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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Thursday, urged the Federal Government to provide adequate funds for purchase and administration of COVID-19 vaccine in the country. The upper chamber equally directed its Committees on Health and Primary Health Care to invite the Ministry of Health and the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to present to it […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been carted back to Nigeria preparing to face his ongoing money laundering trial. African Examiner recalls that security operatives of the Nigerian Intelligence Service and anti-corruption agents, on Monday evening, nabbed Abdulrasheed Maina in Niger republic. Maina failed repeatedly […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of Yenagoa Local Government, Chief Nimizuo Urouoaye, on Thursday bemoaned the takeover of the collection of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the council area by the Bayelsa government. Urouoaye spoke at the Yenagoa Local Government Secretariat during the citizen’s input towards the preparation of the council’s 2021 budget and briefing […]
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chinese expatriate, kidnapped in Ekiti state last week during which a policeman was killed, has been released. NAN reports that the expatriate, one of the contractors engaged by the Ekiti State government to construct the new Ado Ekiti-Iyin Ekiti road, was abducted last Friday at the site by gunmen who also […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says that the warning by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 against Christmas carols to prevent a second wave of the virus is insensitive. This was made known by the Vice-Chairman (Northern region) of the body, Rev. John Hayab on Wednesday. African Examiner reports that […]
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, says that the military is overwhelmed stressing the need for local communities to be involved in the fight against insurgency. Fayemi, who also doubles as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), disclosed this when he and some governors paid a visit to Babagana Zulum, […]
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state has sacked the political appointees he employed from Ivo local government area, where the former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim comes hails from. African Examiner reports that the governor and the former senate president have been at loggerheads after Governor Umahi defected from the People’s Democratic […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has announced 122 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday. The public health Agency stated that the new infection were reported from 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Senate President and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, has written an open letter to President Buhari saying Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State intends to kill him and other political leaders in Ebonyi State. Anyim stated that Gov Umahi is after their lives because he and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A renewed bloody cult clash has escalated in two Communities of Ezza North and South Council areas of Ebonyi state, Southeast Nigeria, claiming four Lives, and leaving many with various degrees of injuries. The communities, namely Oriuzor and Onueke, have been thrown into tension since Monday when the clash between two rival […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
The International Press Centre (IPC), a frontline media development organization has launched a new initiative to facilitate the emergence of a corps of next generation Investigative Health Reporters. Dubbed, “Media-in-Health-Care-Accountability Project (MeHCA-P)”, the initiative is supported by the US Consulate-General, Lagos-Nigeria. The six-month project is expected to commence in December. It also seeks to enhance the […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
Incensed by the recent massacre of rice farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents, the Police Service Commission (PSC) has urged security agencies to take proactive step in ending the spate of killings in that region of Nigeria. The commission said the security agencies should quickly re-strategize and put an end to the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An NGO, MallPai Foundation, has donated relief materials to over 6,000 Internally Displaced Persons living at the new Kuchingoro IDP Camp in Abuja. Founder of the Foundation, and First Lady, Kebbi State, H.E Hajia Aisha Bagudu, while speaking in Abuja at the outreach and donation exercise to the displaced persons stated that […]
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Monday dissolved 15-year-old marriage of a cleric, Yusuf Adeniyi, over infidelity. Yusuf’s wife, Rebecca, 44, sought the dissolution of the marriage, saying that she caught him cheating on her. Rebecca claimed that she caught her 47-year-old husband with a married woman on their matrimonial […]
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 82 new infections of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Sunday. The public health agency said that the infections brought the total number of cases in the country to 67,412. Nigeria had tested […]
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. This was disclosed in a statement issued by Mr Yekini Nabena, the APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary on Sunday. Nabena said that NEC members had been invited through a […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria will now face total blackout after the collapse of the nation’s power grid. According to reports, the power grid collapsed in the early hours of Sunday. Confirming this development, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, took to his Twitter account saying that the current power outage was due to system collapse on the […]
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Monday, November 30th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has joined other Nigerians to condemn the beheading of 43 farmers by Boko Haram in Zabarmari, Borno State. According to the PDP, the action indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to ensure the safety of Nigerians. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, November 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kogi commissioner for information and communication, Kingsley Fanwo, has revealed that the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is under pressure to contest the 2023 presidential race. Fanwo took to his Twitter account on Saturday to disclose this saying that he desires of Nigerians for a great country is in consonance with […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, November 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has condemned the high rate of insecurity in the North describing the region as the worst place in the country to live. Abubakar disclosed this at the fourth quarterly meeting of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council in Abuja on Thursday saying that bandits were fast overrunning […]
