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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo’s veteran president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, has been re-elected with 88.57 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso, 77, has been in power for an accumulated 36 years, first taking the helm of the central African state in 1979. His landslide first-round victory, announced […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
…Says Secession Not The Solution (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, says those calling for secession are doing so because of frustration. Fayemi disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on Arise Television, saying that the agitation by some for the breakaway of the South-West region from Nigeria and the establishment […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State, some Nigerians are of the view that former Central Bank Governor, Charles Soludo, is not capable to lead the state. African Examiner reports that Soludo has declared his intention to run for the number one political position in the state under the […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
….. …Forfeit N206m, cars, houses to FG (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced two men, Tobiloba Ibrahim Bakare and Alimi Seun Sikiru, to three years imprisonment each, for hacking the emails of British Airways, Turkish Airways and KLM, and stealing no fewer than $750,000 and N120million Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, who convicted […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives has said that it was abnormal to produce Nigerian passports outside the country in view of its security features Rep Timehin Adelegbe, Vice Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said this at the public hearing on incessant malpractices associated with diplomatic postings and deliberate draining of resources in […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership of Ishi-Ozalla Autonomous Community Town Union in Nkanu West Council area of Enugu state, South East, Nigeria, has dismissed allegation of Ostracization of some people in the locality as claimed recently by some individuals. African Examiner reports that former Nigeria’s minister of information and National Orientation, Mr. Frank Nweke hails from […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has described the recently approved rehabilitation exercise of the 210,000 barrels per day capacity Port Harcourt Refinery as a worthy undertaking embarked upon after diligent consideration and in strict adherence to industry best standards. Speaking to reporters at […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has received and accepted the petition filed by the Mutual Union of Tiv in America; a petition earlier rejected by the deputy speaker. However, at a plenary session on Tuesday the speaker called on Hon Mark Gbillah, Gwer-East/Gwer-West Federal Constituency in Benue State […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In a bid to address the cumbersome process of voter registration at the various centers in Nigeria ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, has said part of the registration exercise will be done online while biometric data capturing would take place at designated centers The new initiative […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ondo State will not be part of the sovereign Yoruba State being agitated for by some groups, Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu declared on Monday in Akure Akeredolu said this while swearing in Princess Oladunni Odu as the new Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and other Special Advisers in Akure “Our people are […]
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said about 122,410 persons have been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccines Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency ((NPHCDA), said this while speaking at the National PTF briefing on Monday in Abuja Shuaib said only Kogi, Kebbi, Zamfara and Oyo […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rangers Inter. FC of Enugu South- East Nigeria, Monday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Sports stadium Enugu, humbled visiting Nasarawa United FC 2-0 in the ongoing Nigeria professional football league NPFL, week 17 game The Enugu club side currently occupying 2nd position in the NPFL log with 30 points after executing 17 matches, […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – THE Nigerian public should ensure that the COVID-19 AstraZeneca Vaccine being administered on them has the original label, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control stated NAFDAC in a statement by its Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the advice became necessary to ensure that people were not at risk […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Team Manager of Lobi Stars football club of Makurdi, Barnabas Imenger, is dead The former Super Eagles player died after a protracted illness in Abuja He played for former Hawks FC of Makurdi, which later became BBC FC , Lobi Bank FC and Lobi stars football club It learnt his corpse […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received former Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Dimeji Bankole, who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). They were accompanied to the Presidential Villa by the Chairman, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria is sick and on life support going by recent happenings, Benue Governor Samuel Ortom has stated He spoke on Sunday at the 37th priestly anniversary thanksgiving Mass in honour of Reverend Father Donatus Ugema and during a solidarity visit on him by members of the State Executive Council, traditional rulers and […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, leading opposition presidential candidate in Republic of Congo’s election, died on Sunday, a day after the country went to the polls. Kolelas was hospitalised on the eve of the elections and died of Covid-19 as he was being taken to France for treatment, his campaign director Christian Cyr […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has refuted claims that it is responsible for the assassination attempt on Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, by gunmen on Saturday. It had reported that gunmen suspected to be herdsmen had on Saturday attacked the governor in his farm at Tyo-Mu community, near Makurdi, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
……. Woos Electorate to Join Party (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All progressive Congress APC Enugu state chapter, has joined other Stakeholders in condemning the recent controversial bill proposing life pension for ex- governors of the state and their deputies, being championed by the state House of Assembly. The Executive bill which had gone through […]
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Monday, March 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen on Sunday attacked another police station in Anambra State Efforts by the gunmen to burn down the police station located at Mgbakwu in Awka North local Government were met with stiff resistance from the policemen on duty. It gathered that the gunmen shot sporadically into the air to scare people away […]
