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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian sports administrators have a knack for doing things that would make “last minute.com” to envy them. Sometimes, they may not even respond to a basic thing, as an email letter. While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) are currently promoting the safeguarding of athletes, their […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenah, are planning to embark on a foreign trip for medical check-up. It was gathered that both husband and wife would use the opportunity to appraise their health status, which a source close to the Islamic leader claimed […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian senior men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, are out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after losing 71-80 in their last Group B game on Saturday. African Examiner reports that D’Tigers had rounded off their pre-Olympic preparations with impressive wins over the U.S. and Argentina in Las Vegas. But in Tokyo they […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Veteran Nollywood Actress Racheal Oniga is dead . She died on Friday, July 30, 2021. She was scheduled to resume for another film shoot on Saturday, July 31 when the news of her death filtered into town. Stakeholders in the TV and film industry confirmed her passing away . Nollywood film director, […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The continued recruitment and presence of mercenaries in Libya is impeding “progress in the peace process” and an obstacle to upcoming elections, independent UN human rights experts said on Friday. The Chair of the UN’s Working Group on the use of mercenaries, Jelena Aparac, therefore, called for “long overdue” departure of mercenaries […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army says the troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have taken custody of 91 Boko Haram/Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists and their families who surrendered recently in North East. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has provisionally suspended Team Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare with immediate effect after a sample collected from the sprinter tested positive for human growth hormone. The AIU, which is an independent integrity body created by the World Athletics, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. The growth hormone is […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
By Cornelius Ehimiaghe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian sports administrators have a knack for doing things that would make “last minute.com” to envy them. Sometimes, they may not even respond to a basic thing, as an email letter. While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) are currently promoting the safeguarding […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMNER) – A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Obiora Okonkwo, who participated in the primary election of the party, has left the party. Okonkwo, in a letter he submitted to his ward chairman in Ogidi ward 2, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, mentioned among other reasons the unending […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said it is not aware of any $875 million ammunition deal with the United States. Reports had emerged that some US lawmakers blocked the deal. The report listed the blocked proposed sale to include 12 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters accompanied by defence systems, 28 helicopter engines produced by […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Torrential rainfall on Thursday washed away the bridge linking Bauchi metropolis with Ningi local government area in the state, according to Mr Nanfan Joroh, an official of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA). He told stated that the damaged bridge was located 88 kilometers away from Bauchi, saying; “we were at the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Kayode Ajulo, a Constitutional Lawyer and Activist, says extradition of DCP Abba Kyari to the U.S. is not automatic as being speculated. African Examiner recalls that a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California had alleged that a suspect, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi used Kyari, Commander, IGP Intelligence Response […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Kano High Court, on Friday, sentenced Paul Owne to 104 imprisonment for masterminding the kidnap of nine children in the state. Justice Zuwaira Yusuf, who found the convict guilty of all the 38-count charge, sentenced him without an option of fine. African Examiner reports that the convict pleaded guilty to the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) says a person can’t succeed outside his personal educational qualification, adding that anybody who misses education has missed everything. Buhari also stated that Nigerian parents are making sacrifices to ensure that their children get educated. The President said this during a panel discussion on Thursday […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The slain Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, has been buried at Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi, Lagos. He was buried around 12.30pm in a low-key ceremony attended by his family members, including his wife, and friends. Journalists were restricted from covering some aspects of the burial. Photos taken by our correspondent were […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension and anxiety have enveloped the Enugu state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over allegations that materials for the Saturday ward congress of the party had been hijacked by some Abuja Politicians from the state, who may have already written results of the poll in the nation’s seat of power. […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Non -government organization, with bias on the fight against corruption, operating under the aegis, Global Society for Anti-Corruption (GSAC) has expressed worry, over the alarming rate of cancer worm which it said has eaten so deep into almost every facet of the Nigerian nation. While calling on all and sundry to […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari says no Nigerian parent jokes with education, as they know that if their children or wards missed the opportunity of being educated, they have missed a lot. The Nigerian leader said this at a panel session at the Global Education Summit in London, on Thursday. According to him, the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) The Federal Government has embarked on an audit of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Katsina State. Alhaji Mustapha Bara’u, NHGSFP Programme Manager in Katsina State, said during the launch of the exercise on Thursday that the enumeration targeted 833,957 pupils across 2,777 public primary schools in the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of its COVID- 19 response intervention in helping vulnerable Communities protect themselves against the spread of the deadly novel disease, the Heineken Foundation Africa, has extended its partnership with WaterAid to support the second phase of the Scale-Up Hygiene project in Enugu State, initially launched by WaterAid Nigeria last year. […]
