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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) yesterday declared every Monday, effective August 9,2021, a sit-at-home day to press for the release of its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. But Igbo apex socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has criticized against the move, warning that it could worsen the economic situation in the region. Spokesman […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo Police command says its operatives had killed two bandits during crossfire in Njaba Local Government Area on Saturday. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abutu Yaro, confirmed this in a statement signed by the command’s Spokesman, CSP Mike Abattam, in Owerri. He said one AK47 riffle and an operational vehicle were […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenah, are planning to embark on a foreign trip for medical check-up. It was gathered that both husband and wife would use the opportunity to appraise their health status, which a source close to the Islamic leader claimed […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Veteran Nollywood Actress Racheal Oniga is dead . She died on Friday, July 30, 2021. She was scheduled to resume for another film shoot on Saturday, July 31 when the news of her death filtered into town. Stakeholders in the TV and film industry confirmed her passing away . Nollywood film director, […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army says the troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have taken custody of 91 Boko Haram/Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists and their families who surrendered recently in North East. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMNER) – A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Obiora Okonkwo, who participated in the primary election of the party, has left the party. Okonkwo, in a letter he submitted to his ward chairman in Ogidi ward 2, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, mentioned among other reasons the unending […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said it is not aware of any $875 million ammunition deal with the United States. Reports had emerged that some US lawmakers blocked the deal. The report listed the blocked proposed sale to include 12 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters accompanied by defence systems, 28 helicopter engines produced by […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Torrential rainfall on Thursday washed away the bridge linking Bauchi metropolis with Ningi local government area in the state, according to Mr Nanfan Joroh, an official of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA). He told stated that the damaged bridge was located 88 kilometers away from Bauchi, saying; “we were at the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Kano High Court, on Friday, sentenced Paul Owne to 104 imprisonment for masterminding the kidnap of nine children in the state. Justice Zuwaira Yusuf, who found the convict guilty of all the 38-count charge, sentenced him without an option of fine. African Examiner reports that the convict pleaded guilty to the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The slain Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, has been buried at Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi, Lagos. He was buried around 12.30pm in a low-key ceremony attended by his family members, including his wife, and friends. Journalists were restricted from covering some aspects of the burial. Photos taken by our correspondent were […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension and anxiety have enveloped the Enugu state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over allegations that materials for the Saturday ward congress of the party had been hijacked by some Abuja Politicians from the state, who may have already written results of the poll in the nation’s seat of power. […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Non -government organization, with bias on the fight against corruption, operating under the aegis, Global Society for Anti-Corruption (GSAC) has expressed worry, over the alarming rate of cancer worm which it said has eaten so deep into almost every facet of the Nigerian nation. While calling on all and sundry to […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari says no Nigerian parent jokes with education, as they know that if their children or wards missed the opportunity of being educated, they have missed a lot. The Nigerian leader said this at a panel session at the Global Education Summit in London, on Thursday. According to him, the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) The Federal Government has embarked on an audit of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Katsina State. Alhaji Mustapha Bara’u, NHGSFP Programme Manager in Katsina State, said during the launch of the exercise on Thursday that the enumeration targeted 833,957 pupils across 2,777 public primary schools in the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of its COVID- 19 response intervention in helping vulnerable Communities protect themselves against the spread of the deadly novel disease, the Heineken Foundation Africa, has extended its partnership with WaterAid to support the second phase of the Scale-Up Hygiene project in Enugu State, initially launched by WaterAid Nigeria last year. […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL), an NGO, says Kwara is a hot spot for human trafficking because of the state’s geographical. Mr Oyedeji Olufemi, the Kwara Coordinator of NACTAL, said this on Thursday in Ilorin during a stepdown training on Countering Trafficking in Persons (CTIP). According to him, […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
…Saying We Are Dying (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Retirees of various parastatals in Enugu State, South East Nigeria, have send save our Soul (SOS) on Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to graciously direct the commencement of payment of their entitlements in order to save them from untimely death. They said they have been struggling to have even one […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Saturday’s ward congresses to elect party executives will hold across the country on as scheduled. The party, in a statement on Thursday by Secretary of CECPC, Senator John Akpanudoedehe in Abuja, said the July 31 date […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINBER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, says it won’t allow its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, remain in custody till October. It could be recalled that Justice Binta Nyako of an Abuja Federal High Court had adjourned Kanu’s trial till October 21, 2021. The judge gave the ruling because of the inability of the […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) seized 124 assorted items worth N133 million in Kebbi between January and June. The Area Comptroller, Kebbi Area Command, Hafiz Kalla, made this known on Thursday in Birnin Kebbi while briefing newsmen on the activities of the command during the period. “The command made 124 seizures of […]
