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Saturday, February 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Chairman, Oyo State, Apostle Joshua Akinyemiju, has urged parents to monitor their children to ensure they did not celebrate Valentine’s Day out of context. Akinyemiju gave the advice on Saturday in Ibadan. “Parents should talk love and show love to their children, they should let their […]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police operatives have arrested no fewer than 10 protesters at the Lekki toll gate One of the coordinators of #OccupyLekkiTollgate, Kunle Ajayi, confirmed this saying: “Police have just arrested 10 protesters – Four ladies and six guys. They were beaten mercilessly and injured,” he said. The Federal Government and the police had […]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular comedian Debo Adebayo aka Mr Macaroni has been picked up by Police operatives at Lekki toll gate. Macaroni joined the protest against the planned reopening of the Lekki toll gate following alleged killing of protesters on October 20, 2020.
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Saturday, February 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has described the ongoing Revalidation/Registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a period of evangelism to sterilize up the party. Fashola, who undertook the Revalidation/Registration of his membership at his polling unit in Surulere, said APC was a progressive party and described […]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has called on Nigerians to support the current call for ranching as against open grazing in order to permanently end the lingering herders-farmers clashes across the country.Okowa made the call on Friday, when the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, paid him […]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The remains of the first Civilian Governor of Lagos State, Alh. Lateef Jakande was on Friday, interred at Vaults and Gardens Cemetery, Ikoyi under strict observance of COVID-19 protocols. The burial was preceded by Islamic prayers at his residence, number 2 Bishop St., Ilupeju, Lagos state in the morning. Several dignitaries from […]
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Friday, February 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Donald Trump’s defense lawyers will make their case on Friday why the former president is not guilty of inciting last month’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, as the Senate races toward a final vote in his impeachment trial as soon as Saturday. Trump’s lawyer David Schoen said the defense team would […]
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Friday, February 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, says only the party can save Nigeria from collapse. Metuh stated this when he hosted members of PDP’s National Working Committee in his Abuja residence, on Thursday. According to him, the PDP was Nigeria’s choice to ensure unity, stability and development as […]
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Friday, February 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Salihu Lukman, Director- General, Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), says former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode, lacked values required for All Progressives Congress (APC) membership. Lukman said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. “The issue of Fani-Kayode’s drifted attempt to join the APC is a clear instance of attempts to manipulate […]
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Friday, February 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Idris Salako has locks out staff over lateness and issues mass queries to the affected staffs working in the ministry He disclose that most staff of the ministry had cultivated a lackadaisical attitude towards their duties. “They come to work at […]
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Friday, February 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has threatened to stop the salaries of non-teaching workers of universities for embarking on an indefinite strike. Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen Chris Ngige noted that Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act 2004 and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) statutes permit the government to stop the salaries […]
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Friday, February 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXANINER) – Alhaji Aminu Sani, former House of Representatives member for Kaura-Namoda/Birnin-Magaji Federal Constituency in Zamfara, has called for genuine and coordinated effort by governors to tackle the spate of banditry and kidnapping in the northern part of the country. Sani gave the advice on Thursday in Kaduna when he spoke to reporters on […]
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Friday, February 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former president of Nigeria Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani, has revalidated his membership of the ruling All progressive Congress APC, calling on people of South East Nigeria to use the ongoing exercise to embrace the party enmass The ex- Senate boss, who is the member of the party’s national Caretaker Committee representing South […]
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Friday, February 12th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State newly constituted Traffic Management Enforcement Team to resolve Apapa gridlocks and the Nigerian Port Authority Security Team have identified seven parks as holding bay for trucks around the metropolis. The Chairman of the state team, Mr Oluwatoyin Fayinka, said this in a statement signed by the Assistant Director Public […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Management of Air Peace on Thursday announced that the UAE Government had stopped the airlifting of passengers from Nigeria to Dubai as part of its COVID-19 measures. Air Peace Spokesperson, Mr Stanley Olisa, made the announcement in a statement in Lagos. Olisa, however, said that flights bringing Nigerians back from UAE […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State says no governor has surpassed or come near the achievements of late Lateef Jakande as first civilian governor of the state. The PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr Gani Taofik, disclosed this in an interview in Lagos, while reacting to the death of Jakande on Thursday […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has commence investigation into alleged expired sweet and chocolate, it recently received from Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). The agency’s Director of Public Affairs, Dr Jimoh Abubakar, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja that the expired items were in 4,907 cartons. The […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has mandated its Committees on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, ICT and Cybercrimes and Capital Market to invite the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele to brief it on the recent ban on crypto currency in the country. The Senate also invited the Director General of […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has prohibited the #Occupy Lekki Toll Gate protest scheduled for Saturday over intelligence report that it will be hijacked and used to destabilize the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced this on Thursday in Abuja at a media briefing to address issues on the […]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Lagos Governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, is dead. He died Thursday morning in Lagos at 91. He was a former journalist who became governor of Lagos State from 1979 to 1983. He later emerged Minister of Works under the Sani Abacha military regime (1993–98).
