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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, has approved the appointment of Principal Staff Officers (PSOs), Field Commanders and other key staff officers to provide the needed vigour in his command of the Nigerian Army (NA). The Director Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Etiti Ngwo Community in Enugu South Council Area of Enugu State, South- East Nigeria, have disagreed with a petition written to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, by landlords of Olympic layout, Enugu, alleging threat, demolition of properties and intimidation by the natives. African Examiner, had recently reported that Landlords of the […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command has denied claims that a 14-year-old girl was shot and killed by the police during the Yoruba Nation rally on Saturday. The police made this known in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, in Lagos, Olamuyiwa Adejobi, titled, ‘Re: Alleged killing of 14-year-old girl at […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two community leaders in Ikorodu area of Lagos State have condemned continuous estimated electricity billing by officials of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company in the area. They explained to African Examiner in separate interviews on Saturday that most electricity consumers in over 100 Communities in Ikorodu area were not metered and have […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Kaduna State ,Malam Nasir El-Rufai has said that he had to temporarily withdraw his son from the Kaduna Capital School because of kidnap threats. His son, Abubakar Sadiq was enrolled in the public school in 2019. However, the Governor told the Pidgin Service of the BBC that security reports […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A yoghurt seller, identified simply as Jumoke, has been killed by bullets reportedly fired by a security operative dispersing Yoruba Nation agitators at Ojota, Lagos State. Our correspondent, who sighted the girl’s corpse, observed that bullets had ripped open the victim’s stomach. She is said to be 14 years old. She was […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunshots have been fired by policemen present at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos as the Yoruba nation rally begins. This was after the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, addressed journalists at the venue saying no rally is allowed in Lagos. However, some Yoruba nation agitators dared the security […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos has turned rowdy as traditionalists dressed in their white attire stormed the venue of the protest. The traditionalists accompanied by other Protesters chanted “Oduduwa Nation now”, “Yoruba Nation Now”. Security Operatives teargassed the protesters but the defiant protesters have refused to back down. The traditionalists while […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation protesters have shown up at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos. The protesters gathered at the Ojota venue in their numbers when the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu was addressing journalists. The protesters lamented the rising insecurity in the southwest, they also condemned the […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ebonyi State governor Engr. David Umahi has directed the Auditor General of the State, Mr. Samuel Uduma to proceed on an indefinite suspension over alleged poor performance. A statement from the Secretary to the State government, SSG, Mr. Ugballa Kenneth, weekend said the suspension takes effect from July 1, 2021 Meanwhile, Mr […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has appointed Umar Faruq Umar II, the Emir of Katagum, Azare, in Bauchi State, as the Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho. A letter of appointment, signed by governor, which conveyed the Emir’s appointment, stated that the University would be happy to benefit […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is a heavy presence of security operatives at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos, the proposed venue of the Yoruba nation rally by separatist agitators. African Examiner gathered that men of the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Army, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps are stationed at the Park. […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police, on Thursday, arraigned a 52-year-old trader, Fatimat Busari, before an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State over her alleged failure to produce the two defendants she stood surety for. The defendant, whose house address was not given, is being tried on a one-count charge of perversion of justice. The […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government on Friday said it would shut the Ijora ramp of Eko Bridge from midnight, to be able to fix a major expansion joint undergoing rehabilitation. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola, said this during an inspection of the bridge. He said that construction works on […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command on Friday began show of force in the state to warn agitators and Yoruba nation separatists against any form of rally slated to hold in the nation’s economic capital on Saturday. Following Thursday raid of Yoruba rights activist Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho by the […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said the way bandits and Boko Haram terrorists operate is different from that of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra led by Nnamdi Kanu. Speaking to BBC Pidgin, El-Rufai stated that bandits are not calling for the break- up of Nigeria but are just […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Despite the Department of State Security (DSS) raid on residence of Yoruba Nation Agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos will go on as planned. But Lagos Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu warned Igboho and other agitators not to stage any rally in Lagos. He […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) –Fear was palpable in the air as residents of a community in Nkanu East council area of Enugu State have fled their homes following the reported invasion of the community by soldiers. The reporter’s attempts to visit the village, Agudene, were abortive as transporters avoided the area due to the soldiers’ reported presence. […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says over 60, 000 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) are yet to be claimed in its Gombe state office. Alhaji Umar Ibrahim, the state’s INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) said this in Gombe on Thursday at a news conference. Ibrahim said INEC had put in place mechanism […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Catholic priest and founder of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka, has criticized some unnamed governors for the arrest of the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The cleric did not mention any names of any governor, nor did he directly mention Kanu’s name throughout the […]
