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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun, on Tuesday sentenced a 39 year-old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death by hanging for murder of a two-year-old baby. Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, also found the convict guilty for attempt to kill one Rabi Yakubu, and accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment. The convict was tried […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A morning fire touched part of the Nigerian Army Headquarters complex in Abuja on Tuesday but was later brought under control and prevented from escalating. Brigadier General Mohammed Yerimah, the Nigerian Army Director of Public Relations, disclosed this in a statement. He stated that the fire was from faulty electrical installations. The […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Frederick Shava was sworn in as Zimbabwe’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade at the State House in the capital Harare on Tuesday. Shava, who has held various portfolios in government since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last month following the death of Sibusiso Moyo, […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egypt and Sudan on Tuesday signed an agreement for military cooperation between both countries. The agreement was signed during a visit by Egypt’s army chief of staff, Mohamed Farid, to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, a Sputnik correspondent reported. “We reached a goal regarding the national security of the two countries to build […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Somali President Mohamed Farmajo has called for consultative talks on March 4, with federal member state leaders to break an election deadlock and avert a constitutional crisis. Farmajo said in a statement that the day-long event would take place in Mogadishu to help finalise talks on delayed elections and findings tabled by […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Central Bank Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, says his ambition to become governor of Anambra State is not about enriching himself but to develop the state as God has blessed him with everything he needs. Soludo is aspiring to become the next Anambra governor and he is hoping to fly the flag […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Non governmental organization NGO, operating under the auspices of Parent- Child Intervention Centre (PCIC), has expressed worry over the alarming rate of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Enugu state, South- East Nigeria, especially since the novel dreaded Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the entire globe broke out. It however, stressed the need for […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, has confirmed that Nigeria will on Tuesday, March 2, receive the first tranche of COVID-19 vaccines. Mustapha, who is also the chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, made the disclosure on Saturday in Abuja while evaluating the country’s fight against […]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Doyin Okupe, a former aide to ex-Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, says he will be contesting the 2023 presidential race if the security situation in the country continues like this. Okupe disclosed this on his Twitter handle on Friday saying that under his tenure as president, bandits will not operate unchallenged. […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 600 new cases of the Coronavirus （COVID-19）, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 155, 076. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Friday. The agency also registered 11 COVID-19 deaths, raising the total number of fatality […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – WaterAid Nigeria and Heineken Africa Foundation have assisted 21 milllion Nigerians across six states in protecting themselves against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. The support was delivered through the completion of a seven-month project that expanded hygiene access for marginalised and vulnerable communities in Bauchi, Benue, Ekiti, Enugu, Kaduna and Oyo states. […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 3,869,522 as of Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the continental disease control and prevention agency’s COVID-19 dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 102,843 as of Friday. A total […]
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ECOWAS Court of Justice has dismissed the application of a third-party applicant, representing 6,500 parties seeking inclusion to benefit from a N50 billion consent judgment of the court. The court had awarded a consent judgement on the matter in 2017, ordering N50 billion as compensation to the victims of remnants of […]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Samuel Ani, another Community leader in the crisis ridden Oruku Community in Nkanu Local Government of Enugu State, was on Wednesday, shot dead in the area by unidentified gunmen. The Police Command in the state confirmed the incident in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr Daniel Ndukwe in Enugu on […]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi who is caught in a storm of having office sex with various married women, has claimed he is an innocent victim of well-choreographed attempts to destroy his political career. Mohadi was elevated by President Mnangagwa into the country’s number two position in 2017 after the military coup […]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 655 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 153,842. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. The centre also reported 11 COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total fatality in the country […]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Government has declared Wednesday, February 24, a work free day because of the second term inauguration of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. This was disclosed on Tuesday in a statement by the Head of Service, Dare Alagbaye. African Examiner reports that the venue of the inauguration is the International Culture and […]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) says that Nigeria is experiencing terroism and not banditry or kidnapping. The chairman of NGF and Ekiti governor, Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this on Tuesday when some governors paid a solidarity visit to the governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello concerning the abduction of several students, members of […]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, says he met with President Muhammadu Buhari to talk about progress made on the issue of insecurity in Imo State. Afrcian Examiner writes that Buhari received Uzodinma at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Tuesday. Speaking to State House correspondents, Uzodinma stated that he invited the […]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A drama happened on Tuesday at the National Assembly during plenary after Senator Smart Adeyemi (APC, Kogi) described Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State as a “drunkard”. It all started when Adeyemi contributed to a motion on Safe School Initiative in Nigeria alleging that Abia state is governed by a “champagne drinking […]
