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Monday, January 24th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angry youths have stormed and set ablaze Noble Kids Academy, situated at Kwanar Dakata, Kano State, where late Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old was kidnapped, killed and buried by her proprietor, Abdulmalik Tanko. It was gathered that the youths mobilized themselves and launched an attack on the building in the wee hours of […]
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Super Eagles of Nigeria are out of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. They lost 1-0 to Tunisia in their Sunday encounter in the Round of 16. Barely two minutes after he was brought into the game, Alex Iwobi was sent off for a bad tackle. This is after Tunisia shocked […]
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Friday, January 21st, 2022
The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company(IBEDC) Ltd over insolvency. The Chief Operating Officer (COO) Engineer John Ayodele disclosed this in a memo to members of staff intimating them of the development. Ayodele, in the January 20 memo, said the company fell under receivership by a September […]
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A High Court in Abia State has ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N1 billion to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and issue a letter of apology to him. Kanu had approached the Court demanding N5 billion over the invasion of his father’s house […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government and transportation stakeholders on Tuesday introduced and signed a consolidated levy of N800 for the informal transport sector. Speaking at the signing ceremony and ticket unveiling at Ikeja, the Commissioner for Finance, Dr Rabiu Olowo, said that there was need for the harmonised levy. Olowo said the harmonisation […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Armed men suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Tuesday, stormed a Catholic church in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, South East, Nigeria, and disrupted ongoing Mass celebration. The gunmen, who invaded the church, queried the parish priest on why he was celebrating a mass […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Not less than 200 indigent widows of Akwu-Achi in Oji River Council area of Enugu State, South East Nigeria, yesterday smiled home yesterday as they received cash money, assorted food items, including bags of rice, cartons of indomie Noodles, amongst others from Spokesman of Chevron oil company, Mr. Victor Chimaobi Anyaegbudike The […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences Court has granted a Dubai- based internet celebrity, Ismailia Mustapha, aka Mompha bail of N200 million with two sureties in the like sum. The court granted his application for bail filed through his lawyer, Gboyega Oyewole (SAN). Justice Dada ordered that one of two […]
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a 1.2 million -bag paddy rice pyramid, in Abuja. President Buhari commended the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, for Initiating the Anchor Borrowers Programme, through which the massive rice production was achieved. In his address at the event this morning, the […]
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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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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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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 […]
