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Sunday, April 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, on Saturday ordered the dismantling of all illegal police road blocks on Lagos-Badagry expressway. The state police command’s Spokesperson, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement that Odumosu gave the directive on Friday while addressing Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers in […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, April 11th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the continued economic and political woes bedeviling the Southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria, occasioned by alleged marginalization of the region by the central government, a socio-cultural group, Igbo National Council (INC), has declared that it’s time for the region to rise up and take its destiny in her own hand. […]
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Saturday, April 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An accounting student of the Lagos State University, LASU, Olowa Kehinde, was at the weekend abducted with others along the Warri-Benin Highway while coming back to Lagos Speaking in an interview , the Public Relations Officer of the LASU Student Union Government, Adams Zaenab Olawunmi, said immediately the leadership of the union […]
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Saturday, April 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER), – Oba Adetutu Ajayi , the traditional ruler of Ewu Ekiti in Ilejemeje Local Government Area of Ekiti State, has been shot by hoodlum African Examiner reports that the traditional ruler was shot on Friday night on his way to a neighboring community, Ayetoro Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of the state. […]
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Saturday, April 10th, 2021
………. Recovers Stolen, Incriminating Items. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Determined to rid the State of criminal elements and their activities, the Enugu state police Command have arrested three male criminal suspects involved in offences ranging from attempted murder, armed robbery and receiving of stolen property. The arrest according to the state police public Relations officer, PPRO, […]
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Saturday, April 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced additional 71 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 163,652. The NCDC, on its official Twitter handle on Friday, also disclosed that the country added one COVID-19 related death while fatalities stood at 2,059. The country’s […]
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Saturday, April 10th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government on Friday announced further easing of restrictions on social and event centres across the state with immediate effect. Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs Uzamat Akinbile Yusuff and the Director-General, Lagos State Safety Commission, Mr Lanre Mojola made the announcement. According to Majola, the Governor of Lagos […]
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Friday, April 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, on Thursday, narrated how he escaped death in the plane crash that claimed the life of the former Military administrator of the state, late Con. Abdullahi Wase, and some other state government officials. The governor narrated his experience when he received on a courtesy visit, the […]
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Friday, April 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has described the death of 19-year-old Richard Okorogheye in London as very sad and painful. Dabiri-Erewa said this in a statement by NiDCOM’s Head, Media and Public Relations, Mr Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Thursday in Abuja. The chairman said that the circumstances of […]
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Friday, April 9th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMIENR) – The Nigerian Army has confirmed the killing of one officer and 10 soldiers who are on stabilisation operation in Benue State by yet to be identified criminals. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Yerima said the troops were initially declared missing […]
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Thursday, April 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A man, identified as Ahmed Saka, has set ablaze the room of his ex-lover, Mutiat Oladele, in Ibadan, leading to the death of the woman and her two children. African Examiner reports that the incident happened on Wednesday night at Shogoye, Idi-Arere area of Ibadan, Oyo State. It was gathered that Mutiat […]
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Thursday, April 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The traditional ruler of Umuezie community in Nguru in Aboh Mbaise Council Area of Imo Eze Charles Iroegbu ànd seven members of his cabinet have been kidnapped by gunmen. Eze Iroegbu was abducted around 6pm alongside his cabinet members on Tuesday. It was learnt the monarch and his cabinet members were abducted […]
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Thursday, April 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said he did not institute any legal action on the citizenship of the former Vice President of Nigeria Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Malami said this in a statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, in Abuja on […]
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 85 fleeing inmates have returned to Owerri Correctional Centre which was attacked in the early hours of Monday by unknown gunmen. Our correspondent recalls that 1,884 inmates were freed when the gunmen struck the Correctional Centre and the Imo State Police Command headquarters in Owerri, respectively. The attackers who […]
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lecturers at The Polytechnic, Ibadan have shunned the nationwide industrial action embarked upon the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics. The union had, on Tuesday, declared an indefinite strike to demand the implementation of a new salary scheme for polytechnic lecturers. Part of ASUP’s demands are implementation of a new salary scale for […]
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), Edo chapter, on Tuesday, shunned the nationwide strike directed by the national body. The union based its decision to shun the industrial action on what it called ”the 2015 experience”. A NAN correspondent, who visited some of the courts in Benin, observed that workers were […]
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Biafra Nations League, BNL has asked the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma to resign immediately following the attacks on the state police headquarters and the correctional centre. The group said that the Governor found himself in the current situation after he invited the military to attack members of the Indigenous People […]
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has vehemently denied that its security outfit, Eastern Security Network (ESN), was responsible for the attack on the Imo State police headquarters and the Nigeria Correctional Centre both in Owerri, the state capital on Monday. IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful, in a statement on Monday insisted that […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, April 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security agencies have started a massive hunt for 1,884 inmates of Owerri Custodial Centre, Imo State, who escaped when the facility was attacked by gunmen on Monday morning. Six escaped inmates willingly returned to the facility and 35 others did not escape during the attack. The attackers invaded the facility at about […]
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Monday, April 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Parents of the abducted students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Kaduna state says they are ready to negotiate with bandits to secure the release of their wards. They disclosed this during a press briefing in Kaduna on Monday, saying that “we cannot sit and do nothing” after governor of […]
