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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the current security challenges facing Nigeria continues unabated, the Inspector-General of Police IGP, Adamu Muhammad has called on residents of Southeast, geo political zone of the country to embrace community policing as solution to the ugly development. He made the call in Enugu during a mass sensitization workshop of the members […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife in Osun, has fixed March 15 to March 19 as the new dates for its 2020 post UTME online screening. Mr Olarewaju Abiodun, the university Public Relations Officer, made this known on Tuesday in a statement in Ile-Ife. Abiodun said, “all candidates that registered […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The AstraZeneca – Oxford Covid-19 vaccines have arrived in Nigeria. The vaccines arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe international Airport, Abuja around noon on Tuesday, onboard an Emirates airline. At the airport to receive the vaccines were the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 and Secretary General to the Federation, Mr […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has endorsed the recruitment of 500 doctors, pharmacists, laboratory scientists and other allied health workers as part of measures to improve healthcare delivery in the state. The Kano State Commissioner for Health, Dr Aminu Tsanyawa, made the disclosure on Tuesday in Kano during the presentation of […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has counseled local government chairmen to set up vigilance groups in their respective councils to tackle insecurity in the state. Akeredolu, who gave the advice on Tuesday in Akure, during a meeting with the chairmen of the 18 local government areas of the state suggested the […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) and Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority (LASPPPA) have begun massive enforcement to prevent building collapse and illegal developments. This was disclosed by Mr Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, Spokesman for LASBCA, said the enforcement was to prevent haphazard construction from preliminary stages, and to stop distressed buildings […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun government on Tuesday deployed 10 patrol vans and 20 motorcycles in the Yewa axis of the state as part of efforts to check the herders/farmers’ crisis in the area. Governor Dapo Abiodun, at the vehicle presentation ceremony in Abeokuta, said the measure is a fulfilment of his promise to return […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Anambra House of Assembly has shown concern over the alarming rate of crimes in the state and called for urgent measures to address the menace. Mr Noble Igwe, representing Ogbaru 1 Constituency, while speaking on a matter of urgent public importance, on Tuesday, lamented that the rate of crime had triggered […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun, on Tuesday sentenced a 39 year-old labourer, Mohammed Ibrahim, to death by hanging for murder of a two-year-old baby. Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, also found the convict guilty for attempt to kill one Rabi Yakubu, and accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment. The convict was tried […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A morning fire touched part of the Nigerian Army Headquarters complex in Abuja on Tuesday but was later brought under control and prevented from escalating. Brigadier General Mohammed Yerimah, the Nigerian Army Director of Public Relations, disclosed this in a statement. He stated that the fire was from faulty electrical installations. The […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has tasked the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to develop a robust scheme for the protection of schools across the country. This, it said, was born out of its resolve to ensure the safety of children everywhere, especially within the school environment, from the incessant attacks by […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Osun on Monday announced the arrest of a seven-man armed robbery gang terrorizing Osogbo and its environs. The Osun Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr Olawale Olokode, while parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters in Osogbo, said the suspects were arrested when a victim reported an attack on […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed “tremendous joy” over release of abducted female students of Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe, in Zamfara. While reacting to the development in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday, the President said: “I join the families and people of Zamfara in […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some southern state governments and farmers have dismissed the blockade by northern food suppliers, saying it is an opportunity for the South to boost its food production capacity. Officials of the states including Lagos, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Enugu and Ondo in separate interviews on Monday explained their actions to ensure […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo will pick dates they will be vaccinated publicly, with the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which is about four million doses, expected to arrive in Nigeria on Tuesday. The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this […]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara says no ransome was paid for the release of the school girls .Repentant bandits in the state assisted security agencies in the operation that led to the rescue of Jangebe school girls. The governor, who received the girls at about 5a.m on Tuesday in Gusau, said the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Controversial Islamic Scholar, Ahmad Gumi on Monday said that the abduction of school students by bandits is a lesser evil. Gumi disclosed this when he featured on BBC Pidgin saying that it is better for school children to be abducted than the residents of villages to be killed. He said: Gumi: “Kidnapping […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 10 policemen of the Rapid Response Squad in Bauchi State’s Governor Bala Mohammed motorcade were involved in a road accident on Monday. The accident occurred while Governor Mohammed was inspecting a 60- kilometer Burga-Yelwan Duguri road project in Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area (LGA) currently being constructed by the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded a public apology from Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe over his negative utterances against Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Mr Yekini Nabena, APC Acting Deputy National Publicity Secretary made the demand in a statement on Monday in Abuja, while reacting to the development. Abaribe is the Minority […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, March 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The minister of state for health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora, has stated that Nigerians who have received COVID-19 vaccines abroad will also perform the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on arrival in the country. Mamora made this known when he appeared on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Monday, saying that getting the vaccine […]
