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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunde Bakare, the overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, has stated that having zero votes with his true identity in the presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was an honour to him. Bakare stated this on Tuesday after comments credited to Femi Fani-Kayode, director of new media of […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to a recent claim by Dr Oby Ezekwesili, a former Minister of Education, who worked under the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration that Atiku Abubakar was not in charge of the economy during his time as vice president. The African Examiner writes that Ezekwesili had […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has invited the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele to a meeting over the redesigned naira notes and the timeline to fade out old notes. The invitation which was sent out by the Director-General of the Forum, Asishana Okauru noted that the agenda of […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Kebbi has confirmed the death of 18 persons following an accident involving a truck conveying passengers and cows. Nafi’u Abubakar, spokesperson of the Kebbi police command, confirmed the development in a statement on Monday. According to Abubakar, the accident occurred around 11pm on Sunday at Malisa village in […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has refuted claims that he ordered the removal of Peter Obi’s campaign billboard. The African Examiner writes that the Labour Party had alleged that the state government took down the campaign billboard of its standard bearer located at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University temporary site flyover. Reacting, […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has stated that available data indicated that Nigeria has over 16 million more voters than the rest of West Africa. The INEC boss made this known on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, as he spoke about the commission’s preparations for […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2023 Senatorial Candidate of the Labour party (LP) in Enugu North Senatorial district, Barrister Okey Ezea, has dismissed rumour making the round that he is negotiating with Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, who is the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senatorial candidate. Ezea, a grass root politician, who was reacting to the speculation, said […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, January 16th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A barbing Salon operator, identified as Tochukwu Onah, has been electrocuted while vandalizing a facility of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company at Ede Oballa, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. The lifeless body of a vandal suspect was found within the space of a distribution transformer belonging to the (EEDC) on […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, January 16th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has celebrated the return of the outspoken Enugu priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka. The Cleric, who was sent to the monastery in Edo state for several months, is back to his Adoration Ministry, Enugu. In a statement made to Newsmen on Monday in Enugu, National President […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, January 16th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has enjoined Nigerians not to “hand over their future” to an inexperienced politician or Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He disclosed this at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG’s) presidential dialogue on the economy in Lagos […]
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Sunday, January 15th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – On Sunday, unidentified gunmen suspected to be bandits riding on motorcycles invaded New Life for All Church in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, abducting over 25 worshippers. This was announced by the Senior Special Assistant on Christian Affairs to Governor Aminu Bello Masari, Rev. Ishaya Jurau, to the press. He […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Sunday, January 15th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human Rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana has charged presidential candidates in the February 25, 2023 election in Nigeria not to stop promising to end fuel subsidy but to tell Nigerians the replacement for subsidy removal. Frontline contenders for the country’s top job have promised to end the fuel […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, January 15th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of his administration’s measures of fighting fire outbreaks in the state, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi weekend, distributed over 1,500 cartons of fire ball extinguishers to markets in the state. Presenting the items to the beneficiaries at the Headquarters of the State fire service, Enugu, Governor Ugwuanyi, commended the Chief fire officer, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, January 15th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Peter Obi, Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the February election, has called on the electorate not to vote for tribe but look out for character. Obi said this on Saturday in Akure at the town hall meeting to seek the support of the people of Ondo State in the […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oldest Indigenous Social Club in Nigeria, named “Yoruba Tennis Club”, has investitured Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, as its Vice-Patron. The Chairman of the Club, Bro. Chief Euzebio Damazio, made the open announcement at Ooni’s Palace on Saturday, in Ile-Ife. Damazio thanked Ooni for playing some fatherly role […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Saturday, January 14th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As issue of fake news continues unabated in the society, the Director General (DG), of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdulahi, has advised Journalists in Nigeria against publishing fake news while reporting the 2023 general polls. Declaring open a digital journalism and fact-checking workshop organised by NITDA in […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tragedy struck on Saturday when five persons were killed in an auto crash in Kili village of Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi state. Yusuf Abdullahi, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), disclosed this in a road traffic report made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has promised to establish a gold refinery in Zamfara, toward addressing the state’s numerous challenges. Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, said this he spoke with newsmen in Gusau on Saturday. Matawalle, also Northwest APC Campaign Coordinator, said that Tinubu had […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, January 14th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bola Tinubu, the presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that there’s nothing bad in the country having a budget deficit. Tinubu disclosed this on Friday at a presidential dialogue organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG). The African Examiner recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed […]
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Friday, January 13th, 2023

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has threatened to shut down the entire health sector of Abia over unpaid salary arrears. Dr Isaiah Abali, the Chairman of NMA, in Abia, made this known during a protest organised by the association at the Government House on Thursday in Umuahia. African Examiner reports that more […]