Posted by Oludare Fase
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidency has confirmed that burglars attacked the residence of the chief of staff to the president, Professor Ibrahim Gambari but were unable to get into the residence. Gambari’s residence is located within the Aso Villa area, a short distance from the State House, Abuja. Also attacked was the residence of the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The statement made by the Senior Pastor of the House on the Rock Church Lagos, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, advising his church members to get a plan B as sparked social media reactions. African Examiner writes that the cleric gave the advice on Sunday, May 9, when he spoke extensively on the state […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bandits early Monday morning, reportedly abducted Muslim worshippers who were observing Thajud (vigil) in a mosque at Jibia, Katsina State. According to residents, the numbers of those abducted are 40. An opinion leader in the town, Mallam Gide Dahiru, however, stated that the figures of those abducted at eleven, which consist of […]
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Monday, May 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has announced the release of a student of Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU), abducted on Wednesday night on the Okigwe-Uturu Road. African Examiner recalls that the student was abducted by hoodlums, along with other passengers in a Sienna Van between 7.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m. on their […]
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Sunday, May 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 28 persons have lost their lives in a boat mishap in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger. The Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency, Alhaji Ahmed Inga confirmed is in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Sunday. He said […]
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Sunday, May 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) are yet to remit over N3 trillion to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) of the Federal Government between 2014 and 2020, says the Senate. Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Sen. Solomon Adeola (APC- Lagos), made the revelation in a statement by Kayode Odunaro, his Media Adviser, on […]
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Sunday, May 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has said that he will not commiserate with Pastor Enoch Adeboye over son’s death because he did not back yoruba nation agitation. Igboho disclosed this in a video that has since gone viral on Saturday. According to Igboho, anybody of Adeboye’s […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Sunday, May 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Kogi Chapter of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Alhaji Wakili Damina, who was allegedly kidnapped on Tuesday, has been released. The state Secretary of the association, Mr Adamu Abubakar told newsmen in Lokoja on Saturday that Damina was released in Abuja late night of […]
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Sunday, May 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Apex northern socio-cultural body, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed reservations about paying money to secure abductees. The body expressed its feelings in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the Forum, Mr Emmanuel Yawe, on Saturday in Kaduna. The Forum, however, thanked Nigerians who risked their lives in the […]
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Sunday, May 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amb. Zubair Dada, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, has assured that Nigerians in the Diaspora would soon be able to vote from their countries of residence. He gave the assurance at a webinar organised by Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) on Saturday. The minister said the Federal Government was working with […]
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, on Saturday launched another attack on Odoro Ikpe Police Station, in Ini LGA of Akwa Ibom State, killing six officers on duty. It was gathered that the attack occurred in the early hours of Saturday when people were still sleeping. Our […]
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen on Friday night attacked security checkpoints and police stations in Rivers State, with no fewer than seven security operatives feared killed. The hoodlums attacked a police station along the Rumuji axis of the East-West Road in the state. Also, the Rumuji police station in Emuoha Local Government Area was also torched, […]
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Ahmed Umar, Ogun Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged passengers to always caution reckless drivers to avoid accidents and fatalities. Umar gave the advice in an interview on Friday in Ota, Ogun, while commiserating with accident victims families. He said the accident which occurred on Thursday along the […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ex-minister of women affairs, Aisha Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba is dead, the African Examiner has learnt. Reports say she died Friday at a Cairo hospital in Egypt. She was 61 years old. Alhassan contested the Taraba 2015 governorship election under the Platform of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) but lost to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 14 passengers – 11 adults and three children – were on Thursday night burnt to death in an accident around the Long Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Babatunde Akinbiyi, the spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta on Friday. African Examiner reports that […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The family of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has thanked Nigerians for the outpouring of grief and support from around the world over the death of Pastor Dare Adeboye who died on May 4 in Eket, Akwa Ibom State. African Examiner writes that president […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi is reportedly behind the sack row of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, AFRICAN EXAMINER has learnt. According to Persecondnews, the minister had sworn that Bala-Usman would not get a second term but was jolted when in January that the president […]
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is conflict in Ogba, Lagos over the alleged shooting of a motorcyclist also known as Okada rider by a police officer. A source disclosed that the unrest started yesterday when a police officer refused to pay for the service rendered to him by an Okada rider. The anonymous source stated that […]
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security operatives made a breakthrough for the first time in Imo this year as they successfully resisted and repelled an attack on Orlu Divisional Police Headquarters by unknown gunmen. The incident, which happened Thursday night, saw the joint security operatives killing about eight hoodlums in the gun duel. The Police Spokesperson in […]
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many lives were lost in an accident that occurred along Lagos -Ibadan expressway where unspecified number of persons were burnt to death. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the spokesperson for TRACE, said this at a media briefing in Abeokuta on Friday. He said the accident involved a silver Toyota RAV 4, with registration number, […]
