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Sunday, July 2nd, 2017
Photo caption: Chairman, Niger Delta Dialogue, King Diete Spiff AFRICAN EXAMINER — A two-day dialogue on Niger Delta affairs has ended in Calabar with a resolution for the implementation of a regional integrated Master Plan and robust engagement of stakeholders for its review, update and re-validation. In a communique signed by the Chairman, Niger Delta Dialogue, […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Election Petitions Tribunal has upturned the electoral victory of Senator George Thompson Sekibo. Instead, the lower court ruled Thursday that Mr. Andrew Uchendu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was the winner of the Rivers East Senatorial District. Sekibo is of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). […]
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Monday, June 26th, 2017
Photo caption: Chairman, Lagos House of Assembly Committee on Works and Infrastructure, Mr Abiodun Tobun (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos lawmaker, Mr Abiodun Tobun, on Monday distributed N2 million worth of General Certificate Education (GCE) forms to no fewer than 130 indigent students of Epe Constituency I. Tobun of the APC, who represents the constituency in the […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2017
From Ignatius Okpara (AFRICAN EXAMINER) The Imo state police Command at the weekend paraded a widow identified as Ogechi Chukwuocha, for buying a 10- month old baby for 650, 000 naira in the state. Also paraded alongside the middled-age woman were two of her accomplices whose names were given as Callister Igwe and Chimezie Okafor, […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2017
Photo caption: Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Plateau government is organising an empowerment program for 2,000 widows as part of activities to mark this year’s International Widows’ Day, the women affairs commissioner Rufina Gurummen has said. Gurummen, at a press briefing to mark the day on Friday in Jos, said that […]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2017
By Niyi Adeyi, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 30-year-old native doctor, Lucky Okon, who allegedly raped a woman for days and defrauded her of N800,000, on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court. The accused was arraigned before Magistrate J.A Adigun on a two-count charge. Okon, who resides on Ajasa Command Road, Ipaja, Lagos, however, […]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A witness in Senator Danjuma Goje’s alleged N25 billion fraud case on Tuesday told a Federal High Court that no kobo out of a N5 billion loan facility Access Bank gave Gombe State entered the former governor’s account. Goje, who served as governor of Gombe State, has since 2012 been facing an […]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2017
*Sets up a Committee on Gas Utilization (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of his administration’s determination to fully industralize Bayelsa State and make it a hub for economic activities, Governor Seriake Dickson has inaugurated a committee for the utilization and non-utilization of gas resources. The committee has renowned gas expert, Dr. Patrick Ndiomu as chairman, […]
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Monday, June 19th, 2017
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to instil discipline amongst its members, the Enugu state chapter of the ruling All progressives Congress APC, has slammed a one year suspension each on five of its members, including the 2011 governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria ACN in the […]
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Sunday, June 18th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Three people have been killed in a fresh communal clash which broke out early Sunday in Gembu, Nguroje and other parts of Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State. According to Reports, the violence is suspected to be between the Kakas and Fulani ethnic groups. It was reported that the latest crisis […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2017
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Nigeria (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Membership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu state got decimated further on Wednesday, as about 1000 of its members, including some chieftains in Egede, Udi Council area of the state, defected to the ruling All progressive Congress, APC. Among the defectors were 300 women, a professor, […]
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Wednesday, June 14th, 2017
Photo caption: Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Members of the federal government implementation committee on the proposed Nigeria’s ICT university have expressed satisfaction with the state of facilities at the Digital Bridge Institute DBI, Enugu, designated as one of the campuses of the institution, declaring that the […]
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2017
Photo Caption: Late Human Rights Activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has refuted reports that it was planning to replace the statues of late Chief MKO Abiola and Chief Gani Fawehinmi at the Ojota parks with another monument. Acting Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Adebimpe Akinshola, while […]
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2017
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South-East chapter of the ruling All progressive Congress APC, has condemned in its entirety, the recent three months quit notice given to Igbos residing in parts of Northern Nigeria by the Coalition of Arewa Youths, describing it as “a joke taken too far”, just as it applauded […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
AFRICAN EXAMINER – Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State said the current recession in the country had hindered his zeal to deliver more dividends of democracy to the people of the state. Tambuwal said this in Sokoto on Sunday at the quarterly stakeholders’ meeting of All Progressives Congress (APC) Party in the state. “We came […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Military Governor of Katsina State Col John Yayaha Madaki (rtd) has risen in stout support of the Emir of Katsina Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir, who has vowed to sacrifice himself to protect Igbos residing in the State. The Emir, who was addressing leaders of the Igbo community last Friday in response […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has declared tomorrow, Monday, June 12, 2017 as Public Holiday to mark the 24th year of the June 12 In a statement issued on Sunday, the governor said it was in the spirit of a united Southwest States and the Yoruba nation agenda to speak with one voice at all […]
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Saturday, June 10th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Government says, it has paid the balance of the fees for its scholarship students at the prestigious Lincoln University in the United States of America. Disclosing in a statement, the State commissioner for Information and Orientation, Hon. Jonathan Obuebite disclosed that, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson gave the approval for […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Shehu Zaki, the Zonal Commanding Officer controlling the Ogun and Lagos State Commands of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said on Friday that the commands have adopted various means to curtail traffic crashes on the Lagos/Ibadan expressway. Zaki said in an interview with newsmen that the strategies have helped in […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police Command has arrested a middle-aged man, identified as Joel Ugwu, over the death of his lover, a married woman, whose name was given as Mrs. Ifenyinwa Udeh, who died in a hotel room after alleged marathon sex. Mrs Udeh, who is a mother of […]
