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Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has approved the request of the President, Major General Muhammadu (retd.), to borrow N2,343,387,942,848, to part finance the 2021 federal budget size of N13trn. The Senate resolution following the approval of its Committee on Local and Foreign Loans as presented by the Chairman, Clifford Ordia. The Committee recommended that the […]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the raid by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) of the Soka, Ibadan residence of Yoruba Nation Agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, various groups in Yorubaland will stage a protest in Ibadan on Wednesday. African Examiner reports the DSS confirmed a joint team of security operatives raided Igboho’s […]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 18 people were killed by suspected armed bandits in an attack on Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. The police spokesperson in the state, Gambo Isah, told reporters that one other person was injured in the attack that occurred in Tsauwa village. Residents say the bandits may have […]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 20 children in Kano for violating the law against street begging. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Lawal Ibrahim, Public Relations Officer of the board in Kano. It quoted the Commander General of Hisbah, Dr Harun Ibn-Sina, as saying that all the […]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fire has razed down a storey building at Ladipo, in the Mushin area of Lagos State. The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, adding that efforts were on to put out the fire. He added that no casualties have […]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reiterated its commitment to ensuring effective stewardship of the nation’s hydrocarbon resources to guarantee energy security and drive wealth creation in Nigeria. The Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, made this assertion while delivering the keynote address at the 2021 Nigeria Oil and […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kano State Gov Abdullahi Ganduje, says that the Federal Government spends N1.5 billion monthly on school feeding programme in the state. Ganduje stated this on Tuesday while playing host to the technical committee on the National Home Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSF) who visited him in his office in Kano. The governor […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the plan to consider Ibrahim Magu, former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for promotion to the rank of assistant inspector-general (AIG) by the Police Service Commission (PSC). Recall that the PSC is thinking of promoting Magu despite the recommendation of […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The French Cultural Institute in Nigeria, also known as The Institut français du Nigéria has announced that its newly reopened library will serve as a hub to boost the institute’s cultural activities in Nigeria. The refurbished library, which is christened Médiathèque was reopened penultimate Saturday, after one year of renovation work on […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has stated that it has captured Boko Haram terrorists with sex enhancement drugs and other “assorted items” during a clearance operation in Borno. The army spokesman, Onyeama Nwachukwu, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. According to him, the Nigerian troops arrested two terrorists at Muna. “Troops of […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sani Yabagi, the national chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), says Nigeria’s southern governors meeting was a gang-up against northerners. Yabagi berated the governors for issuing an ultimatum to end open grazing in the southern part of the country. It could be recalled that the governors held a meeting in Lagos, […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iranian media reported on Tuesday that protests against the government has erupted across Iran due to frequent power shortage. The report said there were protest rallies in several cities, including the capital Tehran with people demanding the immediate resignation of the energy minister. Since the weekend, there has been power outage nationwide […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has condemned unlawful arrest of Nigerians, by the authorities in Republic of Benin. This followed a point of order by Sen. Tolu Odebiyi (APC-Ogun) at Tuesday’s plenary. Odebiyi rising under order 42 and 52 of the Senate rules, said there were numerous reports of encroachments into Nigerian territory by authorities […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Community Court of the Economic Community of West African States has fixed July 9, 2021, to decide on the consolidation of all applications before the court on the Twitter ban by the Federal Government of Nigeria The ECOWAS Court stated this in a virtual court sitting held via zoom on Tuesday. […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna State Government has ordered the closure of 13 schools it considered vulnerable to bandits attacks. The development followed the mass abduction of students by armed groups at Bethel Baptist Secondary School at Kajuma in Chikun Local Government Area of the State. The Director-General, Quality Assurance Authority in the state’s Ministry […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, bail on alleged fraud preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. Justice Obiora Egwuatu declined the oral application for bail by counsel to the defendant, P.O […]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than two months, a former Judge of the Enugu State High Court, Justice Stanley Nnaji, was murdered in a cold blood by Unknown armed men in Enugu, the Managing Director of the popular Auto Ease, a vehicle body repair outlet, Mr. Ifeanyi Okeke, has been assassinated. The state police Command which […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Civil Society Organization, operating under the banner of Parent- Child Intervention Centre PCIC, has raised the alarm over a new Scheme employed by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company EEDC to allegedly defraud unsuspecting Pre- paid meter customers in Enugu and South East Nigeria. It said under the new anti- customer Scheme, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police operatives in Imo State have arrested four suspected members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, a militia arm of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB for attempting to plant explosives at a military checkpoint along the Owerri/Orlu road of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Abutu […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Diaspora Reintegration, Diaspora Data Mapping and Capacity Building are some major issues put on the table by the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa at an interactive Session with the Switzerland Ambassador to Nigeria Amb. Georg Steiner in Abuja. The NIDCOM Boss explained that with the establishment of the […]
