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Friday, October 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Service Commission PSC has dismissed 10 senior police officers and demoted nine others over various alleged misconducts. PSC Spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani announced the development Friday in a statement. Ani disclosed that the decisions were reached at the 9th PSC plenary meeting which was held in Abuja on September 29 and […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Friday, October 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Allegations and counter allegations have trailed financial misconducts by a former Managing Director of a Lagos based tax consulting firm – Alpha Beta, Mr Dapo Apara, as well as by the firm. While the firm is accusing its ex-boss of diverting the sum of N6bn, the company’s money, Apara in a counter, […]
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Friday, October 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Friday, sentenced a serial killer, Gracious David-West to death by hanging. Presiding Judge, Justice Adolphus Enebele, while delivering his judgement which came six months after trial, said the suspect was convicted of the murder of eleven young women and attempted murder […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Friday, October 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria recorded zero COVID-19-related deaths in five days, as 103 new infections were recorded. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday. The centre said that Nigeria total COVID-19 cases hit 59,841. It added that the new cases were recorded in Lagos (39), […]
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Friday, October 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has commiserated with the Government and people of Lagos State, and particularly the residents of Baruwa area, on the gas plant fire incident that ravaged the community in the early hours of Thursday. A press release by the Corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. […]
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Friday, October 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has appointed Alhaji Adamu Fanda, a former member House of Representative from Kano State as Board Chairman of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) with effect from Sept. 26. The appointment is in a memo with file number FMIT/LEG/1426/17 dated Oct. 6, signed by Dr Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, October 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following recent ban of operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other Tactical Squad from routine patrols and low – risk duties by Nigeria’s Inspector General of police, (IGP), Adamu Mohammed, the Enugu state Command of the force, has warned the concerned officers against flouting the order and directive, even as it […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Thursday, October 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has revealed that 22 persons have so far tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19), among the 1,473 persons of interest tested since the reopening of the nation’s international airspace. Ehanire, stated this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday in Abuja, and […]
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Thursday, October 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has described the Baruwa, Ipaja, a Lagos suburb Thursday gas explosion incident as a ‘’sad memory’’ in the life of his administration. Sanwo-Olu who commiserated with the families of the victims of the explosion expressed deep sorrow over the sad incidents which claimed lives and destroyed […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, October 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has opened up on what transpired at the PDP rally in Ondo state on Wednesday saying that he can’t be killed like the late Justice Minister, Bola Ige. African Examiner reports that shortly before the justice minister was killed on December 23, 2001, he was attacked […]
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Thursday, October 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Enugu State chapter, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to either pay primary school teachers the N30,000 minimum wage or face industrial action. The union Chairman, Mr Nweke Odo, disclosed this on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]
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Thursday, October 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has raised alarm over the current state of affairs in Nigeria, saying that the West African nation is almost at the verge of total collapse. President of the CBCN, Most Rev. Augustine Obiora Akubeze made the observation in his goodwill message on the occasion of […]
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Thursday, October 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday inaugurated a Chinese-built industrial park constructed at a cost of 60 million U.S. dollars. The Bahir Dar Industrial Park (BIP), located 552 km north of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa was constructed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC). Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, the […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Thursday, October 8th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 155 new Coronavirus (COVID-19), infections in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Wednesday. The COVID-19 national death toll in the country remains 1,113 persons after four days without recording any death across the country. The agency […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Piqued by the renewed public outcry and allegations of extra judicial killings, harassment, impunity and others vices against operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), the Police Service Commission (PSC) has threatened to punish deviant officials of the squard. The commission said it has followed the recent public outcry on the brazen […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari says that everything to make the October 10 gubernatorial election peaceful, transparent and credible in Ondo State has been put in place. The president disclosed this on Wednesday in video message to party faithful at the Grand Finale of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign for the Ondo Governorship […]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has appointed Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli as the new Emir of Zazzau. This was announced by the Kaduna state government on Wednesday in a statement signed by Ja’afaru Sani, commissioner of local government affairs. “Until his appointment as Emir of Zazzau, Alh. Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli held the […]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with the Nigerian Government has launched a cash and food assistance programme in the three urban COVID-19 hotspots of Abuja, Kano and Lagos. The Nigerian Government has released 2,000 metric tons of food from its Strategic Grain Reserve (valued at US$1 million), while […]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Asst. Corps Marshal Imoh Etuk, Zonal Commanding Officer RS2 (Lagos/Ogun), on Tuesday urged road users to be more careful during Ember months to avoid accidents, deaths and injuries. Etuk also advised them to comply fully with Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) prevention guidelines to prevent spread and save Nigeria from more deaths. Etuks made […]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has successfully treated and discharged 357 patients, who have recovered from the Coronavirus (COVID-19), reporting 118 fresh infections in the country. A report in its official twitter handle on Tuesday, indicated that 357 patients were discharged in the past 24 hours, raising the number of […]
