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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Police Command on Saturday said it has commenced investigation into the death of one Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos who died under tragic circumstances a few days ago. The controversial death of Sylvester who would have turned 12 years on Saturday has since gone viral […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers, Karibi Bob-Manuel, says Nigerian youths are without focus and more interested in following leaders than being leaders. “Pre-election activities for 2023 will begin in 2022, but as youths, we are yet to be organised because we have no focus,” he stated. “Until we […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Itunu Babalola, the Nigerian lady who died in Côte D’Ivoire prison after wrongly jailed, has been buried in Ibadan, Oyo State. The remains of the young lady were interred on Saturday at the Sango Cemetery at 11:25am. Babalola was buried in the presence of officials of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dozens of children from communities sharing border with the Shadawanka Army Barracks in Bauchi have formed human barricade at the Zaranda hotel junction, along Bauchi-Jos road. With the approval of their parents and youths of the affected communities, children between ages 3 – 8 years were seen lying down across the width […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to check insecurity, the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bionomics Nigeria Ltd a Lagos based technology company to install 1000 Closed-Circuit Televisions (CCTV) cameras in the institution. Speaking during the signing ceremony in Nsukka, Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu Zonal Command of the Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of three students over alleged forgery, impersonation and obtaining money from unsuspecting foreign nationals under false pretences. The agency identified the suspects to include Nonso Adudu, Anichebe Christopher and Onyedika Austin Leonard. They […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo state, South East Nigeria, has ordered an autopsy to be carried out on the corpse of Noel Chigbu, allegedly killed by Soldiers early this year. The deceased, an Owerri based businessman was allegedly shot dead on April 30, in Owerri, by suspected soldiers for […]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police have confirmed the kidnapping of over 20 persons by bandits in Unguwan Gimbiya in Sabon Tasha, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to the police spokesperson in the state, Mohammed Jalige, who spoke on Channels TV, the assault took place in the early hours of Friday. Mr Jalige […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is no iota of truth in the report that two students of Bashorun High School, Ibadan, were on Friday turned to tubers of yam by a suspected ritualist. The Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Mr Abiodun Abdulramah, made this clarification, while addressing students, parents and guardians of the school when he […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Gbenga Ashafa, Managing Director, Federal Housing Authority (FHA), on Friday said the demolition of substandard and illegal construction across FESTAC Town in Lagos would continue. He said that some squatters would be relocated. Ashafa, represented by Mr Chinonso Omoke, FHA Executive Director, Project Implementation during a meeting with stakeholders at FHA […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, an angry mob has lynched an unidentified middle-aged man accusing him of turning students into tubers of yam. It was gathered that the suspect was arrested, killed and set ablaze on Friday morning by residents of Ashi, Bodija, and Akobo for allegedly turning two students of […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Male students of Community Secondary School Obeagu Awkunanaw, in Enugu South Council area of Enugu State have made a commitment to be Champions in the campaign to end violence against women and girls in their schools, homes and the community where they reside They made the commitment at an event put together […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB in Mgbowo Community in Awgu Council area of Enugu state, Mr. Ejiofor Stanley Oti, now at large after he was declared wanted by the Nigerian Army has called on Igbo leaders and international Community to come to his rescue. He said life […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government on Friday ordered the indefinite closure of Dowen College, Lekki, following the investigation into the death of Sylvester Oromoni, a student of the school. This was contained in a statement signed by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs, of the Lagos State Ministry of Education The statement read, “The […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was jubilation at the premises of the Court of Appeal in Akure by members of Sotitobire Praising Chapel as the church’s founder, Prophet Babatunde Alfa was set freed two years after he was taken into custody. Prophet Alfa and five other members of the church were arrested in 2019 over the […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – fashion designer, Rukayat Salami, has been hospitalised after men of the Lagos State Police Command allegedly shot her in the stomach at a checkpoint at Lucky Fibre, in the Ikorodu area of the state. Her husband, Ibrahim, was reportedly battered by the cops for complaining about the shooting. African Examiner gathered that […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Court of Appeal, sitting in Ibadan, on Thursday, discharged and acquitted a former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, over N11.5 billion corruption charges leveled against him by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Alao-Akala was discharged and acquitted along with a former Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested one Pastor Izuchukwu Anoloba, 35, and others for kidnapping a Catholic priest, Fr Fidelis Ekemgba. Parading the suspects and others, the state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, said that the suspects held the priest for over seven days and made him to […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some hoodlums in their hundreds on Thursday set ablaze the Gubernatorial Campaign Office of one of the political opponent of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Sen. Barau Jibrin representing Kano north senatorial district. Some of the attackers were said to have gone with dangerous weapons to the Senator’s office located along Maiduguri Road in […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An international Solution oriented Civil Society organization, Solidaridad West Africa, promoting Agriculture in Nigeria, has appealed to the federal government to prevail on states and local government Areas in the country to remove certain barriers associated with land acquisition so as to enable oil palm farmers, particularly women embrace agriculture, in order […]
