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Monday, November 16th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, says Federal Government’s earnings, from oil and non-oil sectors coupled with low revenue receipts from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), have dropped by 60 per cent, putting the nation’s economy under serious pressure. Sylva stated this after a closed-door meeting with President […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A human rights organization, under the platform of “Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has dragged a former commissioner for lands and Urban Development in Enugu state, Deacon Okey Ogbodo, before the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission ICPC, over his alleged involvement in land scandal. A petition signed by president of the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, November 16th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely two weeks after Igbo-Eze North Council area of Enugu state, South- East Nigeria, was hit by a strange sickness which claimed over 50 lives, another mysterious disease which has killed several Cows has enveloped same locality. The initial strange disease which was later discovered to be Yellow fever as announced by […]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has stated that the dreaded Boko Haram sect caused more than $6 billion worth of destruction in the state. Zulum disclosed this when he unveiled a 25-year strategic recovery plan from the mayhem caused by Boko Haram. The plan tagged: “Our Borno, Our Success’, provide […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Sunday, November 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of its capacity building initiative on climate change, Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) has trained 500 students and teachers from 63 Senior Secondary Schools in Abuja. The students and teachers who participated in the training workshop were drawn from schools across the six area councils of […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, November 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Socio cultural organization, championing the advancement of Igbo cause, under the platform of Ndigbo Royal Heritage (HIROH World wide), has identified bad leadership at all levels of government as the bane of Nigeria and Igbo nation’s. It argued that the terrible and sorry state of Nigeria’s dwindling economy and its political […]
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Saturday, November 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19 has urged Nigerians in diaspora shelve plans of coming home for the Christmas festivities. The National Coordinator of the task force, Dr Sani Aliyu, disclosed this during the weekly media briefing of the task force. According to Aliyu, this will help prevent the safety measures […]
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Saturday, November 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo of the Nigerian Army says that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu invited the military during the End SARS in Lagos to prevent total chaos since the police who are supposed to be on ground had ran away. Taiwo, the Commander, 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island disclosed this when he […]
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Friday, November 13th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) conspired to eject former President, Goodluck Jonathan from office. He disclosed this while he played host to some members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who decamped to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). According to Gov. Wike, despite taking Jonathan […]
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Friday, November 13th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 212 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country on Thursday. The NCDC made this known via its verified website. Nigeria has so far tested 697,544 persons since the first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic was announced on Feb. 27, […]
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Thursday, November 12th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 180 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Wednesday. The public health agency said that two coronavirus-complicated deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll in the […]
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Thursday, November 12th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian traders in Ghana on Wednesday called on the Nigerian government to evacuate them from Ghana. The traders, in a Save-Our-Soul letter delivered to the Chairman of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said they were seeking a secure and peaceful return to Nigeria. In a statement signed by Gabriel […]
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos (UNILAG) chapter, has lauded the Federal Government for what it said was “standing on the path of justice’’ by reinstating the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe. The union’s Chairman, Dr Dele Ashiru, gave the commendation while reacting to the development in an […]
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two frontline civic-tech Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), BudgIT Foundation and Connected Development (CODE), have jointly inaugurated a Pan-African Tracking System for all COVID-19 intervention funds in Africa. Both NGOs are committed to spearheading the advocacy for openness, transparency and accountability in public finance in the continent. The newly inaugurated tracking system is aimed […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The proposed bye election for Isi-Uzo state Constituency of Enugu state recently postponed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), following the violent #ENDSARS protest that rocked the entire nation, will still remain on hold, until policemen return to their duty posts. It would be recalled that the election earlier scheduled for […]
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Lagos on Wednesday announced the dismissal of 10 police officers for various offences. The command’s spokesperson, SP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made the disclosure in a statement he signed and released to newsmen in Lagos. According to the spokesperson, the dismissal was in a bid to promote discipline and core […]
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to boost the morale of officers and men of the Enugu state police Command so that they can return to their duty Posts, the Professor Felix Asogwa, led Institute For Peace, Conflict and Development Studies, (IPCDS), Enugu state University of Science and Technology (ESUT), has begun a 2- […]
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sanwo-Olu has disclosed plans to review the pension law which allows for payment of pension and other entitlements to former governors and their deputies in Lagos State. He made this known on Tuesday while he presented the 2021 budget to the Lagos State House of Assembly at Alausa Ikeja. According to Sanwo-Olu, […]
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Monday, November 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger has tested positive for COVID-19, an aide disclosed in a statement on Monday in Minna. Chief Press Secretary to Bello, Mary Noel-Berje, who signed the statement, said that the governor’s sample was taken for test, and the result came positive. Noel-Berje said the governor made this known […]
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Monday, November 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a directive which will allow members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to be enrolled into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). This was disclosed on Monday by the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier-General, Shuaibu Ibrahim, at a press briefing in Abuja. Ibrahim stated that the NYSC mobilises […]
