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Saturday, November 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian government has directed civil servants from Grade Level 12 and below to resume work effective Wednesday, December 1, 2021. The workers have also been directed to get vaccinated before resumption. The directive, which is contained in a circular signed by the head of service of the federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, noted […]
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Saturday, November 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Northern Youths Council of Nigeria has commended the declaration of bandits, (Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’ada ) as terrorists by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court Abuja following an Ex-parte motion filed by the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Justice. Renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi however […]
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Saturday, November 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum and elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has revealed that he would support the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s presidential bid in 2023. Tinubu had on Wednesday visited the elder statesman at his Abuja residence. Yakasai stated that the ex-governor […]
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Friday, November 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students has threatened to shut down the country should the Federal Government proceed to remove subsidy from petrol. The organisation called on Nigerians and all its allied structures to be on the alert for further directives on the next action. The President of NANS, Sunday Asefon, issued […]
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Friday, November 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government may deduct at least N2.4tn from the Federation Account to fund the N5, 000 cash palliative that will be handed over to 40 million poor Nigerians after the fuel subsidy has been removed next year. The list of poor Nigerians on the Federal Government’s National Social Register had surpassed […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, November 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2019 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has enjoined the Federal Government and governors elected on the platforms of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to emulate their PDP counterparts. Atiku Abubakar stated that only states controlled by PDP governors are working based on projects that have […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
…..Says It’s Politically Motivated (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Anambra State Government has officially reacted to the Economic and financial Crimes Commission EFCC placement of governor Willy Obiano on its watch list, describing it as politically motivated and in bad taste. The nation’s anti- graft agency had on Wednesday in a letter to the Nigerian Immigration Service […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 80 per cent of ward executives of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Yamaltu/Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State have resigned their positions over the feud between Senator Muhammad Danjuma Goje and Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya. The resigning executives, which constitute about 80 per cent of the entire […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ralf Rangnick is close to finalising a deal to become Manchester United’s interim manager as they seek a replacement for the sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, it was widely reported on Thursday. The Premier League giants have identified the German, 63, who is currently head of sports and development at Russian club Lokomotiv […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Coalition of HND Stakeholders has commended the National Assembly for the passage of the bill to abolish the dichotomy between first degree and Higher National Diploma holders (HND). Mr Sebastian Onyemaobi, National Coordinator of the coalition made the commendation at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday. Onyemaobi also appealed to […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The verbal war between Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, and traditional religious adherents in Osun State seems to have taken a twist, as the group, under the aegis of Traditional Religion Worshippers Association, TRAWSO, said the monarch’s effrontery against the gods would lead to his fall. But the monarch insisted that […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the Federal Government to consider options to help the country embrace developmental governance and accountable leadership, while rejecting the planned petroleum price increase. NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, made the call in a statement he issued to newsmen in Abuja, entitled: ”Nigerian workers refused […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria Air, the country’s proposed national carrier, will take off by April 2022, Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation, has disclosed . The minister stated this when he briefed state house correspondents after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting at the presidential villa, Abuja. According to him, the national carrier will be run […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria’s Senate in Abuja has kicked against alleged high scale secret employment in the civil service despite claims that the federal government had placed embargo on job placement. This was even as the upper legislative chamber lamented that many unemployed youths have found insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and other criminal acts as […]
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Thursday, November 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has placed Governor Willie Obiano, governor of Anambra State on its watchlist. This development is coming months before Obiano is expected to vacate office as governor. According to a letter dated November 15 and addressed to the comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), the […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has condemned the resurgence of Ponzi schemes and illegal fund managers in the country’s financial sector. The Director-General of SEC, Mr Lamido Yuguda, frowned at the development at an enlightenment workshop with the staff of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning on Wednesday […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) has dismissed insinuations in some reports that its proposed 2022 budget was padded with N4.5 billion. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Babafemi said the agency had been inundated with calls and messages […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – EFCC has declared that banking sector fraud is largely perpetrated by insider Information, Communication Technology (ICT) employees. Mr Abbah Sambo, Head, Cybercrime Section of the EFCC, made the disclosure at a national seminar on Banking and Allied Matters for judges. Sambo represented the EFCC chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, at the seminar. He […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian traders has condemned ECOWAS’ silence over border closure by the Ghanaian government thereby violating the policy on free movement in the region. Mr Chukwuemeka Nnaji, President of the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG), made the call in a telephone interview on Wednesday. Nnaji, who spoke against the backdrop […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer (GMD/CEO) Mele Kyari, has stated that petrol will sell for between N320 and N340 per liter from February, next year. Kyayi, who said Nigeria would be out of the subsidy regime in the first quarter of 2022, explained that subsidy […]
