Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, September 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, and the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), did not get any vote at the polling unit of former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. According to the result, the All Progressives Congress (APC) secured 1,201 votes at ward 10, unit […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Saturday, September 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Traditional ruler of Oruku Community in Nkanu East council area of Enugu state, South- East Nigeria, Igwe Emmanuel Mbah, has threatened legal action against a serving Nigeria Army officer, Major Raphael Okenwa, his Uncle, a retired federal Permanent Secretary, Chief Raymond Okenwa, one Moses Nnamani, and others, over alleged character defamation […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Saturday, September 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sorting and counting of votes in the Edo governorship election have begun in parts of Edo Central Senatorial District. Also, some other parts in the state have concluded voting. At Central Primary School, Ubiaja, Esan South East Local Government Ward 6, units 1 to 5, counting had been concluded in some units […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Saturday, September 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A three-storey building used by a private school in Ejigbo, a Lagos suburb, collapsed on Saturday. The building is located at No. 15, Ansarudeen St., by Ile Epo Bus stop, Iyana Ejigbo. Speaking on the development, the Director-General of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, told journalists that no person was […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, September 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The popular “Ebano” meaning (where to be) political family founded by former governor of Enugu state, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, has bounced back after several years of going into oblivion. African Examiner reports that the political dynasty which has continued to hold sway in the Enugu state political space since 1999, produced governor […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, September 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 221 new infections of Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Friday. According to it, the new cases are confirmed from 18 states in the country. The new infections brought the total number of […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian government has said it considers it disrespectful to the Sovereignty of the country for any outside country to apply punitive measures such as visas restriction on its citizens. The Nigerian government made this known in a statement issued by Mr Ferdinand Nwonye, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has protested the recent visa ban slammed against him by the United States. African Examiner recalls that the United States places some Nigerian politicians on visa ban for electoral offences. Reacting to this, the Kogi State Government wrote a letter to the United States, saying the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian nominee for WTO job, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has emerged among the five candidates that will go to the next stage for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. According to a statement issued on Friday by the WTO saying that member countries favored five out of the eight candidates […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Upper Area Court in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Friday sentenced two traders to eight months imprisonment each for stealing a chicken worth N3,000. The police charged Yusuf Musa, 28 and Bashir Aliyu, 18 with conspiracy and theft. The Judge, Lawal Suleiman, sentenced Musa and Aliyu following their guilty plea. Suleiman, however, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 131 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 56,735. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday. It said the new cases were confirmed in 18 states. The health agency said Lagos state […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the dreaded Coronavirus pandemic continues to subside in Nigeria, the governor David Nweze Umahi led Government in Ebonyi state, South- East Nigeria, has announced that it will re-open schools in the state on October 5, 2020, with the exception of kindergarten and crèches. Commissioner for Education in the state, Mr. Onyebuchi […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The suspended Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Dr. Wale Babalakin has resigned his appointment. Babalakin’s resignation letter which dated September 15, 2020; addressed to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu; copied President Muhammadu Buhari dropped the same day the special Visitation Panel submitted its report to the Minister in charge. The embattled […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Friday, September 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular and veteran Nollywood theatrical actor, Jimoh Aliu, aka Aworo is dead. Aliu, a former President of the Association of Nigerian Theatre Practitioners according to a family source, died Thursday at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, south west Nigeria. The vintage actor died at age 86 after a brief illness. […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, September 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the Nigeria Police Bill, 2020. The President‘s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, confirmed this Thursday in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday. The President, according to Adeshina in a memo dated September 16, 2020, communicated his assent to the Bill […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, September 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has moved to 29th position in the new FIFA World ranking which returned on Thursday after six months. The monthly update was stopped due to impact the coronavirus had on world football. However, with games returning, mainly across Europe, the ranking is back. The Super Eagles moved up two steps from […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, September 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the travails of former Deputy Governor of the CBN, Dr Obadiah Mailafiya, continues over his statement about a governor sponsoring Boko Haram, two groups -the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria were on Thursday have engaged themselves in a war of words. African Examiner […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, September 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A provision trader, Hahiya Zainab Mabinuori, on Thursday pleaded with a Customary Court sitting at Ile-Tuntun in Ibadan to grant her request for divorce because she is afraid of contracting Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) from her husband, Nurudeen. Mabinuori, who resides in Muslim-Odinjo area in Ibadan, told the court that she stopped performing her […]
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Thursday, September 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Uganda military is using aircraft and foot patrols to search for more than 200 inmates who escaped from a prison in north-east Uganda. The Area Army spokesman, Peter Mugisha, said this in Kampala on Thursday. He said that 219 inmates escaped from the prison near the remote town of Moroto, about […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Thursday, September 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali’s National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP), the country’s current governing body set up by mutinous soldiers, had been given one week to meet the demands of ECOWAS to avoid a total embargo, said CNSP’s spokesperson on Thursday. “The CNSP has been given a week to comply with their […]
