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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra has threatened a one-month sit-at-home protest in ‘Biafraland’ if its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, is not brought to court on October 21. The Media and Publicity Secretary of the secessionist group, Emma Powerful, stated this in a statement in Awka, Anambra State. He reportedly said IPOB got from […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
…Demand Compensation (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos Nigeria, has condemned in strong terms the recent brutal attack on the General Manager, JAMZ 100.1FM, Ibadan, Mr. Tony Awobode, by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) and his men from the Eleyele Police station in the Oyo State capital. Quoting a media report, the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed men have attacked a police checkpoint at Nachi in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu state, killing two officers. The victims, who were said to have died on the spot were on duty at the checkpoint when the hoodlums struck. It was gathered that the gunmen shot sporadically, a […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has said that no candidate in Enugu state missed its ongoing examination in spite of the IPOB-declared Mondays’ sit-at- home order. The Deputy Registrar/Zonal Coordinator, WAEC, Mrs Eucharia Onodu disclosed this in Enugu. Onodu said the sit-at-home order only affected the students emotionally, as many of […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some senior Police retirees based in Edo have condemned what they referred to as “poor retirement benefits” after their service years. The retirees, who were at the headquarters of the state’s Police Command in Benin, also called on the authorities of the Nigeria Police Force to yank them off the current Police […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Irked by the involvement of the Traditional ruler of Ihekwuenu Aku Autonomous Community in Igbo-Etiti Council Area of Enugu state, Igwe Christopher Okwor in the Demolition of the house belonging to a 60 year old virtually impaired man in the locality, the state government has announced the immediate suspension of the Monarch. […]
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Kano have arrested a female resident of Rijiyar Zaki Quarters who sends fake bank credit alerts to traders after taking their goods. This is contained in a statement issued in Kano on Tuesday by the police command’s spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa. “On Sept. 12, at about 6:30p.m., three traders, Jamilu […]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Magistrate Court presided by Chief Magistrate Shu’aibu Ahmad has sentenced Aminu Tafida, son of the Special Adviser on Social Investments to Sokoto Governor Aminu Tambuwal and two others to a four- year and six- month imprisonment respectively. It however gave them a fine option of N400, 000 each, including compensation for […]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina says the new measures put in place to fight insecurity in the state are working and they are winning the war against banditry. The governor stated this in Katsina at a consultative briefing he held with the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on security […]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Senate to amend the recently enacted Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). According to Buhari’s letter read on the floor by Senate President Ahmad Lawan, the amendments have become necessary to make for seamless administrative structure in the Act. Buhari, in his letter titled: “Forwarding administrative structure amendments […]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Risikat Ajoke Adegeye, a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly and wife of Juju maestro, King Sunny Ade, died hours before hubby’s 74th birthday The late Risikat Adegeye, was an ex-member of the Lagos House of Assembly, died in the early hours of Tuesday. The deceased was a two-time […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The paramount ruler of Atyap Chiefdom, Zangon Kataf local government area of Kaduna State, Agwatyap Dominic Gambo Yahaya, has kicked against the unending attacks by suspected herdsmen in the area. According to Yahaya, the militia/bandits have in the last few days killed no fewer than 50 villagers, destroyed 254 homes and 7 […]
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Preventive Terrorism Consultant, Temitope Olodo has said that policing in Nigeria should be by consent and not by force. According to him, community policing was the easiest way of policing but expressed regrets that corruption has become so endemic in the security institution. Olodo, who is the President , African Security […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Seven human rights groups in different parts of Nigeria, have petitioned the Enugu State Commissioner of police over alleged defrauding of a church, Calvary Victory Mission Church, the sum of 4 Million naira by its landlord, Mr Chijioke Nsonwu, who also unlawfully demolished the property. The organizations in a petition, entitled “Appeal […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo State police Command has confirmed the death of an escapee of Imo Correctional Centre Owerri and a member of the proscribed IPOB/ESN group in the state who was beaten to death by traders while enforcing the group’s Mondays peoples sit- at – home order. Police public Relations Officer PPRO in […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As children continue to bear the brunt of the 12-year conflict in north-east Nigeria, the European Union (EU) and UNICEF are working together to provide community-based psychosocial services aimed at improving children’s mental health. Through the EU-funded Support to Early Recovery and Resilience Project, implemented by UNICEF, at least 5,129 conflict-affected out-of-school […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, September 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 23-year-old woman, Firdausi Suleiman, has dragged her husband, Haruna Haruna, before a Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, seeking divorce on grounds that he beats her and says she eats too much. In her petition, Suleiman, who lives in Rigasa in Kaduna, also told the court that her husband, […]
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Monday, September 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the bill prohibiting open cattle grazing in the state into law. He signed the bill into law on Monday. The governor’s media aide on print media, Wale Ajetunmobi, stated this. “Breaking! Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, this afternoon, signs the bill prohibiting open cattle grazing in Lagos […]
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Monday, September 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police have confirmed the arrest of 21 suspects, in connection with the killing of seven persons, allegedly through witchcraft, in a village in Adamawa. Aliyu Adamu, Commissioner of Police in the state, at a news conference on Monday in Yola, confirmed arrest of the suspects. Adamu said that the arrest, and many […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, September 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angered by a viral video of the demolition of a two bedroom building situated at Uwani Otobo, Umuezike Community in Aku, Igbo-Etiti Counsel Area of Enugu State, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has summoned the Chairman of the council area, Mrs. Nkechi Ugwu-Oju and the Traditional Ruler of the Community, Igwe Christopher Okwor. African […]
