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Sunday, February 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The son of a proprietress and teacher at a private school in Asaba, Delta State, has been arrested by the police in the state in connection with the death of a one-year-seven-month-old pre-Nursery pupil of the school, Obina Udeze. The teacher, Emeka Nwogbo, had reportedly flogged Udeze on Monday, leaving marks of […]
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Sunday, February 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One more dead body has been recovered from the three-storey building that collapsed in Yaba area of Lagos on Saturday afternoon. This raised the death toll to three, while the number of rescued persons remained two, just as rescue efforts are still on. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Zonal Coordinator, South-West, National Emergency Management […]
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Saturday, February 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed thugs have attacked the Soka residence of the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho in Ibadan. Some supporters were reportedly attacked and injured during the face-off. Igboho is being detained in a prison facility in the Republic of Benin after he was arrested at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, […]
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Saturday, February 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The residence of popular Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has been razed by fire. Although the cause of the inferno was yet to be determined, it was gathered the affected part of the residence is the area housing female students. In video footage shared on Sheikh Gumi’s Facebook page, firefighters and […]
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Saturday, February 12th, 2022
Barely 48 hours after unknown armed men attacked and killed three policemen on duty in Enugu, four officers of the Command were on Saturday evening shot dead at a police check point by yet to be identified hoodlums at Amodo area of Enugu South Council area of the state. Meanwhile, tension has enveloped Enugu city […]
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Saturday, February 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian nurse based in the United States, Faduri Joseph, has assured to end insecurity and the face-off between ASUU and government if he is elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, come 2023. The 45-year-old presidential aspirant made the promise through his Delta State coordinator, Tessy Ebegbune, in a familiarisation […]
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Saturday, February 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Head of Sokoto Kingmakers, Magajin Garin Sokoto, Alh. Hassan Danbaba, is dead. The influential kingmaker, who was the grandson of the late Premier of Northern Nigeria, reportedly slumped in his hotel in Kaduna around 11.30 am. But he died on his way to a hospital. He died barely a year after […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Saturday, February 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Immediate past Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, professor Ike Ekweremadu, has emerged the preferred Aspirant of participants in the first opinion poll in the 2023 Enugu governorship race. Voters were asked, “Who amongst the following do you want to be the next Governor of Enugu State come 2023?” Ekweremadu, who hails […]
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Saturday, February 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Divisional Police Station, Uli, in Ihiala Local Government Area, Anambra, was on Friday attacked by gunmen. African Examiner gathered that the gunmen launched an attack on the community on Thursday but were repelled by a combined team of policemen and vigilante group. According to the source, the gunmen later regrouped and […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) clashed on Friday in the Agbado area of Alimosho Local Government Area in Lagos over ticket collection at the parks. According to The Punch newspaper, the conflict led to pandemonium as road users and passersby scampered for safety as the warring […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Building Control Authority (LASBCA) has told an Ikeja Coroner’s Court that the late Femi Osibona, Managing Director of Fourscore Heights Ltd., prevented its officers from gaining access to the construction site of the collapsed 21-storey building. African Examiner reports that Oluseun Randle, an Assistant Director in charge of the […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, on Friday, denied writing Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, to solicit support for a proposed wedding in Kano State. A letter had gone viral on the internet where the royal father purportedly solicited money for the Kano wedding. The letter dated February 8, 2022, addressed […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Chimaroke Nnamani (PPD-Enugu) has revealed that Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi brought him back to the political limelight in the state after 15 years as governor. Nnamani, who represents Enugu East Senatorial District, stated this during the PDP campaign in Nkanu West for Feb. 23 2022 Local Government Elections in the state on […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The suspension of Rev. Fr. James Anelu, the priest-in-charge of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Ewu-Owa, Ikorodu, is eliciting reactions. Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos suspended Anelu for banning Igbo songs during mass in the church. Onyema Onyemankeya, Coordinator, Catholic Deanery of the Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC), FESTAC chapter, warned against […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Imam Tawhidi a.k.a Imam of Peace has called for support for the actualization of the Republic of Biafra. The cleric took to his Twitter handle as he talked about the killings within Nigeria’s Southeast saying that Biafra must be free. Imam Tawhidi wrote: “The images coming out of #Biafra are horrific. I […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Students of Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, yesterday, embarked on a protest over the murder of one Hassan Adedeji, who just graduated from the school and was preparing for his one-year mandatory youth service. It was gathered that the HND Banking and Finance graduate was on a commercial motorcycle around the Agbale-Bode […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A train bringing containers into the Apapa port derailed yesterday, ramming into a truck carrying containers loaded with cargoes. Eyewitnesses stated that for several hours there was no access into the ENL Terminal, APM Terminals and the ABTL Terminals through the railway crossing. There were efforts to salvage the situation by the […]
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Thursday, February 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pandemonium as armed robbers reportedly hijacked a bullion van, killing people in the attack at Idi Ape area in ibadan . It was gathered that the Idi-Ape area of Iwo Road was deserted while the operation by the hoodlums lasted. A resident of the area, who identified himself as Waheed Adegoke, told […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, February 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tension has enveloped Enugu and environ following the killing of three policemen by unknown gunmen at a police check point in Enugu. The ugly incident occurred Thursday along timber junction, Maryland axis in Enugu South Council area of the State. African Examiner learnt that the criminal elements also abducted a woman and […]
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Thursday, February 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Two Northern traders at the recently demolished new Artisan Goat market, Enugu, Alhaji Sani Na Dada and Alhaji Lawan Ayavgar, have appealed to the Enugu state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to pay them 47 Million naira compensation for the destruction of their shops in the market by his administration. They said the ugly […]
