Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, September 23rd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police Operatives of the Enugu State Command serving in Unity Division, have , Rescued twelve kidnapped victims at different locations within the state. The suspected kidnappers, had blocked the road between Ekwegbe-Agu and Neke-Uno communities respectively in Enugu East and Igbo-Etiti local government areas yesterday , along Enugu/Opi/Nsukka Highway. According to the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has enjoined the Federal Government and other development partners to intervene as he described his state as the erosion capital of Nigeria. According to Soludo, erosion and other ecological problems are wearing away 30 to 40 per cent of the state’s landmass. The former […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has called on key stakeholders in disaster management in the country to articulate robust proactive disaster handling plan and system with a view to reducing losses during emergency situations. Speaking in Enugu during a three day workshop on a Review of the National Contingency Plan for […]
Posted by Samson Kankan
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El Rufai, has faulted the power sector privatization, saying that Nigeria has lost nearly 15 years of energy sector investment. He said clear roadmaps for structural reforms set up by the Obasanjo government in the electrical, power, and oil and gas sectors were protracted or abandoned by his […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman, Lagos State Park and Garages Management Committee, Musiliu ‘MC Oluomo’ Akinsanya, has denied imposing the purchase of stickers bearing the photo of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on commercial tricycle operators known as ‘Keke Napep.’ He made this known in a video on his […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The candidate representing Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency in Delta State under the platform of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Tony Ochei Onochei aka Onochieobodo has stated that he is ready to serve the people of the constituency. Onochieobodo made this declaration while speaking with newsmen in Abuja saying that his political philosophy […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Nigeria joins other nations of the world to commemorate this Year’s United Nations (UN) international peace day, the Institute for Peace, Conflict and Development Studies (IPCDS) of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) has posited that there can be no meaningful development in any Society, Nigeria inclusive, without […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Ondo State have arrested two 35-year-old serial kidnappers, Olaoye Oluwatosin and Taiwo Olamide. The suspects allegedly kidnapped three persons in Ofosu, Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State between 2021 and 2022. Police spokesperson, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, paraded the duo before newsmen on Tuesday in Akure. Odunlami said they kidnapped […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah on Monday stated that his nephew and a driver abducted over three months ago are still in captivity. He made this revelation during the ongoing high-level forum on political communication and issue-based campaign in the 2023 general elections in Abuja, as he talked about […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police in Ebonyi State on Monday arraigned a 40-year-old-man, Uche Awegbe, before an Abakaliki Magistrate’s Court for allegedly threatening to kill the state governor, David Umahi. The police said Mr Awegbe had shot two residents of the state dead and caused communal crises in Effium, a crisis prone-community in Ohaukwu Local […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate will on Wednesday screen the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, it has been learnt. The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, disclosed this in his address of welcome to Senators from their Annual Summer Recess during plenary. He said the Senate will also work on the Medium Term Expenditure […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Katsina State has arrested three suspected armed robbers who specialise in using charms to break houses in Daura Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Gambo Isah, stated this in a statement released to newsmen on Tuesday in Katsina. He said, “On Sept.12, 2022 […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A political pressure group, Enugu State polling Booths Vanguard (ESPBV), has cautioned politicians in the state, particularly Chairman of a major opposition party in the area against blackmail and campaign of calumny against the 2023 gubernatorial Candidate of the peoples Democratic party PDP in the state, Barrister Peter Mbah. The group, regretted […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 31-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, was on Monday, sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Ikeja Special Offences Court for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old student within a school premises. The convict was charged with defilement. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo held that the prosecution failed to establish the charge of defilement against the convict, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, September 19th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Octogenarian, and retired Federal Civil Servant, Chief Joseph Chuka Elobuike, from Eke, Udi Council Area of Enugu State, and his family have approached the State High Court, asking it to order their inlaw, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ambrose Maduabuchi, to Exhume and bring home the Corpse of his late […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, September 19th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, IMHA Rt. Hon. Barrister Kennedy Chidozie Ibeh, has Resigned from office. This was contrary to reports making rounds that he was impeached. A statement issued Monday by his Chief press Secretary, Ifeanyi Onyekachi, obtained by African Examiner read thus: “Is with due sense of […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, September 19th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, better known as Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to 21 years imprisonment for abducting one Sylvanus Hafia. The duo were accused of conspiring and abducting Sylvanus Ahanonu Hafia at about 5:30 pm on June 23, […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, September 19th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, aka Davido, has berated the outgoing governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, concerning his claims of over-voting during the state’s July governorship elections. Taking to this Twitter account on Monday, Davido, nephew to Osun’s governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, accused the governor of “spreading lies” and killing his legacy […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, September 19th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has blocked roads connecting to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos to express their unhappiness with the ongoing ASUU strike. African Examiner recalls that the students had earlier threatened to block the Lagos airport to protest against the strike. They however carried out their threat […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, September 19th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Officers of the Lagos State Police Command, Lagos Airport Police Command and students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, may be set for a showdown over the students’ plan to ground the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Monday (today). The students’ planned mass action is in […]