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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria’s Senate has announced it will commence the constitution amendment exercise after the Sallah break. Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege who made the announcement Wednesday, noted that the sexual harassment bill which will be sponsored, was not targeted at lecturers. The Delta-born Lawmaker made the disclosure when two groups: Women […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The quest for the Southeast geo political zone of the country to produce the next Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023 has received a boost, as a group, known as Nigerian presidential project NPP, 2023, championing the course, unveiled its plans in Enugu. African Examiner reports that the […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi has observed that the investigations of loans taken by the Federal Government could send wrong signal to the lenders. Ameachi made the observation at an investigative hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Treaties, Protocols and Agreements in Abuja. He said that the […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has announced 624 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus increased to 41, 804. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Tuesday. The health agency noted that eight more persons have died from the disease. It […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Federal Government has evacuated 289 more Nigerians stranded in the United States due to coronavirus-related border closure. An Ethiopian Airlines plane conveying the evacuees took off from New Jersey on Tuesday night, and is expected to land in Abuja on Wednesday afternoon. This is the fourth evacuation flight, which brings to 1,095 […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Patrick Iyoha, Director, Obaseki/Shaibu Movement and a member of the state Waste Management Board, has resigned his appointment. Iyoha in a letter dated July 28, addressed to Gov. Godwin Obaseki, said that his resignation was with immediate effect and due to personal reasons. Similarly, two members, including Mr Gabriel Oiboh, Chairman, […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to reopen investigation into the death of former Lagos State gubernatorial aspirant, Funsho Williams. African Examiner recalls that Williams was a Lagos gubernatorial aspirant murdered in 2006. Bode George in a statement released to […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2020
By Our Reporter (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Frantic efforts by syndicates of fake foreign businessmen who attempted to swindle the Nigerian Government through its top officials in shady crude oil deals had suffered a serious setback. The alleged fraudsters – Marco A. Ramirez, a wanted American and who has since been on a business expedition in […]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The attorney-general of Ekiti State, Wale Fapohunda, has contracted the deadly coronavirus. Fapohunda stated this via his Twitter handle. According to Fapohunda, he tested positive for the virus after a second test was carried out on him saying that he had gone on self-isolation isolation, while the solicitor-general of […]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has explained why an AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and 11 others on board crashed in the Kabba area of Kogi State, linking the accident to visibility challenge. AIB disclosed this Tuesday in its final report. The agency’s Commissioner, Mr. Akin Olateru, […]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The hope of a former Senator, Dino Melaye of returning to the 9th National Assembly (NASS) has been dashed, as an Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal Tuesday dismissed his appeal against the bye-election which declared his rival, Smart Adeyemi the winner. Melaye contested under the platform of the […]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has appealed to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to pay the allowances, tuition fees and other incentives of students on its scholarship scheme. NiDCOM Spokesperson, Gabriel Odu, in a statement quoted Mrs. Dabiri-Erewa as appealing to the NDDC to intervene […]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has declared Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July, as public holidays to mark the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, through a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, ministry of Interior, Mrs Georgina Ehuriah, on Tuesday in Abuja. […]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Abia state Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has lost its chairman, Mr. Johnson Onuigbo, who passed on Monday night during a brief illness. A source close to the family, who craved anonymity confirmed the demise of the PDP chieftain, last night, though, could not give further […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, says he is optimistic of defeating the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Eyitayo Jegede and his deputy, Hon Agboola Ajayi in the upcoming gubernatorial election in the state. Akeredolu stated this while speaking with newsmen at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2020
By Nwa Dioka (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has named some train stations in the country after Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC and other Nigerians. Also, the names of Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation and Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing were also […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2020
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three Commissioners in Governor Godwin Obaseki’s cabinet have resigned their appointments and declared support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. The Commissioners, who announced their resignation Monday, are Prince Emmanuel Odigie, Alhaji Aiwanu Oshiomhole and Osamwonyi Atu. In their letters, which was […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has dispelled rumours that he is running for the office of Nigeria’s president in 2023. Peter Obi, who was on AriseTV on Monday, stated that the report was not true and he was not planning to contest the presidential position in 2023 […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has announced that schools in the country will reopen on Tuesday, August 4, 2020 for pupils in exit classes to sit for their examination. FG after a virtual stakeholders meeting declared that students will have two weeks to prepare for the West Africa Senior School […]
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Monday, July 27th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 30-year-old tenant, Oseyemi Abiola, on Monday appeared in an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun for allegedly pushing his landlady, causing her to fracture her leg. The police charged Abiola with one count of assault, occasioning harm. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Sunday Osanyintuyi, told the court that the defendant committed the offence […]
