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Monday, August 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos Commissioner for Health Professor Akin Abayomi has tested positive for coronavirus. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy Gbenga Omotoso announced this on Monday via his Twitter account. “Subsequent to close contact with persons feeling unwell and testing positive for the COVID-19 infection, the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has come under criticism as she called for healthcare to be improved in the country. African Examiner reports that Aisha Buhari travelled to Dubai for treatment and returned on Saturday enjoining healthcare providers to take the opportunity of the Federal Government’s N100bn credit support […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Oyo State says it has rearrested Sunday Shodipe, the alleged serial killer who escaped from detention at an Ibadan police station. The spokesman of the Oyo State Police Command, Gbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the rearrest of Shodipe to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday. The 19-year-old suspect, […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER)- The Polytechnic, Ibadan, says preparations were underway to reopen the institution several months after it was closed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Registrar of the institution, Mrs Modupe Fawale, said this in a statement issued by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Solafoye Adewole, on Sunday in Ibadan. According to […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, has spoken against the reports that he would run for the presidency in 2023 with former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu. The former speaker said in a statement issued in Abuja that the report was falsehood spread by mischief makers. The statement […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was tension and pandemonium in Enugu city, South- East Nigeria today Sunday, 23rd, August, 2020, as members of the runaway Nnamdi Kanu, led proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB, engaged the police in a bloody clash, which left scores feared dead and seriously injured . Trouble, according to […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hisbah, the Sharia law enforcement agency in Jigawa, said it had destroyed no fewer than 588 confiscated bottles of beer in Ringim Local Government Area of the state. Malam Ibrahim Dahiru, the State Commandant of Hisbah, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Sunday that the beer was destroyed […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Wife of the Nigeria’s president, Aisha Buhari, has enjoined healthcare providers to take the opportunity of the federal government’s N100 billion credit support in order to reposition the sector. She stated this while speaking after a medical trip to Dubai saying that there is a great need to transform […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 601 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 51,905. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Saturday. It said that one death was recorded in the country. The NCDC noted that till date, […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the debates on who to speak in the Nigeria Bar Association, 2020 Virtual Annual General Conference (AGC) continue to elicit controversy, Nigerians on social media are having a filled day discussing over the exclusion of Governor El-Rufai as one of the speakers in the event. Recall that the […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
By NWA Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, says criticisms against the administration of President Buhari do not change the fact that the president is working. Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, Adesina said he knows that the government is serving the country genuinely to the best of its ability saying that […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal says former President, Olusegun Obasanjo as a statesman who is still important for consultations on national issues affecting the country. The Governor, who stated this when he visited the ex-president at his home in Ogun State, stated that Nigerians will always learn from him. […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Days after military officers in Mali seized power from President Ibrahim Keita, four soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in the centre of the country. The AFP, quoting a military source, reports that an explosive device detonated when a vehicle conveying some of the military junta reached Koro, a borderline town […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB-N) has confirmed the incident in which King Air Jet ran into a fence at the General Aviation Terminal Apron of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. Mr Tunji Oketumbi, the General Manager, Public Affairs of AIB on Saturday said the incident occurred around 9:35 am on Friday, […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
Photo: LASEMA Boss, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, the Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), says an empty 40ft container has claimed two lives in an accident at Ijesha area of Lagos. Oke-Osanyintolu made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 340 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Friday, adding that four deaths were also recorded. The health agency said that with this new figure, Nigeria now has 51304 […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the final list of nominated candidates for Ondo State Governorship election scheduled for Oct. 10. Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, INEC, made the disclosure in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Okoye said that the list was […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) Authorities of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has accused the governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi led Enugu State Government of frustrating the Federal Government’s efforts towards extending its standard gauge railway project to the South East geo-political zone of the country by demolishing some of its facilities in the state. African Examiner reports […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir-El-Rufai, has reacted to the withdrawal of invitation by the Nigerian Bar Association, to speak at its conference. African Examiner has recalled that the NBA had initially enlisted the governor to speak in its upcoming inauguration but the decision was met with protests as […]
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two hundred and eight Nigerian citizens departed New Jersey for home on Thursday night in the ninth evacuation flight from the U.S. Barring any future change in plan, this is the final repatriation flight organised by the Federal Government for citizens stranded in the U.S. due to the coronavirus pandemic. It came […]
