Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday said that the commission would prosecute a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, again. He said Kalu “will be prosecuted all over again”. Bawa disclosed this while speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The first President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, has died aged 97, according to Zambian news platform. He was the country’s founding father and ruled for 27 years from 1964 after it gained independence from Britain. Kaunda’s death comes days after reports that he was admitted to Maina Soko military hospital in the […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Government of Japan has pledged to provide approximately $39 million in emergency funds to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the development of vaccine cold chains in Nigeria and 31 countries in Africa and Latin America affected by COVID-19. The support from the Japanese government complements the work of the COVAX […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sequel to the statement issued on Wednesday by the Creditor Committee for Chad under the Common Framework for Debt Treatments, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has ignited a flicker of hope for the West African country. Managing Director of IMF, Ms. Kristalina Georgieva has applauded the statement by the Committee’s statement, noting […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank has approved a $1.4 million grant from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme to improve household food security in Zambia. The grant which is aimed at reducing malnutrition among the Southern African nation’s most vulnerable households in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The Mitigating Impacts of Covid-19 on […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eighteen companies are to face sanctions from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for allegedly abusing the country’s foreign exchange auction system. Dr John Mangudya, the RBZ governor on Tuesday said the companies face allegations of flouting the Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 (SI 127) put in place to provide for penalties […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya who has a pending case of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold has been re-elected as the federation’s president for the next five years. Rushwaya (53) who was released on $100 000 bail some months back, was retained as president of the federation in elections […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday signed an agreement with South Sudan to provide meals to more than 530,000 children in the country. The meals will be provided in 1,100 schools across the ten states for a period of 19 months. Adeyinka Badejo, WFP Deputy Country Director for South Sudan, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo says the state governmant is working out a welfare package, including an insurance scheme, for the police personnel in the state. A statement issued in Owerri on Tuesday by Mr Oguwike Nwachuku, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, stated that Uzodinma announced the plan during a […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera says he has relayed a message to South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, condemning the “despicable behavior” of Malawian diplomats in South Africa. They were expelled for abusing diplomatic privileges. In a special address, three days after the South African government declared Malawi diplomats persona non grata and ordered […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – June 14, 2021 (NAN) The Victims Support Fund (VSF), an NGO, on Monday lamented the appalling conditions of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Niger State. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Shiroro, Niger State, on Monday, its Executive Director, Prof. Nana Tanko, lamented that “with all the humanitarian agencies, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has dismissed reports that troops were on revenge mission in some communities in Abia following the alleged killing of six soldiers in a clash with ESN/IPOB terrorists. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, in a statement on Monday, said contrary to reports, no soldier was killed in […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN has welcomed G7 nations’ commitment to immediate sharing of 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, supporting global access and helping to end the pandemic. The Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, in a statement, said equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines represented the clearest pathway out of the […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe has announced new lockdown measures as the Southern African country bans all gatherings except funerals with effect from Monday 14 June following a surge in new cases and deaths. Government rolled out vaccination of citizens in February and while hope was high that new infections were being contained, the country witnessed […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zambian President, Edgar Lungi, collapsed on Sunday, in the 45th Defence Force Day Commemoration and Investiture ceremony. A statement by the Principal Private Secretary to the President, Simon Miti, on Sunday, as published by Lusaka Times, confirmed the incident while disclosing that the president recovered immediately. The statement reads, “The President […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Akwa Ibom said on Sunday that it repelled attack launched by suspected hoodlums on Ini Divisional station in Odoro Ikpe in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) SP Odiko Macdon also said the command lost one of its officers in the process. MacDonald told newsmen in […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it will begin full operation of the standard gauge railway service from Lagos to Ibadan on Tuesday. The Management of NRC said this is a statement signed by the Lagos District Manager, Mr Jerry Oche, in Lagos on Sunday. According to him, the Lagos Ibadan Train […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(NAN) The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an Uber driver, and two other suspected traffickers with different quantities of cocaine at Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. Mr Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said the Uber driver, Lawal Tunde Rasheed, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
… Excites Marketers, Farmers in North (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After months of speculations, Dangote Urea fertilizer is now finally on sales nationwide and it currently pushes out a minimum of 120 trucks per day across the country Group Executive Director, (Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development) · Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin, revealed to the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Retired Maj. Hamza Al Mustapha has advised Maj.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), to end the Boko Haram insurgency in the shortest possible time. Al Mustapha, who is a former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late Gen. Sani Abacha, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
