Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, March 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senegal’s football federation has called on its French-based players to be released for upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, calling the league’s ban on internationals travelling outside the European Union “discriminatory” The French football league (LFP) announced this week that its clubs will bar non-European players for playing for their country later […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government says it will appeal, rather than force anyone to take the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccines for COVID -19, according to Dr Olorunnibe Mamora, the Minister of State for health Mamora made the disclosure, in Asaba, while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after he inaugurated some projects at the Federal Medical […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Republic of Congo votes in presidential elections on Sunday with incumbent Denis Sassou Nguesso aiming to extend his decades-long hold on power in the Central African state. Sassou Nguesso has accumulated 36 years in office — he was most recently re-elected in 2016, after which the opposition was effectively sidelined and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery. Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025. Wearing a […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, known as Sunday Igboho, has declared his support for the creation of the Yoruba nation. Captured speaking in a viral video, Igboho, who gained prominence following an ultimatum he issued to criminal herdsmen in the South-West, expressed the determination to defend Yoruba land. According to him, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the operations of local airline, Azman Air, to avert a national tragedy and loss of lives which may become inevitable if the airline continues to operate with disregard for safety procedures. NCAA Spokesman, Sam Adurogboye, said this in a statement titled, ‘NCAA Puts The Record […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unidentified gunmen on Thursday attacked a police patrol team along the Nimo-Neni link road in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra, leaving one personnel dead. A source alleged that three policemen were killed after which their rifles were carted away by the gunmen who set the police patrol vehicle ablaze. But the […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has set in motion the machinery for the prosecution of a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, on criminal charges of threat to the life of his mistress, Chinyere Amuchienwa Already, the office of the Attorney General of the Federation had on Thursday told a Federal High Court […]
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Manager, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr Olajide Oduyoye, has condemned the assault and unwarranted murder of an officer of the agency, Obasu Godwin. Oduyoye, who made the condemnation in a statement on Thursday in Lagos, also expressed bitterness over assault on another officer, Adeniyi Hakeem. According to the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kinsmen of Former Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Orientation, Mr. Frank Nweke (Jr) in Edeaniagu village , Ishi- Ozalla Autonomous Community in Nkanu West Council Area of Enugu state, South- East Nigeria, Thursday staged a protest to the state House of Assembly over alleged labeling of the people as Outcasts, and subsequent […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, March 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has enjoined President Buhari to shelve plans to spend $1.5bn on renovating the Port Harcourt refinery. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday had approved $1.5 billion for the repair of the Port Harcourt refinery. Reacting, Melaye stated that this was […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A nanny, Anthonia Uchenna, who worked for the Former Minister of Aviation ,Femi Fani- Kayode has accused him of sexual harassment and stripping her naked to be flogged by his body guard Uchenna, disclosed this recently, also deposed to affidavits. She said the ex-minister had used the police to detain her on […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has faulted the decision by the federal government to spend the sum of $1.5 billion to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt refinery, Rivers state The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday had approved the sum for the project According to the minister of state for petroleum, Timipre Sylva, the […]
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Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu Capital Territory Development Agency ( ECTDA) has demolished residence of the Chancellor of Coal City University (CCU) Mr. Chinedu Ani, over blockage of waterways The building located at Government Reserved Area (GRA), Enugu is said to be blocking natural water outlet linking Onoh Quarters in Ekulu GRA to Oshimili up […]
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Featured, Imo, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Teachers in Imo state staged a peaceful demonstration over the state government’s failure to pay their salaries for 12 months consecutively The protest, which was held in front of the Government House, Owerri, temporarily halted human and vehicular movement in the area It was learnt that the action was triggered off by […]
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police has killed two suspected bandits in Saminaka town, Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State and recovered five AK-47 rifles from them. Police spokesperson in Kaduna State, ASP Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the incident in a statement he issued in Kaduna. Jalige said a combined team of security operatives, acting on a […]
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed that as far as Libya remains unstable, illegal arms and ammunition will continue to flow in the Sahel region of the African continent. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, in a statement, said Buhari stated this when he hosted outgoing Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tanzania is set to swear in Samia Hassan Suluhu as president of the East African country who became the first female vice-president after President John Pombe Magufuli was elected in 2015. It reported the death of John Pombe Magufuli, who died of heart complications. Tanzanian constitution states that, “Where the office of […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that President Muhammadu Buhari has named a road in the federal capital territory (FCT) after the president of Niger Republic, Issoufou Mahamadou, has sparked social media reactions. According to media reports, at a ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, Mohammed Bello, FCT minister, stated that the expressway was named after the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, March 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, yesterday criticized popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, He also said the security situation in the country has improved, compared to 2015, adding that kidnappers from the Sahel region were attracted to Nigeria because of the resources available in the country. Masari, who stated this on a […]
