Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 48 hours after a former member of the National Assembly (NASS), from Enugu state, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ujam, dumped the People’s Democratic Party PDP for the All Progressive Congress APC, an ex-Senator Gilbert Nnaji, from the state is set to also cross over to the ruling party. A reliable source close to […]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde is set to reopen the Shasha market. This is coming two weeks after the market was shut down due to a communal crisis between traders in the market. The governor dropped the hint during a meeting with the leaders of the two warring communities at the House […]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has slammed Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, for saying that the ethnic crisis that erupted recently in Oyo State which led to the killings in Shasha area of Ibadan, were caused by South-West governors due to their inciting statements. The African Examiner reports that the Senate President […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, February 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner, Federal Character Commission, (FCC), representing Enugu State, Hon. Mrs. Ginika Tor has declared that the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, has become a household name in every nook and crannies of Enugu state, and Southeast, Nigeria. She noted that the overwhelming manner people of the state and South East in […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe kick-started the Covid-19 vaccination programme after receiving a donation of 200 000 shots of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. Vice President Costantino Chiwenga who is also Health Minister volunteered to be the first citizen to be jabbed. Zimbabwe hopes to vaccinate about 10 million citizens using donated doses from China as […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Obunagu village in Obeagu Community, Enugu South- Council area of Enugu State, have dragged two police officers, Stanley Kwaphoor, Garba Alhassan, and one Kingsley Eze of private Estates international West Africa to the state Panel on # Police Brutality over alleged harassment and use of their positions to commit […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, February 18th, 2021
…Demands Unconditional Release Of Victims (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nation Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has condemned in strong terms the attack on the Government Science College Kagara, Niger State, north-central Nigeria, demanding for the unconditional release of the student victims. It said it received with great shock the Tuesday’s evening “armed men attacked on […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN humanitarian agency on Wednesday condemned a recent violent attack on aid workers delivering polio vaccines to South Sudan’s Lakes state. Alain Noudehou, UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Humanitarian Coordinator, said the attack that took place on Feb. 14 at Malek in Lakes state, claimed three lives and […]
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna State Government on Tuesday, said that accidental detonation of an object injured seven children in Igabi Local Government Area of the state. Mr Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, confimed the incident in a statement issued in Kaduna. Aruwan said: “Security agencies have reported the accidental detonation […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress APC and Director- General of Voice of Nigeria, (VON), Mr. Osita Okechukwu has faulted the criticism of the ongoing revalidation/ membership registration of the party by two ex- national Chairmen of the party Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Pa Bisi Akande and it’s national leader, Asiwaju […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, has left the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Daniel, who was the campaign manager for PDP’s former Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, disclosed this on Tuesday. According to him, his decision to defect was due to his support for Governor […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, February 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the Enugu state chapter, All Progressive Congress APC membership registration/ revalidation committee, Senator Jonathan Zwingina, has wooed civil servants and residents of the state and South- East zone in general to take advantage of the ongoing exercise to join the Nigeria’s ruling party. He said it is no longer news […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, February 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ex-Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday. Omisore contested in the 2018 governorship poll on the platform of the Social Democratic Party but he later went into coalition with the APC in the rerun of the September 28 rerun. He […]
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria is set to repatriate 9, 800 refugees from Cameroon to Nigeria as representatives have arrived in Marwa, in Cameroon to complete the move. The 9,800 refugees are those in the first phase of the repatriation from Cameroon from the 46,000 Nigerians taking refuge in Minawao camp in the country. According to […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
(African Examiner) – Two leading airlines Emirates and Rwanda Air have suspended flights to Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia citing high incidence of the highly infections Covid-19 variant among other reasons. Emirates said it was suspending for two weeks, its Harare/Lusaka route because of operational challenges but did not suspend the one directly into Lusaka. […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pastor (Dr) Sampson Igwe, President, The Apostolic Church Nigeria, says the raging global pandemic, COVID-19 is not a threat to the Church’s forthcoming quadrennial convention. Igwe said at a press briefing ahead of the convention on Tuesday in Lagos that the church had put in place plans for delegates to observe all […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zamfara Government has said that its sustained dialogue with gunmen was yielding results with more bandits surrendering their arms. The Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, stated this on Tuesday during a joint press briefing with the Police at the Police Command Headquarters in Gusau “This has been possible […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Super Eagles of Nigeria defender , Yisa Sofoluwe is dead. Sofoluwe passed away after a battle with a brain ailment. Reports say the ex-footballer died on Tuesday at the Intensive Care Unit of the University Teaching Hospital, LUTH. He was diagnosed with mild cerebral atrophy Yisa Sofoluwe was born on […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Joe Biden has issued a presidential directive targeted at promoting and expanding protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people worldwide, including potentially through the use of financial sanctions. African Examiner notes that Nigeria’s anti-gay laws have come under attack by global rights groups […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has called on stakeholders in the oil and gas industry to join in working towards reducing operations cost to achieve the $10 or less per barrel production cost target. A press release by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, stated that […]
