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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited former Governor of Nasarawa State and serving senator, Tanko Al-Makura, and his wife, Mairo, over alleged corruption. A source at the commission disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday evening. As of the time of filing this report, the […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, the Lagos Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), says the corps has arrested 110 traffic violators on Wednesday under its Operation Thunderstorm. Ogungbemide disclosed this in a statement by the FRSC Route Commander and Public Education Officer, Mrs Olabisi Sonusi, in Lagos. He explained that the command had […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, has pleaded guilty to multimillion-dollar fraud charges as part of a plea bargain he entered with the U.S. authorities. Recall that the 37-year-old was arrested in Dubai in June 2020 and he was subsequently extradited to the United States where he has been facing charges of […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State House of Assembly on Wednesday debunked allegations that its accounts had been frozen by the Economic Financial and Crimes Commission (EFCC). Reacting to reports on social media that it’s accounts had been frozen, a statement issued by the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr Kazeem Olayanju, said that neither […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Gideon Kurada of Kaduna High Court has discharged and acquited leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shi’ites, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat. The IMN leader and his wife stood trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, among other criminal charges since December 2015, […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano, on Wednesday fixed Aug. 18 for the re-arraignment of a cleric, Abduljabbar Nasiru-Kabara for alleged blasphemy case. Nasiru-Kabara is to be charged with blasphemy, incitement, and sundry offences according to the First Information Report (FIR) from the police by the Office of the Attorney General […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen suspected to be cultists have killed and beheaded the commander of a disbanded local vigilante group codenamed OSPAC in Umudioga, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The vigilante commander identified as Alex Uwazuruike was killed on Tuesday night by the gunmen who stormed the community, even as his corpse was […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With a split decision of four-to-three, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the victory of Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship election in Ondo State. In the majority judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, four of the seven-member panel, dismissed the appeal by Eyitayo Jegede and […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICN EXAMINER) – Lai Mohamed, minister of information and culture, has cautioned Nigerians in Diaspora to desist from sponsoring secessionist groups. Mohammed disclosed this when the delegation of NIDO, UK chapter visited his office on Tuesday. The minister disclosed that it is sad that secessionist groups campaigning around the world for their causes were using […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed men suspected to be members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, militia wing have killed a Divisional Police Officer, DPO in Imo state. The deceased, a Chief Superintendent of Police, Fatmann Dooiyor was killed today Tuesday during a gun battle between the police and the gunmen. Until his death, […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara State Police Command, on Tuesday, refuted reports claiming that armed bandits abducted 60 passengers along the Sokoto-Gusau highway on July 25. A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Muhammad Shehu, however, confirmed the abduction of 11 passengers on the highway, with two of the abducted passengers already […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cleared and released the UTME results of 14,620 candidates that were hitherto under investigation, while withholding the results of 93 other candidates. Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board Head, Media and Publicity, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, on Tuesday, said the results […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday swore-in the 57 newly elected Local Government and Local Government Development Council chairmen and vice chairmen in the state. Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony at Lagos House, Ikeja, Sanwo-Olu urged the new council executives to always put the residents first in all that […]
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria will soon reopen its Consulate-General in San Francisco to provide consular services for the huge population of Nigerians residing on the West Coast of the US. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Gabriel Aduda, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on Monday that the plan […]
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than two weeks after two Soldiers were killed by unknown armed men at Adani community in Uzowani Council Area of Enugu state, Opanda village in same Local government, was on Monday, attacked by yet to be identified hoodlums who inflicted various degrees of injuries on some of the natives. African Examiner […]
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Yobe said it had arrested four suspects in connection with the killing of Hassan Abubakar, a staff of Damaturu Branch of United Bank for Africa (UBA). The Command’s Spokesman, ASP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement in Damaturu on Monday. Abdulkarim named one Umar Shaibu, 21; Tajjuddeen […]
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Another four abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Damishi, in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have regained their freedom. The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State, Rev. John Hayab, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari is now in London, the United Kingdom (UK), where he will participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021 to 2025 as well as medical check up. The president’s aircraft arrived at the Stansted International Airport, London at about 11:20pm (local time) with […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Commercial activities were grounded for hours in parts of Anambra on Monday as the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra went underway in Abuja. Mostly affected were the commercial centres of Onitsha and Nnewi where major markets were shut. African Examiner reports that vehicular movements within […]
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Monday, July 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 48 persons, including two women, on Monday appeared before a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for alleged unlawful protest and killing of a woman. The defendants, who allegedly committed the offences at 10 a.m. on July 3, at Ojota area of Lagos, are jointly facing a three-count charge […]
