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Friday, February 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Indigenes of Oma- Eke village, in Eke Community, Udi council area of Enugu state, South- East Nigeria, on Thursday staged a protest in the locality over attempt by officials of the Federal government from the Ecological Trust fund (ETF) office to commission a non-executed road project in the area, describing such action […]
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Friday, February 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Suspected hoodlums on Thursday attacked the Police Divisional Headquarters in Isu, Onicha Local Government Area (LGA) of Ebonyi State, and burnt the left wing of the Station. DSP Loveth Odah, Spokesperson of Ebonyi Police Command, in a press statement in Abakaliki, said, four patrol vehicles were also burnt. “On Thursday at about […]
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Friday, February 5th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has cautioned Islamic scholars to desist from making inciting statements, which are capable of breaching peace, while preaching. Ganduje made the call on Thursday in Kano when he met with Imams of Juma’at Mosque and other Islamic clerics in the state. He reminded the clerics of […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has berated President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for not solving the Fulani herdsmen crisis terrorising the country. Ortom disclosed this during a press confrence in Makurdi after he recovered from COVID-19, as he urged President Buhari to quickly say that no Nigerian is a second class […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state Commissioner for Transport and younger brother to Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate president, Chief Mathias Ekweremadu is dead. He slumped and died today Thursday at the hollow Chambers of the state House of Assembly while defending his ministry’s budget Prior to his appointment as Commissioner by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, the […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of the immediate past service chiefs, as well as one other retired officer, to the Senate to be confirmed as non-career ambassadors-designate. It would be recalled that the former service chiefs, including Gen Abayomi G. Olonisakin (Rtd ), Lt Gen Tukur Y. Buratai (Rtd), Vice […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, by 3 months. Announcing this to State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Buhari, Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, said the decision was to allow for proper selection of a successor. According to the Minister, […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Son of the ex-Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, Faisal, has escaped to the United States of America (USA) after sneaking into the Niger Republic through one of the nation’s porous borders in Borno State. A lawyer with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Abubakar, confirmed the development […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents and business owners in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State have decried the adverse impact of the lingering electricity blackout in the area. Kafanchan town has been in darkness since Jan. 18 when Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KEDC) shut down its operations in the area after a violent protest […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has called on the Federal Government to leverage on the ECOWAS transhumance certificate protocol, to check influx of herdsmen from neighboring countries. The call was contained in a statement, jointly signed and issued by Alhaji Muhammad Kiruwa, President, and Alhaji Baba Ngelzarma, National Secretary, […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Mohammed Ovajimo, the photographer to the First Lady Aisha Buhari has died at the age of 39. Ovajimo, an indigene of Kogi died on Wednesday after a brief illness in Abuja. The news of his death was announced by the Director Information in the Office Of The First lady, Mr Suleiman […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Engr. Buba Galadima has berated the Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu for issuing eviction notice to Fulani herdsmen in Ondo forest reserve. Galadima disclosed this on Wednesday when he appeared on AIT saying that there is no law that permits […]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has debunked claims that it intends to field former President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate in 2023. There has been a rumour that some Northern APC Governors visited Jonathan and urged him to contest for the party’s ticket in 2023. Reacting, , the interim committee Chairman […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says the duty rate on cars and other vehicles will soon be reduced. Kathleen Ekekezie, Assistant Comptroller-General, Zonal Coordinator, Zone `A’ Headquarters, NCS, made the disclosure while receiving the executive members of the Lagos State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in her office in […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has urged the Federal Government to further decentralise National Identity Number (NIN) registration centres nationwide to accommodate millions of unregistered Nigerians. The Chairman of CLO in Anambra, Mr Vincent Ezekwueme, made the plea in Enugu . Ezekwueme, however, applauded the Federal Government for extending the deadline for […]
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Governors’ Forum on Tuesday said it was working with the Federal Government to make Coronavirus vaccines available in the country. The Forum’s Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, said this while delivering a lecture titled “The role of Nigeria’s state governments in recovery: responses to COVID-19 linked […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The nationwide ongoing, All Progressive Congress (APC) membership registration/revalidation exercise has turned out to be a political blessing to the Enugu state chapter of the party, as it has reunited all warring groups who have resolved to work together for the interest of the party. Chieftains of the party who have […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As new cases of the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic continues to escalate in parts of Nigeria since the inception of the second wave, the Enugu State Government has urged all residents of the area to go for test for the disease for effective prevention and possible cure. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. […]
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has extended the ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) integration exercise by eight weeks, with a new deadline of April 6. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde on Tuesday. He said the extension was […]
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Monday, February 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed the Unlawful Societies and Cultism (Prohibition) Bill 2020. The house passed the bill during the plenary session on Monday through a voice vote conducted by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. Obasa said the house had included punishment for parents of cultists found guilty of cultism […]
