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 […]
Posted by African Examiner
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 […]
Posted by African Examiner
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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 […]
Posted by African Examiner
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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 […]
Posted by African Examiner
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 […]
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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 […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control recorded 1,617 new cases of the CoronaVirus Disease (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Monday. The country has so far tested 1,172,234 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020 in the country. […]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra has constituted a 15-member committee to look into the boundary dispute between Aguleri and Umuleri communities in Anambra East Local Government Area. The Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Solo Chukwulobelu, disclosed this in a statement in Awka on Monday, pointing out that the committee would be […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ministry of Finance has released N10 billion to support domestic vaccines production to tackle COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) COVID-19 briefing on Monday in Abuja. Ehanire said: “The Ministry of Finance has released N10 billion […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, January 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has handed a seven day ultimatum to herdsmen to immediately vacate the Ondo forest reserves. Akeredolu who is angry concerning the criminal activities of the herdsmen in the state disclosed this on Monday in Akure, the state capital as he stated that his administration will no […]
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Monday, January 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja has intercepted 21.9kg of Cocaine. This contained in a statement signed by the NDLEA airport Commander, Mr Kabir Tsakuwa on Monday in Abuja. The statement signed by the agency’s Spokesman, Deputy Commander of Narcotics (DCN) Jonah Achema, the illicit […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, January 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has mourned the death of a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Sen Jubril Martins-Kuye. The PDP in a statement by its Ogun State Chairman, Sikirulai Ogundele, on Sunday stated that the death of the former minister was a “devastating blow below […]
