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Monday, September 26th, 2016
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three suspected Boko Haram terrorists, three soldiers and an officer were killed Monday during a patrol by the Operation LAFIYA DOLE troops in Borno State, North eastern Nigeria. The acting Director, Army Public Relations Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman explained that the troops from Maiduguri, encountered an […]
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Monday, September 26th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice John Tsoho of a Federal High Court has withdrawn from the alleged treason trial of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kano. The jurist’s action followed a petition by Kanu’s Counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor on him […]
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Monday, September 26th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has challenged the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC in the area, to initiate moves towards raising the bar of participatory democracy in the State. The State Party Chairman Dr. Ben Nwoye, Chairman gave the challenge last weekend […]
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Monday, September 26th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara EDO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of Ogida in Benin city, the Edo State capital, South- South Nigeria, were thrown into shock weekend, as a middle aged man in the area allegedly committed suicide. Immediately the news filtered into the air, the residents rushed to the scene to catch a glimpse of […]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2016
Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has urged people of the state to sink their political differences and work together for the common good of the state. He threw the challenged at the Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre in Yenagoa, on Sunday during an interdenominational thanksgiving service in commemoration of the 56th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria and the 20th […]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2016
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The 2016 United States of America Presidential election can simply be described as Donald Trump’s Reality Show. In his attempt to get to the White House he has tongue lashed just anyone he came across in the process. Senator Ted Cruz of the Tea Party and […]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2016
Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, the legendary juju musician popularly known as King Sunny Ade deserves the four-month-long celebration of his 70th birthday which began on September 1, marked with great attention on September 22, the actual date of his birth, and scheduled to run till December 31, 2016, in the United States, Nigeria and the UK. […]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2016
I read with lavish amusement an article by one Florence Agbo, media aide to international fraudster and discredited business man, Dumebi Kachikwu, in which she made certain inaccurate and incendiary remarks about my person. Once again, I am back into the boxing ring of ideas to defend myself against such vicious attacks. It is unfortunate that […]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2016
CROSS RIVERS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Today, at the early hours of the morning, suspected militants led by the declared wanted criminal kingpin, Benjamin Simplee (AKA G1) leader of the Bakassi Strike Force, The Nigerian Army has confirmed that one soldier has been killed while two are missing during several speed boats attacks on troops […]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2016
NEW YORK, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that he had a very successful outing at the just concluded 71st United Nations (UNGA71), in New York. Mr. President made the declaration while addressing the media to round off his visit to New York. The President reviewed all his major and side events during […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police command has commenced full investigations into the recent shooting of one Lazarus Amadi, as well as abduction of two farmers from their farmland at Akpakume Nze community in Igboetiti council area of Enugu state by unknown gunmen. The Command said the investigation was […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has charged members of the Governing Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to enthrone accountability and formulate broad policies aimed at achieving the set objectives of the Agency. The Minister said this while inaugurating […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen NEW YORK, US (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has again lamented about the gross misconduct of the previous administrations and urged all Nigerians including those in diaspora, to join hands in the process of fixing the country’s economy and to install in it, new social order. The President made the call, […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2016
A day after securing victory at the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal over his rival, Timipre Sylva as winner of the last governorship election, Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has been blessed with quadruplets. The season of celebrations continues as his wife, Dr. Rachael Dickson was delivered of a bouncing baby boy and […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Al-Shabab militants say they have attacked a police station in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia. Kenyan authorities said fighters from Somalia carried out the cross-border attack early Thursday on a police station at Hameey Village. A statement from police spokesman George Kinoti said the militants traveling in two Land Cruisers attacked the patrol […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Sierra Leonean police have released a woman accused of female genital mutilation following pressure from a powerful society of circumcisers. Elsie Kondoromoh was “tentatively” released after a large number of cutters protested against her arrest, police inspector Marty Tarawallie said. Stick-wielding cutters have also protested at a hospital where her alleged victim is being treated. […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Survivors from a boat which capsized off the Egyptian coast on Wednesday have told the BBC that hundreds of people may have drowned. The boat was carrying between 450 and 600 migrants when it capsized eight miles (12km) off the coast, they say. The numbers have not been confirmed. Authorities say they have rescued 163 […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara IMO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely one week some repented militants operating in Imo state surrendered their arms and ammunitions to the State government, another dreaded militant group led by one General Felix Omereji, wednesday did same as they handed over their weapons to Governor Rochas Okorocha. The group surrendered the arms to […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has commended the judiciary for asserting its independence and steadfastness in protecting the sanctity of the ballot as well as upholding itself as the bastion of the nation’s democracy. His comment came Thursday afternoon following the judgement of the Appeal Court which upheld the earlier judgement […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has congratulated juju star King Sunny Ade on his 70th birthday, describing him as a cultural icon and a trail blazer. In a statement issued in LagosThursday, the Minister hailed King Sunny Ade’s contribution to the growth of Nigerian music, which […]
