Posted by Samson Kankan
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Saturday, December 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has declared December 26th and 27th as well as January 2nd, 2023 as public holidays to make the Christmas and New Year celebrations respectively. Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola confirmed this in a statement signed by the ministry’s permanent secretary Belgore Shuaib on Friday. The public holidays, the statement added, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, December 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu has opened up on the effect of attacking its offices ahead of the 2023 general election. Yakubu stated that the series of attacks on INEC’s facilities may compromise the 2023 general elections if not checked. He gave the warning as he addressed the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, December 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Friday received another batch of 266 stranded Nigerians from neighbouring Niger Republic. The Director-General of NEMA, Alhaji Mustapha Ahmed-Habib, made the disclosure while receiving the returnees. Ahmed-Habib, represented by NEMA Coordinator Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, said the returnees arrived at the international wing […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Army Council has approved the promotion of 122 senior officers to the ranks of Major General and Brigadier General in recognition of their meritorious service to the nation. The promotion, comprising 52 brigadier generals to the rank of major general and 70 colonels to the rank of brigadier general respectively, was […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 191 stranded Nigerians in India evacuated back home by the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, have arrived Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja today, Friday 16th December 2022. An Ethiopian Airline charted flight that conveyed the returnees touched down at the Abuja airport as they were received by a reception […]
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over 2,000 landowners in Delta State have protested the acquisition and demolition of their property worth over N30billion even as 10 of them have reportedly died from a heart attack following the development. The land situated at the back of Asaba International Airport, was said to have been sold by Umuodafe Quarters, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Ismail Omipidan, Media Aide to former Osun Governor Gboyega Oyetola, on Thursday insisted that the administration of his principal never took any bank loan for the four years he served as governor. Omipidan, in a statement in response to Gov. Ademola Adeleke’s speech that Oyetola’s administration left behind a debt profile […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The remains of Bamise Ayanwola, who was found dead after boarding a bus belonging to the Bus Rapid Transport scheme, in February, have been buried. She was buried at Atan Cemetery, Yaba, in Lagos on Friday. Ayanwola went missing after boarding a bus at the Chevron area of Lekki on her way […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of efforts towards sustaining the current operational and crime-fighting measures put in place by the Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, CP Ahmed Ammani, Police Operatives of the Command have arrested a total of four (4) male criminal suspects for different offences and recovered one (1) AK-47 rifle with fifty […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state Governor, Lawrence Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Thursday presented to the State House of Assembly, the 2023 budget size proposal of One Hundred and Sixty-Six Billion, Six Hundred and Two Million, Four Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Seven hundred and Seventy Naira (NGN166,602,416,770.00). Presenting the 2023 budget estimate Christened: “Budget of Consolidation and […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, (MICS), and the National Immunization Coverage Survey, (NICS) reports paints a true picture of Women and Children situation in Nigeria. The Planning and Monitoring Specialist, (UNICEF) Enugu Field Office, Maureen Zubie-Okolo stated this on Thursday during the MICS/NICS Dissemination […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, December 16th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In recognition of his outstanding performance especially exhibition of professionalism in the discharge of his duties, Lagos based Magazine, National Crime Watch, has conferred a life time achievement award in public Relations on the Head, press and public Relations of the police Service Commission PSC, Mr. Louis Ikechukwu Ani. He was recognized […]
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has commenced an investigation into the Thursday morning fatal train crash incident in Kubwa. Our correspondent gathered that an Abuja-bound train had crashed into a moving car at Chikakore, in the Kubwa area of Abuja, leading to a breakdown of the train. The train coaches were […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has disclosed that his predecessor, Gboyega Oyetola, took N18 billion loan after he lost the July 16th, 2022 Osun governorship election. This is as he also revealed that the state is indebted to the tune of N407.32 billion as of November 30th, 2022. Adeleke disclosed this […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu on Wednesday had his campaign rally in Niger State. African examiner reports that the event happened at the Trade Fair Complex in Minna, the state capital and drew a crowd that gathered to catch a glimpse of the former Lagos governor. […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government of Nigeria temporarily opened the Abuja-Kano road ahead of Christmas and the New Year celebrations to ease traffic. Folorunsho Esan, the Director of Highway Construction and Rehabilitation at the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, stated this while inspecting the three sections road project. “The two lanes of over […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of seven hundred and forty five (745) Senior Police Officers. It also considered and approved proper placement for five Commissioners of Police and one Deputy Commissioner. The Commission equally treated 14 appeals and petitions and nine Pending Disciplinary Matters from dismissed and serving Police […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Simon Ekpa, the self-acclaimed disciple of the Indigenous People of Biafra leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has officially ended the five-day sit-at-home order in the South-East region of Nigeria. Ekpa in a video posted on YouTube on Wednesday night, announced the end of the five-day sit-at-home order, terming it “historic and successful” for Biafraland. […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the Finance Bill 2022 designed to support the implementation of the 2023 budget. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, briefed State House correspondents after the FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mrs […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the five-day sit-at-home order that has led to the killing of many residents in the South-East recently, Nigerians all over the world are signing a petition appealing to the Finnish government, Nigerian government and the European Union to arrest Simon Ekpa, the brain behind the order. As of the time of […]
