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Monday, July 20th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The dust raised by the shocking death of the Nigerian first female combative Flying Officer, Tolulope Arotile, is yet to settle, as the country’s Air Force reveals the identity of the driver of the car which hit the young and promising officer. The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
By Ignatius Okpara (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, has announced that he has tested positive for the covid-19. Mr Onyeama announced the result of his 4th test on his official twitter handle on Sunday. He said he was heading for isolation for treatment. “Did my fourth Covid-19 test yesterday […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ,Former Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi, has identified other factors that are promoting corruption in Nigeria. He said: “Morally and religiously speaking, corruption is a problem. “Part of the problem we have is incompetence and that is why I keep saying we must pay attention to merit. There must […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider is set to reward customers for Verve Card usage in its Free Fuel Promotion. The Free Fuel promo which is activated by FirstBank in collaboration with Verve International and Oando Plc. kicked off on Monday, 6 July 2020 to Friday, 24 […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania’s anti-narcotics Police said on Saturday they seized 379 kilogrammes of cannabis. Emmanuel Lukula, the Kilimanjaro Regional Police Commander, said the cannabis was seized at Holili town at the border between Tanzania and Kenya. He said Police were also holding, for interrogation, the driver of a pick-up vehicle that was used to […]
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 653 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus rise to 35, 107. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle late on Saturday. The health agency said that as of July 18, 653 new confirmed cases […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the final list of candidates to contest the Edo State Governorship election slated for Saturday, September 19, 2020. According to a statement issued by INEC, There are two female governorship candidates, who are Mabel Oboh of African Democratic Congress (ADC), and […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has rubbished claims that he plans to run for president in 2023. His Special Adviser on Media, Ola Awoniyi, debunked this allegation in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. Awoniyi said: “It is true that the Senate President was involved in the consultations that […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The general overseer and founder of Living Faith Church, AKA, Winners chapel, has come under heavy criticism on Twitter after the bishop stated that one is under financial curse if he does not pay tithes. According to reports, the bishop took to his Twitter handle to state on Friday […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Omowunmi Abisogun Ruling House of Iruland, Lagos State, has cried out that they have been arrested and molested by the new monarch. It will be recalled that the royal families in Oniru and the new monarch, Wasiu Gbolahan, have been at loggerheads since the installation of the monarch […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The dreaded Coronavirous pandemic currently ravaging the entire globe, including Nigeria has claimed the life of a Spanish catholic priest, serving in Enugu Diocese. A statement to that effect signed by Rev. Fr. Nkemjika Igweshi, Secretary to the Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Rev. Dr. Calistus Onaga, on Saturday said: […]
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Saturday, July 18th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Another flight evacuating Nigerians stranded in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic has departed for Abuja. The fully booked plane, with 324 passengers on board, left the Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey, on Friday night. It is expected to arrive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Saturday […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government of Nigeria has arranged three more flights to evacuate Nigerians stranded in the United States due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Ben Okoyen, the third and fourth special flights are scheduled for July 17 and July 28. Okoyen said […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations on Friday announced winners of its Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize for 2020. They are Mrs Marianna Vardinoyannis, a philanthropist and human rights defender from Greece, and Dr Morissanda Kouyaté, a leading gender advocate from Guinea. President of the UN General Assembly, Amb. Tijani Muhammad-Bande, announced the laureates in a […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ekiti State Government has shifted the date for re-opening of religious centre from Friday, July 17, to August 14, 2020. The State Commissioner Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, made this known in a statement issued Friday. Dr. Yaya-Kolade indicated that the Government decision was a reflection of the CAN which confirmed that […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali’s Prime Minister has apologised for “excesses” by security forces who opened fire recently on anti-government protesters, but rejected opposition demands that President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resign. Recently, the latest in a series of mass protests in the capital, Bamako, against Keita, turned violent, with security forces firing on protesters, some of […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zindzi Mandela, South Africa’s Ambassador to Denmark and daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela, was laid to rest next to her mother’s burial place at Fourways Memorial Park in Johannesburg North on Friday. Zindzi’s son Zondwa said his mother’s legacy will live on. “My mother was clear that it is important to […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two consultants medical Doctors, Inechi Mcdonald Chikaodo and Ugwuonye Kingsley, working at the Federal Neuropsychiatric hospital Enugu, South East Nigeria, have been arraigned before an Enugu North Magistrate Court for alleged stealing and forgery. They were docked Thursday on a 4-court charge, on suit number MEN/223c/2020, before His Worship […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 595 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus rose to 34,854. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday. The NCDC said that as at the July 16, 595 new confirmed cases and 9 […]
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Friday, July 17th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Enugu based non-governmental organization (NGO) ‘Women Information Network’ (WINET), has advocated government sanctions against those who infringe on the sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of vulnerable girls and women with disabilities in the state. It noted that: “since the vulnerability of girls and women with disabilities […]
