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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun government had stepped down COVID-19 test as a mandatory requirement for returning students in the exit class in Senior Secondary schools in the state. Governor Dapo Abiodun announced the reversal in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta. The government had on Sunday, through […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the hard times currently being faced by Air Peace, occasioned by the novel COVID-19, pandemic which has grounded various sectors of the global economies, the company has announced the sacking of 69 of its pilots. A statement issued on Monday by the Airline’s Spokesman, Stanley Olisa, explained that the […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has announced it will embark on an assessment tour of all Unity schools in the country as students, as the students in the transiting class (SSS3) set to resume and prepare for the suspended WASSCE. Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba made this known Monday […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of the university town of Nsukka, Enugu state, South East Nigeria, were on Monday thrown into shock as a middled age tax collector, identified as Emmanuel Eze, committed suicide in an uncompleted building along Orba road in the area. It was learnt that the deceased, a […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner of Police in Abia, Mrs Janet Agbede, has ordered investigation into the activities of Insp. John Onunaku, a police officer recently harassed over alleged illegal arrest. Agbede said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Aba on Monday that the investigation became necessary to unravel the […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa’s biggest grocery retailer, Shoprite, has announced plans to discontinue operations in Nigeria, after 15 years. The South African retailer in a statement released on Monday, revealed it has started a formal process to consider the potential sale of all or a majority stake in its supermarkets in Nigeria. In the statement, […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has named two former governors of Delta State, James Ibori and Emmanuel Uduaghan, and a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, as parts of those who benefitted from contracts awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. Also linked […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has rejected the examination timetable recently released by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for the conduct of the 2020 West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) scheduled to begin on Tuesday, 11th August, 2020. The organisation based its rejection on the […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa Government says it is taking steps to ensure that schools are safe to allow final year students to resume and participate in external examinations as directed by the Federal Government. Messrs Freston Akpor and Walter Liverpool, Permanent Secretaries of Ministries of Information and Education, respectively assured that the government was doing […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lebanese Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti submitted his resignation on Monday to protest the government’s poor performance, warning that Lebanon could become a “failed state.” Hitti said he wished government members would reconsider many policies and practices to prioritise the interests of the citizens and the country. If those in power did not […]
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Monday, August 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The on-going Dangote ‘Bag of Goodies Season 2 Consumer Promo’ has triggered excitement in the country as more winners continue to emerge, winning millions of Naira, goodies bags, recharge cards, and several others mouthwatering prizes. Just last week, the company sent credit alerts of One Million Naira each to the first […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria reported 304 new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) as the death toll jumps to 888. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on its official twitter handle on Sunday. Data from the NCDC showed that the 304 new cases were spread across 14 states, and the FCT. The […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Moroccan Navy has rescued 183 illegal sub-Saharan African migrants off the kingdom’s Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, official news agency MAP reported on Saturday. The migrants, including 12 women and two minors, were intercepted in many operations between July 29 and Aug. 1, the agency quoted a military source as saying. They […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Government has commenced the fumigation of its schools across the 18 local government areas of the state as part of safety measures ahead of the partial resumption of schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Akin Asaniyan, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, disclosed this on […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Publicity Secretary Mr. Chris Nehikhare has clarified he has not resigned his position in the party. Nehikhare in a statement issued Sunday in Benin, the capital city said in the last 24 hours, there had been a “diabolical” post on social media suggesting that […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, of Abia state, South- East Nigeria, has sacked the Commissioner for Transport, Ekele Nwaohanmuo, and the Umunneochi Council Area transition committee chairman, Hon. Matthew Ibe. He equally announced the immediate suspension of the Transition Committee chairmen for, Aba South local government area, Mr Cherechi Nwogu and his […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed bandits suspected to be Herdsmen weekend kidnapped a lawyer and businessman along Ugwogo-Isi-Uzo road and took them to an unknown destination. Our Correspondent gathered that the two victims hails from Isi-Uzo local government area of Enugu state, South-‘East Nigeria Both of them were said to have […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has denied reports that he was planning to drag his predecessor, Olusegun Mimiko to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Akeredolu, reacting to an online report that he had threatened to expose his predecessor to the anti-graft agency, stated that there is […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum, says there is an urgent need for Nigeria’s government to check lack of zeal and commitment in the army in order to win the battle against Boko Haram insurgents. The governor stated this on while recalling his experience to newsmen on his recent trip […]
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, says the Eti-Osa Isolation Centre has been closed down, with effect from Friday night. Sanwo-Olu announced the closure at Lagos House, Marina, during the 17th update on the management of coronavirus in the state. The governor said that the Agidingbi Isolation Centre would also be closed […]
