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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some hoodlums in their hundreds on Thursday set ablaze the Gubernatorial Campaign Office of one of the political opponent of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Sen. Barau Jibrin representing Kano north senatorial district. Some of the attackers were said to have gone with dangerous weapons to the Senator’s office located along Maiduguri Road in […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has tasked the media to exert pressure on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) to assent to the amended Electoral Act. Governor Wike stated that it is important that the media should enlighten Nigerians to know why there should be electronic transmission of election results so […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has directed those serving in his government who would like to contest the governorship primaries to tender their resignation latest by December 18. The directive was contained in a statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, in Ado Ekiti, titled, “Ekiti 2022: Fayemi […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government threw its weight behind the Lagos State government’s White Paper on the report of the judicial panel set up to probe cases of police brutality and shooting at the Lekki tollgate, promising to take further actions. The Lagos State government, on Tuesday, rejected key recommendations of the panel’s report […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said kidnappers have also been declared as terrorists. He said the recent court declaration had been gazetted and would soon be published. He also disclosed that all the relevant security agencies had been notified. Malami made this known while […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian government has described the recent killing of two police officers in Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east as “barbaric and cannibalistic” . The assailants filmed themselves as they were killing the officers and later circulated the clip on social media, the government said. The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, in a statement […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned the Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Bamidele Oleyelogun, in court over alleged financial impropriety. Oleyelogun is being arraigned alongside the Clerk of the house, Bode Adeyelu; the lawmaker representing Akoko South West I in the House, Felemu Bankole and two […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in the country. This was contained in a press release issued by the centre and signed by the Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa. African Examiner reported that the Omicron variant, a new strain of the coronavirus […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amid the growing concerns over the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Canada has added Egypt, Malawi, and Nigeria to the ‘travel ban’ list. “We are adding three countries to the list of these countries that we talked about last Friday, these are Malawi, Egypt and Nigeria,” Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos was quoted […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has called on youths to join him on Peace Walk, for healing of Lagos State. He made the call in Lagos, during a news conference on the State Government’s position on the recommendations of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on EndSARS, submitted on Nov. 15. He […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has been re-invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,(EFCC) following investigations into alleged document falsification Fani-Kayode alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenandi Usman, is standing trial on alleged N4.6billion money laundering, before Justice Mohammed Aikawa. Other defendants are Yusuf Danjuma, a former […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum and elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has said that the problem of insurgency in the country started in Southern Nigeria. He spoke on Channels Television’s ‘News Night’ programme . The 96-year-old elder statesman also said the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has slammed a N2 billion defamation suit against the Chief Executive Officer of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Ltd., Leno Adesanya. In a statement of claim before an FCT High Court presided over by Justice Sylvester Oriji, the minister accused Adesanya and two national dailies […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, has declared the banishment of deposed Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II from Kano State was unlawful, unconstitutional and a violation of his rights Justice Anwuli Chikere, in a judgment, held that the Emirate Council Law, 2019, used by the state government in banishing Sanusi was […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the stakeholders agitating for an Independent Yoruba Nation, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has resigned as the Chairman of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS). Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO), the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, also cut off from the NINAS Alliance with immediate effect. Akintoye, a renowned Historian […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The crisis of leadership in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, took a turn for the worse, following the purported disbandment of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, by one of the support groups in the party, the Progressive Youth Movement, PYM. Consequently, the movement named its […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party from the North-Central zone have endorsed a former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, as their presidential candidate in 2023. Speaking in Lafia, the leader of the delegation, Prof Iyorwuese Hagher, said they needed Saraki and not a President who will be travelling every moment for […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President, Joe Biden, has urged vaccinated Americans to get their COVID-19 booster shots amidst the growing concerns about the potential threat posed by the new Omicron variant. Biden, who made the call on Monday, also pleaded with those who have yet to be vaccinated to get their first dose. He made […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Argentina’s Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or award for the best player in the world for a record-stretching seventh time on Monday, beating Robert Lewandowski and Jorginho to lift soccer’s most prestigious trophy. It added to his 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2019 trophies after winning the Copa America for the […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, said he visited the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in the custody of the Department of State Services on Monday afternoon. Kalu, in a statement personally signed by him and made available to our correspondent in Abuja, said […]
