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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila has declared that the Green Chamber will reintroduce the Electoral Act amendment bill on Wednesday. He said the House has resolved to rework the bill and send back to the President as quickly as possible for assent. He also announced the first set of amendments […]
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Enugu, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Authorities of the Railway Police Barrack in Enugu, South- East Nigeria, have served Ejection notice and 24-day ultimatum to some serving police officers to pack out from the Barrack. The ejection Notice signed by the Area Commander, Railway Area Command, Eastern District, ACP Bawa Daniel ordered the concerned officers to vacate their […]
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Abuja, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States and the British Government have turned down a request by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to send representatives to observe the his trial holding at the Federal High Court, Abuja Division on January 18, 19, and 20. While the US said it was limiting […]
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Monday, January 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government on Monday, entered fresh terrorism allegations against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. FG, in the amended process it filed before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, increased the counts in the initial charge it preferred against Kanu. The IPOB leader […]
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Ebonyi, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, January 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ebonyi Government has directed markets, parks and business premises to disregard the sit-at-home order, on Tuesday, January 19, by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The group had issued a sit-at-home order in solidarity with its Leader, Nnamdi Kanu, whose case comes up from January 18 to January 20. Mr […]
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Lagos, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Monday, January 17th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State government has announced that Marine Bridge will be partially closed to allow the Federal Government carry out routine maintenance works on the bridge. The closure will be from Monday, January 17 to Saturday, April 2, 2022. This is according to the state Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, who […]
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Saturday, January 15th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Commandant General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, has expressed shock and dismay over the allegations levelled against the anti-vandal unit of Rivers State Command of the Corps by Governor Nyesom Wike. Wike had accused the NSCDC unit and police of aiding and abetting vandals and illegal bunkers […]
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Friday, January 14th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than four students of the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, have reportedly been kidnapped by heavily armed men who stormed the university premises and whisked them away to an unknown destination. The institution’s Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Ibrahim, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to our correspondent in […]
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Abuja, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission would deploy 12,000 ad hoc personnel for the February 12, 2022 area council election in the Federal Capital Territory, its Resident Electoral Commissioner, Yahaya Bello. He also assured that INEC would provide a level playing field for candidates participating in the election. Bello, represented by the Administrative […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has lifted the suspension on Twitter operations in the country, effective from 12 am, January 13, 2022. This was disclosed in a press statement on Wednesday signed by the Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency and Chairman Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement, Kashifu Abdullahi. […]
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
(BREAKING) : Ex-Oyo Governor Alao-Akala Is Dead (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Oyo Governor Otunba Christopher Alao-Akala, is dead. He was 71. Sources close to the politician confirmed his demise on Wednesday. The politician was born on June 3, 1950, at Ogbomoso in the Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State. He had his […]
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief Ernest Shonekan who headed the Interim National Government that succeeded the junta of General Ibrahim Babangida, has died. Shonekan died at a hospital, in the Lekki area of Lagos state, at the age of 85. He was the interim head of the Nigerian Government between August 26 and between August 26 […]
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dorcas Vem, the wife of Silas Vem, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plateau Government House, has been kidnapped by gunmen. The gunmen, in a separate operation, equally kidnapped Dr. Samuel Audu, a Director in the Plateau State Ministry of Health. Sources within the Government House in Jos and the State Secretariat […]
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Monday, January 10th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives has suspended its three-day warning strike. The nurses on Monday had commenced a three-day warning strike to protest poor remuneration and working conditions in the Lagos State health sector. But the state NANNM chairman, Olurotimi Awojide, after an emergency […]
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Abuja, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A presidential campaign billboard bearing the name and picture of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has surfaced in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Osinbajo, a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, is serving his second and final term of four years as the Vice President alongside the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). […]
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Monday, January 3rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The former Presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC in the June 12, 1993 election, Bashir Othman Tofa is dead. A source close to the family confirmed that the Elder Statesman died in the early hours of Monday after a protracted illness. Tofa contested alongside his opponent, Social Democratic Party, […]
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Sunday, January 2nd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has passed away. He was 93 years old. His death was confirmed by palace sources who pleaded anonymity on Sunday. However, when contacted, the monarch’s aides neither confirmed his death nor denied it. “Even if he is dead, it is the governor that will […]
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Saturday, January 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Activities at the Port Harcourt Refinery Company in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State was disrupted following a fire incident. Though details of the fire which occurred on Saturday morning could not be ascertained, a source said the fire lasted less than an hour has been extinguished. The source who preferred […]
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Lagos, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State
Saturday, January 1st, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has tasked Nigerians to remain hopeful that the country will surmount its challenges. Tinubu disclosed this on Friday in his new year message to Nigerians. The former governor of Lagos also tasked citizens to remain united in the belief that collective effort […]
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Assembly has transmitted the 2022 Appropriation Bill to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for assent. The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the Federal Government’s budget on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, respectively, raising the total estimates from the proposed N16.391tn to N17.126tn. The oil benchmark was […]
