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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a 52-year-old man, Akin Isaac, to 21 years imprisonment for defiling and impregnating his 18-year-old daughter. The prosecutor said that the defendant had started having an unlawful sexual intercourse with his 18-year-old daughter while she was six years old, which resulted into at least […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) says it will shut down Ladipo and Oyingbo markets till further notice over reckless waste dumping, refusal to pay for waste services, and general poor waste management. Mr. Ibrahim Odumboni, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) LAWMA, said in a statement on Thursday in Lagos that the markets […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja awarded Nigerian citizenship to 286 nationals, urging them to be good citizens of the country to enjoy all the rights and privileges bestowed on them. ”You have pledged your allegiance to Nigeria. When you give your love and loyalty to Nigeria, she returns her love […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja has approved National Honours and cash rewards of N200 million for Team Nigeria contingents to the 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Athletics championships. According to a statement issued by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, Buhari spoke at a […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have suspended a strike ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet their demands, particularly the payment of the newly-reviewed Medical Residency Training Fund and implementation of the new hazard allowance, among others. NARD President, Dr. Godiya Ishaya, confirmed this to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mrs Grace Akeredolu, the mother of Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, is dead. The death was confirmed in a statement by Mr Richard Olatunde, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, on Thursday in Akure. “She died peacefully in her sleep early this morning. Mama was 90 years. “She is survived […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Vice Chairman (South-West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Isaac Kekemeke, said the party’s presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, would win over 80 per cent of votes in the region during the 2023 elections. Olaniyi Adegbola, Ondo State Coordinator of ‘The Asiwaju Group (TAG)’, a support group for the […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has insisted that the national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, should resign, stressing that the candidate and chairman cannot come from the same bloc region. The governor said Southwest PDP stakeholders believe that Ayu’s resignation should be the baseline for restructuring and unification. Makinde said if the controversy […]
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Thursday, September 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Isaac Kekemeke, National Vice-Chairman (South-West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the party’s Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, has never betrayed the Yoruba race, but fought for justice, fairness, progress and development. Kekemeke made the clarification, while briefing newsmen on Wednesday shortly after the party’s zonal meeting at the state party […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Inspector General of Police of Nigeria (IGP) Musiliu Smith has resigned as the Chairman Police Service Commission (PSC). PSC spokesperson Ikechukwu Ani confirmed his resignation Ani said Smith’s resignation was on health grounds and President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted it. Ani said: “Yes he resigned on his own on medical grounds […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians on Wednesday took to the media space to react to the war of words between retired American mental health counselor, Dr Jeffery Guterman and the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council and Minister of State, Labour & Employment, Festus Keyamo. African Examiner recalls that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has slammed the action of some students who blocked the busy section of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway during a protest march. Fashola stated this on Wednesday while responding to questions from State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) — London-based Vlogger, Ms Maureen Badejo is in the news again. But this time, for the bad as she has again lost an appeal against mounting Court rulings against her in respect to several defamatory statements she had made against Dr. Daniel Olukoya and his wife, Dr. (Mrs) Folashade Olukoya. Dr. Olukoya is […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was a mild drama Wednesday morning when Cross River state governor , Prof Ben Ayade locked out civil servants working in the government house, Calabar for coming late to work. Governor Ayade who came to work before 8: 00 am ordered the Chief Security Officer,CSO, to lock the governor’s office gate […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services (DSS) yesterday told a Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja that its preliminary investigation established that hostage negotiator, Tukur Mamu, is a terror sponsor. In an affidavit in support of its ex-parte motion marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1617/2022 and filed before the court, the DSS also described Mamu as a […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Participants at a one-day stakeholder’s roundtable in Abuja on Wednesday, reiterated the need to create strategic actions aimed at mitigating the various threats to the safety of journalists in Nigeria. This is coming amidst general violation of press freedom of expression and the shrinking of the civic space in the country. The […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian-born American professor, Uju Anya, has said her life has been under threat since her Thursday tweet on the late Queen Elizabeth II. Anya, who is a Professor of Second Language Acquisition, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America, spoke exclusively to The PUNCH on Sunday afternoon. Anya, […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta and vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says cyberbullying is becoming a trend in relation to comments over the 2023 elections. Okowa spoke at the northern Christian youth assembly summit, with the theme ‘Unifying Nigeria: The Role of Northern Christian Youths and Women’. The governor […]
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have nabbed a pregnant woman, two minors, and eight others suspects for their alleged involvement in illegal oil bunkering in Ondo State. Hammed Abodunrin, the state Commandant of the Corps, while parading the suspects in Akure, the State capital, stated that the […]
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Subsequent increase in incidences of crime in the state, the Ondo State Government has restored its earlier ban on the operation of commercial motorcycles after 6 p.m. It also ordered the closure of all nightclubs by midnight. The government is demanding also that users of vehicles with tinted glasses must get permits. […]
