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Bayelsa, Featured, Latest Headlines, Maritime, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) declared on Friday that reported leaks near its operational areas at Funiwa offshore facilities off the Atlantic coast was not from its facilities and pledged to support regulators in tracing the source. The fishermen around the Atlantic Ocean coastline reported an oil leak suspected to be from the […]
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Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 10 Community Development Associations (CDAs) in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State have petitioned Ikeja Electric (IE) Plc. over outrageous estimated billings. The CDAs are also outraged at the alleged fraudulent activities of Ikeja Electric’s officials and the non-supply of pre-paid meters. The CDAs alleged that officials of Ikeja Electric […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Coronavirus infections in Nigeria have continued to surge as the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 1,964 new cases, bringing the total number of infections to 116,655. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Thursday. The country on Jan. 21 marked a new single-day increase in COVID-19 cases and […]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, says that the agitation for restructuring won’t solve the problems in the country. Jonathan disclosed this on Thursday while speaking at the 18th Edition of Daily Trust Dialogue on restructuring in Abuja. According to him, Nigerians should first of all restructure their mindset against nepotism, ethnic […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Hadiza Bala Usman as Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for another five-year tenure. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, who confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, revealed that the president also approved the reconstitution of the Non-Executive Board of […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described out-going US president, Donald Trump a “racist”, “xenophobe” and “monster”. Soyinka disclosed this on Wednesday when he appeared on Arise Television saying that he has forgiven Americans for electing Trump. The elder statesman who famously tore his green card to shreds after the emergence of […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Namibia mobile provider, MTC’s plans to have 100 per cent network coverage throughout the country under the 081Every1 project had been dealt with a blow due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A company executive said on Thursday that 081Every1 which is a 104-million-U.S.-dollar project officially launched in July 2017 with the aim of […]
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Agriculture, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An agrometeorologist, Dr Adewale Adetayo, has recommended mitigation and adaptation strategies as part of measures to reduce the effects of climate change on the environment. Adetayo, who works at the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR &T), Ibadan, made the recommendation in an interview on Thursday in Ibadan. He said mitigation […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Onitsha Community in Anambra has commenced the training of no fewer than 100 men and women as members of the Neighborhood Security Watch. The training which began on Thursday at the Ime Obi (Palace) was sponsored by the Chairman of Onitsha North Local Government (LGA). Declaring the event open, Mba explained […]
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Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Kola Ajayi, Lagos State Chairman, Alliance for Democracy (AD), has urged Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to check activities of miscreants across the state to create a better thriving economy. Ajayi, also a former Chairman, Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) in Lagos, made the plea in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A cross section of Nigerians on Twitter are criticising the plan of the government to lift 20 million Nigerian out of poverty in two years through a cash transfer scheme. African Examiner reports that Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) on Tuesday during the flag-off of the cash transfer scheme called Rapid Response […]
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Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – New elected President General of Apex Igbo umbrella body, the Ohaneze Ndigbo, Professor George Obizor on Thursday declared that the issue of the Igbo nation pulling out of Nigeria to form Biafra were above the capacity of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, {IPOB}, Nnamdi Kanu to decide. The Ohaneze […]
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African News, Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, Nigeria Bureau, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Business institutions and budget specialists in the country have agreed to constitute implementation, monitoring and supervision body, so as to influence the economic policies makers to be more proactive, disciplined and efficient, as well as ensure excellent budget performance in every fiscal year. The Abeokuta Business […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, National News, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Inspector-general of Police Mohammed Adamu, says that the force is already practicing the decentralization of the decision-making structure of the police adding that the Commissioners of Police in the 36 states of the country dont need his approval before taking decisions in the areas they operate. Adamu disclosed this on Wednesday […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, National News, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has extended the deadline for the synchronization of the National Identity numbers (NINs) with Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards to February 9. According to mobile network operators, the federal government shifted the date to enable Nigerians yet to sync their SIMs with their NINs to do so as the […]
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Featured, Latest Headlines, News, World News
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Joe Biden has taken over as the 46th President of the United States of America after he took oath of office. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts conducted the swearing-in ceremony as Biden placed his hand on a family Bible. There ceremony took place on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, […]
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Banking & Finance, Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
(AFRICA EXAMINER) – Technology has been a veritable gift to mankind, and over the years, it has been responsible for creating amazingly useful resources which put all the information individuals need at their fingertips. The development of technology has also led to so many mind-blowing discoveries, better facilities, and better luxuries, which has in-turn helped […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara Government has denied an online media report that it gave Hilux trucks to “repentant bandits’’ in the state. Addressing journalists in his office on Tuesday, the state Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, described the report as “unfounded’’. “This is certainly untrue, a fabrication of the writer […]
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African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,301 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 113,305. The NCDC disclosed figures on Tuesday on its official website. Reports say 1,191,866 people have so far been tested since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 […]
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Banking & Finance, Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At present, there are over 86,000 banking agents across 772 out of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria, a demonstration of FirstBank’s commitment to deepening financial inclusion and ensuring the unbanked are adequately catered for. In an interview with BusinessDay, Adesola Adeduntan, FirstBank’s CEO, noted that over N9.6 trillion had been […]
