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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission and addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution companies and all meter asset providers. The circular, […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Governorship candidate in the Nov. 6 election in Anambra, on Friday received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the state Governor-Elect. African Examiner reports that the INEC National Commissioner Supervising Anambra, Mr Festus Okoye, presented the certificate […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Sherifat Solebo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has remanded Chima Igwe, a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, over alleged certificate fraud. African Examiner had reported that The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission would arraign a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A hit-and-run driver, Itoro Clement has confessed to knocking down the missing Vanguard reporter, Tordue Salem. Salem had been declared missing since October 13. Parading the suspect on Friday at the IRT premises in Abuja, Itoro said he hit Salem at the Mabushi area on October 13 and sped off. Details later… […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has stated that even as the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari remains steadfast to the delivery of sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to all Nigerians, effective collaboration among all levels of government and the private sector will help the country achieves its goal to end open defecation by […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion, has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. According to available information, Igbinedion who finished his tenure as governor in 2007 is being grilled at the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC for allegedly diverting public funds to the tune of N1.6 billion. […]
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Anambra Governorship election, Senator Andy Uba, has rejected the outcome of the vote as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Uba also has decided to contest the election outcome in court. According to African Examiner, Uba, who came third after […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has charged the former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, to explain why he was gifted 25 exotic vehicles worth billions of naira by an oil magnate currently standing trial on corruption charges, rather than attempting to stall discussions on publicly available information […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The non-teaching staff in University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) under the aegis of Joint Action Committe (JAC) on Thursday staged a peaceful protest demanding arrears of minimum wage and earned allowances. The Committee threatened to shut down UNN by embarking on an indefinite strike after Nov. 15, if their members failed to […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Bauchi branch has criticized the appointment of Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, as a professor of cyber security by the Governing Council and the management of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO). It maintained it was not convinced […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police on Thursday paraded 14 suspects involved in the raid of Justice Mary Odili’s Maitaima residence in Abuja. The police found out that the team who stormed the apartment were not security operatives. The men were said to have been led by a fake Chief Superintendent of Police, Lawrence Ajojo, who admitted […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, died on Thursday aged 85, his foundation announced. De Klerk and South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for leading the “miracle” transition from white rule in the country. He died after a battle with cancer, his […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo alongside several captains of the Nigerian industry have been selected to drive discussions pivotal to entrenching corporate governance principles at the 2021 Annual Directors’ Conference. Alhaji Lamis Dikko, Chairman, National Organizing Committee, Annual Directors’ Conference (ADC) disclosed this at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday. African Examiner […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command has announced the arrest of 108 Merchant Navy personnel over alleged operation of illegal military training camp. Parading the suspects before newsmen in Ikeja , the Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Hakeem Odumosu, said that they were arrested during a raid. According to Odumosu, the command […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 22 persons were killed in Kaduna, Katsina and Taraba communities by suspected bandits and herdsmen. Eight natives were killed by suspected herdsmen, who invaded two villages of Kibori and Atagjah, in Atyap chiefdom in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State. This came as suspected bandits raided two […]
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor-elect of Anambra State, Professor Charles Soludo, says he has enough experience as he is not coming on the job to learn. Soludo, who emerged as the next governor of Anambra State on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, disclosed this during an interview on Arise TV. According to […]
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Victor Oye, national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has stated that the Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in 2019 election, Peter Obi “cannot achieve anything” unless he comes back to the party where he was elected as Governor of Anambra state in 2006 and also ended […]
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s External Borrowing (Rolling) plan for the Federal Government to the tune of $16,230,077,718, €1,020,000,000 and a grant component of $125,000,000.00 under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan” for the Federal Government. Senate’s approval was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate […]
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned trial of detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu till January 19. The adjournment came on a day Kanu’s team of lawyers, staged a walk-out over refusal of operatives of the Department of State Services, […]
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Onitsha the commercial city and Nnewi the industrial town of Anambra State, were completely deserted on Wednesday, as residents and traders observed another sit-at-home in solidarity with the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB who appeared in court today. As usual, reminisce of the IPOB’s suspended Monday weekly sit-at-home, markets, […]
