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Monday, May 7th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Labour and Employment Dr. Chris Ngige, Sunday escaped being lynched by the suspected party thugs, in Awka, the Anambra State capital. The attempted attack occurred as the Minister was having a stakeholders’ meeting with the ruling All Progressives Congress APC members in a hotel in Awka. It was gathered […]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan announced the decision to close 13 diplomatic missions and four consular missions abroad due to a financial crisis, the official Sudan News Agency reported. Al-Bashir issued a decree to restructure Sudan’s external representation and directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to close select diplomatic and consular missions abroad. […]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Tanzanian Government has suspended 22 senior staff of the Tanzania Institute of Education (TIE), the country’s education watchdog, for reportedly printing error-laden textbooks for secondary schools. Joyce Ndalichako, the Minister for Education, Science and Technology told the National Assembly in the capital Dodoma that the government would take legal action against […]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun has released the timetable for the conduct of the state’s Sept. 22 governorship election. Presenting the timetable to newsmen on Thursday in Osogbo, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, the newly appointed Osun Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) said election activities would commence on June 23 with the […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – French President Emmanuel Macron has urged U.S. to reject narrow nationalism and engage the world, telling American lawmakers on Wednesday that modern economic and security challenges must be shared responsibility. Capping a three-day visit to the U.S., Macron told a joint meeting of Congress that isolationism and nationalism were “a tempting remedy […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Several thousand South African union members marched in Johannesburg on Wednesday to protest a proposed national minimum wage they called inadequate, presenting a test for President Cyril Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa sees the minimum pay as an important step to tackle labour instability and wage inequality. He has staked his reputation on revamping a […]
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Malawi President Joyce Banda will return home on Saturday after spending more than three years in self-imposed exile because of graft allegations, a spokesman for her political party said. Cashgate, a corruption scandal in which senior government officials siphoned millions of dollars from state coffers, was uncovered in 2013, while she was president. Donor […]
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A flash of attacking brilliance from Olivier Giroud and an emphatic header from substitute Alvaro Morata earned Chelsea a 2-0 win over struggling Southampton in the second FA Cup semi-final match at Wembley on Sunday. Chelsea’s victory means an FA Cup final date with Manchester United next month. Giroud muscled and dribbled […]
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Friday, April 20th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwean Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has summoned former president Robert Mugabe to appear before it on May 9, to explain his claim that more than 15 billion U.S. dollars worth of diamonds had been siphoned out of the country. On the eve of his 92nd birthday in 2016, Mugabe […]
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Thursday, April 19th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A gold medalist at the recently-concluded 2018 Commonwealth Games, Odunayo Adekuoroye has declared that her next target is to win gold medal in Budapest, Hungary October this year, at the upcoming World Wrestling Championships. Speaking with the newsmen Thursday in Abuja, Adekuoroye who missed out from becoming the first African female world […]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has reacted to the forceful removal of the mace, its symbol of legislative authority, noting that the action was treasonable. The senate spokesman , Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, stated this is in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja. The statement reads in part: “Today, some armed hoodlums led by suspended […]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Statistics South Africa says the country’s consumer price inflation slowed to its lowest rate in seven years as the end of the worst drought in decades helped push down food prices. Statistics South Africa’s data released on Wednesday in Johannesburg showed that headline annual consumer inflation slowed to 3.8 per cent in […]
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Monday, April 16th, 2018
NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Benue State Police Command has confirmed that four of its men have been killed by the suspected herdsmen. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Moses Yamu, in a statement issued Monday disclosed that sad the incident occurred at Anyibe, in the Logo Local Government Area of the state. Logo and […]
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Friday, April 13th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Government in Bayelsa State have described the latest Vanguard award conferred on Governor Henry Seriake Dickson as a clear testimony to his many achievements in the last six years. Vanguard on Saturday conferred on Dickson, the best governor award for Purposeful Leadership, Transparency and Accountability. The latest award is coming few […]
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Thursday, April 12th, 2018
OSUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ife have confirmed that the process of identifying the personality of Lecturer accused of demanding sexual gratification from a female undergraduate of the institution has begun. Vice Chancellor VC of the institution, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede while reacting to the alleged incident admitted […]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the compliance deadline to the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme VAIDS till Wednesday, June 30 2018. The extension was announced in a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Mr. President, Femi Adesina. The statement indicated that […]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 247 people have died after a military plane crashed in Algeria. The media reports confirm that 26 members of Polisario Front, supported by Algeria and seeking independence from Morocco for Western Sahara, were among the victims. The crash occurred shortly after the plane took off from Boufarik military airport […]
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Monday, April 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The last refugees still in a camp in Darfur, western Sudan are returning home today as the site closes. The UN has tweeted pictures from the refugee camp in Mukjar, 190km southwest of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur: People from Chad sought refuge in Darfur over a decade ago despite […]
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Monday, April 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunisia’s religious affairs ministry has said it supports the government’s plan to give women equal inheritance rights, Shems FM radio reports. Religious Affairs Minister Ahmed Adhoum said his department backed the government, which has angered other religious clerics. Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi announced the inheritance changes on 6 April, meeting a […]
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Thursday, April 5th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barley a week after a 60-year old man hacked his son to death and buried his corpse in a shallow grave in Enugu community, the State Police has launched a manhunt for another suspect, Onyenwe Offor Ajah, for allegedly committing the same offence. The suspect according to the Police […]
