Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has removed the ban placed on flights coming into the country from India. THEWILL had reported that the government had banned passengers, who visited India, Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey in the last 14 days from entering the country as part of precautionary measures to contain the virus in […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICANN EXAMINER) – Yusuf Garba Adam popularly known as Yousef and Sakute Jonah popularly known as Saskay have been evicted from the ongoing 2021 edition of the Big Brother Naija reality TV show tagged Shine Ya Eye. They were both nominated for eviction alongside Cross, Angel and Emmanuel. Yousef is a 29-year-old high school teacher, […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Boarding house students of Lagos State Model Colleges and Upgraded Schools will pay N35,000 in each of the next two terms. Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, Commissioner for Education, made the clarification in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by Mr Ganiu Lawal, an assistant director in the ministry. Adefisayo said the “experimental […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen invaded a place of worship in Kabba, Kogi, on Sunday, killing one person and abducting two worshippers. The place of worship located at Okedayo Area on Kabba-Okene Road was invaded at about 10.15a.m. as the day’s worship went underway. Police’s spokesman in Kogi, DSP William Aya, confirmed the incident. He described […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Arsonists set the INEC office at Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State ablaze on Sunday. The Chief Fire Officer in Enugu State, Chief Okwudili Ohaa, confirmed the incident in Enugu. Ohaa said that a distress call was received by the Enugu State Fire Service at about 1.30 a.m. “As usual, when […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. Government said it has donated the sum of $6.8 million to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for projects in Nigeria that are aimed at combating trafficking in persons. The donation which was announced by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement […]
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A pressure group, Eastern Intelligentsia Coalition (EIC) has stressed the need for Nigeria to return to true federalism, saying the nation as presently constituted “is a subject of great worry to all men of good conscience. It noted that a “nation that not only promotes injustice, but perpetuates ethnic bigotry, is only […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kingsley Moghalu, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has stated that foreign direct investment (FDI) can help lift a country out of poverty if it is targeted at the real economy. He disclosed this at a US-Nigeria investment summit in New York saying that the most important ingredients […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has applauded the reported summoning of the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, to the presidential Villa over the suspicious N3 billion slop oil sale, is a welcome development. The Association in a statement issued Sunday by its Secretary […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Sunday, September 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Climate Reality Project (ACRP) in conjunction with Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP), has trained 40 young Nigerians on advocacy-based campaign relating to climate change and transition to renewable energy sources. The training which drew participants from climate impacted states and communities impacted by fossil fuels across Nigeria, […]
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An employee of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation, Akinlolu Ajayi, will be prosecuted for attempting to commit suicide . The 54-year-old man was seen on September 15 on the Third Mainland Bridge trying to jump into the lagoon at the University of Lagos waterfront. Ajayi was, however, stopped when the […]
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has described Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State as an attention seeker. The political party disclosed this on his official Twitter account as it accused the governor of seeking imaginary presidential ambition. According to the PDP, Umahi is confused having realized that he joined a “one chance […]
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former presidential spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, has cautioned the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party against presenting a northern candidate for the 2023 presidential election in order to avoid another major defeat. The PDP chieftain disclosed this during an interview with journalists in Abuja. According to Okupe, the zoning arrangement in the PDP […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, has called for a political solution for the crisis which caused the arrest and detention of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Metuh disclosed this in a statement . The former PDP spokesman was quoted to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, says that the secessionist agitation of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra has been taken over by criminals and kidnappers. The governor disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television saying that IPOB is no longer in control of the whole agitation due to the alleged […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police have arrested about 259 suspects over banditry, kidnapping, culpable homicide, rape, farmers/herders conflicts and other crimes in Niger in August. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Monday Kuryas, stated in Minna on Saturday that crimes were committed in 25 local government areas of the state. “We have charged 119 suspects […]
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for New York, United States of America, to participate in the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76). This was issued in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina explained that the session opened […]
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Sokoto State on Saturday confirmed the killing of one person and the abduction of several others, as a result of an attack by some unknown gunmen in Tangaza Local Government Area of the state. The Spokesperson of the command, ASP Sunusi Abubakar, who confirmed the attack in Sokoto, […]
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has given erring contractors handling parts of the LagosHoms, Sangotedo in Eti-Osa one week to improve the level of work or have their contracts terminated. Sanwo-Olu gave the deadline on Friday when he inspected the housing project to assess the pace of the construction work. He […]
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says it will appeal against the judgment of an Oyo State High Court which awarded N20 billion in damages against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and the Department of State Services (DSS) for the purported invasion of Sunday Adeyemo’s residence by the DSS on July 1. The court […]
