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Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some suspected militants early Tuesday morning stormed some communities in Igando, a Lagos suburb and disturbed the peace of the vicinity with heavy sporadic shooting. Many people are said to have sustained injuries as the commotion raged. Residents confirmed that the suspects arrived as early as 4am; […]
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the modernization of Abuja- Kaduna commercial rail operations. Speaking at the take off ceremony Tuesday, Mr. President highlighted that the rail operations would ease transportation of commuters and goods from the FCT Abuja to Kaduna and vice versa. President Buhari also indicated that the project […]
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the death of prominent politician and former Deputy Governor of Kano State, Senator Magaji Abdullahi, describing him as one of Nigeria’s finest and result-driven engineers of his time. In a message to the family, the government and people of Kano State delivered by a Federal […]
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has descended very heavily on members of the National Assembly (NASS), saying the raging row on alleged budget padding is a vindication of his position that the lawmakers lack integrity. Obasanjo threw the salvos Monday afternoon, in Abuja while fielding questions from the […]
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Against the backdrop of recent reports in the media, alleging that the 2016 budget was padded, the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume ( APC Borno South) has said that it should not in anyway be attributed to the National Assembly, being the Institution constitutionally responsible for budgetary appropriations. Ndume also declared that the Senate […]
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Monday, July 25th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja said his administration will pay keen interest to accountability and transparency to fast-track football development in the country. However, the President while receiving the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, and his Secretary-General, Fatma Samuora, at State House, challenged football administrators to fashion out strategic programmes […]
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Monday, July 25th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Again, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has visited the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Obasanjo arrived the Villa around 12.45pm Monday in a black Sports Utility. Upon arrival, he immediately moved into the President’s office and met behind the closed door with Buhari. Former […]
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Monday, July 25th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – MThe Lagos State Government on Sunday announced its readiness to massively reduce dependence on federal allocation and increase the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to a target of N30billion monthly in 2017 and N50billion monthly in 2018 as well as a yearly budget size of N1 trillion by 2018. Rising from […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) is set to certify Officers and Ratings of the Nigerian Navy in line with the requirements of Standards of Training Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW). This was made known by the Director General of the Agency, Dr. Dakuku Peterside when the Flag Officer Commanding, Naval […]
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Sunday, July 24th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the spate of violence and killings trailing rerun elections in Rivers state, south-south Nigeria, a group named Centre for Public Accountability (CPA) has advised the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to again postpone the elections saying politicians are not ready for the elections. A statement issued in Abuja by […]
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has been accused of systematically destroying the foundation of tertiary education in the country. A civil society group, Education Awareness Support Organisation, specifically accused the minister of arbitrarily tinkering with the set rules governing tertiary institutions. The group has therefore, petitioned President Muhammadu […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
By Mustapha Abdul Salaam BENUE, MAKURDI (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State has upheld the re-election of former Senate President David Mark. Justice Obande Ogunya while delivering the leading judgment Friday held that the State Election Petition Tribunal’s decision to strike out the petition of Senator Mark’s opponent and […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
By Niyi Adeyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has announced his return to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Ribadu, a one- time Presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2011 general elections and chieftain of […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2016
By Ayo Balogun LAGOS, NGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Global health experts, scientists and others will storm Lagos next week to brainstorm on emerging deadly diseases threatening the African continent. The Lagos State Government in collaboration with Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium (GET), the West African Task Force for Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks (WATER), […]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun on Thursday officially acknowledged before the Senate that Nigerian economy was technically in recession going by the two-digit inflation rate and other negative indices on ground. Adeosun who stated this while briefing the senate on strategies and policies being adopted by the federal government to address the […]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sacked chairman of the house of representatives committee on appropriation, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin has opened a can of worms on the house leadership saying they unilaterally allocated N40 billion to their offices out of the N100 billion of the entire National Assembly. Jilbrin also insisted that he willingly resigned as the […]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Senate on Thursday received from the President Mohammadu Buhari the list of nominees into the management board of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as well as two nominees as justices of the Supreme Court. The nomination of membership of the NDDC board came a week after a group of concerned elders in the Niger Delta under the aegis of […]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The embattled Senate President Bukola Saraki Thursday debunked the speculation on his exit from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) . One of his media aides Bamikole Omishore in a statement, confirmed that the National Assembly (NASS) Chairman’s media team was very much aware about the report […]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
By Seun Adebosin LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Non-Governmental organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has commended the Court of Appeal ruling on the use of Hijab in Lagos, saying it has restored hope in the judiciary as the last hope of the common man. MURIC which noted that the five judges who gave […]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2016
By Seun Adebosin LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Court of Appeal in Lagos has upturned the ruling of a State High Court on its ruling which placed ban on the use of Hijab by female Students in the State’s public schools. The court in its unanimous ruling Thursday declared that the court’s ban on […]
