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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Kebbi has confirmed that the vehicle used to abduct students from Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi, belongs to a high court judge in the state. Nafi’u Abubakar, Kebbi police spokesman, stated that the van was hijacked by bandits on Birnin Yauri road. Abubakar disclosed that the police […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW) has distanced itself from the violence that claimed lives and properties with many sustaining varying degrees of injuries at Iwo Road Ibadan and equally shift the blame on the Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State for empowering Mukaila Lamidi (aka Auxilliary) who is responsible […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Gov. Nasir El’ Rufai of Kaduna State has disclosed that 99 political appointees were sacked as part of government right sizing. El-Rufai, who made the disclosure at news briefing, said that the government was yet to disengage any state civil servant in the state. The governor explained that the disengaged political appointees constituted […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka as Sunday Igboho, is set to visit Lagos for Yoruba Nation rally. African Examiner reports Yoruba nation protesters have held rallies across southwest states, including Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, and Ondo. Igboho in the past weeks expressed dissatisfaction over the continuous activities of killer herders in the […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three bodies have so far been recovered from the scene of Thursday night’s tanker explosion on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos State. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, confirmed the development in Ikeja on Friday. Our correspondent reports that […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North) of N322 million money laundering charge Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke held that the agency failed to prove the elements of the offences for which it charged the lawmaker. Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, represents Delta North […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the 2023 general elections gathers momentum, the people of Enugu East Senatorial Zone of Enugu State, have sounded a note of warning against any plan to truncate the existing zoning arrangement of the governorships position which favours the district. They threatened to resist any zone or individual who may make any […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) says the new management of the fund is not under probe by the Public Accounts Committee of the Senate over alleged N62 billion fraud. Ms Alexandra Mede, Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs, NSITF, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Mede said that the […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of the All-Progressives Congress, APC, ward seven, Igbo Eze North Council Area of Enugu State, Southeast Nigeria, Mr. Nwokedi Ugwoke has been sacked from office, over alleged anti-party activities. Following the development, a new chairman, Mr. Nduka Obeta has been sworn in as his replacement. Disclosing this to newsmen on […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ekiti on Thursday said it has arrested a 65-year-old man, Durodola Ogundele, for allegedly having canal knowledge of his stepmother. A statement by the command’s Spokesperson, Mr Sunday Abutu, in Ado-Ekiti, said Ogundele was apprehended by the Ido-Osi Divisional Headquarters of the command on Wednesday at in Ido-Osi, […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday said that the commission would prosecute a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, again. He said Kalu “will be prosecuted all over again”. Bawa disclosed this while speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has passed a vote of confidence on its 2019 governorship candidate, Sen. Ayogu Eze for being a blessing to the party since he joined her fold, as well as National Convention/ Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, governor Buni Mai Mala. In a […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have kidnapped four Chinese expatriates working on Lagos-Ibadan railway project in Ogun state. According to available information, the assailants were said to have ambushed the workers around Adeaga/Alaagba village in Odeda LGA area of the state. The gunmen were reported to have murdered the police escort guarding the expatriates who work […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Another set of female students of Federal Government Girls College have been abducted by Bandits in Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, according to Daily Trust. Details of the incident are still sketchy but there are reports that a security operative was shot dead during the operation. The attackers, who rode on motorcycles, were said […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 127 suspected traffic robbers were arrested in different parts of Lagos metropolis in three months, Commissioner of Police (CP), Hakeem Odumosu, has said. Odumosu, confirmed this in a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos by the Command’s spokesman, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi. The Commissioner of Police who addressed some officers […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was a tense atmosphere in an Ikeja High Court on Wednesday night as Francis Atuche, a former Managing Director (MD) of Bank PHB, begged Justice Lateefa Okunnu not to send him to prison following his conviction for defrauding the bank of N25.7 billion. Atuche and Ugo Anyanwu, a former Chief Financial […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hoodlums who reportedly disguised themselves as local vigilante groups in the early hours of Wednesday stormed the private residence of the immediate past Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Imo State, Chief Cyprian Akaolisa and set the building ablaze. African Examiner gathered that the multi-million naira modern building which situates at Ebenato Ward […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday June 17, visit Borno state. During the one day official visit, President Buhari would appraise the security situation and inaugurate some of the viable projects executed by the federal and state governments. Governor Babagana Zulum made this known in a special broadcast to the people of […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unknown armed men have reportedly kidnapped Rivers United FC of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, South- South Nigeria, Coach, Mr. Stanley Eguma. His Abductors are reportedly demanding N10 million as ransom for his release. Although the Rivers State owned Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) club side is yet to make any official statement […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian actor, Olanrewaju James (popularly known as Baba Ijesha), has been denied bail on Wednesday before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for alleged sexual assault and attempted rape of a minor and equally transferred the case to Lagos high court The 48-year-old man was arraigned on a four-count charge […]
