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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet has killed nine people in Buhari community, Yunusari Local Government Area of Yobe State. Several other villagers sustained injuries and are now receiving medical attention at a government health facility in Geidam. According to a resident of Damaturu, Saleh Ibrahim, the jet shelled the village in […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Manchester City crushed RB Leipzig 6-3 in a thrilling UEFA Champions League Group A game on Wednesday as Christopher Nkunku scored a hat-trick for the German side. It was a hugely entertaining match at the Etihad Stadium and Manchester City’s manager, Pep Guardiola, will be happy with the three points for the […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Kaduna State has arrested two suspects over killingi of Abdulkarim Na-Allah, the eldest son of Sen. Bala Ibn Na’Allah, in Kaduna. Na’Allah is the Senator representing Kebbi South senatorial district. The command Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the development to the News Agancy of Nigeria (NAN) […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A top UN official, Nicholas Haysom, said South Sudan had made history with the appointment of two women to senior leadership positions within its Transitional National Legislature. Haysom, UN Special Representative and head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), said this while briefing Security Council virtually at UN headquarters, New […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is collaborating with Ogun Government to secure the Right of Way (RoW) for the construction of three bridges and an interchange on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said this during an inspection of the highway . Fashola, who was joined by Gov. […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian envoy, Mrs Ibironke Adeagbo, has expressed fears on the safety of Nigeria’s 5.2 million students in 13,029 institutions nationwide as schools in the country resume for a new academic year. Records show that 1.4 million of the students are in Nigerian northwest, the hotbed of persistent abductions that have resulted […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Rivers Governor, Mr Peter Odili has been placed on the watch list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC ) says the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS) The NIS revealed this in response to a suit filed by Odili challenging the seizure of his international passport by the service. When the […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi says he has no apologies for describing President Muhammadu Buhari as a man with a good heart and father to him. Umahi said this while receiving the former Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, at the Government House, Abakiliki. Shariff was in […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said there was no difference between the “separationist activists” in the South-West and South-East geopolitical zones in the country, and deadly Boko Haram terrorists. Gbajabiamila stated this in his speech on resumption of the House of Representatives from the 2021 annual legislative recess […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, says the Nigerian Army will “talk to the terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and other perpetrators of violence in the language they understand.’’ Yahaya stated this at the closing of the Combined Second and Third Quarters Chief of Army Staff Conference on Wednesday in Abuja. […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB-N) has submitted the interim report on the crash involving a military aircraft that killed Lt-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, former Chief of Army Staff to the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Oladayo Amao and other passengers . The announcement was made in a statement issued by the […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday moved foreign minister Dominic Raab following sustained criticism of his handling of the Afghanistan crisis, Downing Street said. Johnson made Raab deputy Prime Minister, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor in a reshuffle that also saw gaffe-prone education secretary Gavin Williamson sacked. Meanwhile, the finance minister […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says the ban on microblogging giant Twitter will soon be lifted. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, confirmed this development when he fielded questions from State House correspondents on Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, a lot of progress has been made in the ongoing dialogue […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, Elias Mbam, on Wednesday, berated the 36 state governments and the 774 local government areas in the country for not thinking of new ways to generate revenue for the Federation. He spoke as a guest on NTA’s ‘Good Morning Nigeria’ breakfast programme […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has written letters to Governors of the 36 states of the Federation for the purpose of compliance with audit and recovery of back years of stamp duty from Jan. 15, 2016 to June 30, 2020. Dr Umar Gwandu, the Special Assistant on Media and Public […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Yola zone of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has called on the public to prevail on the federal and state governments to accede to union’s legitimate demands to avoid the resumption of the suspended strike. Mr Reuben Jonathan, Zonal Coordinator, who made the call at a news conference in […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Goodluck Jonathan Foundation (GJF) has enjoined African leaders to safeguard democracies. Ann Iyonu, Director of the organization founded by the ex-President, disclosed this in a statement on the 2021 International Day of Democracy. African Examiner writes that The day is observed in countries across the world every September 15. GJF tasked […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister of police affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, has stated that former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu is still on the payroll of the federal government. Dingyadi disclosed this in an interview on Channels Television. It could be recalled that Magu was the acting chairman of […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hajji Najibullah Haron, the Taliban intelligence chief in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province has rejected reports of the local presence of militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group as baseless and fabricated. “Lasting peace has returned to Kunduz province and people are living in peace there and any report about the presence […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has sworn Agom Jarigbe as a replacement for Stephen Odey. Jarigbe of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP has been having legal battle with Odey on who is the true candidate of the party for Cross River North. Jarigbe took an oath as a Senator following […]
