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Monday, June 8th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2023 general election, the Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Church, His Grace, Most Rev. (Dr) E mmanuel Chukwuma, has urged political parties and electorates to look the way of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction. He said for the interest of justice, equity and […]
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Monday, June 8th, 2020
((AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state has tested positive for COVID-19. The commissioner of Information, John Okiyi Kalu, stated this in a statement on Monday adding that the governor has gone into isolation and the deputy is now in charge of state’s affairs pending when the governor resumes. “Recall that on Saturday, […]
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Sunday, June 7th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to avert further loss of human lives, Ebonyi state Governor, David Nweze Umahi, has ordered the Nigeria Army, Police and other security organization in the state to confiscate a disputed land between two communities of Isinkwo-Ukawu and Abaomege in Onicha council Area of the […]
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Sunday, June 7th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A federal high court sitting in Owerri, southeast, Nigeria, presided over by Justice Tijjani Garba Ringim, weekend restrained the probe panel set up by the Ebonyi government from probing the former Secretary to the State Government, (SSG), Professor Bernard Odoh. The development followed an ex-parte motion filed by the plaintiff against […]
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Saturday, June 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ahmed Jaha (APC-Borno), has regretted the comments he made at the Thursday’s plenary, apologising to Nigerians, especially women. Jaha, at an interview with journalists on Saturday in Abuja, recalled his comments at the debate that women should cultivate a habit of proper dressing to […]
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Saturday, June 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, said on Saturday any person convicted for sexual offences including rape in any part of the state would not enjoy his prerogative of mercy. The governor, who made the declaration in Ado Ekiti while signing the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Child Victims of Sexual Violence Bill […]
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Saturday, June 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker, Lagos House of Assembly, on Saturday appeared before state assembly panel of enquiry on the corruption allegations leveled against him by an online medium. Obasa told the panel that the allegations were untrue and that it was the handi work of his enemies. The speaker appeared before the […]
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Saturday, June 6th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the alarming rate of rape cases, a non-governmental and civil society organization, (NGO), Women Aid Collective, (WACOL), has urged the Inspector General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, to declare a nationwide state of emergency on sexual violence in Nigeria. Founder of (WACOL) Professor Joy Ezeilo made the call in Enugu […]
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Saturday, June 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the clamour for Diaspora voting intensifies, Hon. Tolulope Akande-Shadipe, Chairperson, House of Representatives Committee on Diaspora Affairs has assured Nigerians living abroad that the committee is working on it. Akande-Shadipe who led her committee on oversight function to Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) in Abuja on […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved reappointment of Prof. Umar Danbatta as Executive Vice Chairman (EVC), Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC). Pantami made the disclosure in a statement signed by Mrs Uwa Suleiman, spokesperson for the ministry, on Friday in Abuja. The minister […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Adeyeye Babatunde, ”M” of Kajola St., Shagamu, Ogun State, for kissing his three-year old step sister in a viral video. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, in a statement on Friday, said that Babatunde was a Botany student of Lagos […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – More troubles have emerged from embattled governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki as a suit has been filed against him over allegations of certificate forgery. In a suit filed before a federal high court in Abuja, Edobor Williams, Ugbesia Abudu Godwin and Amedu Dauda Anakhu accused the governor of forging his Bachelor […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations has completed plans to carve out a new territory from Nigeria and Republic of Cameroon by July 10. The creation of the new territory to be known as United Nations Organisation State of Cameroon may see Nigeria losing 24 local councils, by way of ceding, to the new country. […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A fire outbreak has been reported near the Aso Rock villa chapel on Thursday. The senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, who confirmed this incident, described it as a “minor” fire outbreak stressing that the fire was triggered by an electrical spark. Shehu said: “The incident, […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, has disclosed that the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will now be completed in the first quarter of 2022, along with the Second Niger Bridge and the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway. He stated this when speaking to Channels TV news on Thursday stressing that the delay was due to the coronavirus pandemic […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Development Bank Board has disclosed that it has commissioned an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption against its head, Akinwumi Adesina. The former Nigerian agriculture minister, who is seeking re-election in August, has denied any wrongdoing and was initially cleared of all the allegations by an internal investigation. However, the […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) The chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has stated a woman who was advertised for sale on Facebook in Lebanon has refused to return home. According to report, the woman was being sold for $1,000 (£793) and she was rescued by the Lebanese authorities and taken to the […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Latter Rain Assembly President, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has stated that he is still an active politician in Nigeria. Speaking in an Instagram Live chat with Chude Jideonwo, the renowned clergyman stressed that he is still actively involved in politics and that in the 2011 elections, he was “pressured to run with Atiku.” […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is not in charge of Nigeria. He stated this during an interview on PlusTv Africa while reacting to an open letter written by retired colonel and former Military Administrator of Kaduna, Umar Dangiwa, who accused the president of only appointing only people […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three brothers have been arrested in connection with the murder of a woman in Abuja, according to Mr Frank Mba, Public Relations of the Police Force. Mba, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said that the suspects, from Isiekenesi, Ideato Local Government in Imo, are helping Police investigation into the May […]
