Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, has stated that the recommendations to lift the ban on Twitter in Nigeria will be applicable to all social media platforms in the country. Mohammed disclosed this when he appeared on ‘This Morning’, a programme by Television Continental (TVC) . The minister, speaking concerning […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations Children’s fund UNICEF on Monday said the delisting of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) from the United Nations Secretary-General’s report on Children and Armed Conflict as one of the armed groups recruiting and using children in north-east Nigeria is one step forward for child protection. Recalled that in […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, South- West Nigeria, has expressed serious concerned over the sudden disappearance of Vanguard Newspaper’s House of Representatives Correspondent, Mr. Tordue Salem since last Wednesday. Mr. Salem was reportedly last sighted within the premises of a Total Filling Station, opposite the FCT, Abuja Police headquarters on Wednesday […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna State Government said security forces have killed 10 bandits and rescued one hostage in Giwa Local Government Area (LGA). The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Kaduna. Aruwan said the 10 bandits who were lurking around some […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, Sports News
Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Bayern Munich FC defender, Lucas Hernandez, appeared before a Madrid court on Monday ahead of a potential six-month spell in prison, court officials have disclosed. Hernandez, 25, was due to appear Tuesday to inform the court where he would serve the sentence for violating a restraining order in 2017 while playing at Atletico […]
Posted by African Examiner
Featured, Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada
Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gen. Colin Powell, the trailblazing son of the South Bronx who rose to the highest ranks of the U.S. military, died of complications from COVID-19 in spite of being fully vaccinated. He was 84 his family announced on Monday. Powell, who served as the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected gunmen have attacked a police station in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi and shot a police sergeant. The Assistant Public Relations Officer, Ebonyi Command, ASP Levi Philips, stated on Monday in Abakaliki that the station was attacked in the early hours on Monday. Philips added that the suspects also burnt […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Owerri residents continue to obey the IPOB sit –at- home order thereby clamping down on business and social activities in the State capital. This has continued two months after the separatist group, IPOB, said it had cancelled its weekly sit-at-home order in protest against the detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) –A non governmental organization, Tabitha New Life Foundation is holding their annual programme tagged “Taking Over Dorcas Heart 3:0, feeding of widows and widowers. The foundation started on a conscious note supported by like- minded individuals to affect the world we live. For the great tasks ahead and continuity, a programme was initiated […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman elect of the Enugu State Chapter of the All progressive Congress APC, Comrade Adolphus Ude, has advised a former Commissioner for Works in the state, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa who was announced winner in a Parallel congresses held last Saturday in Enugu to bury his hope of leading the party, because APC […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Crimes Commission has commenced investigations into the alleged tax evasion by some Nigerians named in the Pandora Papers. It was gathered that a former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has already been summoned for questioning by the commission over his secret assets and financial deals exposed in the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arewa Youth Federation on Monday in Abuja described as spurious, a publication by Wall Street Journal that the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) paid 20 million naira to bandits. The U.S-based journal stated in its publication that NAF paid the money in exchange for its anti-aircraft gun allegedly seized by bandits. The group’s […]
Posted by African Examiner
Asia, Featured, Latest Headlines
Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Philippine police on Monday killed four Chinese nationals during an anti-illegal drugs operation that lead to the confiscation of more than 262 million pesos (5.24 million dollars) worth of crystal meth. The suspects, from Fujian and Shanxi in China, were known distributors of illegal drugs in the capital and surrounding provinces, a […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Uche Secondus, former National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says he has no intention of withdrawing the case challenging his removal from court. Mr Ike Abonyi, his Media Adviser disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. Abonyi said that Secondus was in court to seek for justice as well […]
Posted by African Examiner
Asia, Featured, Latest Headlines
Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Economic growth in China slowed to 4.9 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter, according to data released on Monday by the statistics office. The third quarter figures are the weakest so far this year. China had posted record growth of 18.3 per cent in the first quarter and 7.9 per cent […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians in the U.S. have appealed to political leaders back home to ensure they deliver on their campaign promises to the Nigerian people so as to alleviate their sufferings. The Chairman, Board of the Organisation for the Advancement of Nigerians (OAN), Mr Yinka Dansalami Dansalami, stated this in New York that Nigerian […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC not to drag its name into the November 6, 2021 Anambra State governorship election , rejecting any form of dialogue with them The pro-Biafra group also described as laughable, the statement by the Nigerian Police that it is coming […]
Posted by African Examiner
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, North Africa
Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania has allocated 90.6 billion Tanzanian shillings (about 39.2 million U.S. dollars) for the implementation of 23 projects aimed at revamping the tourism sector affected by the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), a cabinet minister said on Sunday. Damas Ndumbaro, the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, told a press conference in the commercial […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Air Force has refuted a report by the Wall Street Journal that it paid N20m as ransom to bandits in exchange for an anti-aircraft gun seized from the Nigerian Army. African Examiner writes that The Wall Street Journal had stated in a report on Sunday that the NAF negotiated the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, October 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, a coalition of Northern Youth has begun an awareness campaign to gather support for Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo in Kano. The group under the auspices of Osinbajo Awareness Campaign (OAC) stated that it will mobilize 20 million youths across the 19 Northern states and Federal […]
