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Monday, September 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has launched a groundbreaking report highlighting the risks posed by an inadequate national response to environmental and climate challenges to ecosystems, public health, livelihoods, and national stability. It therefore called for a more robust implementation of frameworks for access to environmental information in Nigeria to mitigate their negative […]
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Friday, September 26th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law Intersociety, has alleged that an estimated 19,100 Churches were razed or sacked as a result of wild spread armed religious conflicts perpetrated by suspected Islamic Jihadists across Nigeria in the last sixteen years. It said “apart from estimated 13,000 […]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the crisis ridden-opposition Labour party LP, has suffered another major set back, as the Senator Representing Enugu East Senatorial District under its platform, Kelvin Chukwu, has announced his decision to defect to the ruling All progressives Congress APC. Senator Chukwu, who hails from Amuri Community in Nkanu […]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Enugu-East Senatorial district have threatened to stage a protest in Abuja to ask president Ahmed Bola Tinubu to sack his Minister of Innovation science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji, who is also from the zone, should the (latter) continue to sabotage their effort of […]
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Sunday, September 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State Government has condemned in strong terms the gruesome murder of Rev. Fr. Mathew Eya of Nsukka Catholic Diocese by unknown assailants. The government also commiserated with the late priest’s immediate family, the Catholic Diocese of Nsukka, and indeed the Catholic faithful in general over the tragic incident, which occurred at […]
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Friday, September 19th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) — One of the key factors that has been militating against development and economic growth as well as remaining a clog in the wheel of progress amongst African nations, including Nigeria for several decades, has been the issue of near non availability of transformational leaders in the continent. The enthronement of political leaders […]
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Friday, September 12th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state police Command says it arrested a total of 5,176 criminal suspects involved in various crimes in the last six months, just as it warned its operatives against all manner of corrupt practices, including extortion. The state Commissioner of police CP, Mamman Bitrus Giwa, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday while […]
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of activities to mark this year’s World Spinal Cord day, members of the Enugu Metropolitan Lions Club have donated some essential items to the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) patients in the area. Presenting the Items which includes toiletries, surgical gloves, detergents and cartons of toothpaste at the Spinal Cord Injury […]
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Monday, September 8th, 2025
… Again, Calls For Higher Custom Duty on Sugary Drinks (AFRICAN EXAMINER) — The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has commended the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led federal Government’s decision to develop a draft policy that will earmark revenues from excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) for health financing. It […]
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Monday, September 8th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has welcomed the adoption of a Policy Framework on Information Integrity in West Africa and the Sahel, describing it as a timely and necessary step towards addressing the growing challenges of disinformation, misinformation, and other threats to the information ecosystem in the region. The outcome document was adopted […]
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Sunday, September 7th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command, attached to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Awkuzu, have arrested a suspect in connection with the production of fake and potentially toxic soft drinks in Okpoko, Ogbaru Council Area of the state. The 48-year-old Suspect identified as Chigozie Okafor, was nabbed after the police uncovered […]
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Friday, September 5th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Government has accused the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sujimoto Luxury Construction Limited, Olasijibomi Ogundele, of defrauding the state of nearly N6bn, saying he vanished into thin air after he was paid the said sum for the construction of 22 Smart Green Schools in different parts of the state. […]
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Saturday, August 30th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state government has ordered all its former Executive Appointees whose appointments have either been terminated or expired to as a matter of urgency return their official and Diplomatic Passports. The retrieved announcement was contained in a statement issued weekend in Enugu by Secretary to the Enugu state government (SSG), professor Chidiebere […]
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Friday, August 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ebonyi state Civil servants are in jubilation, following the announcement of a new minimum wage ofN 90,000 as against the previous N70,000. This comes a few days after Governor Hope Uzodinmma of Imo state announced a new minimum wage of N104,000 for workers in the state. Ebonyi State Commissioner for Information and […]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Enugu state have resolved to set up a committee to Liaise with the Authorities of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), to investigate the authenticity of graduation and National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificates being paraded by the Minister of Innovation Science and Technology, […]
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Monday, August 25th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMININER) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has cautioned that the integrity of the judicial system in Nigeria is being undermined by corruption and inequality, saying “today, justice is increasingly becoming a purchasable commodity.” He said: “the poor are becoming victims of this kind of justice, while the rich commit all manner […]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state government is partnering with The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), towards addressing all forms of child malnutrition issues in the state. According to the UNICEF report ,152,243 under the age of five are affected. As 64 percent of children between 0 -5 months are denied the benefits of exclusive […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 9th Mile Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines And Agriculture (9CCIMA), Enugu state, has been formally inaugurated in a colourful event that also featured the investiture of its founding president, Surveyor Ozo Leonard Ugwu, and the Executive Committee Members. Our correspondent writes that the event held in Enugu was graced by the […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension has enveloped Mkpa Eto Community in Onna Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, South South Nigeria, as the natives on Thursday staged a peaceful protest against what they described as “a forceful grabbing of our ancestral land by one Mr. Donald Bob and a few accomplices”, calling on the state […]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights crusader, Professor Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, has condemned the incessant attacks and violation of women’s dignity with impunity by security operatives. The law professor was reacting to a recent viral video in which a female youth corper serving in Anambra state, was allegedly assaulted by […]
