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Thursday, May 10th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former acting National Publicity Secretary of the opposition People’s Democratic Party PDP, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, has resigned from the party. Adeyeye announced his resignation Thursday after a meeting with his loyalists and supporters at his campaign office in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The former PDP leader was among the aspirants […]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The May 30th, Sit-at-home call by the Ralph Uwazurike led Movement for Actualization of Sovereign state of Biafra, MASSOB, and proscribed indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has suffered a setback, as another foremost group in the struggle, Biafra Zionists Federation, BZF, has asked Igbos to ignore the call and […]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2018
IBADAN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan has dismissed a suit challenging the conduct of Local Government Election this Saturday – May 12, 2018 in Oyo State, South West Nigeria Justice Joyce Abdulmaleek Abdulmaleek Thursday after arguments by the plaintiffs and defendants Counsels ruled that the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some prominent members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), who defected from the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the wake of the 2015 general election, have declared that the victory of the party in the 2019 general elections is tied to addressing their grievances. Leader of the group, Alhaji […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos Magistrate Court in Yaba, Wednesday ordered the remand of a suspect who is a legal Practitioner, Udeme Odibifor over alleged stabbing of her husband Otike, to death in Kikiri prison. At the hearing, the Chief Magistrate, Kikelomo Ayeye, rejected the request by the suspect’s Lawyer Oluseye Bamijoko, for Ikoyi prison and ordered […]
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government has expressed its determination to complete ongoing projects in the state, which will directly change the lives of the people and attract more investments to the state. To this end, the government has solicited for more support from the people even as it moves towards the end of its […]
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
Photo: Governor Willy Obiano of Anambra state From Ignatius Okpara, Anambra Pupils of Beth-roots Model Schools, in the Commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, South East Nigeria, age between 4-12, on Tuesday took to the streets to protest the siting of a market close to their scholl. The children who displayed placards with various inscriptions, lamented that […]
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Enugu state, South- East Nigeria, says it has arrested a young man for allegedly hacking his 83 year old father identified as Nathaniel Chukwuemerie to death. Spokesman for the state police Command, Ebere Amarizu, who disclosed this to African Examiner on Tuesday, said “the alleged […]
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Monday, May 7th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The political differences between a former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba and the incumbent, Senator Ibikunle Amosun appears to have finally climaxed as both leaders met on Sunday in Lagos. Reports say the two party’s Leaders discussed at their meeting the outcome of last Saturday ward congresses of the ruling […]
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Monday, May 7th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Labour and Employment Dr. Chris Ngige, Sunday escaped being lynched by the suspected party thugs, in Awka, the Anambra State capital. The attempted attack occurred as the Minister was having a stakeholders’ meeting with the ruling All Progressives Congress APC members in a hotel in Awka. It was gathered […]
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Saturday, May 5th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, was on Saturday humiliated during the ward congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at his hometown, Eke, in Udi council Area of Enugu State, as all his candidates for the election were defeated. The exercise which took place at […]
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Friday, May 4th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson has again called on youths in the state to work with the Restoration Government of Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson to sustain the peace the state currently enjoys. He renewed the call in his office in Yenagoa when a group from Ogbia Kingdom, […]
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Friday, May 4th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara EBONYI, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Deputy Governor of Ebonyi state, South East Nigeria, Barr. Kalechi Igwe, on Friday clashed with Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Francis Ogbonnaya Nwifuru, over a communal crisis that ensued between Ikwo and Izzi council areas, where many lives were recently lost and houses […]
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A group under the umbrella of “Concerned Ebonyi Elders” has berated the state governor Dave Umahi, for recently making some negative statements against his predecessor Chief Martin Elechi. The governor, was reportedly quoted as calling Elechi, a “useless elder.” while addressing stakeholders from Ikwo and Izzi areas of […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely a month that, Enugu state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, inaugurated a 2Km road project built at Amukwa community in Nsukka council Area of the state, by Chairman of Peace Mass Transit (PMT) company Limited, Evangelist Sam Maduka Onyishi, the governor has commissioned yet another 600 km road constructed […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara IMO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Major Stakeholders in Imo State, South East Nigeria, including politicians, have vowed to resist the N3000 levy being imposed on every taxable adult in the state by the Governor Rochas Okorocha-led administration. The Governor is being accused of attempting to extort the 637 autonomous communities in the […]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in South – East Nigeria, have urged people of the region and its governors to support the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, as it remains the easiest way to realise Igbo presidency in 2023. Some of the leaders who […]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ishieke Campus of Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, was on Friday thrown into shock, as a 40-year-old man, Emmanuel Igwe, popularly known as Ezeugo from Amechi-Idodo community in Enugu State, committed suicide for unknown reasons. Until his demise, the deceased, was operating a restaurant in […]
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Friday, April 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Government got the sum of N12.949 Allocation from the Federation Account for the month of April. The State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, said in a statement on Friday that the amount represented a drop of N775 million from the allocation for the month of March which was […]
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Friday, April 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Absence of the first witness of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Lagos Friday stalled opening of its defence in the ongoing trial of the church’s board of trustees over their alleged culpability in the collapsed building which occurred Friday, September 12, 2014. No fewer than 116 people including foreign worshipers […]
