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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Labour Party in Ogun State has sacked the Director-General of the party’s presidential campaign council (PCC), Doyin Okupe, and 10 for allegedly not paying membership fees, high-handedness and financial recklessness. The State Chairman of the party in the state, Michael Ashade, announced this at a press conference in Abeokuta on Thursday. Flanked […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension gripped Ughelli town in Delta state over the kidnap of Imam of the Ughelli Central Mosque as gunmen attacked worshippers shortly after prayers Friday morning. At least 11 persons were injured by the gun-wielding hoodlums who stormed the mosque, reportedly seen in an ash coloured Toyota Sienna. The gunmen, said to […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Centre for Migration Policy Development ICMPD has said the £4.5 million business park and a start-up Centre built in partnership with the Australian Development Agency, European private sector partners and Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu is aimed at tackling issue of unlawful migration to foreign lands by Nigerian youths According to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Osun State Government has accused the administration of Gboyega Oyetola of accruing debts in pensions and salaries to the tune of N76 billion. The spokesperson to the Executive Governor Olawale Rasheed quoted the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mrs. Bimpe Ogunlumade to have made the claim while briefing officials of the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC) has expressed concern over the increased incidences of vandalization of its electrical facilities across the South-East region, even as eight suspects arrested for the crime are now cooling off in police net in Enugu. It raised the alarm over the latest turn of events where […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday, produced Form CF001, containing WAEC-GCE certificate and Secondary School Testimonial of Gov. Ademola Adeleke before the Osun Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Osogbo. This was in compliance with the order of Justice Tertsea Kume, the Tribunal Chairman, on Nov. 25. Kume had ordered the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, December 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 82 Division of the Nigerian Army has lambasted a rights group, International Society for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law Intersociety, over false allegations against the General officer GOC Commanding the Division. It said “the attention of the 82 Division Nigerian Army has been drawn to a libelous and diminishing narrative […]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A student of Federal University Dutse (FUD), Aminu Muhammad, has been remanded in prison because of his tweet on Aisha Buhari. African Examiner writes that Muhammad, who is from Azare in Bauchi state, is a final-year student at the department of environmental management and he was arrested by the police because of […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party (LP) in Kaduna State on Tuesday announced the killing of its women leader, Victoria Chintex, by suspected gunmen in the Kaura Local Government Area of the state. The publicity secretary of the party in the southern Kaduna zone, Edward Buju, in a statement said she was shot dead at […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd), has called for the cooperation and support of traditional rulers in the Niger Delta region for the reform of the intervention programme. Gen. Ndiomu, disclosed that the monarchs who are custodians of the culture and tradition of […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governorship aspirant and founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State Sani Shaaban has resigned his membership of the party with immediate effect. Shaaban, a former member of the House of Representatives, contested in the May, 25th, 2022 APC governorship primary held in Kaduna State which was […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Operatives of Enugu State Command have arrested a total of seventeen (17) criminal suspects, including one (1) female and a native Doctor for offences of conspiracy, murder, armed robbery, truck snatching, abduction and unlawful possession of firearm. The Command’s Spokesman, Daniel Ndukwe DSP, in a statement made available to Newsmen Tuesday […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State wing of the Southwest Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corps has recovered AK-47 rifles, military camouflage and other items hidden in a forest in the state by suspected kidnappers. Commandant of the corps in Oyo State, Col. Olayinka Olayanju (retd.), told newsmen in Ibadan, on Monday, that the corps recovered […]
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Fire has razed 150 improvised shops at the Kachako Central Market in Takai Local Government Area of Kano State. This news of the fire incident is contained in a statement issued in Kano by the spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi. He said the incident occurred on Monday […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The pioneer Deputy state Chairman of the All progressive Congress APC in Enugu State, Comrade Adolphus Ude, has alerted the national leadership of the party on what he called ‘senseless’ changing of its name to New APC by the Embattled Chairman of the party in Enugu state, Chief Ugochukwu Agballa. He posited […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely 24 hours after his inauguration, Osun Governor Senator Ademola Adeleke has sacked 12,000 workers and ordered the dethronement of three monarchs. The Governor also nullified the appointment of 30 Permanent Secretaries and suspended the chairman and members of Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC). The affected monarchs include Akinrun of Ikinrun […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A section of the popular Onitsha, main market, in Anambra State, South East Nigeria, has been gutted by a mysterious fire which has damaged goods worth several millions of naira. As at the time of filing this report, cause of the inferno , which reportedly began around midnight is yet to be […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular broadcaster and socialite, Ifedayo Olarinde, a.k.a Daddy Freeze, has reacted to the revelation made by the general overseer of Power City International Church, Pastor Abel Damina, concerning the death of the popular Nigerian gospel singer, Sammie Okposo. Pastor Abel Damina, in his sermon in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, disclosed that the […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three persons died on Saturday while nine others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Nissan car and a Toyota sienna at Fidiwo bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Sector Commander of the FRSC in Ogun, Ahmed Umar, confirmed the incident to journalists in Abeokuta on Sunday. Mr Umar explained that the […]
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Monday, November 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) —Hoodlums have set ablaze the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, destroying, among others, 340 ballot boxes and yet to be determined quantity of Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs. The attack is the third on INEC’s local government offices in less than three weeks, […]
