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Friday, August 26th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has cautioned Nigerian students against going to Northern Cyprus. Its chairperson, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said this on Thursday in Abuja at a ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team. She said Northern Cyprus was not recognised by the UN, adding that a lot of students had […]
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Thursday, August 25th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Workers at the Police Service Commission (PSC) on Thursday issued a notice of indefinite strike to the management of the commission over breach of conditions. The workers, in a leaked letter written by the joint union congress, PSC chapter and addressed to Musiliu Smith, PSC chairman, said the indefinite strike will commence […]
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Thursday, August 25th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo, is dead. According to reports, Dokubo, 70, died at a hospital in Abuja on Wednesday night. The professor of strategy was born in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State on March 23, 1952. His primary and […]
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Thursday, August 25th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A clash between Oro traditional worshippers and worshippers at the Truth and The Spirit Prophetic Church has led to the death of a tailor, Akeem Adebisi, in the Oko-Oba area of Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that Akeem alongside other Oro worshippers were performing sacrament when they got to know that the […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

…Decorated As FNIOB (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has been decorated as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Building ( FNIOB) for his unquantifiable contributions to the growth and development of the building industry. The investiture of the Governor was performed by the President of the institute, Professor Yohanna Izam […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians on social media are presently expressing their grievances on Minister on Sports, Sunday Dare, as pictures of Falconets sleeping on the floor in Turkey Airport emerged on social media on Wednesday. African Examiner writes that the Falconets represented Nigeria in the 2022 FIFA women’s World Cup in Costa Rica, They defeated […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

The Economics and Financial Crime Commission on Wednesday arraigned a manager with Cubana Group, Lucky Uchechukwu Ndukwe, for an offence bordering on conspiracy to launder and money laundering. Ndukwe, known better as Cubana Prime Minister, was arraigned alongside one Precious Omonkhoa Ofure before Justice Justice O.A. Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is the most attacked president in Nigeria’s history. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu in a statement stated that since the opposition couldn’t defeat the president at the 2019 polls, they have resorted to other means as he reacted to an editorial by Guardian Newspapers. He […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Majority Leader of Anambra Assembly Hon. Nnamdi Okafor is dead. Okafor died on Tuesday night in South Africa. Okafor, a second term legislator, represented Awka-South 1 State Constituency. He came into the State Assembly in 2015 on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). Details of his death are still […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labor and employment, says he can drive from Abuja to Kaduna without a security escort. Keyamo stated this on Tuesday in a pre-recorded interview aired on Channels TV. The African Examiner writes that the 155km Kaduna-Abuja highway is one of the feared roads as it has […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 25-year-old man known as Elisha Tari has opened up about why he stoned his two children to death in his home. It could be recalled that the Adamawa State Police Command nabbed Elisha for stoning two of his children, aged 3 and 5 years old, to death. While being paraded on […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has denied media reports that he will hand over federal universities to state governments if elected president in 2023. The media adviser to the former vice president, Paul Ibe, in a statement issued on Monday night in Abuja, described the report […]
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action. Sources among the union’s NEC members told our correspondent on Monday that the meeting will hold at the union’s […]
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Monday, August 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has stated that the election in 2023 is not about connections, tribe, or religion, but about competence, character, and commitment to deliver the goods. Obi made this known at the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association held at the Eko […]
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Monday, August 22nd, 2022

By Kasimu Sani Tanko (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Normally, an interview on prime time television is a golden chance for a politician or candidate to reel out his party manifesto or plan of action if and when elected into office thus decisively connecting with the electorate on whose votes he is counting on to emerge victorious […]
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Monday, August 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zambian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Chipoka Mulenga, has sought the assistance of the President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote in the development of his country’s agricultural sector. Chipoka Mulenga, who led a delegation from Zambia on tour of the 3.00 million metric tonnes Dangote Fertiliser plant at the weekend, called […]
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Monday, August 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the electronic transmission of election result has come to stay. The commission gave the clarification in a statement titled: “Clarification on Electronic Transmission of Election Result” signed by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja […]
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Monday, August 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gombe State is currently being confronted with a deluge of promises by the People’s Democratic Party and its gubernatorial candidate. But historical antecedents is, however, a classic compass in adjudging these promises as fairy bubbles that will soon burst into emptiness. Before Governor lnuwa Yahaya assumed office on the 29th of May […]
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Monday, August 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An aide of the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area chairman, Kehinde Oloyede, has died from gunshot wounds, the police in Lagos State have said. Francis Oguntulu was shot at a birthday party in Oshodi on Friday and he died two days later, Benjamin Hundeyin, the police spokesperson in Lagos stated. Mr Hundeyin added […]
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Sunday, August 21st, 2022

By Akintokunbo A Adejumo (akinadejum@aol.com) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For Nigeria, the year 2022 should be dedicated to Nigerian Athletes, men, and women alike. Their feat and prowess, first, a bit of success in the World Athletics Champions held in Eugene, Oregon, USA (15 Jul 2022 – 24 Jul 2022) and then the spectacular successes at […]