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Sunday, February 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says it will commence enforcement of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) billing cap order to ensure effective consumer protection. Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, stated this in Abuja, that the move was a more strategic approach toward intervening […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, February 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo State Government has stated that it has confiscated the Royal Palm Estate on Akachi Road, Owerri, which belongs to the state government from wife of Former Governor ,Rochas Okorocha The land in question was given to Nkechi Okorocha, Wife of Rochas Okorocha during his administration as a GovernorThe Commissioner for […]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Saturday, disclosed that the Federal Government won’t pay ransom for the release of the kidnapped students and members of staff of Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State. Lai Mohammed disclosed this when he appeared on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’. According to the minister, […]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama, says the Republic of Benin is not aspiring to be the 37th State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made this disclaimer in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr Ferdinand Nwonye, in Abuja. The ministry is reacting to […]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Anambra has arrested one Miss Rejoice Raymond, 39 and Mrs Chidi Nwafor, 80, for allegedly subjecting three minors to physical and emotional torture. The State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Haruna Mohammed disclosed this in a statement Awka. Mohammed said the suspects were arrested at No.13 Akunwanta Mbamalu […]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Niger state House of Assembly says it would modify the law relating to kidnapping, to provide for tougher punishment to people who serve as informants to bandits in the state. Mr Abdullahi Wuse, Speaker of the House, disclosed this when he led other members to commiserate with the state governor on […]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A sum of 50 million naira has been placed as a Ransom on the head of Adamawa United Football team bus driver that was abducted by suspected kidnappers along Benni- Lagos Federal Road. The Permanent Secretary, Adamawa state Ministry of Youths and Sports Alhaji Aliyu Jada, confirmed the development in Yola. He […]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Promise Idorenyin a 17 year old SS2 student of Community Secondary School Ikot Ewa in Akpabuyo Local Government Area has been arrested for the possessesion of a locally made pistol in Cross River State, and also a member of a local cult group named the Sky Queens. She was paraded alongside her […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that his leg would have been amputated if he did not travel to Niger Republic for medical care. Maina, in his affidavit to support the bail application filed before Justice Okon Abang, said a surgical operation […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ekiti State Internal Revenue Service (EKIRS), has denied locking up pupils of a private Nursery and Primary school over alleged evasion of Tax when its officials sealed off the premises The Chairman of the Service, Mr Olumuyiwa Ogunmilade made the clarifications in a statement on Friday in Ekiti. Ogunmilade said the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has enjoined the Lagos State Government to prove that Seyi Tinubu, the son of Bola Tinubu does not own or control the Lekki tollgate. George stated this in a statement he issued on Friday where he called on the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Six years after their arraignment, a Federal High Court sitting in Enugu presided over by Justice R. O. Dugbo-Oghoghorie has discharged and acquitted one Patrick Shanchi Nwokike and his wife, Mrs Rosemary Ifeoma NwokiIke of allegations of operating an illegal wonder bank. Dugbo-Oghoghorie yesterday in a 143-paged judgment held that the Economic […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chukwuma Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has announced his intention to run for the governorship of Anambra state. He declared his intention on Thursday in Awka, Anambra state capital. Soludo is expected to run on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), He said he […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Popular Islamic scholar, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, has urged the Federal Government to give bandits desiring to make peace ‘blanket amnesty’ if the current security situation must be tackled. The Islamic scholar disclosed this while addressing journalists in Minna, Niger State capital. “The Federal government should give them blanket amnesty, then if […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(African Examiner) – The Managing Director Of The Lekki Concession Company (LCC), Yomi Omomuwasan, Has Stated That He Does Not Know The Amount Of Money The Company Generates In A Month At The Tollgate. Omomuwasan Made This Revelation On A Television Programme In Nigeria Info 99.3 Fm. Asked By The Presenter What Lcc, The Company […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ekiti Government will pay N7. 2 million compensation to 24 ENDSARS petitioners in 14 days, The Commissioner for Justice, Olawale Fapohunda made this known during a visit to the panel sitting in Ado Ekiti It would be recalled that Dec. 30, 2020, the panel recommended the amount as compensation to some […]
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kano state government has empowered no fewer than 60 women and youths with different entrepreneurial skills, following the ban on street begging in the state, the State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr Zahra’u Muhammad-Umar, has said. Speaking during the presentation of the empowerment package to the beneficiaries, in […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Obunagu village in Obeagu Community, Enugu South- Council area of Enugu State, have dragged two police officers, Stanley Kwaphoor, Garba Alhassan, and one Kingsley Eze of private Estates international West Africa to the state Panel on # Police Brutality over alleged harassment and use of their positions to commit […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, February 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State stated that the State Executive Council has been dissolved and a new one would be inaugurated February 24 which will be the beginning of his second term as governor of the state. Akeredolu disclosed this at the valedictory meeting of the council in Akure saying that […]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, says that the present ethnic tensions rocking the country is a replica of the same tensions that led to the civil war in 1967. Abubakar disclosed this on Thursday when he appeared on ARISE News programme, The Morning Show. He stated that the governors […]
