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Friday, July 31st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law, (NBA-SBl) Mr Olumide Akpata, has emerged the 30th President of the NBA. Akpata polled 9,891 votes to defeat two senior advocates – Mr Dele Adesina and Dr Babatunde Ajibade. Ajibade polled 4,328 votes and Adesina 3,982 votes. The 2020 Elections […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, popularly known as Fazza has shown kindness to a Nigerian couple stranded in Dubai over huge hospital bills. The couple, Tijani and Suliyah Abdulkareem had been stranded at the hospital since July 1 over $120,000 as hospital bills to deliver their Quadruplets. The babies were said […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s security forces on Thursday cleared people off streets of the capital Harare and forced shops to close, a day before planned anti-government protests during the worst economic crisis in more than a decade. President Emmerson Mnangagwa has struggled to keep his promise to revive the economy, with many Zimbabweans complaining they […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zambia on Tuesday launched an emergency COVID-19 social cash transfer scheme to help vulnerable communities affected by the pandemic. Kampamba Mulenga, Minister of Community Development, said this during a news briefing in Lusaka. The minister said that the emergency social cash transfer would help mitigate the impact of the pandemic in vulnerable […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army Headquarters says a depressed soldier serving in 2 Battalion of 21 Special Armoured Brigade, Bama, Borno State, went berserk, shot and killed a colleague on Wednesday. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Colonel Musa said the incident […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has singled out Benin-born billionaire businessman, Captain Hosa Okunbo, for recognition as its anti-human trafficking hero on the occasion of the 2020 World Day Against Human Trafficking. In a citation uploaded on the Agency’s website and social media handles, NAPTIP said […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite rising number of Covid-19 cases in Enugu state, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has directed all civil servants in the state to resume work on Monday, August 3, 2020. African Examiner reports that the directive was contained in a statement issued by the Secretary to the State Government SSG, Professor. Simon […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Benin Traditional Council has expressed disappointment over the ‘unruly’ behaviour of some youths when Governor Goodwin Obaseki recently led other PDP governors and party chieftains to the palace of the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II. The Council, in a statement signed by its Secretary, Frank Irabor, stressed […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Gambia’s President, Adama Barrow, has gone into self-isolation after his vice-president tested positive for coronavirus. President Barrow will isolate for two weeks. A statement from the country’s State House said Vice-President Isatou Touray had tested positive for the virus. Ms Touray said she was in “good spirits and will be going […]
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Thursday, July 30th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa A frontline elder statesman and leader of Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere, Senator Ayo Fasanmi is dead. He was 94 years old. African Examiner gathered that Pa Fasanmi died on Wednesday night after a brief illness in Osogbo. His death was also confirmed in a statement signed by one of his children, Folabi […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed bandits Wednesday evening attacked a bullion van in Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria, killing four policemen escorting the vehicle. African Examiner gathered that the hoodlums who equally injured two persons seriously during the attack, had intercepted the bullion van at Ezzamgbo junction in Ohaukwu Council Area of state. […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The convoy of the governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, was attacked at Baga, a town in the state, on Wednesday. Reports say the governor was on his way to some internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Borno when the incident occurred. “The governor went to Kukawa, and on […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unknown gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday invaded Agbudu community in Kogi-Koton-Karfe Local Government area, killing 14 persons and injuring six. The state Police Commissioner, Ede Ayuba, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the command headquarters in Lokoja, said he got the report about 2: 00 a.m. Ayuba said that […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has criticized the position of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Mamman Daura, who stated that zoning shouldn’t be a yardstick in the arrangement of the 2023 presidency. Recall that Daura while speaking with BBC Hausa service, had advocated that competence should be placed ahead of […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that this year’s Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations for SSS3 pupils organised by the National Examination Council will hold between October 5 and November 18, this year. Similarly, the FG has approved the conduct of National Common Entrance Examination organised by the same […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria’s Senate has announced it will commence the constitution amendment exercise after the Sallah break. Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege who made the announcement Wednesday, noted that the sexual harassment bill which will be sponsored, was not targeted at lecturers. The Delta-born Lawmaker made the disclosure when two groups: Women […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fidelity Bank Plc on Wednesday donated medical supplies and personal protection kits to the Oyo State Governmentto aid the fight against COVID-19. The bank’s Regional Head for South West 1, Mr Adebayo Adeyinka, said 600 units of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), 20,000 pieces of glovesand 1,000 pieces of face mask were donated […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The quest for the Southeast geo political zone of the country to produce the next Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023 has received a boost, as a group, known as Nigerian presidential project NPP, 2023, championing the course, unveiled its plans in Enugu. African Examiner reports that the […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Federal Government has evacuated 289 more Nigerians stranded in the United States due to coronavirus-related border closure. An Ethiopian Airlines plane conveying the evacuees took off from New Jersey on Tuesday night, and is expected to land in Abuja on Wednesday afternoon. This is the fourth evacuation flight, which brings to 1,095 […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Patrick Iyoha, Director, Obaseki/Shaibu Movement and a member of the state Waste Management Board, has resigned his appointment. Iyoha in a letter dated July 28, addressed to Gov. Godwin Obaseki, said that his resignation was with immediate effect and due to personal reasons. Similarly, two members, including Mr Gabriel Oiboh, Chairman, […]
