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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has tasked the media to exert pressure on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) to assent to the amended Electoral Act. Governor Wike stated that it is important that the media should enlighten Nigerians to know why there should be electronic transmission of election results so […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has directed those serving in his government who would like to contest the governorship primaries to tender their resignation latest by December 18. The directive was contained in a statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, in Ado Ekiti, titled, “Ekiti 2022: Fayemi […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government threw its weight behind the Lagos State government’s White Paper on the report of the judicial panel set up to probe cases of police brutality and shooting at the Lekki tollgate, promising to take further actions. The Lagos State government, on Tuesday, rejected key recommendations of the panel’s report […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has expressed shock over the Tuesday evening Bagwai boat mishap that led to the death of 40 persons. Ganduje spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Abba Anwar, in a statement issued on Wednesday in Kano. “We learned that the boat started from Hayin Badau to […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Exercise Golden Dawn of the Nigerian Army has foiled an attempt by alleged members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to kidnap some medical personnel in Imo. This is contained in a statement signed by Brig.- Gen.- Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director, Army Public Relations and made available to newsmen […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned the Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr. Bamidele Oleyelogun, in court over alleged financial impropriety. Oleyelogun is being arraigned alongside the Clerk of the house, Bode Adeyelu; the lawmaker representing Akoko South West I in the House, Felemu Bankole and two […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has called on youths to join him on Peace Walk, for healing of Lagos State. He made the call in Lagos, during a news conference on the State Government’s position on the recommendations of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on EndSARS, submitted on Nov. 15. He […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A founding member of the Arewa Consultative Forum and elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, has said that the problem of insurgency in the country started in Southern Nigeria. He spoke on Channels Television’s ‘News Night’ programme . The 96-year-old elder statesman also said the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, the wife of Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, is calling for more proactive measures to tackle security challenges in the South-East geo-political zone. The Ondo State First Lady also condemned the spate of banditry, kidnapping, and other vices ravaging the country adding that the abduction of the 89-year-old […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, has declared the banishment of deposed Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II from Kano State was unlawful, unconstitutional and a violation of his rights Justice Anwuli Chikere, in a judgment, held that the Emirate Council Law, 2019, used by the state government in banishing Sanusi was […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the stakeholders agitating for an Independent Yoruba Nation, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has resigned as the Chairman of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS). Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO), the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, also cut off from the NINAS Alliance with immediate effect. Akintoye, a renowned Historian […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Authorities in Ebonyi State has confirmed the attack on its personnel by unknown armed men at Igbuduoke village in Effium/Ezza Clan in Ohaukwu Council Area of the state, during which two officers were kidnapped by the hoodlums. The State police public Relations officer PPRO, DSP Loveth Odah disclosed this in a […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South East Amalgamated Markets Traders Association (SEAMATA) has rejected the recent astronomical and indiscriminate increment of import duty on cargoes charged by Nigerian Customs Service. African Examiner reports that the body is the umbrella union of traders in all the markets in the South-East Geo-political Zone of Nigeria and traders of […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has suspended the 2021 Carnival Calabar over fears of a renewed outbreak of the COVID- 19 pandemic. The governor disclosed the decision after a prolonged debate among his aides including Commissioners, special advisers special assistants, speakers of the House of Assembly council chairmen. an executive […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Men’s Fellowship of Methodist Church Nigeria has elected its new National Executive Officers that would pilot the affairs of the Fellowship for the next three years from 2022 to 2024. A University don, Sir Dr Kehinde Olasunkanmi Oladeji was elected National President, Bro Uche Achugbuo was elected National Secretary while a […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola, has announced a six-day traffic diversion on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, starting from Monday, to speed up construction works. Popoola, in a statement, said the diversion is to enable Julius Berger, contractor handling section one of the project, to lay asphalt between Arepo […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Plateau has arrested eight of the inmates who had earlier escaped during the attack on the Jos Correctional centre by gunmen. ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Jos. African Examiner reports that gunmen on […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) has confirmed an attack on the Jos Correctional centre by gunmen on Sunday. Mr Francis Enobore, the National Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the service, confirmed the incident in a statement issued to newsmen in Jos. According to Enobore,the gunmen invaded the prison yard at about 5:20 […]
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Monday, November 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), on Sunday wiped out several Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in an encounter at Forward Operating Base, Gajiram Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, made this known in a statement in Abuja. Nwachukwu […]
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Sunday, November 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has stated that he is a proud member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, saying that he has no regrets making the move. It could be recalled that Fani-Kayode had a few months ago left the Peoples Democratic Party and defected to the ruling party, […]
