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Monday, April 1st, 2019

…Alleges Attack On 2 Officials In Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admission and Registration Board (JAMB) Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede Monday announced that the body has de-listed 14 Computer Based Test (CBT) centres out of the accredited 712 accredited across the country. The agency’s action Prof Oloyede while leading the Minister of Education, Adamu […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has left Nigeria for Dakar, Senegal, to attend the inauguration of the newly-elected Senegalese President, Macky Sall. The President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina explained that Buhari’s trip was “on the invitation of his host.’’ Mr. President who is the ECOWAS Chairman, will be Special […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2019

ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mr. Walter Onnoghen, has commenced his defence with his driver, Mr. Lawal Busari, as the first defence witness in his ongoing trial over charges on alleged false and non-declaration of assets before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in Abuja. Mr. Busari, who […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hugo Lloris has accepted responsibility for conceding Tottenham’s costly second goal against Liverpool. The France goalkeeper failed to hold onto Mohamed Salah’s back-post header in the 90th minute and dropped the ball onto the leg of Toby Alderweireld before it rolled into the net, sealing the Reds’ 2-1 victory. Lloris believes both […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned that it will not condone lateness by candidates to its 2019 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, scheduled for Monday, April 1. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the NAN Sunday in Lagos. A total of […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2019

ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila (APC-Lagos Mainland), has officially joined the race for the office of the Speaker of the 9th Assembly. Gbajabiamila, while in company of 170 members-elect, made his intention known Sunday in Abuja at a briefing. The Lagos Lawmaker disclosed he was […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2019

…Donates N10 Million to Widow, Children Of Murdered Uzo-Uwani Scribe By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Determined to apprehend those behind the recent assassination of the Head of Nursing Services at the Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Enugu, Mrs. Maria Amadi, Enugu state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has offered N5 million to any person or group with […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2019

By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The traditional ruler of Amuri Ancient Kingdom, His Royal Majesty, Igwe Charles Nwoye, has expressed satisfaction over the reelection of President Muhammandu Buhari, just as he advised him to have quick review of his present cabinet. He, however, advised him to remain focus on infrastructural and human oriented […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Four armed men suspected to be operatives of Directorate of Security Services (DSS) on Saturday whisked away a journalist, Jones Abiri, to an disclosed location. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abiri, the publisher of Weekly Source Newspaper, who was incarcerated for two years on charges of terrorism in the […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An undergraduate of the Federal Polytechnic Offa Kwara State, Ridwan Ajiboye has reportedly committed suicide over alleged altercation with a lecturer. Report confirmed that the late student who was of 100 level (National Diploma) in the Civil Engineering Department, drank some quantity of insecticide and later died. It was gathered that Ajiboye […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2019

Photo: Africa’s Foremost Cultural Ambassador, Hon. Amb. Tunde Adetunji By Oludare Sunday Fase, USA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Africa’s foremost cultural ambassador, Tunde Adetunji has been nominated for induction into the popular Martin Luther King Jr. College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College, Chicago in recognition of his social life and services that exemplify the […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2019

By Abba Adakole (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Public offices are held in trust for the people. Therefore occupiers of public offices are the golden fish that have no hiding place. It is thus instructive that they should justify their appointments by demonstrating competence, accountability, discipline and leadership. These virtues approximate the essence of every successful public […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two weeks after it was used during gun attacks on two mosques in New Zealand, frontline social media Facebook has promised to explore restrictions on live-streaming. Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the FB has agreed with calls it “must do more”. It would be recalled that 50 people were killed in […]
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Sunday, March 31st, 2019

…Urges Him To Commence His Defence ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has dismissed the no-case submission filed by the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Mr. Walter Onnoghen in his ongoing false assets declaration. Following this, the three man panel headed by Justice Danladi Umar in his ruling […]
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Saturday, March 30th, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Swedish Appeals Court on Friday ordered a new trial for Elin Ersson, a Swedish woman, convicted of violating air traffic regulations by trying to stop the deportation of an Afghan man. Ersson was in February ordered to pay a fine of 324 dollars over her protest, but appealed the Gothenburg district […]
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Saturday, March 30th, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied that it was instructed to work against the completion of the electoral process in Rivers. The Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) had suspended the collation of the March 23 governorship elections in Rivers. The commission has fixed April 2 and 5 for collation, […]
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Saturday, March 30th, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The crisis that is likely to occur during the coming collation of results and rerun of the Rivers State Governorship poll played out Friday as protesters, believed to be supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were dispersed with tear gas by a team of police […]
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Friday, March 29th, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alhaji Ahmadu Fintiri of PDP has emerged winner of Adamawa Governorship election. The Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Andrew Haruna, who declared the result Thursday in Yola after the supplementary election in 44 units across 14 local government areas of the state, said Fintiri polled 376,552 votes to beat his closest […]
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Friday, March 29th, 2019

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson on Thursday re-echoed the Restoration Government’s effort at creating massive opportunities for young people in the state. He said the recent employment of 1,000 people into the state civil service and the huge investment it has made in the education sector is […]
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Friday, March 29th, 2019

Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imufu community in Enugu Ezike, Igbo-Eze North Council Area of Enugu State, South- East Nigeria, has been thrown into tension, following the alleged raping to death of a teenage girl , Miss Ngozi Eze by unknown persons. The lifeless body of the girl was said to have been found […]