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Thursday, June 28th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of Osun House of Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salaam has declared his intention to contest for September 22, 2018 Governorship election of the state. Salaam made the declaration Thursday at the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat in Osogbo the State capital. The State’s first Lawmaker declared that he was capable […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many people were killed, while scores of vehicles burnt Thursday evening, when a petrol tanker went on fire on Otedola Bridge, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The truck was outward Lagos when the sad incident occurred. Reports said the officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, Lagos Fire Service as well as […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Thursday fixed October 2, 2018 for ruling on the objection to the hearing of a motion seeking to quash the N450 million money laundering charge against Mr. Dele Belgore SAN. Belgore was arraigned along with a former Ministers of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman; Petroleum […]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2018
From.Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command has apprehended one Collins Ugwu, a Deputy Superintendent DSP in the Nigerian Prisons Service Headquarters, Abuja and 8 others over alleged armed robbery, conspiracy, malicious damage stealing, among other crimes. Danmallam Mohammed, the state Commissioner of Police disclosed this Thursday while parading Ugwu […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As high profile Nigerians continue to pour into Jos over massive killings in Plateau communities, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the right machinery should be put in place for solution. According to the former president, human problems need human solutions and Nigeria must find solution to massive killings across the […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Screening Committee for Osun State governorship election on Wednesday cleared all the 11 aspirants contesting to be the party’s flag bearer in the Sept. 22 governorship election in Osun. The Chairman of the Screening Committee, Austin Opara, at the presentation of Screening Certificates to the aspirants at […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Planning and Development, Republic of Bénin, Mr Abdoulaye Tchane, has urged West African countries to join the continent-wide campaign to make travel in Africa easier for Africans. Tchane made the call on Wednesday in Cotonou at the opening of the 21st session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory FCT Abuja has dismissed a bail application filed by the recently convicted former Governor of Taraba State, Mr. Jolly Nyame. The ex-Governor was on May 30, 2018 slammed with 14-year jail term and he is currently serving in Kuje prison, also in […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The father of music legends Michael and Janet Jackson, Joe Jackson, is dead. A close source to the family confirmed the death of the octogenarian to BBC Jackson died at age 89. The source confirmed that Jackson passed away early Wednesday morning after being hospitalized for terminal pancreatic cancer. His death occurred […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Defending champions Germany have been eliminated from the ongoing 2018 World Cup tournament after losing to South Korea in Kazan. The German machine was humiliated 2-0 by the ravaging South Koreans. Kim Young-gwon’s 92nd-minute goal, awarded after a Video Assistant Referee VAR decision, left four-time winner Germany on the brink of elimination. […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command says it had rescued a 2-year-old girl, namely Roqibat Raji from the kidnappers’ den at Odokekere in Ogun State, South West Nigeria. Lagos State Commissioner for Police CP, Mr. Imohimi Edgal, who disclosed this Wednesday to newsmen, confirmed the arrest was made Tuesday. Edgal said, “On June […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara Wednesday informed that President Muhammadu Buhari has hinted the Leadership of the National Assembly NASS on his plans to reorganize state security apparatus with a view to forestall a repeat of the last weekend killings in Plateau State. Dogara made the disclosure after […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
By Ignatius Okpara (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the death of Eze Brendan Ibekwe, the traditional ruler of Mgbe autonomous community in the Orlu Local Government Area of the South Eastern State. The Command’s Spokesman Mr. Andrew Enwerem, who confirmed this to newsmen Wednesday in Owerri, […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s House of Representatives, has assured critical stakeholders in the nation’s criminal justice system and the citizenry of its commitment in ensuring the passage of the bill on Nigerian Prisons Service Amendment Act into law, which has been pending for 17 years. It said the amendments which […]
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara IMO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is confusion in the Imo State University IMSU Owerri, South- East Nigeria as dead bodies of a final year student, Blessing Amam and that of her boyfriend, Emeka in her hostel room in Umudagu-Mbieri, Mbaitoli council Area of the state. The Public Relations Officer PPRO of […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It has been ten years since the self-styled “strong man of Ibadan politics”, Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Akanji Adedibu, died. He died on June 11, 2008. I do not recall seeing many tributes or advertisements in the newspapers or other media commemorating his life and legacy. There was no public lecture or any […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
OSUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government FG has warned that it would sanction any tertiary institution which charges over N2, 000 for its post-UTME screening test. Minister of Education Adamu Adamu, gave the warning Tuesday at the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board JAMB Policy Meeting on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions for 2018/19 academic […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara IMO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension has gripped residents of Mgbe community in Orlu Council area of Imo state, South -East Nigeria and environs, as the traditional ruler of the area, Eze Brendan Ibekwe, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen. The State Police Public Relations Officer PPRO, Andrew Enwerem, who confirmed […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Adedayo Akintoye of an Igbosere High Court in Lagos has again discharged the application seeking to quash the charges preferred against the suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a Evans, by the Lagos State Government. Justice Akintoye while ruling on the application said the charges filed against Evans did not […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
By Abdul Gaffar Bello PLATEAU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There seems to be no stopping to measures being taken by the executive arm of the government, to checkmate the repeat of last weekend Plateau bloodbath, just as the Inspector-General of Police IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris has ordered the immediate replacement of the State’s Commissioner of […]
