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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Members of the National Assembly have criticised the Department of State Services for going public with its warning to lawmakers without a formal security notice to the parliament on potential threats. Several lawmakers who were contacted by our correspondent on Wednesday denied getting any advisory from the DSS to the National Assembly. […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Thursday leave Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made this known in a statement on Thursday. The summit, themed, ‘Enhanced Partnership for Common Development and Prosperity,’ […]
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Structural Engineer, Mr Muritala Olawale, has narrated how Fourscore Heights altered a four storey building plan to 21-storey building which collapsed on Nov. 1 at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. African Examiner reports that Olawale, Managing Director of Prowess Engineering, made the revelation while responding to questions from Mr Akin George, counsel […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team have arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and gruesome killing of one Mrs Nneka Kalu, earlier reported missing. She was found dead in a cassava farm on August 29, 2021, in Ngugworo community in Nguzu Edda in Afikpo South, Ebonyi State. […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, reacted to a statement by former president Olusegun Obasanjo that President Muhammadu Buhari has nothing more to offer in solving banditry, kidnapping, and general insecurity in the country. Mohammed stated that the statement that Buhari can’t tackle insecurity in Nigeria is fallacious […]
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has berated Chief Bisi Akande, over allegations leveled against him in his book, ‘My Participation’. It could be recalled that Akande, a former Governor of Osun State and first chairman of the All Progressives Congress, had last week presented his book to […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The nation’s Total Public Debt rose to N38.005 trillion as at September 30, 2021. This was contained in the debt data released by the Debt Management Office (DMO), this evening. The figure showed that Nigeria’s Public Debt increased from N35.465 trillion at the end of Q2 2021 by N2.540 trillion to the […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Kingdom has said Nigeria and 10 other countries will be removed from its travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. The move follows anger from Nigeria and other African countries, with the United Nations describing the ban on non-UK residents entering England as “travel apartheid.” The British government had on […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has stated that President Buhari has done the best he could do and expecting him to do anything more is like beating a dead horse.According to Daily Trust, Obasanjo disclosed this at a retreat on inclusive security organized by the Global Peace Foundation and Vision Africa in Abuja […]
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has dragged former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, before the Special Offences Court in Ikeja, over his alleged procurement of a “fabricated” medical report The controversial minister and member of the ruling All Progressives Congress was about 9am marched before Justice O.O Abike-Fadipe by EFCC operatives for […]
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Monday, December 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate President, Ahmed Lawan has debunked the public perception of the 9th National Assembly as a rubber stamp of the executive. Lawan said this at the Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture in Abuja on Monday. He spoke at a lecture he tagged, “The Legislature, Legislative Mandate and The People- The Reality and The Public […]
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Monday, December 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A professor of political economy and management expert, Pat Utomi, has stated that Nigeria is now poorer and more corrupt than it was before the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari came on board in 2015. The don stated that Nigerians are hardly in the conversations around how they should be governed. “Political […]
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Monday, December 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency said on Sunday that there is no provision in the Finance Bill (2022) that states that banks will be required to request for Tax Identification Number before opening bank accounts for individuals and existing account holders must provide their TIN to continue operating their accounts. A top Presidency said this […]
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Monday, December 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The British High Commission on Sunday said the United Kingdom would not reverse its travel ban on Nigeria because of a threat of retaliation by the Federal Government. The spokesman for the British High Commission, Dean Hurlock, said this in response to an inquiry by The PUNCH on Sunday over a statement […]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has reaffirmed his position on the rumour making round the media that he is was begging to return to the PDP, noting that “nothing can take him back to Egypt, called PDP.” Umahi made the remark during 2021 Special Thanksgiving Service of Government House Chapel in Abakaliki […]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi on Sunday slammed the leadership of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, for kicking against the proposed visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Ebonyi State. Governor Umahi disclosed this while speaking with politicians at the end of the year thanksgiving service of the state […]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has stated that his senior brother has been abducted by bandits, saying they demanded ransom to regain his freedom. Gumi disclosed this in an interview with some journalists in Gusau, saying his senior brother was abducted because he made a case for bandits and for visiting them […]
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Sunday, December 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – All Progressives Congress (APC) says the newly-inaugurated leadership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has shown early signs that it is not different from its immediate past and sacked leadership. Sen. James Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee said this in a statement he issued on Saturday […]
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Saturday, December 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Saturday accused the Department of State Services, DSS, of using hunger and starvation to eliminate their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. IPOB stated that DSS was using maltreatment and humiliation against Kanu in their custody. The group stated that the secret police has confined its leader to […]
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Saturday, December 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has frowned that Nigerians are presently in pain because of the state of the nation which is ranging from deteriorating security situation to economic issues. The governor stated this at the swearing-in of the new National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP led by […]
