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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leveraging its expansive footprint, pan-African banking group, United Bank for Africa Plc (“UBA” or “the Bank”), announced its unaudited Third Quarter Financial Results, showing a 7% year-on-year growth in profit before tax to N62 billion despite the challenging macro-economic environment. This represents an impressive 18.2% annualized return on average equity. The Bank recorded an […]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria is in dire financial straits. Nothing better typifies this than the free fall of the Naira in an import- dependent country. Between 2013 and 2014, the currency was quite stable at N160 to the dollar. Then came 2015, the year American soothsayers had predicted will experience the demise of […]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Syrian rebels have established a secret confinement camp for former Islamic State (IS) fighters and their families. Already, 300 defectors and captured combatants, including many Europeans, are presently being held at the camp operated by the rebel – Jaysh al-Tahrir group. The group Commander, Mohammad al-Ghabi, said his organization planned […]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, ENUGU ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than two weeks the Enugu State House of Assembly, nullified the just concluded teachers recruitment exercise in the state over alleged corruption that marred the assignment carried out by the Enugu state Universal Basic Education Board, ESUBEB, the House has reversed itself. African Examiner recalled […]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Syrian rebels have established a secret confinement camp for former Islamic State (IS) fighters and their families. Already, 300 defectors and captured combatants, including many Europeans, are presently being held at the camp operated by the rebel – Jaysh al-Tahrir group. The group Commander, Mohammad al-Ghabi, said his organization […]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least, eight persons have been killed, while 15 others sustained various degrees of injury in a bomb blast that occurred Wednesday morning around Muna garage Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, North east Nigeria. Head, Media and Public Relations Officer of National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA), Sani […]
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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara UMUAHIA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday arraigned a chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Prince Benjamin Benedict Apugo before Justice Osiagor of the Federal High Court, Umuahia Abia State on a three count charge bothering on obtaining by false pretense to the […]
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Senate Tuesday, during its plenary condemned the invasion of the homes of some judges last weekend and their arrest by the operatives of Department of State Services (DSS). The upper legislative chamber’s position emanated from the motion on urgent National importance moved by Senator Joshua Lidani, […]
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Sidi Bage and Paul Jauro as Justices of the Supreme Court. The letter of nomination was read Tuesday by Senate President Bukola Saraki at the upper legislative chamber plenary session. The President’s nomination is against the background of the approaching retirement of the Chief Justice of […]
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Monday, October 10th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo again visited Presidential Villa Abuja Monday, for a visit and meeting with President Muhammadu Buahri. Obasanjo’s closed door meeting with President Buhari lasted barely for an hour. The former President who arrived the Presidential Villa with an aide, and one of his daughters, […]
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Monday, October 10th, 2016
ABAKALIKI NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) Ebonyi state governor, David Nweze Umahi, has warned Fulani herdsman flouting his order of not wandering with cattle within the state, saying they should desist from the act or face arrest. He sounded the warning weekend in Abakaliki, the state capital while inaugurating a committee to check conflicts between communities and […]
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Monday, October 10th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Although there is need to rid the judiciary of corruption, the approach adopted by security agencies was totally wrong and unacceptable, the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Otunba Dino Melaye, said on Sunday. Melaye, representing Kogi West on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the […]
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Monday, October 10th, 2016
Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has called for a thorough training which emphasizes character;ethics and values among the youths so as to enable them fully develop their potentials and render quality service to the society. Dickson, who made this call at a dinner hosted by the Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical Students (NIFES) in Abuja on Sunday, noted that it is difficult to talk about the greatness […]
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Sunday, October 9th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari’s strategists, if they are at work at all, are chasing ants and ignoring the elephant in the room. They do him great disservice. Their oversight is hubristically determined either by incapacity or a vendetta-induced distraction. It is time they changed the game and the narrative; time they […]
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Saturday, October 8th, 2016
…Plus Breakdown of Recovered Loots ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) Saturday announced that the reason for clampdown on the household of some judges is due to their alleged involvement in corrupt practices, which have affected their activities at the bench. Operatives of DSS between last and Saturday morning stormed […]
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Saturday, October 8th, 2016
YENAGOA, BAYELSA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson over the weekend undertook an unscheduled inspection tour of some ongoing projects within the state capital to assess the level of work, in line with their qualities and specifications. Speaking shortly after the inspection with Government House correspondents, Governor Dickson expressed satisfaction with the […]
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Saturday, October 8th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The operatives of Department of State Security Services (DSS) between lateFriday and early Saturday morning clampdown on the households of some judges, including Justice Walter Onnoghen and his colleague, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta of the Supreme Court in Abuja. Also affected were two Justices of the Federal High […]
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Saturday, October 8th, 2016
YENAGOA, BAYELSA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Executive Council has approval the employment of 65 medical personnel, including medical doctors, pharmacists and medical laboratory scientists, to meet the manpower needs in the health sector. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Kojo Omietimi, who disclosed this during a press briefing on Thursday, […]
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Saturday, October 8th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South- East chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC),has called on various agitating groups in parts of Nigeria, such as IPOB, MASSOB and Niger Delta Avengers, to lay down their arms and embrace dialogue using their representatives in Government as fronts in their engagements […]
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Saturday, October 8th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) will on Sunday conclude the transportation of 76,000 Nigerian pilgrims for this year’s hajj just as it announced the death of 24 pilgrims during the period. In a statement by the Commission Information Officer, Mousa Ubadanwaki, said the Post-Hajj movement of pilgrims back […]
