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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Nathaniel Emmanuel of the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has affirmed Senator Ademola Adeleke as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Osun governorship election slated for July 16 2022. The judge dismissed a suit filed by Prince Dotun Babayemi, seeking to be declared the candidate of PDP. […]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A widow, Mrs Sefi Jimoh, kidnapped by four days ago has been released. The Kogi Commissioner of Police, Edward Egbuka, confirmed the window’s release in Lokoja on Wednesday. The mother of four, was abducted while waiting for a commercial motorcycle, “Okada” a morning Prayer session at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles […]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, dismisses Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) bail application. Justice Binta Nyako, in a ruling, held that since Kanu was earlier granted bail in 2017 and jumped the bail, the court must first determine the real reason he jumped the […]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pandemonium broke out in Ekpaomaka community in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi on Wednesday as gunmen invaded the community, killed four persons and set a building ablaze. Mr Steve Orogwu, Chairman of Ikwo Local Government Council told newsmen that the hoodlums attacked Ekpaomaka, his country home, killed his elder brother, two […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami and his counterpart in the Ministry of Woman Affairs, Pauline Tallen, who rescinded their decision to contest for elective positions in the 2023 elections attended the weekly Federal Executive Council Meeting held on Wednesday, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari It […]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, over a shady contract worth N240m awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission. Etteh, it was learnt, was at the Abuja office of the EFCC on Tuesday and had yet to be released as […]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed nine persons died and 10 others injured in a gas explosion that occurred early morning at Aba Road, Sabon Gari, Kano State. The NEMA Kano Territorial Coordinator, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, confirmed the development to newsmen while giving an update on gas cylinder explosion in […]
Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
President Muhammadu Buhari has said more investments would be deployed to the provision of infrastructure and facilities for safe, secure, environmentally friendly and sustainable civil aviation. The President, who received the Secretary-General of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Mr Juan Carlos Salazar, at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday maintained that Nigeria would support the ideals […]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has explained that the scarcity of aviation fuel was not peculiar to Nigeria. Sirika, who spoke to State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, said the scarcity and high cost of Jet A1 was a global phenomenon driven by many factors. He stated , “ the scarcity […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has asked Facebook and other social media platforms to stop allowing the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to use their platforms to incite violence and instigate ethnic hatred in Nigeria. Lai Mohammed made the demand in Abuja on Tuesday at a meeting […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have written letters to nine local government areas in Anambra State to be attacked soon. The local government areas listed to be attacked are Ihiala, Aguata, Nnewi South, Awka North, Awka South, Idemili North, Idemili South, Orumba South, Orumba North and Anambra East. In a message to the LGAs, the anonymous […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwunmi Adesina, will not be contesting the Presidency of Nigeria. A support group had purchased and submitted the N100m Presidential form of the All Progressives Congress for the top banker last week. Some had also reported that Adesina visited Mamman Daura, the influential nephew of […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many were feared dead following an explosion along Court Road in Sabon Gari, Kano State on Tuesday. The explosion, which occurred near a private secondary school, Winners School, destroyed a residential building and affected part of the school. The explosion occurred around 9:30 am with many schoolchildren affected. Some parents were seen […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The promotion of former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police by the Police Service Commission has sparked social media reaction. African Examiner writes that eight commissioners of police were promoted by the PSC. “The eight Commissioners of Police […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerians on social media are reacting to the news that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) Ahmed Idris over an N80 billion fraud. The African Examiner recalls that EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest of Idris in a statement issued on Monday […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rotimi Amaechi, an All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential aspirant, has officially resigned as the Minister of Transportation. Amaechi stated that he resigned from Buhari’s cabinet to allow him concentrate on his presidential ambition. It could be recalled that President Buhari has directed Ministers and appointees with political ambition to resign. Many ministers […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Transportation (FMoT), has directed that the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS) should resume on May 23. The Deputy Director, Public Relations of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Yakub Mahmood, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday. African Examiner reports that […]
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – EFCC operatives have arrested the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris, over alleged diversion and laundering of N80 billion. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Public Information at the EFCC made the declaration in Abuja. He stated that verified intelligence reports showed that Idris raked off the funds through bogus […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
(African examiner) – Barely 24 Hours after unknown gun men killed a police man in Aguata Council area of Anambra State, the Headquarters of Idemili North Local Government Area of the State situated at Ogidi, Anambra state was in the early hours of Monday, 16th, May 2022 set on fire by unknown hoodlums. It was […]
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Monday, May 16th, 2022
…..Appoints Ogbonnaya Amadi, Bala Senchi As Digs (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission has confirmed the promotion of Ex- Acting Chairman of Nigeria’s anti- graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Mustafa Ibrahim Magu as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), along with five others. The Commission says Magu who is […]
