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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, says that security agencies have requested the shutdown of telecommunication services in Zamfara to curtail banditry. This is as he said that the directive did not originate from his ministry and that the Federal Government did not object to the request either. […]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Allied Political Parties for Good Governance has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to call the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order. Mr Raph Nwosu, National Chairman of African Democratic Congress (ADC), made the call on behalf of the parties, at a news conference on the state […]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Customs Service has set up a committee to investigate alleged shooting of a motorcade of a Katsina State commissioner by its operatives. The motorcade of Katsina State’s Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy affairs, Alhaji Umar Gwajo-Gwajo, was alleged to have been shot at on Tuesday by Customs operatives of […]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bandits suspected to be fleeing Nigerian Air Force attacks in the Bakura – Talata Mafara axis of Zamfara State stormed Dange Shuni local government area of Sokoto and abducted 20 people. There is an ongoing clampdown on bandits in forests in Zamfara State. The military operation has been supported with the shutdown […]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Counsel for the Department of State Service, I. Awo, told the Federal High Court, on Wednesday, that the case file relating to the Fundamental Human Rights Enforcement application filed by the aides to Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, was stolen by armed robbers. He told Justice Obiora Egwuatu that […]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Delta has arrested six additional suspects in connection to the alleged murder of Prince Eric Takerere and two mobile policemen in the state. The acting spokesman of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Warri. Edafe said the suspects are Onoriode Shefo, Omagbeosa […]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party Candidate , Senator Ademola Adeleke has challenged Governor Adegboyega Oyetola to start preparing his handover notes, saying his days as osun state governor are numbered. He made this declaration at a welcome rally in osogbo as he stated that he is ready to flag off his campaign for […]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna Government has said it has no plan to shut down telecommunication services in the state. This is contained in a statement issued in Kaduna by Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication. According to the statement, the government has not made such a decision, neither has […]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau has relaxed the curfew in Jos North Local Government. This is contained in a statement issued by Lalong’s Director of Press and Public Affairs , Dr Makut Macham in Jos. Lalong said the curfew in Jos North is now to be enforced from 10p.m. to 6a.m., with […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo Information Commissioner Declan Emelumba says the state government is set to receive President Mohammadu Buhari on Thursday in Owerri. African Examiner reports that the president is scheduled to pay a working visit to the state to inaugurate some state-executed projects. Emelumba disclosed on Tuesday in Owerri that the president would inaugurate […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governing Council of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has dismissed Dr. Adebayo Mosobalaje, a lecturer at the Department of English Language in the Faculty of Art, who was allegedly found guilty of sexual misconduct against a female student. This was announced in a statement by the university’s Public Relations Officer of the […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government on Tuesday announced resumption guidelines for the 2021 to 2022 academic session for public and private schools across the State. Schools are expected to resume on September 13, while for Model Colleges and Upgraded Schools students are to resume in batches from September 19. African Examiner in Lagos […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, says President Muhammadu Buhari is not welcomed to the Southeast. IPOB Director of Socials, Chika Edoziem, announced this in a broadcast as he ordered a sit-at-home order in protest of Buhari’s visit to Imo State . He said: “Nigeria’s president is not welcome in Imo State, […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bandits have abducted former Zonal Director of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ahmed Abdulkadir, his daughter and three others in an attack on Monday night in Bakori, Katsina State. A colleague of the ace broadcaster disclosed that Mr Abdulkadir was abducted when the bandits stormed Shema quarters, a government estate in the […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents of Alagbado in Ijaiye-Ojokoro Local Council Development Area (LCDA) have appealed to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State to rehabilitate all roads in deplorable conditions in the area. The residents made the appeal in an interview in Lagos on Tuesday. They said that all the major roads in Ojokoro area of […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hundreds of bank customers were left stranded on Tuesday as the officials of the Imo State Government shut all the banks on Bank Road in Owerri, the state capital. Our correspondent who visited the area around 9am saw hundreds of banks customers waiting at various banks. Our correspondent saw customised ribbons the […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Not less than ten people have died in Magboro Community of Ogun over a suspected Cholera outbreak. African Examiner reports that the suspected Cholera outbreak was first reported on Friday, when a resident of the community living in an uncompleted building died. Two people living with her were said to have died […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A woman, Emmanuella Anyanwu, who escaped from the hoodlums on Saturday, has said the gunmen demanded a ransom of N10m shortly before she escaped from the camp where she was kept with four others. Anyanwu, who said she was on her way from Lagos to Imo to bury her husband, stated that […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB, enforcing the unlawful sit at- home order in Southeast region of Nigeria, on Monday took laws into their hands as they set on fire a lorry loaded with motorcycle spare parts. The incident occurred at Eluagu Obukpa, in Nsukka council area of […]
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov.Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Monday threatened to re-imposed the suspended COVID-19 lockdown measures if residents fail to comply with COVID-19 protocols. Wike said this in a broadcast in Port Harcourt. He said that daily figures released from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) showed that both the transmission and death […]
