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Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
By Steve Oruruo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At close encounter, the most enthusiastic view must come to grips with the sobering fact of Nigeria’s endemic leadership deficit, dating back many decades. The definitive intransigence of our administrative albatross has precipitated a state apparatus that is frustratingly trapped in the vortex of its own policy myopia , […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After over three months of closure, the Federal Government of Nigeria has finally given conditions for the reopening of schools and tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Notable among the conditions include having in place; Hand-washing facilities, Body temperature checks meter; body disinfectants at all entering points to their major facilities including the gates, hostels, […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
By Ayo Balogun (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the September 2020 governorship election, the embattled Governor of Edo state, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has resigned from his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Obaseki disclosed that he resigned membership of the party while speaking with State House Correspondents on Tuesday after visiting the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Nigeria. […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state police Command, says it has commenced full scale investigation into the death of a young man and his girlfriend, believed to be students of Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, whose lifeless bodies were found in a hostel room in the area on Sunday. Spokesman of the state […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors elected under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are scheduled to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari today (Monday) over the disqualification of the embattled Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, from contesting in the party’s Governorship primary. In a communiqué issued Sunday after a Teleconference emergency meeting Saturday the APC Governors disclosed […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Overseer (GO) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says he and his prayer warriors will not rest in prayers until the perpetrators of rape are accorded stiffer penalty. Adeboye said during a live programme on DOVE TV, monitored in Ibadan on Sunday, that the issue […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved the reports of its screening and appeal committees that disqualified Gov. Godwin Obaseki, Mr Matthew Iduoriyekemwe and Mr Chris Ogiemwonyi from participating in the June 22 governorship primaries in Edo. The party’s National Working Committee (NWC) led by its National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, made […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria recorded 501 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the total infections to 15,682. The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on Saturday on its official Twitter handle. The centre also said that it recorded eight deaths. The health agency said that Lagos State reported the highest number of cases […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), on Saturday, confirmed the arrival of 269 Nigerians that were stranded in India in Lagos and Abuja. The commission, who announced their arrival on its Twitter handle, said that the the 269 Nigerians arrived Nigeria at 2:00 a.m. NiDCOM said that evacuees were received from India at […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to bring former head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (retired) and others responsible for the annulment of June 12 to book. The ex-Governor stated this at the commemoration of democracy day in Kaduna. He said: “The president should complete the […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party has expressed concern over the reported shooting and security breaches within the precincts of the Presidential Villa following a reported squabble among family members and officials of President Muhammadu Buhari. The party in a statement on Saturday, by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said it is deeply worried […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has stated that many neighbouring countries asked Nigeria for food during the lockdown occasioned by coronavirus pandemic. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, made this known on Saturday in an Instagram Live Chat with @City People. The minister, who was speaking on the COVID-19 Economic Sustainability Plan […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2020
The All Progressives Congress has disqualified Governor Obaseki, and two other aspirants from contesting the party’s June 22 primaries on Friday. The panel also announced that Pastor Ize-Iyamu, Pius Odubu and Osaro Obazee are qualified to contest, while Matthew Aigbuhuenze Iduoriyekemwen and Chris Ogiemwonyi are disqualified from the contest. Before his disqualification, the governor had […]
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Friday, June 12th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on Thursday, granted pardon to twenty-five (25) inmates in Enugu, Nsukka and Oji River Correctional Centres. A statement by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, hinted that the pardon was sequel to the recommendation of the Advisory Council on Prerogative […]
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Thursday, June 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has stated that unemployment may rise to 33.6% or about 39.4 million people may end up losing their jobs by the end of 2020. Osinbajo, who stated this on Thursday while presenting the post COVID-19 Economic Sustainability Plan to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, […]
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Thursday, June 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate on Thursday passed the sum N10.805 trillion as a revised budget for the 2020 fiscal year. The passage followed consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Appropriations on the Appropriation Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020. Accordingly, out of the sum of N10,805,544,664,642 to be issued from the Consolidated Revenue […]
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Thursday, June 11th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Identity Management Commission has stated that over 100 million Nigerians have no identity. Aliyu Aziz, the Director-General of the NIMC, made the disclosure on during a zoom meeting with editors. He said: “Over 100 million Nigerians have no identity (ID). “These include the poorest and the most vulnerable groups, such […]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Kano has arrested a 32-year-old man, Muhammad Alfa, for allegedly raping 40 women in the past one year in the state. The Spokesman of the Command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Wednesday in Kano. Haruna disclosed that the suspect was arrested on June […]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Screening committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun the screening of aspirants for the June 22 Edo governorship primaries. Recall that the seven-member screening committee, headed by Prof. Jonathan Ayuba, has so far screened five aspirants out of six. Those screened included Gov. Godwin Obaseki, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Hon. […]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, has fingered the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole of sponsoring protests around the country against Governor Godwin Obaseki concerning the alleged “certificate forgery”. In a statement signed by his special assistant on media, Benjamin Atu, the deputy governor lambasted the […]
