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Sunday, February 20th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has been declared the winner of the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress held on Saturday. Announcing the result very early on Sunday, the Chairman of the governorship primary committee and Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, said Oyetola won the election, having garnered 222,169 votes, against […]
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Saturday, February 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said solving the problems bedeviling Nigeria would require ‘rebels’ who would speak truth to power. He spoke on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun State, while unveiling the autobiography of the Babanla Adinni of Egbaland, Tayo Sowunmi, titled “Footprints Of A Rebel.” Mr Obasanjo added that having more rebels […]
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Saturday, February 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, was absent at his Ifofin Ward 8, Ilesa East Local Government, even though primary election was held in the area and Governor Gboyega Oyetola was declared the winner. Oyetola won by 309 votes against 146 recorded for Moshood Adeoti, the candidate supported by Aregbesola. Speaking with our correspondent, […]
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Friday, February 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, and his successors who emerged under the People’s Democratic Party platform built the Second Niger bridge with their mouths for sixteen years. Adesina, disclosed this in an article he shared on his Facebook page saying that […]
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Friday, February 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has suspended action on a bill seeking to establish a federal medical centre, fmc in Deba instead of Billiri in Gombe state, insisting that the senate concur with earlier version of the Bill. Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila while affirming the decision of the House […]
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Friday, February 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has distanced its operatives from the 25kg cocaine deal involving a gang of police officers headed by a suspended deputy police commissioner, Abba Kyari. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, on Wednesday, faulted the claim that the agency’s officers at the Enugu airport were […]
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Friday, February 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, has vowed to work against the reelection of his successor, Gboyega Oyetola. Aregbesola said this at a political gathering in Ikire, Irewole Local Government Area of the state. He said that the forthcoming All Progressives Congress (APC) primary on Saturday would determine Oyetola’s fate in […]
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Thursday, February 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission (PSC) has suspended two police officers concerning their alleged involvement in a drug deal being investigated by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The suspended officers were working under the embattled super cop, Abba Kyari in the Intelligence Response Team of the Force Investigation and Intelligence Department of […]
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Thursday, February 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has fingered members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) for his troubles. Kyari was reported to have stated this when he appeared before a probe panel led by Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) at the Force […]
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Thursday, February 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has accepted 26 recommendations of the Toyin Ayinde-led panel that investigated the collapse of a 21-storey building in the Ikoyi area of the state. The Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led administration also rejected two of the 28 recommendations of the panel. In a White Paper exclusively seen by The Punch […]
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A senior advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, on Wednesday, claimed that former Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari may be reabsorbed into the Nigeria Police Force, NPF. Adegboruwa disclosed this when he accused the Nigerian Police of treating Kyari’s case with levity. The activist lawyer who was reacting to Kyari’s indictment […]
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome(SAN), who is the lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that his client’s sight had deteriorated. Ozekhome told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, that Kanu, who is currently in custody of […]
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Black marketers on Wednesday took advantage of the lingering scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to make brisk business from residents and motorists in Lagos State. African Examiner reports that the ongoing scarcity of PMS, also known as petrol, is due to the withdrawal of the off-spec products imported into the country […]
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the final forfeiture of 24 landed property belonging to a top military officer. The anti-graft agency said the property valued at N10. 9bn were controlled through proxies. According to a statement on Tuesday by the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, Justice N. E Maha of […]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It appears that things are no longer peaceful between the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, and his political leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Aregbesola openly slammed the APC national leader. Aregbesola, who is the Minister of Interior, while speaking with members of the All Progressives Congress in the Ijebu-Jesa area of Osun […]
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was strong indications as at yesterday that suspended police chief Abba Kyari, taken into National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) custody, will be extradited to the United States after his probe for an illicit drug deal. Sources said the Federal Government had concluded plans with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Intelligence […]
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has revealed damning details of how the suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari offered its operatives $61,400 cash and negotiated the release of 25kg seized cocaine. The agency, which declared the suspended Police chief wanted, said its […]
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Precious Chikwendu, was docked in a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja for attempted murder of her former husband, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, The police charged before Justice Inyang Ekwo with attempted culpable homicide . In a charge number: FHCABJ/CR/1/2022 filed by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), against Ms Chikwendu and […]
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared DCP, Abba Kyari wanted over 25kilograms of illicit drugs. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi said this at a press briefing on Monday in Abuja. The NDLEA said investigation has revealed that Kyari was a member of drug syndicate which […]
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Monday, February 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared a nationwide strike. The strike was declared at a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Monday. He said the strike, which takes effect from Monday, February 14, 2022, would last for an initial period of four weeks. According […]
