Posted by Daniel Jones
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Thursday, September 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe government is seeking to attract investors to the country’s tourism town of Victoria Falls by establishing a stock exchange which will be trading in foreign currency. Initially the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) will trade under the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) before it becomes independent, backed by international investment banks […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, September 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the presidential jets has been put up for sale by the federal government. The 4000 aircraft with registration number, 5N-FGX/: RC 066, was advertised for sale as interested buyers were enjoined to make a bid in some national dailies on Wednesday. Although, the cost of the jet was not indicated […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Thursday, September 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many residents and passers-by were injured, while properties worth millions of naira burnt Thursday, during a gas explosion at Iju-Ishaga area, a Lagos suburb. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has confirmed the incident. LASEMA spokesperson, Nosa Okunbor, who confirmed the explosion said upon being informed about the incident which occurred around […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, September 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ECOWAS might lift painful economic sanctions against Mali once an interim president is inaugurated on Friday, the bloc’s envoy said on Thursday. Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, said this after landing in Bamako for talks as head of a delegation from the bloc. Recall that the military in Mali had staged a […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Thursday, September 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti has suspended Sen. Babafemi Ojudu and 10 others indefinitely for allegedly flouting directive of the party’s national executive. This is contained in a statement by Mr Ade Ajayi, the party’s State Publicity Secretary, made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday. Those suspended alongside Ojudu […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Thursday, September 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation (GIFSEP) with the support from GEF Small Grant Programme (SGP Nigeria) has promised to train additional secondary school teachers in Abuja as mentors for Environmental Club (ECO Club). GIFSEP is a non-profit organization founded on the ideals of environment education, climate change adaptation and […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A sit-at-home protest across the south-east region of the country has been declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on October 1. This was disclosed in a statement by the spokesman, Emma Powerful, its spokesman, saying that there reports of a “terrorist groups to slaughter our children” if they participate in […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the death of 23 people, as confirmed by the Federal Road Safety Commission, “represents another disturbing and saddening incident in the litany of tragedies that have befallen our country.” The president made his feelings known in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Wednesday swore-in two new commissioners and the Transition Committee (TC) Chairman for Umunneochi Local Government Area (LGA). Speaking during the event at the Executive Chambers of the Government House, Umuahia, Ikpeazu charged the new appointees to see their appointments as a call to duty and service […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 23 persons including five students of the Kogi State Polytechnic and three children on their way to school were reportedly killed in a road crash – involving a petrol tanker in Felele, along the Lokoja-Abuja Highway. The tanker, which was loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and belonging to the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After several months of closure of schools over the outbreak of the dreaded coronavirus, the Enugu State Government has announced the phased re-opening of all primary and secondary schools on Monday, September 28, 2020. This was contained in a statement issued Wednesday by the Commissioner for Education, Professor Uche Eze, who said the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Magistrates’ Court in Ilorin on Wednesday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of an officer of the Nigeria Security Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC), Abdulkadir Bello. Magistrate Muhammed Ibrahim gave the order following the absence of Bello, who is charged with assaulting a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 176 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Wednesday. According to the agency, the new infection takes the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 57,437. The […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some natives of Igga Autonomous Community, in Uzo-Uwani Council Area of Enugu State, South- East Nigeria, have dragged the traditional ruler of the area Igwe Herbert Ukuta, to court over his continuous alleged harassment and intimidation of the indigenes. The plaintiff, namely, Anthony Okonkwo, Benedict Okoye, Celestine Nnachetam and Richard Okoye, said […]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, has said that the absence of a stable fiscal environment is inhibiting the growth of the Nigerian petroleum industry, especially the upstream sector. Mallam Kyari, who stated this while playing host to members of the House of Representatives […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Main opposition party MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala who has been in remand prison for over a month on allegations of inciting violence was finally released on Z$50 000 bail on Tuesday. Sikhala had been denied bail by a magistrates’ court before he approached the High Court with an appeal. Justice […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, who won the September 19, 2020, governorship election in Edo State, has enjoined the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole; and his APC rival in the just concluded election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, to allow the past be the past and let them all work […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A middle-age widow, Mrs. Annabel, Muoneke, from Nawfia, in Anambra state, South- East Nigeria, has appealed to the police authorities, Enugu state House of Assembly, and its Ministry of Gender Affairs and Social Development, to come to her rescue, over forceful eviction from her matrimonial home as well as alleged threat to […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 195 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Monday. According to the agency, the new infection takes the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 57,437. The […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, September 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali’s former Defence Minister, Ba N’Daou has been announced as the President of a new transition government. The leader of the Sahel state’s ruling military junta, Colonel Assimi Goita announced this on national television Monday. According to a roadmap backed by the junta, the new President is meant to lead the country […]
