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Friday, February 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Several Nigerians mostly students who are in Ukraine are currently stranded even as Russia continues to attack the eastern European nation. This is as the National Association of Nigerian Students in Ukraine sent out a Save Our Soul message to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and seeking immediate evacuation from […]
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Friday, February 25th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen attacked four banks and a Police Divisional Headquarters on Thursday as they laid siege on Uromi town in Esan Northeast Local Government Area of Edo. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen got to the town in their numbers and in several vehicles before they attacked the four banks with dynamites. The unmasked gunmen […]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has stated that the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma has failed saying that the People’s Democratic Party will reclaim the state come 2023. Gov. Wike disclosed this in the special grand reception organized to celebrate the National Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator […]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday has ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, 48 hours,to respond to an application by the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, who is currently in its custody, filed to be released on bail on health ground. Justice Inyang Ekwo […]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital on a two day state visit. The President, who came in helicopter 5N-FG2 arrived about 10 am at the Nasarawa State airport, Lafia. On ground to receive President Buhari are the host governor, Abdulahi Sule, the governors of Kogi and Kebbi states, […]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director General and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Environmental Standard and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), Prof Aliyu Jauro has harped on the extent afforestation can go in cushioning the effects of environmental degradation and global warming. His organization, NESREA is an environmental agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria that was […]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A fresh move by the National Assembly to grant life pension for its presiding officers, including the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives as well as their deputies has sparked outrage among civil society groups and some senior advocates. If the proposal is passed by the legislature, the […]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has urged the Federal Government to declare all suspected leaders of terrorists in the country wanted. This followed the adoption of a motion by Sen. Bala Ibn Na’Allah (APC-Kebbi) and co-sponsored by 12 other senators during plenary on Wednesday. The motion was entitled; “Urgent need to surmount all kinds of […]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State local government election held on Wednesday turned bloody as unknown armed men attacked some polling Centers, killing four persons and setting two vehicles ablaze at Akpugo in Nkanu West Council area. The hoodlums, who also invaded Obeagu ward 3 in Enugu South Council area, disrupted the exercise and chase voters […]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Mahdi Gusau, has been removed from office by lawmakers in the State House of Assembly on Wednesday. This followed the report of the committee set up by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Kulu Aliyu, to probe the deputy governor. Those in the committee include […]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Finance Headquarters located in the Central Area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is currently on fire. The details of the inferno as of the time of filing this report are sketchy. However, our correspondent learnt that firefighters had arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire. The […]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the astronomical increase in airfares by Airline operators in the country, the Senate called on the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, declare a State of Emergency on the nation’s federal roads. The Senate has also urged the federal government to immediately make good its indebtedness to FERMA […]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said media reports quoting him as saying he was “ready to get dirty” to achieve his presidential ambition were taken out of context. Mr Tinubu’s media aide, Tunde Rahman, in a statement on Monday, said his principal, while referring to some of […]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate will lay the report of the Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution Wednesday and begin to vote on the recommendations on Tuesday next week. Disclosing this Tuesday, Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Senate Committee on the Alteration to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal […]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has postponed the meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities earlier slated for 1 p.m today, Tuesday, February 22, 2022, to 2pm. This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the ministry of labour and employment, Charles Akpan in Abuja. Though Akpan did […]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe, to three months imprisonment. Ochekpe, who served as Minister under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was sentenced alongside a former chairman of the People Democratic Party in Plateau state, Raymond Dabo, and the Plateau State […]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, called on the old generation of Nigerians to give way for the younger generation to build a prosperous nation. According to him, rather than compete, the old generation should collaborate with younger people and provide them with the requisite knowledge and experience to transform the country. […]
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Monday, February 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has stated that the People’ s Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressives Congress, APC, have nothing different to offer Nigerians come 2023. Kwankwaso made this known when he featured on Nasara FM in Kano over the weekend saying that both the APC and PDP have nothing […]
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Monday, February 21st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A pregnant woman and eight others were burnt to death, yesterday, when a commercial passenger bus rammed into a vehicle laden with petrol in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Eight others were said to have survived the crash with multiple burnt injuries. It was gathered that the accident occurred at Ilorin International […]
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Sunday, February 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Reno Omokri, a former presidential aide has enjoined the Nigerian law enforcement agencies especially the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, and the Police to make sure that embattled DCP Abba Kyari is treated like a criminal. African Examiner recalls that Abba Kyari was earlier […]
