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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government’s aspiration to boost domestic utilisation of gas in Nigeria will receive a boost tomorrow as President Muhammadu Buhari performs the Flag-off of the construction of the 40-inch x 614km Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) Gas Pipeline project. The project, expected to be completed within a 24-month timeline, is a section of the […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Palace of the Oba of Benin has condemned in the strongest terms the malicious attacks on the integrity of President Muhammadu Buhari and few other respected Nigerians in a recent video trending on the social media. In the video, one Eranomigho Edegbe, claimed that he has the authority of His Royal […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has approved a downward review of the fees chargeable for services related to the Statutory Marriage under the Marriage Act CAP M6 LFN 2004 to commence from Wednesday, July 1. Mr Mohammed Manga, Director Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Interior, made this known in a statement on Monday […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Government said it has received over a million applications after opening the recruitment platform for N-Power batch C beneficiaries. The spokesperson of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Rhoda Iliya, stated this in a statement released to the press. She said: “Over 1,000,000 […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Aliyu Abubakar Musa, as his Chief Personal Security Officer (CPSO). According to a statement from the President’s Media Aide, Garba Shehu, DCP Musa, is from Nigerian Police Force Zone 5, Benin City, as his last […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen, Abuja (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After over three months of closure, the Federal Government (FG) has approved gradual reopening of schools and tertiary institutions nationwide. This is in line with another phase of relaxation of total lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Ad hoc Expert Medical Advisory Committee (EMAC) on de-escalation of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) transmission has raised the alarm of the increasing cases of the dreaded pandemic, advising government to put in place stricter enforcement measures that will help contain the spread of the virus in […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit seeking to disqualify the Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate from contesting the forthcoming governorship election in the state. The suit which has been filed since May 29, 2020 by Edobor Williams, Ugesia Godwin and Amedu […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The next lines of action in the struggle to curb the spread of Coronavirus are likely to be made public any moment from now. This follows President Muhammadu Buhari’s meeting on Monday, with members of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, led by its Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Edo State governorship election, to state any positive comment made on him by the former national chairman of his party, Adams Oshiomhole. It will be recalled that Ize-Iyamu was in […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria on Sunday recorded 490 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 24,567. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known via its Twitter handle. The NCDC said that the 490 new reported in 20 states. The centre also reported seven deaths. The […]
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Monday, June 29th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has been accused by a whistleblower, John Okupurhe, of refusing to pay him reward after exposing over $1billion government money hidden in Unity Bank Plc. Consequently, Okupurhe, has reported Mr. Malami to President Muhammadu Buhari, via a letter written by his […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mrs Florence Ajimobi, wife of late former Gov. Abiola Ajimobi, has alleged that the Oyo State Government was playing politics with the death of her husband. She made the allegation while receiving a delegation of Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF), led by Gov. Kayode Fayemi, on Sunday in Ibadan. The News Agency of […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
By Niyi Adeyi (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Governor of Oyo State who died last week Thursday, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has been buried in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Ajimobi, the first two-term Governor of the South West State of Nigeria and who until his death was the Deputy National Chairman of the ruling All […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana confirmed 311 more infections of the novel coronavirus on Sunday, increasing its total caseload to 16,742, according to the latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The update also put the number of recovered cases at 12,720, with 463 more recoveries recorded among patients under treatment. The GHS data added […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Nasir Ajanah, the Chief Judge of Kogi state, Nigeria is dead. According to TheCable, Ajanah died at the COVID-19 isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja in the early hours of Sunday, June 28, at the age of 64. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Information Officer of the state […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has dismissed reports insinuating that President Muhammadu Buhari and APC chieftain Bola Tinubu have fallen apart, following the dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on Thursday. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, condemned […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded 779 new cases of COVID-19 as its total infections hit 24,077. The figure is the highest daily tally in the country since the pandemic broke out about 4 months ago. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 779 […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole says he has accepted the decision of the former acting National Executive Council (NEC) which dissolved the National Working Committee (NWC) he led and put in place a Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Committee. Oshiomhole said this […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of the People’s Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has stated that no PDP governor is decamping to APC describing the claim made by the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, as misleading and false. Recall that Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, had, while appearing on […]
