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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 […]
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Friday, April 27th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The people of Odoru/Eburumiri Autonomous community in Nsukka council Area of Enugu state, South East Nigeria have stormed the local government headquarters to protest alleged imposition of one Mr. Emmanuel Ezema on them as their traditional ruler by the council. African Examiner reports that the protesters who trooped […]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State Government on Thursday said that it had prevented the payment of huge amount of money to payroll fraudsters in its local government councils totaling N3.912 bn annually as a fall out of the ongoing public sector reforms in the state. Speaking during a press conference, the Commissioner for Information and […]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun has released the timetable for the conduct of the state’s Sept. 22 governorship election. Presenting the timetable to newsmen on Thursday in Osogbo, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, the newly appointed Osun Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) said election activities would commence on June 23 with the […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
Photo: Senator Magnus Abe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe on Wednesday declared his intention to contest for the governorship of Rivers State in 2019 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Abe, who made the declaration while addressing a crowd […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the May 9th, state congress of the All progressives Congress APC, the 17 chairmanship candidates of the party in the 2017 council election in Enugu state have endorsed the state chairman Dr. Ben Nwoye, for a 2nd term in office, even as they presented him with […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara IMO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A splinter group of the All progressive Congress APC in Imo state, South East Nigeria, operating under the banner of “Restoration Coalition” has declared war on Governor Rochas Okorocha over his plan to hand over power to his son in-Law, Uche Nwosu in 2019. The group has […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has strongly condemned the killing Tuesday of two Catholic Priests and 15 other worshipers at St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State. The group in a statement issued Tuesday in Lagos by its Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola stressed: ”Human […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The on-going civil service reforms, particularly as it affects the state owned media outfits, have been envisioned to promote professionalism and ensure effective service delivery. The State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson stated this on Tuesday, while receiving the report of the Bayelsa State Media Corporation Committee in his […]
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2018
Photo: Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, Kwara State (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the appointment of Alhaji Abdul-Azeez Muhammad as Special Assistant, Fulani Affairs, to represent Miyetti-Allah in his administration. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Isiaka Gold made this known in a statement issued on Tuesday in […]
