saying the social media platform had not complied with some of its requests to delete banned content. Roskomnadzor said Twitter had failed to delete 2,862 posts containing material linked to suicide, pornography and drugs since 2017. Twitter could be fined heavily […]
