Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The joy of people of Enugu Akwu-Achi Community in Oji River Council Area of Enugu State, South- East Nigeria, knew no bound on Tuesday, as one of their illustrious sons, who is a staff of Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr. Victor Chimaobi Anyaegbudike, embarked on the rehabilitation of Obodo Ukwu-Umuike-Inyi link road in […]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
…Passports Suspended For 6 Months (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has suspended the passports of 100 in-bound airline passengers who failed to take the second test of COVID-19 after arriving in the country. Mr Boss Mustapha, Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, disclosed this at the national briefing on Tuesday, in Abuja. Mustapha, also, […]
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Innocent Emmanuel, Chairman, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Plateau state chapter, has attributed the second wave of COVID-19, to poor and non-adherence to the virus’s non-pharmaceutical guidelines. Emmanuel, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Jos, said that it was evidence that places […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, December 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension has enveloped Oruku Community in Nkanu East Council area of Enugu state, South- East Nigeria, following the alleged killing of the traditional rulers of the locality, Igwe Emanuel Mbah, by operatives of the newly formed Special Weapons and Tactics Team. (SWAT). As at the time of filling this report, the area […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2020
(NAN) National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down six pharmaceutical manufacturers for non-compliance with Good manufacturing Practice (GMP). Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, director general of the Agency, said this in a statement by Mr Sayo Akintola, Resident Media Consultant, NAFDAC, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAINER) – The Police Command in Bayelsa on Monday said four members of rival cult groups died in a shootout at a wake in the early hours of Monday. Mr Asinim Butswat, a Superintendent of Police and spokesman of the Command, confirmed the development to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa. Butswat, however, […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 838 new cases of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the country. The centre announced this on its verified website on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 925,215 persons have been tested since the first confirmed case of the virus was […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Monday, December 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian House of Representatives has declared that it is unperturbed about the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to appear before it over security matters and denied sending apology over the aborted summon. The House Spokesman, Benjamin Kalu (APC-Abia), while speaking in a statement issued Monday in Abuja countered that it was […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Saturday, December 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Southeast, Nigeria, is to partner with the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), in retraining its members in the state. Acting Vice Chancellor of the Enugu state owned institution Professor Charles Eze, stated this yesterday when the leadership of the state council of the […]
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Saturday, December 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Retired Col. Olayinka Olayanju, the Commandant of the Southwest Security Network in Oyo State, otherwise known as Amotekun, has debunked a report that its operatives killed a student of the University of Ibadan last Sunday. Olayanju said in a statement issue in Ibadan on Saturday that men of the Amotekun Corps had […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, December 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lai Mohammed, minister of information, has asked Father Mathew Kukah, bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, to refrain from stoking the embers of hatred in the country. The minister disclosed this on Saturday in a statement where he highlighted that religious leaders who has never supported President Buhari should not use unproven allegations […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, December 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has stated that no fewer than 20 doctors have died in one week due to the second wave of the dreaded COVID-19 sweeping across the country. This was disclosed in a statement by the NMA Chairman, Dr. Emma Amodu in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) during a […]
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Friday, December 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Kano have warned against the sale and use of fireworks and knockouts in the state during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abdullahi Haruna, issued the warning in a statement in Kano on Thursday. He stated that the sale and use of fireworks, […]
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Friday, December 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Iheakwazu, said the mutant strain of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK has not been found in Nigeria. Iheakwazu, who made the disclosure on Thursday in Abuja during the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) briefing on COVID-19, however, advised Nigerians to stay calm and safe. […]
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Friday, December 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 1,041 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Thursday. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic last February, more than 912,114 samples had been tested by the agency. NCDC said that the […]
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Thursday, December 24th, 2020
AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has announced new travel rules for passengers coming into Nigeria from South Africa and the UK where a new variant of the virus has been discovered. The National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu made the announcement on Thursday in Abuja, during a media […]
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Thursday, December 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has cautioned churches against violating the 12am to 4am curfew imposed by the federal government, in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The governor disclosed this on Thursday while answering questions on annual cross-over services that are usually organised by churches on December […]
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Thursday, December 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19 has stated that it will soon publish the passport numbers of 100 travellers who refused to do the compulsory COVID-19 test after returning to the country. The African Examiner recalls that travellers are mandated to run the test seven days after their arrival. At its […]
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Thursday, December 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has rejoiced with the wife of the Minister of Transportation, Dame Judith Amaechi, as she turns 50 on Thursday. In a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Wednesday, the president lauded Judith for being a strong pillar of support for her husband who had […]
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Thursday, December 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has announced 1,133 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, bringing the total figure of infected persons to 80,922. NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday. Reports that more than 903,800 samples have been tested by the public health agency since the […]
