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Monday, June 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Lucky Irabor, says Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara lacks the powers to direct the state’s commissioner of police to issue gun licences to residents as a measure against insecurity. Mr Irabor faulted Mr Matawalle’s call for the state’s residents to bear arms to defend themselves […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to swear Justice Olukayode Ariwoola on Monday as Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) following the sudden resignation of Justice Tanko Muhammad. The news of Justice Muhammad’s resignation, as Chief Justice of Nigeria, broke on Monday morning with sources claiming the former CJN resigned for health reasons. […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Tanko Muhammad has resigned as the Chief Justice of Nigeria. Channels Television confirmed that he resigned on Sunday night on the grounds of ill-health. When contacted, the Special Adviser on Media and Communication to CJN, Ahuraka Yusuf Isah, said, “All I know is that he’s going to declare open a workshop […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Diocese of Auchi in Edo State has confirmed the death of Christopher Odia, a reverend father, who was abducted on Sunday by gunmen in the state. Mr Odia, 41, was the administrator of St. Michael Catholic Church, Ikabigbo, Etsako West Local Government Area and also the Principal of St. Philip […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, June 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara state government has enjoined residents to arm themselves against bandits. The directive was issued in a statement issued to the press on Saturday by Ibrahim Dosara, the commissioner for information, in Gusau, the state capital. It could be recalled that Zamfara has been one of the worst-affected states by banditry […]
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Sunday, June 26th, 2022
(AFICAN EXAMINER) – Another fresh battle seems to be brewing between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, ahead of the 2023 presidential election. Obasanjo, in a scathing remark yesterday, said he made a mistake picking Atiku as his running mate for the 1999 election. He said […]
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Saturday, June 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu has come under severe criticism after he told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his certificates were looted by unknown persons while he was on self-exile. The two-time governor of Lagos State has sworn an affidavit in support […]
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Saturday, June 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has raided the Abuja home of a military contractor and seized N175,706,500; $220,965; G-Wagon; 2022 editions of BMW and Mercedes Benz cars. Operatives also recovered customised mobile phones; several designer wrist watches, including three Rolexes, and some property documents. ICPC arrested the Managing […]
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Friday, June 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The anxiety to save the life of their daughter yesterday landed former Senate Deputy President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka, in London detention. They now face charges bordering on organ harvesting, which attracts a 10-year jail term. The alleged offence involves removing parts of the body against the will of […]
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Friday, June 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court has struck out the suit by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami seeking to void the provision of Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act 2022. In a judgment on Friday, a seven-member panel of the apex court, headed by Justice Musa Dattijo […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, June 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Controversial Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has emerged as the deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the forthcoming general election in Rivers State coming up next year. ADC governorship candidate in the state, Tonte Ibraye, disclosed this on Friday morning, in a statement posted on his verified Facebook page. […]
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Friday, June 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential candidate says only the PDP will wrestle from the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 general elections. Okowa stated this while addressing the people of Delta and party faithful who turned out en masse to receive him at the […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Friday, June 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said that the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) was still being detained because of the likelihood that he may jump bail again. Buhari spoke at a bilateral meeting with British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson on the margins of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) on Thursday expressed happiness concerning the arrest and detention of Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife in London over alleged organ harvesting. African Examiner recalls that two Nigerians, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu were arrested in the […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Specialist Crime Team of the Metropolitan Police in London has detained a former Senate Deputy President Dr. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. According to Sky News, the two suspects were arrested for alleged conspiracy to harvest the organs of a child. But the child has been taken into protective custody. […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Kingdom Metropolitan Police have formally charged two Nigerians with conspiracy to facilitate travel of another person for organ harvesting. The suspects were arrested and charged over their plan to bring a child into the country to allegedly harvest the said child’s organs. The two arrested suspects were identified as Beatrice […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Security Network Agency codenamed Amotekun Corps said it has arrested some persons involved in the attack of St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Owo local government area. It said it also recovered some weapons and vehicle used to perpetrate the terror act. About 40 persons were killed in the attack […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has directed that a portal be opened to document unemployed citizens. This resolution was reached on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, shortly before the president went to Rwanda to attend the 2022 CHOGM. The job portal would […]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
-Says Recent Spate Of Church Attacks unacceptable (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said his government would hunt perpetrators of church attacks in the country and bring them to justice Buhari, through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said those responsible for the attacks would be punished for […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has come under severe attack on social media after a video clip of him emerged online saying that the South East will vote for the People’s Democratic Party despite Obi being an easterner. In the video clip, Ekweremadu was heard saying: “I come from the SE, […]
