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Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership of the Apex Igbo socio cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo has criticized the recent position of the Northern States governor’s forum, insisting that power should remained in the region after the expiration of president Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2023. A statement issued by its Spokesman, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, which was made […]
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Monday, September 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Apex Igbo Umbrella body, the Ohaneze Ndigbo has once again expressed deep concern over the current alarming wave of violence in Igbo land, calling on the youths particularly leaders of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB, to take notice of the danger such situation has posed in the area. President General […]
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Monday, September 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West African Health Organization, WAHO, has revealed that the novel dreaded Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over nine thousand lives in the West African region since it surfaced. It made this known Monday at the beginning of a three-day conference in Enugu, being attended by all the Economic Community of West […]
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Saturday, September 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu Zonal office of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has nabbed a total of twenty eight suspected internet fraudsters in Enugu and Anambra states . According to the organization, seventeen were apprehended in Awka, the Anambra capital, while 11 others were picked up in Enugu as a […]
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Friday, September 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has disowned the call by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the resignation of the Nigeria’s Central Bank CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele from office. Reacting to the call in a statement made available to African Examiner , Secretary General of the CNPP, Chief Willy […]
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Friday, September 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nutrition Society of Nigeria (NSN) has urged president Muhammadu Buhari Government to urgently tackle the lingering insecurity In the country so as to save the nation from inherent danger of food shortage. President of the Society, Professor Wasiu Afolabi, gave the charge in Enugu at the opening ceremony of the 51st […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Contrary to notion in some quarters in South East Nigeria, that president Muhammadu Buhari hates Igbo people, Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has said the composition of the recently announced board members of the Nigeria petroleum Corporation NNPC has showed that the notion was wrong. He however, commended […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
…Demand Compensation (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos Nigeria, has condemned in strong terms the recent brutal attack on the General Manager, JAMZ 100.1FM, Ibadan, Mr. Tony Awobode, by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and his men from the Eleyele Police station in the Oyo State capital. Quoting a media report, the […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed men have attacked a police checkpoint at Nachi in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu state, killing two officers. The victims, who were said to have died on the spot were on duty at the checkpoint when the hoodlums struck. It was gathered that the gunmen shot sporadically, a […]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Seven human rights groups in different parts of Nigeria, have petitioned the Enugu State Commissioner of police over alleged defrauding of a church, Calvary Victory Mission Church, the sum of 4 Million naira by its landlord, Mr Chijioke Nsonwu, who also unlawfully demolished the property. The organizations in a petition, entitled “Appeal […]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo State police Command has confirmed the death of an escapee of Imo Correctional Centre Owerri and a member of the proscribed IPOB/ESN group in the state who was beaten to death by traders while enforcing the group’s Mondays peoples sit- at – home order. Police public Relations Officer PPRO in […]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As children continue to bear the brunt of the 12-year conflict in north-east Nigeria, the European Union (EU) and UNICEF are working together to provide community-based psychosocial services aimed at improving children’s mental health. Through the EU-funded Support to Early Recovery and Resilience Project, implemented by UNICEF, at least 5,129 conflict-affected out-of-school […]
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Monday, September 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angered by a viral video of the demolition of a two bedroom building situated at Uwani Otobo, Umuezike Community in Aku, Igbo-Etiti Counsel Area of Enugu State, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has summoned the Chairman of the council area, Mrs. Nkechi Ugwu-Oju and the Traditional Ruler of the Community, Igwe Christopher Okwor. African […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has applauded the reported summoning of the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, to the presidential Villa over the suspicious N3 billion slop oil sale, is a welcome development. The Association in a statement issued Sunday by its Secretary […]
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has urged the people of Enugu State to embrace the Federal Government’s ongoing Integrated Farm Estate Project, saying it will close business of bandits in the state. African Examiner reports that the Federal Government had announced recently that it would establish Integrated Farm […]
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief USA Igwesi was a member of the 5th House of Representatives, but before his emergence to the Federal Parliament, he was elected to represent Enugu South Urban constituency in the Enugu State House of Assembly where he emerged the leader of the House. In this interview, Chief Igwesi bared his mind […]
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Nweze Umahi, has stylishly challenged his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike of the opposition people’s Democratic party PDP to a debate over a recent comment by Wike that a Psychiatric check- up should be carried on a Governor who said God will give Nigeria another President like […]
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Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has announced the expulsion of a former Military Governor of Gombe state, Chief Joe Orji, ex- Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chief Eugene Odoh, and 39 other members, over their alleged violation of the provision of the party’s constitution. Also […]
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Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state Police Command have arrested and killed two suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, during a gun due in Orlu. They were apprehended in an uncompleted building situated in a valley at Amaifeke, Orlu. Commissioner of Police in the state, Rabiu Hussaini, made this known in […]
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Sunday, September 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Simon Ekpa, an athlete who represented Nigeria at the 2003 African Junior Athletics Championships, says he is no longer a Nigerian and he has vowed to return the medal he won for the country. Ekpa disclosed this in a Facebook post on Sunday, saying that leaders have failed the country. According to […]
