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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government through its Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority may return to the overseas supplier, the contaminated Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, which was imported into the country by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. Oil marketers estimated that about 100 million litres of contaminated petrol were imported […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo Police Command says the driver to the state Chairman of the Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Abdul-Hamid Egele, has died. The command’s Spokesman, SP Kontongs Bello, confirmed the death in Benin on Tuesday night. African Examiner reports that the deceased, whose identity could not be ascertained, was driving Egele’s […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority on Tuesday said adulterated petrol, fuel with methanol quantities above Nigeria’s specification, was discovered in the supply chain. In a statement, it said the supplier had been identified and appropriate sanction would apply. It also said oil marketers had been […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – knight of St. John International (KSJI), a United States-based international organisation of the Catholic Church, has declared war against consumption of methamphetamine popularly known as (MKPURU MMIRI) in Igbo parlance and other forms of psycho-substances by youths in Nigeria. President of (KSJI) in Nigeria, Major General (Prof) Remy Uche stated this when […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Tuesday, stated that the continued detention of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho is a miscarriage of justice. Adams made this known in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, saying that the self-determination campaigner had not committed any crime […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to equip newsmen on objective reportage and election observance ahead of the forthcoming Enugu State Local government elections scheduled for February 23, the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), has organized a one day training for selected Journalists in the state. Project Coordinator of ECES, Mr. Hamza Fassi-Fihri, […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, has stated that the federal government may prosecute popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, in Nigeria following his detention in Benin Republic. African Examiner recalls that in July 2021, Igboho was nabbed at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, Cotonou over alleged possession of a […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has confirmed Professor Ayo O. Omotayo as Director-General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, Plateau State. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Special Assistant (Press) to the Senate President, Ezrel Tabiowo, on Tuesday. According to the statement, Omotayo’s confirmation was sequel to […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn a case against the owner of Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin; and six others charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021. African Examiner learnt that the police told an Abuja High Court on Monday that the […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have invaded Ekwulobia town in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday. According to an eyewitness account, the gunmen shot and killed an unidentified official of the Anambra State Traffic Management Agency, who was controlling traffic at the busy Ekwulobia Junction. It was not yet clear if the gunmen […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The High Court of Osun State sitting at Ikire, presided over by Justice Sikiru Oke, on Tuesday, struck out a suit instituted by former Osun Governor, Rauf Aregbesola’s group, The Osun Progressives – a group within the All Progressives Congress, in Osun State. A similar suit by the Aregbesola’s group in respect […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Ademola Adeleke, one of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in Osun, says he didn’t walk out of the peace and reconciliation meeting on Monday in Okuku. The meeting was hosted by a former Governor in the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. Adeleke made the clarification following allegations that he stormed […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – Some gunmen on Sunday evening attacked Okene Police Area Command Headquarters but were repelled. One of the attackers was shot dead by police, spokesman of the Command, Williams Oyve-Aya, said yesterday in a statement. “At about 10 p.m. of Sunday, some armed hoodlums attacked the Okene Area Command Headquarters with sporadic gunshots […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has started moves to avert the impending nationwide strike by aviation workers. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this at a meeting with the officials of the Ministry of Aviation and the aviation workers unions on Monday in Abuja. It would be recalled that the aviation […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pastor David Ibiyeomie during his sermon on Sunday, February 6, 2022, at the Salvation Ministries Home talked about what led to the death of the former head of state, Abacha at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja on June 8, 1998. According to David Ibiyeomie, “It is impossible to be proud and […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected bandits on Sunday abducted Reverend Father Joseph Shekari and murdered one of his cooks in Chawai, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Ali Mudashir, a resident in the area, told the press on Monday that the bandits invaded the Catholic priest’s residence around 12.00 midnight and started shooting sporadically. According […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hakeem Muri-Okunola, the Head of Service of Lagos State has denied reports that he is interested in governing the state and will stop the rumored second-term ambition of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. In a statement on Sunday, February 6, 2022, Muri-okunola stated that he has no plan to replace Sanwo-Olu as he expressed […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The detention of Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has been extended by six months. The Counsel for the detained activist, Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN confirmed the extended incarceration of his client. But this is contrary to claim by Abuja-based human rights lawyer Pelumi Olajengbesi on Saturday that […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo State Police Command has arrested a suspected killer of a retired Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Christian Kpatuma. The police officer was killed on Wednesday by suspected cultists in the Agwa area of Oguta Local Government Area of the state. African Examiner reports that Kpatuma was abducted from his residence […]
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Monday, February 7th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The kidnapped cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Jephthah Robert, has been released by his captors after spending 14 days in their custody. Jephthah was kidnapped on January 24 in front of his residence at Biogbolo-Epie suburb of Yenagoa, the state capital. Austin Ekeinde, a media aide to the victim’s younger brother, […]
