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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), on Thursday, destroyed over 6,000 expired and substandard imported tyres confiscated in Port Harcourt, Rivers. Supervising the destruction in Enugu, Mr Obinna Manafa, the Director, Inspectorate and Compliance Directorate of SON, said that the destruction was to prevent access of such tyres into the markets and […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the automatic promotion of primary five and six pupils to Junior Secondary School (JSS) by Edo Government. Mr Victor Osehobo, the state APC Assistant Publicity Secretary said this in a statement in Benin on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has advised popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, not to take laws into his hands but allow constituted authorities including the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to take charge of the security challenges in the state. The monarch disclosed this when he appeared […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government says plans are set to start implementing the restriction of trucks and long vehicles to night operations on certain routes. The state said that the decision was as a result of traffic menace and fatalities caused by articulated vehicles on roads in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other agencies to probe the tenure of the sacked service chiefs for human rights abuses and extra judicial killings. President Buhari had sacked the service chiefs after many Nigerians have agitated for their sack. Fayose took to his […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has disowned a recent award of excellence bestowed on the Awgu Council Area Chairman of the state, Chief Pedro Nwankwo, with the name of the organization, describing it as fake and fraudulent. It made it clear that those behind the said controversial award […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, says 70 lockup shops have been destroyed by fire in Alade Market in Somolu He added that goods worth millions of Naira were also damaged by the inferno. According to him, the Agency received distress calls on Tuesday at 1.05 a.m. […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government inaugurated 20,000 Extended Special Public Works (SPW) Programme in Lagos state. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, made this known in Lagos during the inauguration of the Extended SPW Programme of the 774,000 jobs in the country. Fashola, represented by the ministry’s Head of Works in […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing new service chiefs for the country. The governor made this known on Tuesday in Port Harcourt in a statement by Mr Paulinus Nsirim, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications. He noted that although the appointments came late, the president should […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that the Service Chiefs have resigned their appointments and thus proceeded on retirement from service. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in Abuja. The statement says those retired are the […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Examination Council (NECO) has fixed a new date for the senior secondary school certificate examination for external candidates. The council stated that due to candidates pleas it has extended the registration process . According to NECO, the examination which earlier scheduled to commerce on Monday 1st February 2021 and end […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged the Council of Works to call on governments at all levels to enforce the minimum 45.72 meters right of way regulation on all highways. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, said this in an interview in Abuja. Kazeem […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A house belonging to Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho in Soka, Ibadan has reportedly been razed by suspected arsonists. The fire began around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The incident occurs days after Mr Igboho led his followers and aggrieved residents to Igangan in Ibarapa area of Oyo […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has threatened to close down any National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp across Nigeria that fails to comply with all the COVID-19 protocols. The Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Sunday Dare, who made the disclosure at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 national briefing on Monday in […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has disclosed that four Nigerians had tested positive of the United Kingdom (UK) COVID-19 strain. Our correspondent reports that the UK COVID-19 strain is highly contagious and deadly. Speaking on Monday in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, ), […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has imposed dusk to dawn curfew in 10 council areas in Imo to check further breakdown of laws in Orlu Local Government and other affected areas. The governor said in Owerri on Monday that the curfew would hold between 6am and 6pm daily till further notice. This […]
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on political matters, Babafemi Ojudu, has revealed how national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, held a secret meeting with Sunday Igboho in 2009. African Examiner recalls that Igboho, whose real name is Sunday Adeyemo, has been in the news recently over the […]
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria, (ISPON), has inducted the Enugu state Caretaker Committee Chairman of the ruling All progressive Congress APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, as a fellow of the body which is charged with the regulation of safety management in Nigeria. Nwoye, is also the Executive Director of Opeans Nigeria […]
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said military and political leaders are addressing security challenges in the South-West. He pleaded with Nigerians and different ethnic groups to “lower the temperature.” He said since the beginning of the year, Armed Forces have neutralised 158 criminal elements across the country. He […]
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State House of Assembly has tasked road safety authorities in the state to take measures to forestall recurrence of Saturday’s road accident in Akungba Akoko community. Eight persons lost their lives in the accident which occurred in front of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA). Mr Bamidele Oloyelogun, the […]
