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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
OGUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun State Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has rejected the ongoing election results being announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The APM Campaign Director General, Mr. Sarafa Ishola, made the announcement Sunday at the party’s secretariat in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital. Ishola admitted that the election began […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has been declared the winner of the Saturday Governorship election. INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, while declaring the final result in the Commission’s Yaba office, announced that Mr.Sanwo-Olu scored total of 739,445 votes as against his […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A popular political columnist, Prof. Pius Adesanmi, has been confirmed to be among the 157 persons that died in the Ethiopian Airline which crashed Sunday. Report said Prof Adesanmi who until his death was a Director at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University, Canada, posted a message on his Facebook […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won the Enugu state gubernatorial election held in the state on Saturday. He polled a total of 449,935 votes to defeat the All Progressive Congress (APC,) which scored 10,423, votes, despite boycotting the exercise. Our correspondent who […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crashed en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi with 149 passengers and eight crew believed to be on board, Ethiopian Airlines said. Ethiopia’s prime minister offered condolences to victims’ families. “We hereby confirm that our scheduled flight ET 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi was involved in […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In Ogun state governorship election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Dapo Abiodun is in clear lead following results announced so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The results as announced by INEC in Ogun State are as follows: Ward 3 Polling Unit 2, Ita Osanyin, Iperu, […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed men suspected to be thugs working for one of the political parties in the Saturday’s governorship and state Assembly election in Ebonyi state ,today set ablaze the Registration Area Centre office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, at Ezza North community Secondary School, Okposi Uunuoghara […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Contrary to reports in the social media that an election observer was on Saturday shot dead at the country home of the Enugu state governorship Candidate of the All progressive Congress APC, Senator Ayogu Eze during the gubernatorial and state Assembly, the Enugu state police command has dismissed […]
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Sunday, March 10th, 2019
…As Supporters Urge INEC to Reschedule Enugu Election From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State, Senator Ayogu Eze and his supporters on Saturday boycotted the gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections in the State over the non inclusion of his name on the […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned in strong term the hijack of electoral materials by a paramount ruler, identified as Chief Johnie, at Ologoghe, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The State Secretary of the PDP, Chief Godspower Keku, said in a statement on Saturday that information at the disposal […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
OYO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member, representing Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Temitope Olatoye, popularly known as Sugar is dead. He was said to be coming from his village where he had gone to exercise his franchise, when the assailant ambushed and shot him. Olatoye reportedly died at the intensive […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Authorities in Imo state, South- East Nigeria, on Saturday during the governorship and state Assembly elections arrested five fake policemen and two Soldiers in Ideato South council area of the state. Our Correspondent reports that the state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is from the local government area. […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku Abubakar has delivered his polling unit – Ajiya 02, in Gwadabawa Ward, Yola North Local Government of Adamawa in the Saturday Governorship and House of Assembly Elections. The Governorship results as announced by the Returning Officer, Dorothy Inaku indicated that PDP scored 161 […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The mood in Lagos State in the ongoing Governorship and State House of Assembly elections is very cold. In many Local Government areas of the State, most polling units witnessed low turn out of voters. The situation is again worsened with the late arrival of INEC ad-hoc officials at the […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Association of Concerned Bayelsa Professionals has said that the Niger Delta Development Commission and Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board have again been compelled to release the sum of N1 billion for the gubernatorial/House òf Assembly elections in Bayelsa State. The Secretary General of the Association, Mr. Jasper Timiebi, said in […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the central bank and apex monetary authority of the country, the major regulatory objectives of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as mirrored in the institution’s enabling Act are to maintain the external reserves of the country, promote monetary stability, a sound financial environment and to act as […]
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It may not be arguable for one to aver that the Ogun State politics has not been this keen, volatile and extremely capricious. In other words, ‘all is not well’ politically right now, in the Gateway State. Not even the rumblings and uproars, of 2010, but which finally rested […]
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Friday, March 8th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday dismissed the suit filed by one Elvis Chinda seeking to disqualify Rivers governor, Mr Nyesom Wike from contesting the March 9 governorship election. Justice Inyang Ekwo dismissed the suit while delivering judgment in a suit filed by Chinda asking the court to disqualify Wike. Chinda […]
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Friday, March 8th, 2019
By Omoshola Deji (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governing a state in Nigeria is equivalent to, or more demanding than, ruling some countries in Africa and the world. For instance, the Governor of Lagos State has about 20 million persons to cater for, while the President of Togo and Denmark have just about 6 and 8 million […]
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Friday, March 8th, 2019
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Police Special Fraud Unit in Lagos has charged the managing director and chief executive officer of Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe, with 21 counts of conspiracy and stealing before an Ogun State High Court. Mr Wigwe, Alawode Oluseye, Bayo Adesina, and Access Bank Plc are accused of conspiring and stealing 23,754.413 metric […]
