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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the automatic promotion of primary five and six pupils to Junior Secondary School (JSS) by Edo Government. Mr Victor Osehobo, the state APC Assistant Publicity Secretary said this in a statement in Benin on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has advised popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, not to take laws into his hands but allow constituted authorities including the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to take charge of the security challenges in the state. The monarch disclosed this when he appeared […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government says plans are set to start implementing the restriction of trucks and long vehicles to night operations on certain routes. The state said that the decision was as a result of traffic menace and fatalities caused by articulated vehicles on roads in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Benue State,Samuel Ortom has tested positive to COVID -19 His Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, announced this on Wednesday. Akase, in a statement made available to journalists in Makurdi, said: “The latest result of his (governor Ortom) COVID-19 test has returned positive. “This follows the test results of most […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has disowned a recent award of excellence bestowed on the Awgu Council Area Chairman of the state, Chief Pedro Nwankwo, with the name of the organization, describing it as fake and fraudulent. It made it clear that those behind the said controversial award […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, says 70 lockup shops have been destroyed by fire in Alade Market in Somolu He added that goods worth millions of Naira were also damaged by the inferno. According to him, the Agency received distress calls on Tuesday at 1.05 a.m. […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that the Service Chiefs have resigned their appointments and thus proceeded on retirement from service. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in Abuja. The statement says those retired are the […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Examination Council (NECO) has fixed a new date for the senior secondary school certificate examination for external candidates. The council stated that due to candidates pleas it has extended the registration process . According to NECO, the examination which earlier scheduled to commerce on Monday 1st February 2021 and end […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A house belonging to Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho in Soka, Ibadan has reportedly been razed by suspected arsonists. The fire began around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The incident occurs days after Mr Igboho led his followers and aggrieved residents to Igangan in Ibarapa area of Oyo […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has disclosed that four Nigerians had tested positive of the United Kingdom (UK) COVID-19 strain. Our correspondent reports that the UK COVID-19 strain is highly contagious and deadly. Speaking on Monday in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, ), […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo has imposed dusk to dawn curfew in 10 council areas in Imo to check further breakdown of laws in Orlu Local Government and other affected areas. The governor said in Owerri on Monday that the curfew would hold between 6am and 6pm daily till further notice. This […]
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on political matters, Babafemi Ojudu, has revealed how national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, held a secret meeting with Sunday Igboho in 2009. African Examiner recalls that Igboho, whose real name is Sunday Adeyemo, has been in the news recently over the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria, (ISPON), has inducted the Enugu state Caretaker Committee Chairman of the ruling All progressive Congress APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, as a fellow of the body which is charged with the regulation of safety management in Nigeria. Nwoye, is also the Executive Director of Opeans Nigeria […]
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chelsea Football Club have parted company with Head Coach Frank Lampard. The sack was contained in a statement issued today in London by the club. The statement reads: “This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the Board have taken lightly. “We are grateful to Frank […]
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 964 cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the tally of infections in the country to 121,566. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Sunday. The country has so far tested 1,258,534 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Participants at a two day workshop on the role of the media in the fight against the dreaded Covid 19 pandemic currently ravaging the globe, organized for Journalists in the five South East states of Nigeria, have expressed worry over issue of fake news on the scourge and doubts by many people […]
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Monday, January 25th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Lagos State said it has arrested 12 suspects in connection with the clash between some youths in t Aguda area of Surulere on Sunday. This is contained in a statement signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Olumuyiwa Adejobi in Lagos. Adejobi said […]
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Sunday, January 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Islamic group, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called for a dialogue and wider consultation as means to resolve the ongoing crisis between the Hausa-Fulani herdsmen and the Oke-Ogun community in Oyo state. The call was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the director of the organization, Professor Ishaq Akintola. […]
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Sunday, January 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Taraba on Sunday confirmed the kidnapping and killing of the Chairman of Ardo Kola Local Government Area of the state, Mr Salihu Dovo, and his Nephew. DSP David Misal, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Jalingo. “It’s true, the […]
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Sunday, January 24th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A fire outbreak at the Nigeria Army Depot, Zaria, Kaduna State, has destroyed parts of Block 15 of soldiers’ quarters at the depot. Capt. Abdu Arigu, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Army Depot, Zaria, confirmed the incident on Sunday. According to him, the incident occurred at 9.30p.m. on Saturday at the block […]
