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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Supreme Court has dismissed stay of proceeding filed by the Ali Modu-Sheriff faction of the opposition PDP and directed Justice Ibrahim Saulawa-led three-man Appeal court panel Abuja division, to proceed and deliver its ruling on the pending appeal before it. The Ahmed Makarfi faction of the […]
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Monday, November 21st, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Nigeria for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Wednesday, November 23, 2016, to attend the 4th Africa-Arab Summit. The Summit, which will be attended by Heads of State and Government from Gulf and African countries, is expected to endorse the Malabo Declaration and Action Working Plan for 2017-2019 […]
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Monday, November 21st, 2016
ABUAJ, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Supreme Court Judge, Sylvester Ngwuta has been arraigned by the Federal Government before a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja over alleged fraud. Justice Ngwuta who was arrested by the DSS operatives October 8, 2016, alongside six others, was arraigned on 15-count charge, including taking bribe; possessing different international […]
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Monday, November 21st, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara AWKA, ANAMBRA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The ongoing feud between Governor Willy Obiano of Anambra state, and his predecessor, Peter Obi, is raging from bad to worst. Obi and his successor have been at logger head since the former left office in 2013. Mr. Obiano, had recently through his media aide, Oliver Okpala, […]
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Monday, November 21st, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely six days to the election, Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has met for the second time with President Muhammadu Buhari inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. It would be recalled that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday October 27, 2016 announced the substitution of […]
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Sunday, November 20th, 2016
KATSINA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Bagudu Hirse has been abducted by the gunmen in Katsina. Hirse who was returning from Sokoto, where he has gone to pay condolence visit to the family of late Sultan, Ibrahim Dasuki, was abducted in front of the house of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, […]
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Sunday, November 20th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed deep sorrow and regret over the Sunday train disaster in India that killed more than 100 passengers near Pukhrayan. Mr. President in a statement by his SSA on Media and Publicity Garba Shehu, who said he received the news of the train derailment and heavy […]
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Sunday, November 20th, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi AKURE, ONDO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has kicked against the request by a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State on account of the its internal crisis. A statement signed […]
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Sunday, November 20th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara ABAKALIKI, EBONYI NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tragedy struck Friday at Ekuluobia Street Kpiripiri in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi capital, south East Nigeria, as a two year-old boy was burnt to death and property valued several millions of naira destroyed in a fire disaster that occurred in the area. The inferno which began in […]
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Saturday, November 19th, 2016
AKURE, ONDO NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) former Ondo State Governorship aspirants and party’s supporters to stand by Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) and work for his victory in the next Saturday election. The President made the call Saturday in Akure, the Ondo State capital at […]
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Saturday, November 19th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Workers in south East Nigeria could not hold back their tears on Friday as they converged in Enugu for a rally to pay respect to the 21 coal miners who were brutally murdered by the British Police at the Iva Valley coal mine, Enugu in 1949. The […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has set up an inter-agency Presidential Committee on Asset Recovery (PCAR) as part of its efforts to strengthen the ongoing fight against corruption. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the move public Friday in his remark, while receiving the Special Representative of the UN […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2016
By Niyi Adeyi ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has berated speculation that he funded the campaign of defeated US Democratic candidate, Mrs. Hilary Clinton with the sum of $500 million. Buhari’s SSA on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in a post Friday on his FB account, hit back at the speculators, as […]
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Friday, November 18th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Volkswagen VW has hinted about its planned 30,000 jobs cut worldwide with about 23,000 of the losses likely in Germany. The giant which is still dealing with the aftermath of the emissions-cheating scandal is determined to rejuvenate its core brand and develop new electric and self-driving cars. It confirmed that […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa has described the sentencing to death of a Nigerian in Singapore on Friday for drug related offences as heartbreaking despite repeated calls for Nigerians to desist from criminal activities like drug peddling. The Presidential aide […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has expressed great shock over the passage of foremost industrialist and economist, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi. Gbadamosi, a Co-chairman of the Lagos @ 50 Committee, died on Wednesday at the age of 72. The Governor in a statement signed Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that the anti-corruption war is tough and grueling, lamenting the crime is fighting ‘’vigorously back’, yet, assured that the battle would be won. While meeting with American Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, Wednesday, on the margins of conference on climate change, COP22, in Marrakech, […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2016
By Ignatius Okpara ENUGU NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 41 year old man, identified as Francis Okonkwo Uzo, on Tuesday, killed himself after hacking his wife, Mrs. Ozoemena Uzo to death in Enugu. According to the Enugu State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ebere Amarizu, who disclosed this to AFRICAN EXAMINER on Wednesday, the ugly […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun LAAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prominent industrialist, economist and Co-Chairman, Lagos @50 Planning Committee, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi has died at the age of 72. Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Steve Ayorinde announced Gbadamosi’s death Wednesday night on his twitter handle @stevoree. Ayorinde said the Lagos State Government mourned the passing […]
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun IKEJA, LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has urged members of the State’s All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), not to compromise standard in secondary education despite the prevailing economic downturn in the country. The Governor, who gave the task at the 30th Annual […]
