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Friday, February 2nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State government has concluded plans to build tank farms for petroleum products, the State Commissioner for Mineral Resources, Elder Markson Fefegha, has said. The tank farms would serve as reservoir to cushion the adverse effects arising from scarcity of petroleum products on people in the state. The Commissioner stated this on […]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director General of Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Osita Anthony Aboloma has warned against the importation, marketing, supply and use of substandard tires in Nigeria, saying such inferior products has sent scores of innocent citizens to their untimely graves and done serious harm to the nation’s economy. According to him, substandard tyres […]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government has concluded arrangement to launch a crime control drone system to assist in the prevention of crime and criminality, the State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Chief Blessing Ipigansi-Igbagara, said on Wednesday. The mechanism was developed by an indigenous manpower and technology system in line with the present administration’s […]
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rector of Institute of Management and Technology IMT Enugu, Professor Augustine Njeze, is now in trouble, as the Enugu State House of Assembly, has mandated its House committee on Education to investigate all manners of alleged corrupt practices leveled against him by students and other stakeholders. […]
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
…Politicians Should Desist from Violence, Says Commissioner (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa Govt reiterates commitment to zero tolerance to crime, criminality, as state security outfit discloses arrest of 8,500 suspects in six years Over 8,500 suspects have been arrested in the last six years for various criminal offence by Bayelsa State Security outfit code-named, Operation Doo […]
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has debunked claims in certain quarters that he is planning to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he left with some other chieftains of the party prior the 2015 general elections. In a statement on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and […]
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Monday, January 29th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson on Monday directed the immediate payment of January salary to civil servants and political appointees. The directive was contained in a statement issued to journalists by the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson. The statement noted that the move is in line with […]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Over ten thousand youths at the weekend gathered in Ogbia main town, headquarters of Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State for a solidarity rally in honour of Governor Henry Seriake Dickson. The jubilant youths who defiled an earlier attempt by authorities of the council to prevent them from holding the event, […]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2018
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tragedy struck on Saturday at Gariki Ugwuoba in oji River Local Government Area of Enugu state as two persons said to be excavating sand at a site in the area got buried when the sand slided. The state police public Relations officer PPRO, Ebere Amarizu, who made this known […]
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Saturday, January 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hausa community in Rivers State said yesterday in Port Harcourt that they are not part of the group that endorsed Governor Nyesom Wike for a second tenure in office. A group of Hausa community led by one Alhaji Mesundu was among the hundreds of non indigenes resident in Rivers State that endorsed […]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abia state Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Theresa Uzoamaka Uzokwe, has been suspended by the state House of Assembly. The lawmakers announced this on Friday during an emergency sitting at the Assembly Complex Umuahia, the state capital. Her suspension followed a unanimous resolution by the legislators, over an alleged […]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara IMO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has joined his colleagues in the South East geo political zone of Nigeria in rejecting the proposed establishment of cattle colonies in parts of the country. He vowed not to cede any land in the state to Federal Government, just as he […]
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa state government says its various policies and programmes in the health sector is now impacting tremendously on the lives of the people as it has improved health care delivery services. The government in partnership with the Federal government, World Bank and other related agencies is now embarking on a project tagged, […]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu …Gives Health Minister 2-Week Ultimatum to Intervene in Ongoing Crisis (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The over four years crisis rocking the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, has aggravated, as its workers union has given two-week ultimatum to the Minister of Health, Prof. Issac Adewole to intervene or they will embark on industrial action. […]
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Sunday, January 21st, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Another intriguing dimension has been introduced in the suspected herdsmen attacks and killings as the Department of State Service DSS has alleged that the Islamic State in West Africa network ISWA operating within some North Central and South-South sections of Nigeria may be responsible for the for the melee. The […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Meeting the healthcare needs of all Bayelsans is central to the policy thrust of the state government in the health sector, Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, has said. According to him, public spending on health has increased in the recent times because the state government is more interested […]
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Saturday, January 20th, 2018
…Accuses PDP of Using Suspended Deputy Chairman, Ibekaku to Destabilise APC From Ignatiu Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disassociated itself from a political rally being planned by the suspended Deputy state chairman of the party, Adolphus Udeh, and Special Adviser to president Muhammadu Buhari […]
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Friday, January 19th, 2018
…To Hold NUT National Executive Meeting in Yenagoa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Union of Teachers has taken a decision to confer an award of excellence on the Governor of Bayelsa State in appreciation of his efforts in the promotion of education at all levels in the state. The President of the NUT, Mr. Michael […]
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Thursday, January 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected an application by the proscribed group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) challenging the order banning it. Justice Adamu Kafarati, in a ruling on an application by the group, held that the proscription order made ex-parte on September 20 last year was validly made. […]
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Thursday, January 18th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the 2019 general election in Nigeria, the campaign posters of Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has flooded some parts of the state, especially the state capital, Enugu. Our Correspondent observed that the well-designed poster with a bold photograph of the Governor, who is spending his […]
