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Monday, October 28th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Mohammed Ibrahim said its members and those of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) embarked on the nationwide strike because they “have been pushed to the wall”. According to him, the two groups eventually decided to […]
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Monday, October 28th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has stated that 17 Nigerian women trafficked to Ghana have been rescued and repatriated and five suspected traffickers have been nabbed. In a statement on Sunday, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, NiDCOM spokesperson, announced that the operation makes the total number of Nigerian girls repatriated from Ghana since July […]
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Monday, October 28th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga says security agencies have not been able to arrest embattled former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello because of the “complicated” nature of the case. Onanuga was a guest on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-economic programme aired on Channels Television. In April, the […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Monday, October 28th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga says that his principal, President Bola Tinubu, is not unfeeling as painted by some persons on social media. Onanuga said the President feels the pain of Nigerians and has assured them that better days are nearer than before. Onanuga said Tinubu has not come to inflict pain on […]
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Monday, October 28th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) led by elder stateman Pa Edwin Clark has faulted the Federal Government over the scrapping of the Ministry of Niger Delta. In a communique issued at the end of a meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on October 24, 2024, the Forum’s General Assembly noted with “serious […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Saturday, October 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state commissioner of Police, CP Kanayo Uzuegbu, along with top officials of the State Government, Saturday visited the family of the deceased Ogene musician, Chikezie Okezie Nwamba (a.k.a. Igbo-Jah), to console them over the unfortunate shooting and murder of the musician by a police officer. Kanayo, reassured the family, relatives, […]
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Saturday, October 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A male Police Inspector serving in the Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad of the Enugu State Police Command has been arrested and detained for the alleged murder of a male traditional Ogene musician, Okezie Chikezie Mba, popularly known as Igbo-Jah. Our correspondent reports that the incident occurred around 8:10 p.m. on October 25, 2024, […]
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Saturday, October 26th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has disclosed plans to begin development of the FCT Administration’s permanent secretariat in Garki, Abuja. Wike made the disclosure during the inauguration of the development of Arterial Road N5 from Life Camp Junction to Ring Road III, in Abuja on Friday. […]
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has commiserated with the family, friends and associates of former chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, who died in a US hospital on Thursday. This was contained in a statement issued on Friday and signed by Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. […]
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government on Friday withdrew all six-count charges against an Abuja-based online newspaper, Order Paper, and nine officers of the media organization. Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Mr. Tosin Adeola Ajayi advised the federal government to withdraw the charges. It emerged Thursday that the Federal Government had sued […]
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – Members of the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals (JOHESU) have declared a seven-day warning strike, commencing from midnight on Friday (today). The latest strike comes after a fifteen-day notice of industrial action issued to the Federal Government. While addressing journalists in Abuja, the national chairman of the […]
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development has approved bid by the Kogi State Government to build an International Airport in Zariagi. The State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, said the approval was conveyed in a letter by the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, dated 9th October, […]
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Citizens for Development and Education (CDE) has called on President Bola Tinubu to ensure that the rule of law is upheld in the face of rising concerns over the integrity of the judiciary, particularly following a recent Federal High Court ruling in Kano that has sparked public outcry. The organisation, which consists […]
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has expressed his condolences to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Board, its staff, and the families affected by the recent helicopter crash off the coast of Bonny Finima in Port-Harcourt. In a statement released by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, on Friday, President […]
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Olusegun Obasanjo, former president, has frowned at Nigerian leaders who take over office without a clear plan of action. In an interview on News Central Television, Obasanjo berated presidents who have no understanding of problems and challenges. The former Nigerian leader did not mention names but he stated that a president should […]
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Friday, October 25th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented that the size of debt being owned by the country, years after he left office in 2007 is intimidating. Obasanjo, while speaking on Thursday in an exclusive interview with Kayode Akintemi of News Central Television, stated that he left as president about $70 billion, including […]
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Kashim Shettima’s trip to Samoa to represent Nigeria at the 2024 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Summit has been canceled after a foreign object hit his plane during a stopover at JFK Airport in New York. According to a statement issued on Thursday and signed by Special Adviser to the President, […]
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo has confirmed the helicopter accident that happened near Port Harcourt on Thursday, October 24 which involved a Sikorsky SK76, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at around 11:22 am. It could be recalled that the helicopter, operated by East Wind Aviation, was on its way from […]
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Thursday reassured that past mistakes, such as neglecting livestock farming and relying on dairy imports, would be avoided. Speaking while declaring open a two-day Consultative Workshop on Livestock Reforms at the State House Conference Centre, Tinubu pledged a robust framework to stimulate prosperity in the sector, instilling confidence […]
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Thursday, October 24th, 2024
(AFICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu State governor, Dr Peter Ndubusi Mbah has approved the sum of 80,000 naira as the minimum wage for Enugu workers, effective from October 2024. He disclosed this at the government house Thursday, while receiving the report of the committee set up to look into the minimum wage issue in the state. […]
