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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A non-Governmental group, Concerned Citizens Rights, has stated that 35 Nigerians are presently detained illegally in a border town of Aflao in Ghana which is located between Ghana and Togo Republic. The group stated this in a letter issued to the media and signed by its National President, Dr. […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Lazarus Chakwera has been sworn in as president of Malawi after winning an election rerun. “Time has come for us to wake up and to make our dreams come true,” Mr Chakwera said in his victory speech. He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of the vote in Tuesday’s poll. In February, Malawi’s […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has dismissed reports insinuating that President Muhammadu Buhari and APC chieftain Bola Tinubu have fallen apart, following the dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on Thursday. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, condemned […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan half-marathon world record-holder Geoffrey Kamworor suffered a fractured tibia after being hit from behind by a motorcycle during a training run on Thursday, the country’s media reported on Saturday. The 27-year-old, who won the New York marathon last year, told the Daily Nation newspaper that his leg and head were injured […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of the People’s Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has stated that no PDP governor is decamping to APC describing the claim made by the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, as misleading and false. Recall that Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, had, while appearing on […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank approved a donation of 1.1 million US dollars to the Rwandan government for the implementation of the Project of commercial competitiveness of the value chain of the meat. The donation, coming from the resources of the African Trade Fund (AfTRA), should contribute to the improvement of meat production, […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed why it is problematic for the agency to effectively enforce COVID-19 guidelines across all states of the federation. Dr Chinwe Ochu, the Acting Director of Prevention Programmes and Knowledge Management at the NCDC, stated this at a webinar on Friday […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations (UN) says it has launched investigation into a viral video showing a couple apparently having sex in one of its official cars in Israel. Spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric, told UN correspondents in New York on Friday that the organisation was “shocked and deeply disturbed” by […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded 684 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 23,298. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on Friday through its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 684 new confirmed cases were from 19 states, with five deaths as at […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian High Commission in London, the United Kingdom on Friday set July 13 for the next phase of the evacuation of stranded Nigerians back home. The commission, which announced the date in a notification issued on Friday, also issued guidelines for travel and ticket fares for the evacuation. The notice made […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has mourned the death of the former Deputy National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Abiola Ajimobi. PGF Chairman and Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Bagudu, in a statement issued Friday on behalf of his colleagues, (elected under the platform of the APC) said it received […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ECOWAS Court of Justice, has ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay the salaries and allowances of 244 soldiers dismissed in 2016. A statement issued by the court on Friday said that the order was given in a Judgment issued by a panel of three justices of the court on […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The burial of former Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza will take place today in the administrative capital Gitega, government announced. There is a solemn, somber mood in the capital and other parts of the country as the man who led the country for the last 15 years is given his final send-off. Government […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. criticized Tanzania’s arrest of eight opposition leaders during their party meeting on Wednesday, saying the action stifles democratic norms. ACT-Wazalendo party leader Zitto Kabwe and other members were taken by authorities, citing alleged illegal assembly.“The police detained us for more than 30 hours,” Zitto told reporters, adding it was politically […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gambia’s renowned justice minister, Abubacarr Tambadou, who established a probe to investigate abuses under the country’s ex-dictator and spearheaded the international defence of Myanmar’s Rohingya, has resigned, the government said Thursday. The West African state said that Tambadou will step down as minister and attorney general effective from June […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Thursday emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and would fly the party’s flag in the Sept. 19 governorship election. Obaseki emerged candidate after two other aspirants, Mr Omeregie Ogbeide-Ihama representing the Oredo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives and Mr Ken Imasuangbon […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has hinted that it will announce a new date for resumption of local flights operation next week. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika gave the hint Thursday in Abuja during the briefing by members of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. The Minister who was represented […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The security operatives who have laid siege at the premises of the National secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have vacated the complex. The development happened hours after the dissolution of former National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC and constitution of the National Caretaker Committee, headed by Yobe State […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has recognized the party’s primary which produced Pastor Ize-Iyamu as its Edo State Governorship candidate. This is one of the resolutions reached at the party’s virtual meeting held Thursday. Following this resolution by the APC NEC, President […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Government of Ghana has promised to rebuild the demolished Nigerian Embassy in Accra last weekend by alleged private aggressors to its original state. The country apologised again to the government and people of Nigeria over the demolition of part of its residential Embassy building stressing the Ghana-Nigeria relations was very cordial […]
