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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress has rescheduled its nationwide state congresses to Saturday, 16th October, 2021. An updated timetable/schedule of activities and guidelines for the conduct of the state congresses will be released to the public in due course, the party said. This is contained in a terse statement released by the National […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Ben Nwosu, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria, Enugu, on Wednesday decried the 90, 000 out-of-school children in Anambra State, describing the situation as worrisome. Nwosu said this at a project close-out and unveiling of Data Management System, organised by the Evidence and Collaboration for Inclusive Development […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Contrary to notion in some quarters in South East Nigeria, that president Muhammadu Buhari hates Igbo people, Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has said the composition of the recently announced board members of the Nigeria petroleum Corporation NNPC has showed that the notion was wrong. He however, commended […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The North-South Economists’ Forum, NSEF, a focus group of development economists, has exonerated Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, from the continued depreciation of the value of the naira in the forex market. The body of economists in a press release signed by its Chairman, Malam Ahmed Abdulkadir and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has tasked the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to facilitate a quick rehabilitation of the dilapidated portions of the Onitsha-Owerri highway. The lawmakers made this known during Wednesday plenary as they vowed to investigate why sections of the Enugu-Port Harcourt and Enugu-Onitsha roads are failing irrespective […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As President Mohammadu Buhari of Nigeria prepares to address the ongoing United Nations General Assembly, there are barrage of protests planned to embarrass him at the global event. African Examiner gathered that various organizations, dissidents, activists, self-determination groups have mobilised Nigerians in the US to troop out to demonstrate against the president […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ondo State on Wednesday warned motorists to desist from driving without valid driver’s license or face the full wrath of the law. Mr Ezekiel SonAllah, State Sector Commander of FRSC, made the disclosure while speaking on the command’s preparedness towards Ember Months flag off . […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, has congratulated Nigeria’s music legend, King Sunny Ade as he clocks 75 today. The president via a statement posted on a Facebook page of his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, noted the many achievements of the veteran musician as he celebrates his birthday. The […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Wednesday, said there was an early fire incident at a wing of its headquarters in Lagos. Mr Olaseni Alakija, General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications made this known in a statement in Lagos. He said that the fire incident suspected to have been triggered by an […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of Edo State have frowned at the Edo State Government’s restrictions imposed on persons without COVID-19 green cards. Some of the residents who spoke on Wednesday said it was unnecessary to impose restrictions because of the COVID-19 vaccination green card. Some civil servant in Edo State Civil Commission, Central Hospital Benin […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened a one-month sit-at-home protest in ‘Biafraland’ if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is not brought to court on October 21. The Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, Emma Powerful, stated this in a statement in Awka, Anambra State. He reportedly said IPOB got from […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
…Demand Compensation (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos Nigeria, has condemned in strong terms the recent brutal attack on the General Manager, JAMZ 100.1FM, Ibadan, Mr. Tony Awobode, by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and his men from the Eleyele Police station in the Oyo State capital. Quoting a media report, the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed men have attacked a police checkpoint at Nachi in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu state, killing two officers. The victims, who were said to have died on the spot were on duty at the checkpoint when the hoodlums struck. It was gathered that the gunmen shot sporadically, a […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has given the requirements for a politician from the South to become the next president. Speaking on Arise TV , Baba-Ahmed tasked Nigerians to see beyond religious and ethnic sentiments in the 2023 general elections. According to him, the demands of the […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Malaysians from Wednesday can resume sending international mail after a break of more than a year which the national postal service put down to the Coronavirus pandemic’s impact on air transport. Sending is to be limited to 56 countries “due to limited international flights available,” POS Malaysia said, listing many European countries […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has said that no candidate in Enugu state missed its ongoing examination in spite of the IPOB-declared Mondays’ sit-at- home order. The Deputy Registrar/Zonal Coordinator, WAEC, Mrs Eucharia Onodu disclosed this in Enugu. Onodu said the sit-at-home order only affected the students emotionally, as many of […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some senior Police retirees based in Edo have condemned what they referred to as “poor retirement benefits” after their service years. The retirees, who were at the headquarters of the state’s Police Command in Benin, also called on the authorities of the Nigeria Police Force to yank them off the current Police […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Irked by the involvement of the Traditional ruler of Ihekwuenu Aku Autonomous Community in Igbo-Etiti Council Area of Enugu state, Igwe Christopher Okwor in the Demolition of the house belonging to a 60 year old virtually impaired man in the locality, the state government has announced the immediate suspension of the Monarch. […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President, Joe Biden on Tuesday, called for a new era of global unity against the compounding crises of COVID-19, climate change and insecurity. Biden made the call in his inaugural address to the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Debate of the 76th session of the General Assembly […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Allen Onyema, the President of Air Peace Airline, has compensated the Super Falcons past and present teams with the sum of ₦20 million. This is contained in a statement by Ademola Olajire, Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), on Wednesday. It said that Onyema presented the cheques to the various […]
