Posted by Oludare Fase
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from next week. “The Government has today accepted the recommendation from the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for use,” […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
African News, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa, Uncategorized, West Africa
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed responsibility for the killing of farmers in Borno state. African Examiners reports that i43 farmers were reportedly killed after Boko Haram attacked them at Zabarmari in Jere local government area of Borno. However, in a video released on Tuesday, Shekau stated that […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Senate President and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, has written an open letter to President Buhari saying Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State intends to kill him and other political leaders in Ebonyi State. Anyim stated that Gov Umahi is after their lives because he and […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday said the Department of Justice had found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could upturn the Nov. 3 elections. “To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” The Associated Press (AP) quoted […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A renewed bloody cult clash has escalated in two Communities of Ezza North and South Council areas of Ebonyi state, Southeast Nigeria, claiming four Lives, and leaving many with various degrees of injuries. The communities, namely Oriuzor and Onueke, have been thrown into tension since Monday when the clash between two rival […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pfizer and BioNTech said they had submitted their COVID-19 vaccine to the European Medicines Agency for conditional approval. The companies said this in a statement on Tuesday, aiming to make their drug available in Europe by the end of the year. The partners, a U.S. pharma giant and a small German biotechnology […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) has called on the Federal Government to take urgent action as Ghanaian Authorities embarked on another round of closure of shops belonging to Nigerian traders on Monday. The National President of NANTS, Dr Ken Ukaoha, who made the call in an interview with the News […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
Incensed by the recent massacre of rice farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents, the Police Service Commission (PSC) has urged security agencies to take proactive step in ending the spate of killings in that region of Nigeria. The commission said the security agencies should quickly re-strategize and put an end to the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An NGO, MallPai Foundation, has donated relief materials to over 6,000 Internally Displaced Persons living at the new Kuchingoro IDP Camp in Abuja. Founder of the Foundation, and First Lady, Kebbi State, H.E Hajia Aisha Bagudu, while speaking in Abuja at the outreach and donation exercise to the displaced persons stated that […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United States President-elect, Joe Biden, has selected Nigerian-born, Adewale Adeyemo, as Deputy Treasury Secretary. Adewale Adeyemo will serve under former Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen, who will be head of the US Treasury Department. African Examiner reports that Adeyemo who was born in 1981 in Nigeria, arrived the US at the age […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Monday dissolved 15-year-old marriage of a cleric, Yusuf Adeniyi, over infidelity. Yusuf’s wife, Rebecca, 44, sought the dissolution of the marriage, saying that she caught him cheating on her. Rebecca claimed that she caught her 47-year-old husband with a married woman on their matrimonial […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned the Managing Director of First Nation Airways Ltd., Mr Kayode Odukoya, over alleged N2.1 billion fraud. reports that the commission brought Odukoya before an Ikeja Special Offences Court on a seven-count charge. The EFCC had on March 15, 2018, arraigned the defendant […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
Photo: (L-R): Head of Media Relations, UBA Plc, Ramon Nasir; Deputy MD, United Bank for Africa, Liadi Ayoku, President, Nigerian Institute of Taxation, Dame Gladys Olajumoke Simplice; and MD, BusinessDay Newspapers. Mr Ogho Okiti (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pan-African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, carted two highly coveted laurels at the BusinessDay’s Bank […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 82 new infections of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Sunday. The public health agency said that the infections brought the total number of cases in the country to 67,412. Nigeria had tested […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. This was disclosed in a statement issued by Mr Yekini Nabena, the APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary on Sunday. Nabena said that NEC members had been invited through a […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria will now face total blackout after the collapse of the nation’s power grid. According to reports, the power grid collapsed in the early hours of Sunday. Confirming this development, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, took to his Twitter account saying that the current power outage was due to system collapse on the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has joined other Nigerians to condemn the beheading of 43 farmers by Boko Haram in Zabarmari, Borno State. According to the PDP, the action indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to ensure the safety of Nigerians. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, November 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kogi commissioner for information and communication, Kingsley Fanwo, has revealed that the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is under pressure to contest the 2023 presidential race. Fanwo took to his Twitter account on Saturday to disclose this saying that he desires of Nigerians for a great country is in consonance with […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, November 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iran Foreign Ministry on Friday confirmed that a high-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, had been assassinated. Fakhrizadeh was shot and injured “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Ab-Sard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, and later succumbed to his injuries in what amounted to a “martyr’s death,” the ministry said. Local authorities […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, November 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has condemned the high rate of insecurity in the North describing the region as the worst place in the country to live. Abubakar disclosed this at the fourth quarterly meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council in Abuja on Thursday saying that bandits were fast overrunning […]
