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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned a former governor of Kaduna State, Mukhtar Yero, on money laundering charges. Mr Yero was re-arraigned along with his co-defendants at the Federal High Court in Kaduna, on eight counts, according to a statement by EFCC. The statement by EFCC’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari will unveil the newly redesigned naira notes on November 23, 2022. Godwin Emefiele, CBN governor, announced this on Tuesday while answering questions from journalists at the monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja. African Examiner recalls that on October 26, […]
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to skip backlog of academic sessions halted by their seven months strike if federal government persists on the no work no pay rule. ASUU members, mainly of University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) Chapter, Rivers state, after a special congress and protest rally on Monday […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely six days in office, the Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Gboyega Aribisogan has been impeached . Aribisogan was impeached and suspended indefinitely by seventeen lawmakers after he blocked the passage of the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill. He was immediately replaced by the Assembly Chief Whip, Rt. Hon. […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dubbed as G5 say they are open to reconciliation on the crisis battling the party. Other governors in the G5 group led by Wike are Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu. Olusegun […]
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Sunday, November 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Lagos State have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly killing his mother-in-law and one other person after raping his wife’s teenage sister in the Ibeju-Lekki area of the state. Police spokesperson in the state, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest on his verified Twitter handle monitored by the News Agency […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Saturday, November 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After a video clip of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu speaking at a town hall meeting went viral, the official spokesperson for APC’s 2023 Presidential Council, Festus Keyamo (SAN), has claimed that what Nigerians heard from the former Lagos Governor was not a slurred speech. Keyamo, a […]
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Saturday, November 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have killed no fewer than four persons, including a former Commissioner in Enugu State, Chief Gab Onuzuluike. The incidents occurred on Friday evening at Oji River LGA and Aguikpa community in Nkanu East council area of the state Onuzulike, who was also a former Local Government Chairman of Oji-River, was shot […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, November 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has tasked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to negotiate with the Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi ahead of the 2023 elections. Fayose also enjoined the PDP leaders to solve the crisis with rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike’s faction of the party. The former governor […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, November 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the payment of funds owed to states in the Niger Delta since 1999. Wike stated this on Friday at the inauguration of the Nabo Graham Douglas campus of the Nigerian Law School in Rumueme, Port Harcourt. Wike stated that the […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has discharged and acquitted a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, and five others from the N544 million grass-cutting contract fraud offences brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The Court on Friday held […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Ekiti State Police Command, on Friday botched attempts by hoodlums to burn down the Ekiti Assembly complex. The Nation reliably gathered that the incident happened around 4am when the hoodlums were said to have scaled the fence and made spirited efforts to raze […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A soldier of the 25 Task Force Brigade in Borno ran amok on Thursday and shot a female humanitarian aid worker to death while injuring a UN pilot. He also shot and killed another soldier. Reports said he would have taken more lives, but for the quick intervention of his colleagues who […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, stated that those criticising him concerning his choice of Kashim Shettima as his running mate in the 2023 polls had met him for the position. He stated that most of them were close to him and they had indicated […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he picked former Borno Governor Senator Kashim Shettima as his running mate. The choice, he said, was based on strategic and not religious considerations. He denied it was also an attempt to suppress the Christian community in Nigeria. He said […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Apex Igbo Socio cultural body, Ohaneze Ndigbo has denied publication in the social media to the effect that it has dragged Anambra state Governor, prof. Chukwuma Soludo to two famous deities over his recent comment on the presidential Candidate of Labour party Candidate LP, Mr. Peter Obi. It said “the attention of […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Netizens have captured the moment the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress – In a video posted on Twitter, Tinubu during his speech said, ” God bless Nigeria, God bless PD..and immediately changed it to God bless APC, APC, and then added God bless APC. @OkeyMachine1of1 writes: Dementia is real, as […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has stated he has no time to reply or pay attention to Anambra Governor Charles Soludo who clamped down on him on Monday. Rather, he said he is preoccupied with convincing voters a new Nigeria is possible through rigorous campaigns. He spoke […]
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian military has declared 19 suspected terrorists wanted and placed a N5 million bounty on each of them. The details of the 19 terrorists are contained in a poster released by the Director of Defence Information at the Defence Headquarters, Jimmy Akpor. The information on the poster revealed that the N5 […]
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Monday, November 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More troubles for the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, (APC), Bola Tinubu, as a popular financial firm, Deloitte denies that the former Lagos state governor was once an employee of the firm. African Examiner recalls that Tinubu has boasted of a robust accounting background and he had claimed to work […]
