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Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency has declared as untrue and fake news, a media report that President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the cancellation of 150 memos and appointments signed by his former Chief of Staff, late Abba Kyari. The declaration is contained in a statement issued by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant […]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Rivers, Nyesom Wike, has taken the spotlight in twitter as some elderly women gone topless to protest the release of one of their son, the manager of the demolished hotel in Port Harcourt who allegedly tested positive to coronavirus. It will be recalled that the governor had demolished two […]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, is trending on Twitter because a woman was arrested and detained because according to her, her husband who is a journalist allegedly criticized the minister. According to the Dorcas Jolayemi, who spent 8 days in the custody of Kwara police command, she stated that her […]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state police Command says it has commenced full scale investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged killing of a 70 year old woman, by her husband, a former Director-General of the Imo Broadcasting Corporation (IBC), Chief Theophilus Okere. African Examiner gathered that the suspect, who is currently 82 years […]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria on Monday recorded 229 new cases of the COVID-19, bringing the total active cases to 5,524. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on its official twitter handle, said that as of May 25, 2020, seven deaths were recorded in the country. The health agency said no new state reported a […]
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Monday, May 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amidst COVID-19, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that Polling Units shall be redesigned by the Commission to ensure substantial compliance with the COVID-19 protocols established by health authorities. INEC noted that, among other things, the redesign would emphasise social distancing, general hygienic conduct and enforcement of COVID-19 prevention protocols. […]
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Monday, May 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, the Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), on Monday confirmed the partial collapse of a three-storey building situated at No.6 Olonode Str., Ebute Metta in Lagos. Oke-Osanyintolu said after evacuating all the residents, preliminary report on the collapsed building showed that it had been “severely distressed with the reinforcement’’. […]
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Monday, May 25th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) attached to the Imo State Police Command, South-East, Nigeria, have apprehended two notorious kidnappers who disguised themselves as personnel of the Department for State Security Service (DSS). The suspects, Identify as Kingsley Ogugwo and Ibrahim Mohammed, were nabbed Sunday at Apani Community […]
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Monday, May 25th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 69 stranded Nigerians and 50 trafficked ladies have arrived the country from Lebanon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, confirmed this via a post on his Twitter handle. Mr. Onyeama also confirmed that the new set of evacuees arrived Nigeria Sunday. The Minister tweeted: “With the financial and logistic support of […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Alhaji Rauf Olaniyan, Deputy Governor of Oyo State, says his relationship with his boss, Gov. Seyi Makinde, is very robust and cordial. Olaniyan told newsmen in Ibadan on Sunday that reports alleging a rift were “the handiwork of fifth columnists bent on destabilising the current administration in the state”. He rejected suggestions […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Again, the number of COVID-19 in Nigeria is on the increase as the country has just recorded 313 new confirmed cases. Also, Lagos the Nigeria’s epicenter of the virus recorded 148 – the highest of the newly confirmed incidents. The latest figure as released late Sunday by the Nigeria Centre […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has mourned the death of the Saturday Editor, the New Telegraph newspaper, Mr. Abdulwaheed Bakare. Late Bakare, it was learnt, died Sunday after a brief illness. MMPN National President, Abdur-Rahman Balogun in a statement issued late Sunday condoled with Mr. Bakare’s immediate family, describing the […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Southeast Governors Forum has resolved to further engage the Nigerian Center for Disease Control ( NCDC) to scale up testing of Corona Virus in the zone, just as it directed its people living outside Igboland to obey all extant orders relating to the pandemic. Some of the extant orders […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The total number of Coronavirus – confirmed cases in Nigeria has risen to 7,526. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in its daily briefing late Saturday via its Twitter handle announced that 133 of the new cases were found in Lagos, 34 in Oyo, 28 in Edo, 22 in the FCT, six […]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has urged Muslims to continue on the path of spirituality and peaceful co-existence among every Lagos resident. Sanwo-Olu in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, on Saturday, congratulated Muslims in the state on the successful completion of this year’s Ramadan fasting […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has announced the continuation of peace deals with leaders of bandits operating in the state for the attainment of total peace in the state. The governor stated this on Saturday in Gusau while condoling families of those attacked by bandits in some villages in the state. He […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
By Emmanuel Adigwe, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the lockdown measures of the Federal Government to curtail the spread of COVID-19 will soon be a thing of the pass. He stated this in Sallah message issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
By Emmanuel Adigwe, Lagos (AFRICA EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, has come under criticism on Twitter for promising one of his followers that he will use his influence to help Yunusa Dahiru upturn his court conviction. As it could be recalled, the court in Bayelsa ruled that Yunusa […]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2020
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sequel to COVID-19 pandemic, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has declared he will celebrate the upcoming Eid-el-Fitr with his family alone and will not be receiving visitors for the Sallah. Buhari made his decision known in a state issued Friday by his Senior Special Assistatant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed into law the Executive Order Number 10 of 2020 for the implementation of Financial Autonomy of State Legislature and State Judiciary. Dr Umar Gwandu, Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice on Media and Public Relations disclosed this on Friday […]
