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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A building has collapsed on Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue, in the Mushin area of Lagos State. The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyinyolu, confirmed the development to our correspondent on Friday. He said, “A building has collapsed in Mushin few minutes ago. The rescue operation is ongoing.” As […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, is eying the Secretary to Government of the Federation position should the party win the 2023 presidential election. “Some people have been given positions as we speak. Ayu wants to become the SFG. These […]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, is going to expose some ‘bad characters’ in the Peoples Democratic Party today (Friday), ahead of the 2023 elections. Wike had hinted on this while addressing a meeting of the state PDP stakeholders he convened in Government House, Port Harcourt on Thursday. Governor Wike’s camp and that […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has insisted that Senator Iyorchia Ayu resign as the party’s national chairman. He stated that while nobody was pressuring Ayu to vacate the office, it was a pledge the national chairman freely made in the build-up to the party’s presidential primary election. “Let […]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, Lagos State Park and Garages Management Committee, Musiliu ‘MC Oluomo’ Akinsanya, has denied imposing the purchase of stickers bearing the photo of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on commercial tricycle operators known as ‘Keke Napep.’ He made this known in a video on his […]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in New York vowed to entrench a process of free, fair, transparent and credible elections through which Nigerians elect leaders of their choice. In his farewell speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) as President, he told the 77th session that next year, there would be […]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students has rejected the court order that directed the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its 7-month strike. African Examiner recalls that the National Industrial Court of Nigeria had directed ASUU to end its strike. The body has been on strike since Monday, February […]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Industrial Court of Nigeria on Wednesday ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off its ongoing nationwide strike. African Examiner reports that ASUU has been on strike since February 14 to press home the demands for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries for lecturers, among other […]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The team of the Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has pulled out of the campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. Rising from their stormy meeting at the country home of Wike in Obio-Akpor on Wednesday morning, members of the team vowed not to partake […]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students has said its members will block the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja and Kaduna-Abuja Expressway on Wednesday (today) as part of its protest against the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. African Examiner had reported that students, on Monday, blocked the access […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah on Monday stated that his nephew and a driver abducted over three months ago are still in captivity. He made this revelation during the ongoing high-level forum on political communication and issue-based campaign in the 2023 general elections in Abuja, as he talked about […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Ebonyi State on Monday arraigned a 40-year-old-man, Uche Awegbe, before an Abakaliki Magistrate’s Court for allegedly threatening to kill the state governor, David Umahi. The police said Mr Awegbe had shot two residents of the state dead and caused communal crises in Effium, a crisis prone-community in Ohaukwu Local […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Debt Management Office (DMO) said Nigeria’s total public debt stock, which was N41.60 trillion ($100.07 billion) in March, rose to N42.84 trillion (103.31 billion dollars) by June. According to a statement obtained from DMO’s website on Tuesday, the total debt represents the domestic and external debt stocks of the Federal Government […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate will on Wednesday screen the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, it has been learnt. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, disclosed this in his address of welcome to Senators from their Annual Summer Recess during plenary. He said the Senate will also work on the Medium Term Expenditure […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Myanmar’s ruling junta, on Tuesday, warned the public against showing moral support for a “terrorist” resistance movement. The junta also threatened jail terms of up to 10 years just for liking or sharing its content on social media. Myanmar has been plagued by violence since the military seized power in 2021 with […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Deontay Wilder’s head trainer Malik Scott believes Anthony Joshua’s chances in the potential title clash with Tyson Fury should not be overlooked. Fury, who is the current WBC heavyweight champion, fought the former champion, Wilder three times. In their third encounter, which took place last October, Fury overcame two knockdowns to eventually […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Uganda health ministry on Tuesday announced that the deadly Ebola virus has broken out in the central part of the country. According to local authorities, a person was admitted at Mubende regional referral hospital on Sept. 15 after presenting Ebola symptoms and died on Sept. 19. The authorities said six other deaths […]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 31-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, was on Monday, sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Ikeja Special Offences Court for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old student within a school premises. The convict was charged with defilement. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo held that the prosecution failed to establish the charge of defilement against the convict, […]
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Monday, September 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has blocked roads connecting to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos to express their unhappiness with the ongoing ASUU strike. African Examiner recalls that the students had earlier threatened to block the Lagos airport to protest against the strike. They however carried out their threat […]
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Monday, September 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Officers of the Lagos State Police Command, Lagos Airport Police Command and students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, may be set for a showdown over the students’ plan to ground the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday (today). The students’ planned mass action is in […]
