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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said that 184 illegal immigrants were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard off the country’s western coast on Sunday. IOM tweeted: “184 migrants, among them 14 women and 11 children, were returned to Tripoli in Libya by the coast guard. “IOM staff are onsite to […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria on Sunday recorded 490 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 24,567. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known via its Twitter handle. The NCDC said that the 490 new reported in 20 states. The centre also reported seven deaths. The […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has been accused by a whistleblower, John Okupurhe, of refusing to pay him reward after exposing over $1billion government money hidden in Unity Bank Plc. Consequently, Okupurhe, has reported Mr. Malami to President Muhammadu Buhari, via a letter written by his […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mrs Florence Ajimobi, wife of late former Gov. Abiola Ajimobi, has alleged that the Oyo State Government was playing politics with the death of her husband. She made the allegation while receiving a delegation of Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF), led by Gov. Kayode Fayemi, on Sunday in Ibadan. The News Agency of […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted and then deleted a video in which his supporters could be heard repeating a “white power” slogan, in the latest instance in which the president was accused of inflaming racial tensions. The phrase is often used by far-right white nationalists and prompted a backlash from within the […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal government has stated that it is conveying about 315 Nigerians who were stranded in the United Kingdom due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This was announced in the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Twitter handle , stating that the flight departed Heathrow Airport, London at about 5pm […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A non-Governmental group, Concerned Citizens Rights, has stated that 35 Nigerians are presently detained illegally in a border town of Aflao in Ghana which is located between Ghana and Togo Republic. The group stated this in a letter issued to the media and signed by its National President, Dr. […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Lazarus Chakwera has been sworn in as president of Malawi after winning an election rerun. “Time has come for us to wake up and to make our dreams come true,” Mr Chakwera said in his victory speech. He defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of the vote in Tuesday’s poll. In February, Malawi’s […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Nasir Ajanah, the Chief Judge of Kogi state, Nigeria is dead. According to TheCable, Ajanah died at the COVID-19 isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja in the early hours of Sunday, June 28, at the age of 64. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Information Officer of the state […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has dismissed reports insinuating that President Muhammadu Buhari and APC chieftain Bola Tinubu have fallen apart, following the dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on Thursday. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, condemned […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded 779 new cases of COVID-19 as its total infections hit 24,077. The figure is the highest daily tally in the country since the pandemic broke out about 4 months ago. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 779 […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole says he has accepted the decision of the former acting National Executive Council (NEC) which dissolved the National Working Committee (NWC) he led and put in place a Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Committee. Oshiomhole said this […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kenyan half-marathon world record-holder Geoffrey Kamworor suffered a fractured tibia after being hit from behind by a motorcycle during a training run on Thursday, the country’s media reported on Saturday. The 27-year-old, who won the New York marathon last year, told the Daily Nation newspaper that his leg and head were injured […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of the People’s Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has stated that no PDP governor is decamping to APC describing the claim made by the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, as misleading and false. Recall that Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, had, while appearing on […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank approved a donation of 1.1 million US dollars to the Rwandan government for the implementation of the Project of commercial competitiveness of the value chain of the meat. The donation, coming from the resources of the African Trade Fund (AfTRA), should contribute to the improvement of meat production, […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed why it is problematic for the agency to effectively enforce COVID-19 guidelines across all states of the federation. Dr Chinwe Ochu, the Acting Director of Prevention Programmes and Knowledge Management at the NCDC, stated this at a webinar on Friday […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has revealed that the commission will go after Nigerian looters who hide their loot in Ghana. He stated this on Friday when a delegation of the Chartered Institute of Public Resources Management and Politics paid a visit in […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it is tracking 250 constituency projects in Kwara. According to a statement issued by the commission’s spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, the tracking exercise is under the second phase of the constituency and executive projects tracking exercise in 16 states of the federation. […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations (UN) says it has launched investigation into a viral video showing a couple apparently having sex in one of its official cars in Israel. Spokesman of the Secretary-General, Mr Stephane Dujarric, told UN correspondents in New York on Friday that the organisation was “shocked and deeply disturbed” by […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded 684 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 23,298. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on Friday through its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 684 new confirmed cases were from 19 states, with five deaths as at […]
