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Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has okayed the sum of N1 billion for the forensic audit of the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, made this known when he briefed State House Correspondents on the outcome of Wednesday’s virtual cabinet meeting chaired by […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 252 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country. The figure is one of the lowest numbers recorded in months. The NCDC, announced the new figure on its official twitter handle on Tuesday. The public health agency said that the 252 […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation, has narrated his own side of the story concerning the viral video where he verbally attacked a journalist. In the video, the ex-minister had shouted at Eyo Charles, a reporter of Daily Trust before ending a press briefing in Calabar. The reporter had […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Deputy Governor of the Centra Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Obadiah Mailafia, has resigned from his appointment at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPPS. The former Deputy governor of the Central Bank has been a Directing Staff of the Federal Government owned Institute. This development […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Education has confirmed that Chief John Momoh, Chairman of Channels Television, has been named as the acting Chairman of the Governing Council, University of Lagos, UNILAG. Mr Momoh will take over from Dr. Wale Babalakin who had been asked to recuse himself along with the University’s embattled Vice-Chancellor, […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A clergyman, Adebayo Bamidele, prayed a Customary Court sitting in Mapo, Ibadan to dissolve his 17-year-old marriage to his wife, Felicia on the grounds that she ruined his calling. Bamidele told the court on Tuesday that his estranged wife indulged in acts that were ruining his spiritual calling. “She makes damaging allegations against me […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported increase in COVID-19 cases to 52,548 with detection of 321 fresh infections in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Monday. It said that the number of people with pneumonia-causing coronavirus, who have died in the country, […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Talks between West African mediators and Mali’s military coup leaders ended on Monday after three days of discussions without any decision on the make-up of a transitional government, a junta spokesman said. West Africa’s regional bloc dispatched negotiators to Mali at the weekend in a bid to reverse President Ibrahim Keita’s removal […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate of the University of Lagos has elected Prof. Folasade Ogunsola as Acting Vice Chancellor. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development Services) polled 135 votes compared to Prof. Ben Oghojafor’s 31 votes. It was gathered one vote was declared void. A total of 167 Professors were at the Senate meeting. Oghojafor is the […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Grade I Area Court, Mpape, Abuja, on Monday sentenced an unemployed man, Aminu Ali to three months imprisonment for attempting to steal a car wash equipment. The Judge, Salihu Ibrahim, sentenced Ali after he pleaded guilty to attempted theft. Ibrahim, however, gave the convict an option of fine of N10,000. Earlier, […]
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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 […]
