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Saturday, January 7th, 2017
ACCRA, GHANA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly sworn-in Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has promised to protect the public treasury and ensure value for money on all projects executed by his administration. The new President made the pledge Saturday in Accra in his inaugural speech. Akufo-Addo insisted that the mandate of his leadership was to serve, asking […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Miracle can be described as an illogical occurrence that contradicts prevailing conditions or accepted reality. Nigeria is experiencing harsh times, we are acquainted with the stats. Most recently we are battling with acute cash shortage of the US Dollar and even the Naira, with reasons alluded ranging from restricted […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – When I boarded the protocol bus at Algiers Airport on November 28, 2016, a lady politely greeted me in faulty Yoruba. Given my dressing, she guessed correctly that I am Nigerian. She then added “Iyawo Naija la wa” meaning, I am married to a Nigerian. Her name is Boshigo Ntsi Rosinah […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2017
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will Saturday attend the inauguration ceremony of Ghana’s President-elect, Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo in Accra. Buhari will join other Heads of State and Government to witness the swearing-in of the President-elect and Vice President–elect, Mahamudu Bawumia. The Nigerian Leader Friday in a statement by his SA on Media and […]
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Monday, January 2nd, 2017
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the January 10, 2017 resumption of trial of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the group has invited international observers to come and monitor the court proceeding. IPOB, also called on its teeming supporters and freedom fighters across Nigeria and elsewhere to be in […]
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Monday, January 2nd, 2017
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vocal outspoken Catholic priest, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently appoint economic experts that would help him revive the country’s distressed economy, lamenting that Nigerians are really suffering. Mbaka, who is the spiritual Director of the famous Adoration Ministry Enugu, (AMEN) gave the advice weekend in […]
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Friday, December 30th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The challenge in the Gambia is a simple one. But it can be made complicated depending on the choices we want to make. It is a straight forward story. On December 1, 2016, elections were held in Gambia in which opposition leader, Adama Barrow defeated incumbent President Yahya Jammeh by 263,515 […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Berlin market attack suspect, Anis Amri, has been shot dead by police in Milan. Italy’s Interior Minister Marco Minniti confirmed that the man who opened fire on police, who asked him for ID during a routine patrol in the Sesto San Giovanni area in the early hours of Friday, was […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
Cameroonians got their chance of introducing into the syllabus of Comedy and Other Comic Forms (a subject I taught in my other career), what seemed like a variant of the domestic nature of humour and wit, when in the last week and more days, they forced humour out of what seemed like an ordinary situation […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has called on Ndigbo to support President Muhammadu Buhari for a 2nd term, saying it remains the best and fastest way for the race to position its self for Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023. He […]
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Saturday, December 17th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu ENUGU NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rangers international FC of Enugu is currently in a serious fix ahead of the 2017 Confederation of Africa football (CAF) champions’ league, as most of its utility players are threatening to quit the club due to poor remuneration. The club, which is currently the 2015/2016 champions […]
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2016
BANJUL, GAMBIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Banjul, the Gambia capital Tuesday morning to meet with the country’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh, who lost the Presidential election penultimate week. Buhari who arrived together with Chairperson of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, as Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and […]
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Friday, December 9th, 2016
Latest report from Ghana confirms that incumbent President John Mahama has conceded defeat in the just concluded Presidential election. Mahama AFP reported has called and congratulated his first opponent and veteran opposition, Mr. Nana Akufo-Ado on his victory on the water-tight poll, which started Wednesday. George Lawson of the New Democratic Congress (NDC) Mahama’s party, […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Super Falcons have again emerged champions of Africa after beating Cameroon 1-0 in the finals of the 2016 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations. Desire Oparanozie scored the only goal of the match played on Saturday at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Omnisports Stadium in Yaoundé. It was the third time […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the President-elect of The Gambia, Mr. Adama Barrow, on his victory in the country’s December 1 Presidential election. The President also saluted the spirit of statesmanship displayed by the out-going President of The Gambia, Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, by conceding defeat, noting that such uncommon gesture […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2016
Gambia’s president of more than 22 years conceded defeat Friday in the country’s presidential election, vowing to step down after results showed him with a surprising loss. State media broadcast a phone call in which President Yahya Jammeh told opposition candidate Adama Barrow that he wanted to hand over power graciously and vowed not to […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2016
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau There will hardly be a stop to diverse commentaries by various interests on the just concluded Ondo State Governorship Election, won by Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN). Given the animosity and rancor which transpired before the poll, within the party (All Progressives Congress – APC) of the eventual […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2016
The Bayelsa State Government has re-assured workers of its preparedness to pay full salaries at the end of this month, with a view to cushioning the financial hardship caused by the current economic situation facing the country The Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (Rtd), gave the assurance over the weekend at the transparency […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has joined other notable Nigerians in condoling the Dasuki’s family, the government and people of Sokoto State on the death of the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki. Mr. President in a statement issued Tuesday by his SSA on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, also commiserated […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Egyptian appeals court has upturned the death sentence handed down against the ousted former President Mohamed Morsi. The Court of Cassation ordered that Morsi be retried on the charges of taking part in prison breaks and violence against policemen during the 2011 Arab Spring, in which long serving ex-President […]
