Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended collation of results of the Nov. 6 governorship election in Anambra pending the conduct of the election in Ihiala Local Government Area. Prof. Florence Obi, INEC Returning Officer for the Anambra Governorship election made the announcement Sunday night in Awka. Obi, who is also […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The incessant Communal crisis in the volatile Effium Community of Ohaukwu, Ebonyi State has again reared its ugly head this weekend , as Ezza Effium people allegedly attacked Amuda Effium natives in their sleep, killing no fewer than seventeen people. African Examiner gathered that several people who sustained various degrees of injuries […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, says many Nigerian presidents are not loved by the citizens until they are dead. Fashola disclosed this when he spoke as a guest speaker at the Yoruba Tennis Club public lecture, with the theme, ‘What can the President do for me?’ The former Lagos […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has filed a lawsuit enjoining the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the President Muhammadu Buhari from spending “N26bn in the 2022 presidency budget on local and foreign travels, meals and refreshments, ‘sitting allowance’, ‘welfare package’, and office building.” This was contained in […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr. Gabriel Othong, the Returning Officer of the Idemili South Local Government Area in the Anambra governorship election, has stated that 41 of the 42 result sheets for 89 polling units were carted away. Othong, who is from the University of Calabar in Cross River, made the disclosure while submitting results for […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Frank Mba, has stated the reason why some police officers deployed for Anambra election are yet to receive allowances. African Examiner recalls that reports emerged on Saturday saying that police officers deployed to Anambra for the governorship election were protesting over unpaid allowances. Reacting to […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) with the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation is deploying €25,000 grant for local landscape restoration and conservation projects in the Sahel region of West Africa. The project which are located in Bawku (Ghana), Ibadan (Nigeria), Nkambe and Yaoundé (Cameroon), and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), are part of GLF’s […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Voters who could not cast their ballots yesterday in the Anambra State governorship election because of technical issues and system failure on the part of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will be given the opportunity to do so, today. Contrary to pre-election fears of apathy and violence, three was impressive turnout […]
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Emotions ran high on Saturday as families of those who died in the 21-storey building collapse on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, besieged Lagos Mainland Hospital morgue in the Yaba area of the state to identify corpses of their loved ones. This is just as the wife of Femi Osibona, the developer of […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nepali peacekeeper serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been named the recipient of the UN Woman Police Officer of the Year Award. Superintendent Sangya Malla serving with the UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, is Chief of its Police Health and Environment Unit, based in the capital, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger State government has demolished the building of a suspected kidnapper, Mohammadu Umar, on Saturday at Nakagbe in Bosso Local Government Area of the state. Mr Emmanuel Umaru, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, told newsmen in Minna on Saturday that the suspect used proceeds of kidnap and other crimes to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Celebrity journalist, Dele Momodu, has stated that Femi Osibona, owner of Fourscore Homes and developer of the 21-storey building that collapsed in Lagos, wanted to live in the collapsed Ikoyi building and did not cut corners. It could be recalled that the collapsed building killed over 30 people, including Osibona. In an […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Panic gripped residents as hoodlums on Saturday allegedly made away with ballot boxes from two polling centres at the Immaculate Heart Catholic Church and the St Faith Catholic Church in Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra State. The hoodlums, numbering about six, stormed the St Faith Catholic Church by Mbonu Ejike/Basden Junction in an unmarked […]
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angolan private bank, Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) on Saturday signed a financial agreement with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) worth 30 million Kwanzas ($50,000) to combat malaria. Anya Fedorova, Population Services International Angola representative, who spoke to the press said her organisation’s co-funding agreement with BFA was aimed at helping in fighting […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP), Kwara branch, has suspended its 7-day warning strike. Dr Saka Agboola, the Chairman of the association, told newsmen in Ilorin on Saturday that the suspension of the industrial action would take effect by 6 p.m. He said that members were expected […]
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Chris Ngige, Minster of Labour and Employment, has expressed shock over poor functioning of the Biomodal Verification Machine or Car Reader, of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Ngige spoke to journalists at his Nkwoide Alor ward 1, in Idemili South Local Government Area, during the Anambra Governorship election on Saturday. […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended voting in the Anambra State governorship election till Sunday. It is to enable those who could not vote on Saturday due to the malfunctioning of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BIVAS) machine to do so. The machine failed to work in many units. Addressing […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mr. Valentine Ozigbo, has expressed concern over the poor internet connectivity experienced by voters in the use of the Bi-modal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machine. Mr. Ozigbo lamented that it took him over 20 minutes to cast his vote and wondered what other voters would experience […]
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two suspects in the mysterious killing of four women in Afghanistan’s northern Mazar-i-Sharif city have been arrested, the Taliban’s interior ministry spokesperson Qari Saeed Khosty said Saturday. The suspects had confessed during initial interrogation that they had invited the victims to a house before the killings, Khosty said, but declined to give […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), has expressed shock over the technology breakdown of the Bimodal Verification Accreditation (BVA) system. African Examiner reports the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been experiencing technical challenges in the use of the BVA device to capture voters in some […]
