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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun inaugurated an 11-man ad hoc committee on Tuesday in Osogbo to review the establishment of Ilesa University by his predecessor, Mr Gboyega Oyetola. Former Gov. Oyetola announced the upgrading of the state’s College of Education, Ilesa, to a full-fledged university on March 31, and signed the bill […]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Nigerian Immigration Service ( NIS) on Tuesday said about 140,000 international passports are still uncollected nationwide. The service spokesman, Deputy Comptroller of Immigration Service ( DCI) Mr Tony Akuneme, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) , when he paid an official visit to Alausa Passport […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A teacher (name withheld), on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how her neighbour, Jubril Zakari, allegedly defiled her two-year-old child in his room. The witness, a resident of Ojo in Lagos, said she met the defendant naked in his room with his penis erected while her […]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr. Hans Kluge, head of the World Health Organisation for Europe, says the ongoing COVID-19 surge in China is not expected to significantly impact the European region. Kluge, in a statement on Tuesday, explained that this was because the two variants circulating in China were already present in European countries, according to […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, CP Echeng Echeng, today Tuesday, on behalf of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Baba Alkali, presented cheques worth forty-three million, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand, four hundred and seventy-one naira, seventeen kobo to twenty (20) families of deceased Police officers attached to the Command. […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) has stated that there is a plot by some unnamed politicians to smear its director-general, Yusuf Bichi and some of its key officials. In a statement on Tuesday, Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesperson, stated that the politicians, as well as “disgruntled elements” within and outside the government, […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
….Says He Has Fulfilled His Promise On Boko Haram (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has said that nobody can blackmail him on inexplicable wealth and illicit enrichment while in office, saying ‘‘I do not have one square-inch outside Nigeria.’’ According to a statement signed by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission has raised alarm concerning the increase of insecurity across the country and its effect on the 2023 general elections. The INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, while speaking during the validation of election security training resources held in Abuja on Monday stated that the forthcoming election faces a serious […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The vice-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Datti Baba-Ahmed, got emotional concerning an insult at his family when he appeared on a television show. African Examiner writes that Baba-Ahmed on Sunday appeared alongside Peter Obi, his principal, on Channels Television for a town hall meeting. In a video, Baba-Ahmed is seen […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria’s policy on restriction on daily cash withdrawal takes off across the country today, Monday, January 9. African Examiner reports that in this arrangement, the maximum weekly limit for cash withdrawals across all channels by individuals and corporate organisations is N500,000 and N5 million, respectively. Individuals or organisations […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Monday, January 9th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The founder of DAAR Communications Limited, Chief Raymond Dokpesi has been allegedly arrested by the Police in the United Kingdom, a source says on Sunday Night. The African Examiner gathered that Mr Dokpesi is scheduled to meet with the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in London. […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi on Sunday vowed to end petrol subsidy, describing it as an organised crime. He tweeted: “We are going to dismantle the confusion in ports administration and get this country to work. “Fuel subsidy is an organised crime and I will remove it immediately, if I […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed persons have attacked a train station in Edo State, southern Nigeria, and kidnapped many passengers. The spokesperson of the police in the state, Chidi Nwabuzor, said the gunmen were armed with AK-47 rifles. He said the exact number of people kidnapped could not be ascertained. Mr Nwabuzor described the gunmen as […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Railway Corporation on Sunday announced the closure of Ekehen Station in Edo State till further notice. The organisation said the decision became necessary following rising security challenges. The incident came barely one year after the March 28, 2022 attack by bandits on the Abuja-Kaduna train, resulting in the death of […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anna Banner, the baby mama to popular singer Flavour, has stated that being a single mum is not a “disease”. The beauty queen and pageant winner made this known as she reacted to an Instagram post by Soso Soberekon, the music producer, on Saturday. The African Examiner recalls that a music executive […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, January 7th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enoch Adeboye, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has claimed that the majority of crowds in campaign rallies are rented by political parties. Speaking at a sermon on Friday, the cleric stated that the youths who attend campaign rallies in the country are jobless. Adeboye further pointed out […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2023
“Nigerians do not want an office of the first daughter, first son, last-born, or side chick. It is not everything we see overseas that is good for Nigeria. Some (if not most) of them are not designed for us. Before we add any office to the country, we should evaluate to see if such an […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Saturday, January 7th, 2023
…. Over1800 Abducted From Jan-Dec 2022 (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights group, International Society for Civil Liberties and rule of law Intersociety, has alleged how Six state Actor and non -State Actors in Eastern Nigeria have Jointly sent 1,710 unarmed Civilians to their early graves and Abducted 1,800 from Jan-Dec 2022. It equally accused the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, January 6th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, was the least qualified person to recommend or endorse any politician for the presidency in Nigeria. Tinubu made this assertion while speaking at the APC Presidential campaign rally held at the University of Benin Sports Complex, […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, January 5th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has explained why his principal could not remove fuel subsidy until now even after describing it as a fraud. “Each time there is an effort to fight the fraud in the subsidy regime, you have to contend with labour, […]
