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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Benue’s Gov. Samuel Ortom has commended President Muhammadu Buhari over his order to security operatives to shoot on sight, anyone illegally in possession AK47 rifles. Ortom gave the commendation in Makurdi when the Chairman, Governing Board, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Prof. Adamu Kyuka, paid him a courtesy visit. President Buhari on […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled Deputy Speaker of Ogun Assembly Dare Kadiri has been impeached for alleged “gross misconduct.” He represents Ijebu North State Constituency 2. Last week, no fewer than 22 lawmakers signed a petition for Kadiri’s removal. It was reported that plots to sack him thickened on Monday when an ad-hoc Committee was […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bishop Francis Wale Oke, New President, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), says his administration will make a real change to Nigeria in dire need of divine intervention. A statement from his Media Aide, Mr Kayode Oladeji, disclosed this in his acceptance speech. Oke was on Tuesday night unanimously elected as the PFN […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Mr Paul Emeziem (APC Onuimo), has announced the removal of Mr Uche Ogbuagu (APC Ikeduru) as the Majority Leader of the House. The speaker also announced that Ogbuagu would be replaced by the Member representing Owerri West, Mr Kanayo Njoku (APC ). He made […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday, ordered that seven men be remanded in Abolongo Correctional facility in Oyo, for alleged arson and murder during the Shasha market crisis . The police charged Tajudeen Oladunni, 50; Saburi Lawal, 37; Ojo Joshua, 25; Adekunle Olanrewaju, 38; Olagunju James, 24; Rasaq Yahya, […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As a way of ameliorating the sufferings of survivors of Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV), a non- governmental organization, Parent – Child Intervention Centre, PCIC, has distributed assorted food palliatives to victims in Enugu. The Executive Director of the organization, Ambassador Peggy Chukwuemeka, while presenting the items to the beneficiaries Thursday in […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to declare Benue, Taraba and Borno states no-fly zones. In view of the recent abduction of students in schools in Zamfara the federal government has declared the state a no-fly zone so that bandits operating in the state will be crushed. The […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission says no part of Nigeria has been deliberately ignored in the recent promotion of officers of the Nigeria Police Force. The Police Service Commision disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement issued by the Head, Press and Public Relations of the commission, Ikechukwu Ani. According to the statement, […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-olu, has said that his administration would not rest until they bring perpetrators of Apapa gridlock to book. Sanwo-Olu made the disclosure during the inauguration of the newly reconfigured Lekki First, Second and Abraham Adesanya Roundabouts in Lagos on Wednesday. He commended the support of the […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Osun says it has intensified manhunt to arrest gunmen who attacked travellers on the Obokun-Osogbo road at Ajebandele Village, Obokun Local Government Area of Osun. The gunmen were reported to have killed a traveller while some other passengers were kidnapped and taken into the bush. A statement issued […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Cattle and foodstuff traders have agreed to resumed foodstuff supplies to southern Nigeria, following the intervention of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi and a former aviation minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode. The traders, grouped as Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria spoke to newsmen late on Wednesday in Abuja after […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some Nigerian actors on Thursday mourned the late actor and broadcaster, Sadiq Daba, who died Wednesday, March 3, during a protracted illness. The actors took to their Instagram pages to pay tributes to the late thespian who had contributed meaningfully to the growth of the Nigerian entertainment industry. Actor Saheed Balogun said: […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Union of Shop and Distributive Employees (NUSDE), Shoprite Ring Road Mall branch, Ibadan, has urged management of the firm to pay off its workers before the change of ownership on April 1. The Chairman of the union, Mr Williams Peter, stated this in an interview on Wednesday, in Ibadan. He […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo Government has received doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for distribution in the state. This was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Osarodion Ogie, and made available to newsmen in Benin on Wednesday. According to him, the doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has extended its probe into All Progressives Congress stalwart, Bola Tinubu To this end, the EFCC has written a letter to the Code of Conduct Bureau, requesting copies of Tinubu’s asset declaration form. A copy of the letter which was published by online news medium, The […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Brotherhood of the Cross of Star (BCS), has said that the 1914 amalgamation of Nigeria, was not a mistake, but was divinely arranged by God, blaming the present insecurity challenges, inter tribal wars, agitation for secession by some races among other woes facing the country on lack of love among Nigerians. […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Association of Nigeria is shocked at comments made by popular Islamic scholar, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, that Christian soldiers were the ones killing bandits and insurgents in the country. The Christian body called Gumi to immediately withdraw the “unpatriotic and divisive utterances” credited to him in the interest of peace and […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, says he was taken to a shrine to swear a loyalty oath 24 hours before his inauguration as Deputy Governor in 1999. African Examiner recalls that Abaribe was deputy to former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu from May 29, 1999 till March 2003 […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are strong indications that Enugu state governor, Chief Ifeanyi Lawrence Ugwuanyi, may have concluded plans to reshuffle his cabinet. A source close to the administration who craved anonymity confided in African Examiner that the governor would soon announce a major cabinet shakeup, which may likely see most Commissioners and Special Advisers […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operations Unit Zone ‘B’, s has seized 180 pieces of assorted Jack knives and other items with duty paid value of N466.33 million. The Comptroller of the unit, Mr Al-Bashir Hamisu, said on Wednesday in Kaduna while briefing newsmen that the contraband was seized between Feb. […]
