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Thursday, October 11th, 2018
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Against the expectation of many, a former Vice President VP and Presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, Thursday visited his ex-boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta and had a closed-door meeting with him. Atiku arrived at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Complex, Abeokuta, the […]
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Thursday, October 11th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely a week to the inauguration of a new Governor, the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Kola Oluwawole has been impeached. Report said Oluwawole was impeached Thursday morning with a motion moved by the three All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers with some People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Lawmakers believed to be […]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s KFC fast food outlets on Wednesday were shuttered after running out of foreign currency with which to buy chicken, just one sign of a growing new economic crisis in the southern African country. Zimbabwe, which has long battled economic woes, is experiencing a dire shortage of foreign currency which has forced […]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yeni Kuti, daughter of the late legendary musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti, says hundreds of delegates from four continents are coming for 2018 Felabration holding Oct. 15 to 21. Kuti disclosed this on Wednesday during 2018 Felabration secondary schools debate titled: ” State Police should be Introduced to Nigeria ” at Freedom Park, […]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Finally, the Senate has confirmed the appointment of Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN) as Chairman, the Governing Board of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). The Senate had on July 18, acknowledged receipt of the request from President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation of Banire as the AMCON Chairman, Governing Board. The request the […]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Contrary to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) declaration on Zamfara, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted it would present to the body, candidates for various elective positions in the 2019 general elections. Recall that INEC declared on Monday that Zamfara APC was not eligible to present candidates for the Governorship […]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Apo, Abuja, Wednesday, nullified the expulsion of the serving Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Justice Valentine Ashi while ruling also nullified the expulsion of the Ogun State Chairman of the party, Adebayo Dayo, from […]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Libya coach Adel Amrouche has resigned just days before his side face Nigeria in an African Nations Cup qualifier. The match is billed for Uyo, Akwa Ibom state. His departure has been confirmed by the Libyan Football Federation and on Wednesday by Belgian Amrouche, who told the media that he was frustrated […]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leaders of the Yoruba socio-political group Afenifere yesterday visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. The group said the visit was part of its consultations ahead of the 2019 elections. It promised to name its preferred presidential candidate after the consultations. In 2015, the group supported former President Goodluck Jonathan who lost […]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
Photo: SA President Cyril Ramaphosa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a former Central Bank Governor, Tito Mboweni, as his Finance Minister. The announcement was made Tuesday, after the President had accepted resignation of Mboweni’s predecessor, Nhlanhla Nene. Ramaphosa disclosed he had received a resignation letter from Nene and had decided to accept […]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The political stalemate permeating in Ogun State is far from being subsided as Governor Ibikunle Amosun Tuesday again visited the Presidential Villa, Abuja and was locked in a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari for two hours. Trouble started last week when the National Working Committee (NWC) of the […]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – All eyes are on the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, following the successful presidential primary election that produced former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as the party’s standard bearer in the scheduled February 16, 2019 election. The excitement that greeted the victory of Atiku was so sensational that one would think it was […]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Australia plans to restrict some new migrants from living in its largest cities: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, for “at least a few years’’. This is in an effort to ease urban congestion, a Government Minister Alan Tudge said on Tuesday. With immigration expected to be an issue in the next election, the […]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) says the poor performance of the Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Election Convention was an indication of his rejection. Mr Yekini Nabena, the APC acting National Publicity Secretary stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. He added that Saraki’s […]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There has been some clarity about Nigeria’s 2019 Presidential election, with the end of the October 7 deadline set by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the conduct of party primaries at all levels. On Saturday, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at its convention held in Abuja, ratified the choice […]
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Monday, October 8th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is set to announce the new minimum wage as the Tripartite Committee completes its assignment. It said that the outcome of the Tripartite Committee has been submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari. National President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba made this known Monday while speaking with […]
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Monday, October 8th, 2018
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu Diocese of church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, has advocated inclusion of private schools in allocation of government subvention by various state and federal ministries of education in the country. It said the gesture would encourage the private schools to continue to play its complimenting role of grooming future […]
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Monday, October 8th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The outgoing Ekiti State Governor Mr. Ayodele Fayose Monday threw a bombshell when he threatened to quit the Nigeria’s opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Punch reported that Fayose hinted its correspondent Monday that he would renounce his “membership of the PDP anytime from now.” “After consultations, I will speak clearly to […]
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Monday, October 8th, 2018
Nigeria’s king of comedy, Moses Olaiya Adejumo, popularly called Baba Sala is dead. The veteran musician, theatre artiste and filmmaker who had suffered old age ailments for a long while had been rumoured to have passed on, several times. One of his sons, Emmanuel Adejumo, aka Boisala announced his demise in the early hours of Monday, […]
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Monday, October 8th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Enugu North Senatorial aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Chinedu Eya has called on the national leadership of the party, to as a matter of urgency, cancel the just concluded primary elections for Udenu/Igboeze North Federal constituency over alleged irregularities. He said the election, which […]
