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Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) and a suspect in custody were killed during an attack on the Divisional Police Headquarters in Iganna in Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State on Wednesday by hoodlums. The Oyo State Police Command confirmed the incident, stating the Divisional Police officer (DPO) of the station (name […]
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have killed five soldiers and one unidentified civilian. The incident happened opposite one of the new generation banks in Umunze, Orumba South local government area. A source disclosed the incident happened around 2pm on Wednesday. The soldiers, the source said, were in a Sienna vehicle when the hoodlums attacked them. The […]
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue State; Seyi Makinde of Oyo State; Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State; Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, all believed to be loyal to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, including Wike, on Wednesday, boycotted the inauguration of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Council and book launch in honour […]
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has tasked Nigerians not to allow politicians to use religion or tribal sentiments to deceive them in the 2023 polls. The former Anambra governor made this known when he visited the palace of the Ooni of Ife on Tuesday as he tasked […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Mainstream Members of the Enugu state Chapter of the All progressive Congress APC, have applauded the inclusion of former governor of Enugu State, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, of the People’s Democratic party PDP into the All progressive Congress APC presidential Campaign Council (PCC). Senator Nnamani, a close ally of the 2023 APC […]
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dumebi Kachikwu, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has stated that Peter Obi, the flag bearer of the Labour Party (LP), is part of the “old political order” in Nigeria and the ADC won’t have any alliance with him. Kachikwu made this known on Tuesday in an interview with […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), on Tuesday in Lagos, again set ablaze 1.8 tons of cocaine recovered from a warehouse in Ikorodu area of Lagos on Sept 19. African Examiner reports that the anti-narcotic agency had, on Sept. 19, stormed a warehouse in a well-coordinated and intelligence-led operation that lasted two […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Troops of “Operation Forest Sanity’’ rescued seven kidnapped persons during a fighting patrol between Birnin Gwari and Chikun Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in Kaduna State, Mr Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the rescue in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Kaduna. He stated that […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Industrial Court on Tuesday struck out a suit filed by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to compel the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the ongoing strike. The judge, Justice Polycarp Hamman in the ruling terminated further proceedings in the matter […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), on Tuesday, arraigned a director with Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Solomon Okpa Ita for alleged diversion of N45 million. The ICPC also arraigned Gabriel Nathaniel, a staff in the Accounts Department of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) over allegations bordering […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Vice President and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) ,Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,on Tuesday said he would actualise Igbo presidency if elected in 2023. Abubakar made the pledge during the PDP South-East Zonal Stakeholders’ Meeting in Enugu on Tuesday. He said his love for Ndigbo was so great that in the 2011, […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has ordered the closure of a new generation church, The New Jerusalem Deliverance Ministry, Okene for allegedly defrauding members by selling “bulletproof water” and running an unapproved medical facility. The Pastor of the church, Peter Adeiza, is said to have been operating the facility since 2008 […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alhaji Nasir Kwarra, Executive Chairman, National Population Commission (NPC) on Tuesday said Post Enumeration Survey (PES) is designed to redress possible errors in the census process. Kwarra, represented by Dr Tony Ayejina, Federal Commissioner for Edo, said this in Abuja at the Master Trainers level on PES for members of staff of […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has postponed the start of its campaigns earlier slated for Wednesday. The Director-General, of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council and Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. “Recall that we had earlier earmarked a peace walk and prayers […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday sentenced a dethroned ‘Baale’ (Chief) in Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos State, Mutiu Ogundare and his brother, Opeyemi Mohammed to 15 years imprisonment each for faking his own kidnap. Our correspondent reports that the court had on June 15 discharged and acquitted the third defendant, […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Contrary to reports in the media that a Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital has struck out a case filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, against former National publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic party PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, the anti- graft agency has dismissed the […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group, has explained why the group is endorsing the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi. In a statement on Monday, Adebanjo stated that the group decided to support Obi’s presidential bid because of the principle of equity and federal character as […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The interview of political economist and Labour Party chieftain, Pat Utomi dared the All Progressive Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu to go for medical checkup and make the result public, has sparked reactions from some Nigerians. African Examiner writes that Utomi was a guest on Channels Television’s “politics Today” and he stated […]
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Monday, September 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, on Monday, accused the opposition of spinning false reports in a futile attempt to unseat him as Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council. Keyamo’s rebuttal is coming on the heels of an online publication that has been trending on social media […]
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Monday, September 26th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission, Monday afternoon, withdrew its circular which ordered vice-chancellors, pro-chancellors and governing councils to re-open federal universities. African Examiner reported earlier that a circular tagged NUC/ES/138/Vol.64/135 was addressed to all vice-chancellors; pro-chancellors and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities ordering them to re-open universities. […]
