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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the November 11, 2023 governorship election in the state. The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Abayomi Fashina, who was the state Returning Officer declared Uzodimma re-elected on Sunday morning […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won 20 of the 27 local government results announced so far in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Imo State Collation of results at the State Collation Centre started around 02:30am on Sunday in Owerri, the state capital, with the Vice […]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its “senior officials” are currently investigating the incident(s) of pre-filled election result sheets in Ogori/Magongo, Eika/Ohizenyi and some other areas of Kogi State. Civil society organisation, YIAGA Africa, on Saturday morning, in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), raised the alarm that results […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said one of its election officials has been abducted in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa. The commission also said a boat conveying election materials and 12 election officials has capsized in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state. A statement issued in Yenagoa by […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero has narrated his ordeal in Imo State, saying he was dragged on the floor and beaten like a thief. Ajaero was assaulted recently in the South-East state as the NLC enforced an industrial action in the state. While the labour chief accused […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Industrial Court has directed the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and other affiliates to shelve their plans from going on any industrial action. The African Examiner recalls that the unions had after an extraordinary National Executive Council meeting on Tuesday in Abuja announced a total nationwide strike from November […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The headship of the apex Igbo socio cultural body, Ohaneze ndigbo, has urged the electorate in Imo state, South East Nigeria, to shun any call for illegal sit- at home by any group or person ahead of the Saturday November 11th governorship election in the state. Rather, they asked the voters to […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of Saturdays off-cycle elections holding in Imo, Kogi and Balyela States of Nigeria, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on Federal and State Governments as well as law enforcement and security agencies to take adequate measures to protect journalists and other media workers during polls. It said their role in providing […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr Festus Keyamo has warned the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC) against disrupting flight operations at the airports. Keyamo gave the warning at the Ministerial retreat for Minister, Permanent Secretary, Directors and Head of Agencies of the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development on Thursday […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Hope Uzodimma says the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, is pursuing the agenda of the Labour Party in Imo State. “Joe Ajaero is pursuing his personal interest,” the governor said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday. “He (Ajaero) has said numerous times that he is […]
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, says the electoral umpire has no candidate in the November 11, 2023 governorship polls in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states. In a statement late Thursday, the electoral chief pledged to ensure a level playing field for all political parties and […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite growing controversy and calls that the Resident Electoral Commission (REC) in Imo State, Prof Sylvia Agu, be removed, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that there is no reason to remove the official. “The REC will conduct the election,” said Rotimi Oyekanmi on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After nineteen years, the Enugu state government, in partnership with Wateraid Nigeria and UNICEF has formally launched its water sector Law aimed at regulating issues on water generation and supply, as well as providing citizens rights to access basic portable water and sanitation services. The six chapter document with over one hundred […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Olukayode Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court has granted former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, bail. The judge ordered that Emefiele be released immediately to his lawyers, who were charged with the responsibility of producing him in court for his arraignment next week or […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed the 2023 Supplementary Budget N2.17trn at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Last Thursday, the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the N2.17trn 2023 supplementary appropriation bill after a third reading. Before the passage of the bill, the Senate adopted the report of the harmonised sittings […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has arrested one Philip Gokas after he allegedly killed the Ardo of Panyam in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, Alhaji Adamu Gabdo. Gokas also known as Jaykimo was arrested in Lagos after many weeks of investigation. The Army announced this on X on Wednesday. The tweet read, […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Businessman and former lawmaker, Ben Murray-Bruce, has stated that a nationwide strike is not what Nigeria needs right now. The African Examiner recalls that the labour union had on Tuesday announced that there will be a national strike next week. Reacting, Murray Bruce in a statement issued on his social media handle […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of three new Executive Commissioners to serve in the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), and the redeployment of one current Executive Commissioner, pending their confirmation by the Senate. According to a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by Special Adviser to the President on […]
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has re-amended its list of candidates for Bayelsa governorship election, restoring the names of Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC), earlier removed by the commission. “The Amendment No 2: Amended list of candidates for the 2023 Bayelsa state governorship election pursuant to court orders” […]
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, has called on heads of tertiary institutions across the country to counsel their students against internet fraud. He made the appeal on Monday at the commission’s Zonal Command Office in Ilorin in an interactive session with heads of tertiary institutions […]
