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Friday, April 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it has distributed materials for Saturday’s re-run election in six local government areas of Zamfara. The Residents Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Saidu Ahmad made the disclosure at a stakeholders meeting on Thursday in Gusau. He said the election was for Zamfara Central Senatorial District and two […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano State Command, says it has arrested no fewer than 93 suspects for various crimes in the state between January and March. Mr Adamu Salihu, the NSCDC state Commandant, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, April 13th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has stated that doctors are driven out of the country by poverty and insecurity. The African Examiner recalls that a lawmaker, Ganiyu Johnson, had sponsored a bill to amend the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act 2004 with a view to addressing the brain drain in the health […]
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Thursday, April 13th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 2 million vulnerable Nigerians have been impacted by projects implemented under the Federal Government’s National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy (NPRGS) for the year 2022, report says. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, in a statement on Thursday, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, April 13th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some Nigerians on Twitter are venting their spleens on Sam Omatseye, the chairman of The Nation Newspaper’s editorial board and ally of the president-elect after he posted a fake photo of Tinubu and President Buhari.The African Examiner recalls that after the election, president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, left Nigeria on March 2022 to rest […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, April 13th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojukutu, has stated that she has began the process of renouncing her Nigerian citizenship is ongoing following the emergence of Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s next president. It could be recalled that prior to the time when Tinubu was declared the winner of the election, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, April 13th, 2023
…. Destroy His Properties. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of Abakaliki Lane, Government Reservation Area GRA Enugu, were thrown into apprehension in the early hours of today, Wednesday, as armed Soldiers numbering over 40 attached to the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army Enugu, invaded the residence of a Retired officer, Colonel Emeka Ugwuoke, and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, April 13th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, says that the Chief Executive Officer of Chinmark Group, Ijiomah Marksman Chinedu, is a wanted man for alleged investment fraud. Chinedu was tasked to appear before the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Interpol, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. A special police gazette bulletin disclosed that a […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the call for his arrest and prosecution for admonishing Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over inciting the public to violence is unjustifiable. The minister stated this on Wednesday in London while reacting to the call by Elder statesman and leader of […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, last Friday, was allegedly detained in London by UK immigration officials. According to reports, Obi was detained for hours, and interrogated by the officials, after his British Airways plane landed in Heathrow Airport on Friday morning. Prof Chinyere Okunna, a Mass Communications scholar, […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, Dino Melaye has fired back at Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State who laughed off his aspiration to succeed Governor Yahaya Bello. In a statement on his verified Facebook page on Tuesday, Melaye said Kogi is not Rivers State where […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Madinah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday at the commencement of an eight-day official visit. Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, said in a statement that upon he arrival of Buhari, he was received by the Deputy Governor Sa’ud Khalid Al-Faisal. According to the statement, Buhari visited and prayed at the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to dismiss a petition filed by Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying the reliefs sought are not grantable. INEC, the 1st respondent, stated this in its reply filed on Monday night at the PEPC’s […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, has stated that Dino Melaye does not have the wherewithal to be a governor.Wike made this known on Tuesday during a media chat in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers. The African Examiner writes that Dino Melaye, a former senator, is among those jostling to replace Governor […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
……Passes Vote Of Confidence On Buhari, Party’s Nat. Chair. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Members of G-37, comprising former All progressive Congress APC States Chairmen and ex-members of Non National Working Committee (NWC), members of National Executive Committee of the party from 2013 to 2021, have called on members of the party who worked against its presidential […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has challenged the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to clarify his position on a leaked audio of the conversation he allegedly had with a prominent Nigerian cleric. The audio clip as released by an online newspaper was an alleged conversation between Obi and the founder of […]
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Monday, April 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Army Staff, (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, on Monday hosted troops of North East Operation HADIN KAI to a luncheon to mark the Easter. The feast was held at Maimalari Military Cantonment in Maiduguri. Yahaya represented by Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim Ali, the Theatre Commander, said the luncheon was in keeping with […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Monday, April 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, prayed the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Labour Party (LP) and its Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, against the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as president-elect in the Feb. 25 election. The APC, the 4th respondent, […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Monday, April 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -A concerned Nigerian and social justice crusader, David Musa King has vowed to institute a legal action against the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Persons With Disabilities (NCPWD), Mr. James Lalu, over alleged rape complaint. King, who hails from Ganawuri town in Riyom Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State, but […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, April 10th, 2023
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Daniel Bwala has reacted to the demand made by Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, to debate with Labour Party, LP, presidential running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed. The African Examiner recalls that Datti Baba-Ahmed during an interview had stated that the country has […]
