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Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, for giving Fulani in Oyo State an ultimatum to exit the state. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, was quoted as saying this during an interview According […]
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Featured, Imo, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has threatened a second total lockdown, if residents of the state continue to disregard COVID-19 safety protocols. The governor issued the threat in a statewide broadcast in Owerri late on Friday night. Uzodinma, who frowned at nonchalance of Imo residents towards established safety protocols, said that four […]
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Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, News From The State, Property
Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, has promised a conducive business climate for investors participating in the mass housing initiative of his administration to bridge the huge shelter gap. Sanwo-Olu made the pledge while inaugurating the 252 units of the first environment friendly estate in Idale in Badagry Local Government Area […]
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has said that the organisation is set to clamp down on wanted traffic offenders who have yet to effect payment of fines. In a statement issued by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, Oyeyemi said […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, has sparked reactions on social media as he gives reason why the pigeons refused to fly during the Armed Forces Remembrance Day ceremony. African Examiner reports that the pigeons did not fly after President Buhari released them from the cage. […]
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 2,000 people across 20 local governments in Oyo State have benefitted from the empowerment programme organised by Sen. Teslim Folarin (APC-Oyo Central). The beneficiaries, who stormed Ilaji Hotels and Sports Resorts in Ibadan on Friday, went home with different equipment and items. The empowerment programme attracted prominent lawmakers, APC […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of the African Development Bank, AfDB, Akinwumi Adesina, has kicked at the situation where Nigerians pay high taxes and still provide basic infrastructure for themselves. The former Nigeria’s minister of agriculture disclosed this on Thursday at the first national tax dialogue organized by the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS). Adesina satted […]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two time presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has reacted after his son, Bolu Okupe, disclosed that he is an homosexual. African Examiner reports that Bolu Okupe had made a shocking revelation saying that he is gay. He took to his social media account on Wednesday to announce this. Reacting, Doyin Okupe, stated […]
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Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News From The State
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly posted Enugu state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Ndatsu Aliyu, has formally assume office He takes over from former CP, Ahmad Abdulrahman, who is proceeding to National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPS), Kuru-Jos, Plateau State on Executive Management Course. According to the state police public relations officer PPRO, Daniel […]
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Crime Watch, Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, News, News From The State
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested four police officers who allegedly harassed and extorted N70,000 from a 16-year-old student on Wednesday at NGAB Junction, Isheri Area of Lagos State. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, stated this in a statement signed on Friday by the […]
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Bayelsa, Featured, Latest Headlines, Maritime, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) declared on Friday that reported leaks near its operational areas at Funiwa offshore facilities off the Atlantic coast was not from its facilities and pledged to support regulators in tracing the source. The fishermen around the Atlantic Ocean coastline reported an oil leak suspected to be from the […]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Coronavirus infections in Nigeria have continued to surge as the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 1,964 new cases, bringing the total number of infections to 116,655. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Thursday. The country on Jan. 21 marked a new single-day increase in COVID-19 cases and […]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, says that the agitation for restructuring won’t solve the problems in the country. Jonathan disclosed this on Thursday while speaking at the 18th Edition of Daily Trust Dialogue on restructuring in Abuja. According to him, Nigerians should first of all restructure their mindset against nepotism, ethnic […]
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Friday, January 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the re-appointment of Hadiza Bala Usman as Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for another five-year tenure. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, who confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, revealed that the president also approved the reconstitution of the Non-Executive Board of […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described out-going US president, Donald Trump a “racist”, “xenophobe” and “monster”. Soyinka disclosed this on Wednesday when he appeared on Arise Television saying that he has forgiven Americans for electing Trump. The elder statesman who famously tore his green card to shreds after the emergence of […]
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Agriculture, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An agrometeorologist, Dr Adewale Adetayo, has recommended mitigation and adaptation strategies as part of measures to reduce the effects of climate change on the environment. Adetayo, who works at the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR &T), Ibadan, made the recommendation in an interview on Thursday in Ibadan. He said mitigation […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Onitsha Community in Anambra has commenced the training of no fewer than 100 men and women as members of the Neighborhood Security Watch. The training which began on Thursday at the Ime Obi (Palace) was sponsored by the Chairman of Onitsha North Local Government (LGA). Declaring the event open, Mba explained […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, January 21st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A cross section of Nigerians on Twitter are criticising the plan of the government to lift 20 million Nigerian out of poverty in two years through a cash transfer scheme. African Examiner reports that Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) on Tuesday during the flag-off of the cash transfer scheme called Rapid Response […]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara Government has denied an online media report that it gave Hilux trucks to “repentant bandits’’ in the state. Addressing journalists in his office on Tuesday, the state Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Abubakar Dauran, described the report as “unfounded’’. “This is certainly untrue, a fabrication of the writer […]
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,301 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 113,305. The NCDC disclosed figures on Tuesday on its official website. Reports say 1,191,866 people have so far been tested since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 […]
