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Friday, August 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Prof. Ishaq Oloyede as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for another five years. Buhari also approved the reappointment of the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) Prof. Adamu Rasheed, for another five years tenure. The approval is contained in a […]
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Friday, August 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State Government has refuted claims that the state has not accessed N715 million counterpart funds for Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for year 2020 Intervention Projects. The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr Nureni Adeniran, in a statement in Ibadan affirmed that the state had paid […]
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Friday, August 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The new Enugu State Commissioner of police, Abubakar Lawal, has stressed the need for effective inter- agency collaboration /cooperation, in tackling the challenge of public security and safety in the state, saying it remains key in the fight against crime and criminality. He stated this during a familiarization tour of duty to […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) just accented to by President Muhammadu Buhari will transform the nation’s petroleum industry into a hub of business opportunities, Mallam Mele Kyari, has said. Kyari, who is the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), also said the Act will also attract huge capital globally […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has constituted a presidential delegation ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Kano for the marriage of his son, Yusuf Buhari, to Zahra Bayero, on Friday. Zahra is the daughter of Nasiru Ado Bayero, the Emir of Bichi in Kano State. A statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The ex- governor, who has been on the commission’s watch list, was intercepted at about 10 am this morning and brought to the headquarters of the EFCC at […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The family of the late Mohammed Fawehinmi on Thursday, said he died of complications from COVID-19 infection. The younger brother of the deceased, Mr Saheed Fawehinmi, who spoke on behalf of the family, disclosed this at a news briefing at his residence, Fani Kayode Street, Ikeja GRA, Lagos State. Fawehinmi said […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, held a meeting behind closed doors in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The meeting is ongoing as of the time of filing this report. Secondus arrived at Obasanjo’s Penthouse residence at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Oke […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan yesterday rejected a request by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami (SAN) to stop hearing a suit instituted against the Federal Government by Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemi(aka Sunday Igboho). Adeyemi had filed the suit challenging the invasion of his Ibadan residence […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government said it has rescued a total of 728 street beggars, hawkers and destitute persons in the last seven months, the Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Mr Olusegun Dawodu, said. He stated in a news conference in Ikeja that the 728 beggars, destitute persons and hawkers, comprising 347 […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed on Jos North Local Government Area, following the killing of commuters along Rukuba road in the area on Aug.14. In a statement issued by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Dr Makut Macham in Jos Lalong said the curfew had […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former bank staff has said his decision to quit the white collar job has proven to be a wise move in hindsight as he now earns much better. Ali Dahiru, who resigned his job in Zenith Bank and took to selling bread, says his decision has turned out to be a […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria in Anambra has called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to engage agitators in the country in a peaceful dialogue, noting that using force against them will worsen secession threats. Moses Ezedebego, the PFN chairman, made the call while addressing reporters on Tuesday in Amawbia, Awka South local […]
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Thursday, August 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger State Commissioner of Police, CP Monday Bala Kuryas, has stated that the 136 abducted Tanko Salihu Islamiyya school children Tegina, Rafi local government will soon be released. This development is coming barely two days after the Niger State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, gave the government one week […]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue says that his administration would not back down on the ongoing privatisation of some moribund government enterprises, in spite of criticisms in some quarters. Ortom told newsmen on Wednesday in Makurdi that negative narratives being churned out on the exercise were the handiwork of those he called […]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Youths of Umuejechi Nekede autonomous community in Imo have expressed worry over the life threatening landslide that cut off the community from the state capital, Owerri. The youth made their feelings known in a letter jointly signed by Kenneth Nkwanzema and Obijuru Ogbenna, Chairman and Secretary respectively and addressed to Imo Commissioner […]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has lost an estimated $50 billion worth of oil and gas industry investments in ten years as a result of stagnation in the industry caused by uncertainties created by the failure to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this on Wednesday in his remarks at a ceremony […]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA) says no fewer than 2000 people have been affected by flood within a week across the state. Dr. Mohamed Sulaiman, the Executive Secretary of the agency disclosed on Wednesday in Yola that 227 houses and 300 farmlands were also destroyed by the flood. According to […]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Wednesday filed an application before an Oyo State High Court praying to vacate the order stopping the arrest and freezing the accounts of Sunday Adeyemi, a.k.a , Sunday Igboho. African Examiner reports that the court had on Aug. 4 granted an […]
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Delta has deployed 1000 personnel to ensure maximum security in the state ahead of the Aug.21 coronation of the new Olu of Warri, Omoba Emiko. The deployment of the officers was contained in a statement issued in Warri on Wednesday by the acting Police Public Relations Officer of […]
