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Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News From The State
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressive Congress (APC) Governors Tuesday paid a condolence visit to Enugu state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, over the recent attack on Nimbo community in Uzo Uwani council area of the State. Led by its chairman and Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the progressive Governors, […]
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Lagos, Latest Headlines, News From The State
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has nominated the immediate past Chief Judge of the State, Justice Ayotunde Philips as the new Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC). The Governor, in a letter addressed to the State House of Assembly, which was read on the […]
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
EDO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mr. Victor Edoror and his Deputy, have been impeached. They were sacked Tuesday by their colleagues, who accused them of gross misconduct. However, Hon Elizabeth Ative has been elected the new Speaker. The development heralded sporadic gunshots within the State House of […]
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Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News From The State
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has donated assorted relief materials to Nimbo community, in Uzo-Uwani council area of Enugu State recently attacked by the suspected Fulani herdsmen. It would be recalled the community last week Monday, April 25, was early in the morning attacked, leaving […]
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Crime Watch, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Awka Police in Anambra state, southeast Nigeria, have arrested one Chukwudi Mmaduakor, for allegedly killing his 18 year old younger brother, Chinecherem Mmaduakor and buried his corpse in a bush. He was apprehended at the weekend by officers attached to the Umuchu Divisional Police. The Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Ojo Anthony Olusola […]
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A socio-political organisation, Yoruba Youth Council, has rejected the agitation for grazing reserves for Fulani cattle rearers across the country, with a call on Southerners to go and defend their lands against external aggressors. The group also condemned the recent atrocities of Fulani herdsmen in some parts of the South […]
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Social Democratic Party ,SDP, Osun state chapter, has described as “unfortunate” the length at which the financial and economic situation in the state has degenerated under the watch of Governor Rauf Aregbesola. Quoting the state chairman of the party, Chief Ademola Ishola, in a statement signed by the Director, Publicity […]
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
Yenagoa, Bayelsa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of efforts to foster the existing relationship between the government and labour movement in Bayelsa State, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, is expected to have an emergency meeting with the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress’s (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC). Dickson in a statement by his […]
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Monday, May 2nd, 2016
ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Deputy senate president, chief Ike Ekweremadu on sunday led Enugu state caucus of the National Assembly NASS, to Nimbo community in Uzo Uwani council area of Enugu state where suspected Fulani herdsmen recently murdered scores of people and burnt several houses in an early morning attack. He assured the […]
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Sunday, May 1st, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Government has joined other Nigerians in congratulating the nation’s workforce on the 2016 May Day, expressing optimism that all will be well. A statement issued on Saturday in Yenagoa by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Jonathan Obuebite, said workers remained the most critical component of […]
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Friday, April 29th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA The General Overseer of Christian Victory Prayer Ministry (CVPM) Enugu, Pastor Dan Obinegbo, has condemned monday’s massacre of residents of Ukpabi-Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani council area of Enugu State by Fulani herdsmen, saying the incessant attacks in south east Nigeria is a ploy to proclaim Fulani Jihad in the region. AFRICAN EXAMINER reports […]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki ABAKALIKI, EBONYI (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A policeman serving in the Ebonyi state command simply identified as Harrison, was on Wednesday seriously stabbed by members of a deadly robbery gang during a gun battle in Abakaliki. The incident happened when policemen, acting on a tip-off, laid ambush on the robbers who had […]
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Government on Wednesday said it had successfully completed the restructuring of its N167.5billion Programme II, Series 1 and 2 Bonds. The State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akinkunmi Mustapha, said the restructuring which was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week, was achieved […]
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The death toll in Monday’s attack on Nimbo community in Uzo Uwani council area of Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen has increased to over 40, just as Enugu state government donates 5 million naira to affected area. This followed Tuesday’s discovery of more dead bodies in […]
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
– Threatens Counter Attacks By IPOB, MASSOB By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ArchBishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion, Rev. (Dr) Emmanuel Chukwuma, has called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency declare a state of emergency on the menace of Fulani herdsmen in some […]
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Enugu, Featured, Latest Headlines, News From The State
Monday, April 25th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Twenty people have been killed Monday by the suspected Fulani herdsmen who lauched another offensive on Nimbo community in Uzo- Uwani council area of Enugu state. AFRICAN EXAMINER gathered that the dead bodies of the victims have been deposited at the Shanahan General Hospital in Nsukka town. Our correspondent learnt that […]
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Sunday, April 24th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Enugu state police command have arrested a 35 year old woman, identified as Nneka Ifeoze, from Nkwere in Imo state but resides in Enugu, for allegedly using a hot electric pressing Iron on her house help. The inhuman act, according to the police, has thrown the victim, a 9 year old […]
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There is tension among workers and management of Shell Producing and Development Company (SPDC) in Port Harcourt and Lagos, as youths in Bayelsa State under the aegis of Izon Progressive Youth Vanguard (IPYV), warm up to shut down oil companies operating in the state. They were said to be getting […]
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Ebonyi, Latest Headlines, News, News From The State
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki The rape incidents presently hanging on the neck of scores of Ebonyi indigenes, have increased, as the Police in the State Thursday arrested two brothers, said to be children of a Pastor for allegedly raping two sisters inside the church. According to the police, the suspects perpetrated the unholy act recently […]
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Friday, April 22nd, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara, Benin City Governor Adams Oshiomhole and members of the Edo state House of Assembly may be heading for a showdown over the recent resolution on tenure of local government chairmen recently passed by the lawmakers. It would be recalled that the House had on April 18, passed a resolution directing 17 out […]
