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Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Chief Edward Ubosi, held a thanksgiving Mass at the Assembly complex to thank God for making him survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Ubosi said at the event on Tuesday that the survival was by act of God due to the fact that the Coronavirus […]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As media reports filtered in about the sentencing to death of a kano-based SINGER, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, for blasphemy, Nigerians have taken to their social media accounts to express their views. According to reports, the musician was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging over a song that was […]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
By Niyi Adeyi, Akure (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ondo State Government has inaugurated 192 pioneer corps members of the South West Security Network Agency – Operation Amotekun. Speaking at the inauguration which held Tuesday at the Gani Fawehimi Arcade in Akure the state capital, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu expressed hope that no criminal element would trouble […]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Photo: Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For effective management of COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has handed over 200 ventilators to the Federal Government (FG) on Tuesday. The medical equipment was handed over Tuesday morning to the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, […]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Lagos based human rights group – The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has decried the allegation by the Sahara Strategy Group (SSG), on collection of the sum of $200,000 from a terrorist group – the Islamic State for West Africa Province (ISWAP). MURIC while speaking through its Director, Prof Ishaq Akintola described […]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly formed political group, the National Consultative Front, NCF, is worried about the rate of insecurity in Nigeria, stressing that the country might become like Somalia with the increasing rate of violence, insurgency and banditry. The group stated this in a statement signed by its leaders lamenting […]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would approach the Supreme Court over conflicting judgements by the Court of Appeal on recently deregistered political parties. The commission disclosed this in a statement issued by, Mr Festus Okoye,INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Monday. Okoye […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano, Northwest, Nigeria on Monday, sentenced a 30-year-old man, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, to death by hanging after his conviction for blasphemy. The convict, who resides at Sharifai Quarters of Kano Municipal, was dragged before the court by the police on a count charge of inciting religious creed […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Benue State Police Command has confirmed the killing of 13 villagers by unknown gunmen in Edikwu District, Apa Local Government Area (LGA). The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) DSP Catherine Anene, made the confirmation in a statement Monday in Makurdi, the capital city. Anene said that the district had overtime experienced […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
By Daniel Jones, Harare (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Two exiled former Zanu-PF bigwigs who fled the country after the ouster of former President Robert Mugabe have written to South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) requesting the liberation party to save Zimbabwe’s ruling party from military capture. Adding their voices on the growing call for the region to […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
Photo: Prime Minister Hassan Diab. credit: @Aljazeera (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lebanon’s government has resigned amid mounting anger over the explosion on Tuesday that devastated parts of Beirut and left more than 200 people dead. The announcement was made in a national TV address by Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday evening. Many people have accused […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has suspended the Chairman of Nasarawa Local Government in the state, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Ottos, over alleged insubordination. The House also suspended the Deputy Chairman, Karu Local Government, Lawal Yakubu Karshi, over the same allegation. Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, the Speaker of the House, announced this after […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
By Eric Ojo, Abuja (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite has declared that Nigeria will soon become a major gold producing hub in the West African sub-region. The minister said the development will diversify the country’s revenue away from crude oil and create jobs for its teeming youthful population. In […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The deputy governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, has dumped the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. This development is coming just few weeks he joined the People’s Democratic Party with the hope of clinching the gubernatorial ticket in the party’s primary for the upcoming gubernatorial election in the state. Ajayi […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – French and Nigerien soldiers on Monday combed a wildlife reserve in Niger and the surrounding area for traces of the gunmen who killed six French aid workers a day earlier, a French military source said. The unidentified gunmen, who rode on motorbikes, attacked the group who worked for the humanitarian charity ACTED […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has come under heavy criticism for saying that internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Boys have become role models in Nigeria. The former minister, while delivering a lecture at a virtual event organised by the Ijaw National Development Group, cautioned that the new […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has hinted it is considering a new date for the commencement of the 2020/2021 university admission process. Following this, JAMB in its weekly bulletin released Sunday said it has scheduled a meeting with all the tertiary institutions in the country for today (Monday) on the delayed […]
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Monday, August 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the directive last week, by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), petroleum tankers’ drivers in Lagos state have withdrawn their services. In an interview Monday, the state’s NUPENG Chairman, Mr Tayo Aboyeji confirmed the incident. Comrade Aboyeji explained that the strike began in the early hours of […]
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Sunday, August 9th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has berated former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo for his comment about late Buruji Kashamu. African Examiner had reported that Kashamu, a former Ogun state senator and Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, died on Saturday from COVID-19 complications. Obasanjo, in his condolence message to the […]
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Sunday, August 9th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many churches in Lagos on Sunday witnessed low turnout on the first Sunday of reopening after 20 weeks of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020 relaxed some of the lockdown measures instituted by the Lagos State Government to combat the spread of the pandemic. […]
