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Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The consequences from severe flooding in Kenya could last beyond the current heavy rains, with environmental damage raising the risks of contamination and disease. “Many water sources are polluted and the risk of epidemics spreading throughout the country is increasing,” said Camilla Schynoll, emergency relief coordinator for the German aid agency Welthungerhilfe. […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Wednesday, May 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vinicius Junior scored twice as record winners Real Madrid came away from Bayern Munich with a 2-2 draw in their Champions League semi-final first leg on Tuesday. The stalemate sets up a mouthwatering second leg in Spain next Wednesday. Brazil’s Vinicius grabbed the leveler from the spot on 83 minutes after Harry […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, Uncategorized
Saturday, April 27th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Agege Local Government in Lagos State on Friday gave traders, scavengers and illegal occupants of railway lines, five days to vacate the area. Alhaji Ganiyu Egunjobi, its Executive Chairman, gave the ultimatum at a public enlightenment on the ultimatum. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Lagos State Government […]
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, the Rivers Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice has resigned his appointment. Adangor said this in a letter dated April 24 and addressed to the office of the Secretary to the State Government on Wednesday in Port Harcourt. “I wish to state for the record, that I am no longer […]
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East/Central Africa, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan President William Ruto, on Wednesday inaugurated a five-year road safety action plan as the country sought to curb the rising number of fatalities and injuries on its roads. The strategy aims to reduce the annual road accidents in the east African nation by over 50 per cent, Ruto said as he […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
…Insists Those Involved Not APC Members (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Abdulkarim Kana, the National Legal Adviser of the APC, says the party has not received the order of the Kano State High Court suspending Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, the National Chairman, by his ward executives. Kana said this when he spoke with newsmen at the party’s […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After long battle with cancer, Gov. Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu of Ondo State has passed away. Reports say Akeredolu died in Germany on Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia. The ailing governor had returned to the country in September following a three-month medical vacation in Germany. About two weeks ago, he again […]
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Ayo Balogun, Banking & Finance, Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zenith Bank Plc has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the French Government to establish a subsidiary of Zenith Bank Plc in France. The MoU, which was signed by the Founder and Chairman of Zenith Bank Plc, Jim Ovia, CFR, and the French Minister for Trade, Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad, […]
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Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Pan-African Conglomerate, Dangote Industries Limited has reiterated its commitment to sustainable environment in all the communities where its business units operate by prioritizing the use of natural and renewable resources. The Company said as a leading business organization, it was educating the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on driving positive change […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, South Africa, Southern Africa
Friday, July 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan President William Ruto vowed on Friday that protests planned next week would not be allowed following two rounds of demonstrations that have left at least 15 people dead. Opposition leader Raila Odinga’s party called earlier in the day for three more days of protests from next Wednesday against tax hikes that […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Tuesday constituted an ad hoc committee to investigate the fuel subsidy regime of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) This followed the adoption of a motion by Sen. Patrick Chinwuba (APC-Imo) during plenary on Tuesday. The motion was tagged “Need to Investigate the Controversial Huge Expenditure on Premium […]
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Monday, February 20th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The APC presidential campaign council has blasted the presidential flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over his “inconsistent” positions on the new monetary policies of Nigeria’s central bank of Nigeria (CBN). The Director, Media & Publicity of the APC presidential council, Mr Bayo Onanuga described Alhaji Abubakar […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News From The State
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court of Nigeria has adjourned hearing in a suit seeking to stop the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from implementing the policy on the newly redesigned naira notes. The apex court adjourned the suit to February 22, 2023 for further hearing. The original suit was filed by 3 states – […]
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African News, Crime Watch, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A teacher (name withheld), on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how her neighbour, Jubril Zakari, allegedly defiled her two-year-old child in his room. The witness, a resident of Ojo in Lagos, said she met the defendant naked in his room with his penis erected while her […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Sunday, August 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oleksandr Usyk has again defeated Anthony Joshua to retain his heavyweight world titles. Both boxers met on Saturday night in Saudi Arabia, 11 months after Usyk dominated Joshua over 12 rounds in London. Joshua was awarded a 115-113 decision by the first judge. However, Usyk was awarded the bout 115-113 and 116-112 […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A youth leader has called on the hierarchy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun state to urgently caution a former Governor in the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, who is also the Ogun East senatorial candidate of the party to desist from acts capable of causing disaffection within the leadership. The […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria
Monday, August 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian senator and former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu has slammed Nigerian youths at the manner at which the youths insult elders in the country. Trouble began when the Senate Chief Whip took to Facebook talking about how Man United lost 4-0 to Brentford on Saturday, August 14, saying “for […]
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Sunday, August 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, Happiness Odeh, has been killed allegedly by her abductors. The deceased, who won the institution’s beauty contest on 3 August, was said to have been kidnapped on her way to Ipara, in Ode Remo on Tuesday evening. Both the polytechnic’s management and the leadership […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, World News
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President, Joe Biden on Tuesday, called for a new era of global unity against the compounding crises of COVID-19, climate change and insecurity. Biden made the call in his inaugural address to the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Debate of the 76th session of the General Assembly […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Saturday, September 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over 1,000 students have been abducted from Nigerian schools this year, Save the Children International, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has observed. The group said increasing cases of attacks on schools between 2020 and 2021 have led to many schools being shut, thereby putting the education system of the country at “extreme risk.” […]
