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Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The news that over 72.77 million telecommunication subscribers have been stopped from making calls on their SIMs, after a directive from the Federal Government to telecommunication companies has sparked social media reactions. African Examiner recalls that on Monday, the Federal Government directed telecommunications companies to enforce compliance with its National Identification Number-Subscriber […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday joined Muslim faithful at the State House Mosque to mark the commencement of the Ramadan Tafsir, the interpretation and explanation of the Qur’an. The exercise is in line with Islam’s guiding principles and the intense devotional activities marking the 30-day Ramadan period. The president joined the Muslim […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, have taken strong exception to comments credited to Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, which described the communique they issued last week in Umuahia, Abia State, as a work of fiction by those […]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Management Committee of the National Assembly Legislators’ Quarters Mosque, Apo, Abuja, has sacked Sheikh Nuru Khalid, the Chief Imam, who was accused of criticizing the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in his sermon on Friday. Khalid had earlier been suspended for the sermon but reacted that only God can give or […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected armed bandits, Sunday night, invaded Tsafe town, the council headquarters of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State, killing many people. Residents said one of the victims is the son of the state’s commissioner for security affairs, Mamman Tsafe. Neither the commissioner nor the state government has confirmed the killing. The […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters Juma’at Mosque in Abuja, Sheikh Nuru Khalid, has been sacked by the mosque’s Steering Committee for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari over last Monday night’s attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train. Sheikh Khalid was initially suspended by the Steering Committee of the strategic mosque. But on Monday […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi says no state government worker is being owed salary under his administration, challenging anyone being owed to come out openly with a proof. Bello made this known while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, noting that workers welfare remained a priority to him. He urged Nigerians to judge […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, Hafsat Abiola, says she is leading the campaign efforts for Governor Yahaya Bello because she sees the qualities needed to take Nigeria to its right destination in him. Hafsat Abiola, daughter of late M.K.O Abiola, acclaimed winner of the 1993 presidential elections, said in Lagos […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has ordered telecommunications operators including MTN, Globacom, Airtel, and 9mobile to bar all outgoing calls of all Subscriber Identification Module cards not yet linked with the National Identification Number effective today, April 4, 2022. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, announced this in a statement on Monday, […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One hundred and forty-six of the 362 passengers on the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train are unreachable six days after the train was attacked by terrorists. The Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr Fidet Okhiria, made this known in a statement obtained on Monday. He, however, said the number of safe passengers had […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has underscored the need for people especially Christians to rise and vote during elections and not only to pray. Pastor Timothy Olaniya, Deputy Rector, Redeemed College of Technology, Redemption Camp, made the call on Sunday during a seminar organised by the Directorate of Politics and […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have killed 10 persons and injured 19 during a cultural festival in Chando Zerreci community in Irigwe Chiefdom of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau. Mr Lawrence Zango, the National Publicity Secretary, Irigwe Youth Movement, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Jos. Zango said that criminals launched the attack […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Osun Command, on Sunday said eight persons narrowly escaped death in an accident that occurred along the Gbangan-Ibadan expressway. A statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Mr Agnes Ogungbemi, in Osogbo, said the accident occurred around Wasimi axis, about 15 kilometres to Sasa Bridge. Ogungbemi explained […]
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Monday, April 4th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo has stated that his administration is offering “amnesty” to agitators in the State. Soludo made this known when he appeared on Channels Television on Sunday. He said: “Within the agitation movement, we have to agree that there are now factions. There is the one led […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has stated that he can’t say if there will be an election in 2023 yet. The cleric disclosed this on Sunday saying that God has not revealed to him if there would an election next year. According to him, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely a week after some unknown armed men attacked a police Station in Imo State, another yet-to-be identified assailants, on Sunday morning, set the Orsu local government headquarters in the state ablaze. The incident it was gathered, occurred in the morning hours of Sunday, and has thrown residents of the locality into […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has stated that security challenges have overwhelmed the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari (retd). Obasanjo disclosed this when he reacted to the recent attacks on the Kaduna-Abuja train with no fewer than seven persons confirmed dead and 21 passengers missing. According to him, the development has revealed that […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of Railway quarters, Enugu and environ, weekend applauded the Special Assistant to governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Hon. Madus Mathias, for embarking on a clean -up and sanitation exercise at the near abandoned over sixty years old Nigerian Railway Corporation NRC Subway tunnel which was almost turning into a refuse dump site for […]
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr. Nkem Okeke, the immediate past Deputy governor of Anambra State, said he defected from the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA to the Nigeria’s ruling All progressive Congress APC because he needed to serve at the national level. It would be recalled that Okeke, dumped APGA shortly before the state governorship election […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police in Imo State, South- East Nigeria have uncovered the identities of the criminal suspects who attacked Mbieri Police station in Mbaitoli Council Area of the state last week. Spokesman for the state Police Command, Public Mike Abattam, disclosed this to Newsmen weekend in Owerri. Recalled that the said station was […]
