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Saturday, July 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has said it is not aware of any $875 million ammunition deal with the United States. Reports had emerged that some US lawmakers blocked the deal. The report listed the blocked proposed sale to include 12 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters accompanied by defence systems, 28 helicopter engines produced by […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Non -government organization, with bias on the fight against corruption, operating under the aegis, Global Society for Anti-Corruption (GSAC) has expressed worry, over the alarming rate of cancer worm which it said has eaten so deep into almost every facet of the Nigerian nation. While calling on all and sundry to […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari says no Nigerian parent jokes with education, as they know that if their children or wards missed the opportunity of being educated, they have missed a lot. The Nigerian leader said this at a panel session at the Global Education Summit in London, on Thursday. According to him, the […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – ) The Federal Government has embarked on an audit of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Katsina State. Alhaji Mustapha Bara’u, NHGSFP Programme Manager in Katsina State, said during the launch of the exercise on Thursday that the enumeration targeted 833,957 pupils across 2,777 public primary schools in the […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A United States court has issued a warrant of arrest for a Deputy Commissioner of Police in Nigeria, Abba Kyari. According to a court document obtained by Peoples Gazette, Otis Wright of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track down […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the suit brought by 12 detained associates of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho. The court, on Thursday, took the decision to adjourn till Monday because the Department of State Services failed to produce the detained aides as earlier […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently supporting the Ondo State Government in scaling up COVID-19 sample collection and testing services in the state. The intervention was informed following a decline in most of the COVID-19 monitoring indices in the state. In first week of February this year, the number of samples […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited former Governor of Nasarawa State and serving senator, Tanko Al-Makura, and his wife, Mairo, over alleged corruption. A source at the commission disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday evening. As of the time of filing this report, the […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Olusegun Ogungbemide, the Lagos Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), says the corps has arrested 110 traffic violators on Wednesday under its Operation Thunderstorm. Ogungbemide disclosed this in a statement by the FRSC Route Commander and Public Education Officer, Mrs Olabisi Sonusi, in Lagos. He explained that the command had […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, July 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ramon Abbas, better known as Hushpuppi, has pleaded guilty to multimillion-dollar fraud charges as part of a plea bargain he entered with the U.S. authorities. Recall that the 37-year-old was arrested in Dubai in June 2020 and he was subsequently extradited to the United States where he has been facing charges of […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Gideon Kurada of Kaduna High Court has discharged and acquited leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shi’ites, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat. The IMN leader and his wife stood trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, among other criminal charges since December 2015, […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With a split decision of four-to-three, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the victory of Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last governorship election in Ondo State. In the majority judgment delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, four of the seven-member panel, dismissed the appeal by Eyitayo Jegede and […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
…Accuse Sports Commissioner Of Sabotage (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angered by the alleged deliberate refusal of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, to host and reward them, Athletes and Coaches that represented Enugu State in the last National Sports festival, (NSF), held in Benin City, Edo State, South-south Nigeria, have vowed not to represent the state in any future […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICN EXAMINER) – Lai Mohamed, minister of information and culture, has cautioned Nigerians in Diaspora to desist from sponsoring secessionist groups. Mohammed disclosed this when the delegation of NIDO, UK chapter visited his office on Tuesday. The minister disclosed that it is sad that secessionist groups campaigning around the world for their causes were using […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavily armed men suspected to be members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, militia wing have killed a Divisional Police Officer, DPO in Imo state. The deceased, a Chief Superintendent of Police, Fatmann Dooiyor was killed today Tuesday during a gun battle between the police and the gunmen. Until his death, […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zamfara State Police Command, on Tuesday, refuted reports claiming that armed bandits abducted 60 passengers along the Sokoto-Gusau highway on July 25. A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Muhammad Shehu, however, confirmed the abduction of 11 passengers on the highway, with two of the abducted passengers already […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cleared and released the UTME results of 14,620 candidates that were hitherto under investigation, while withholding the results of 93 other candidates. Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board Head, Media and Publicity, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, on Tuesday, said the results […]
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday swore-in the 57 newly elected Local Government and Local Government Development Council chairmen and vice chairmen in the state. Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony at Lagos House, Ikeja, Sanwo-Olu urged the new council executives to always put the residents first in all that […]
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria will soon reopen its Consulate-General in San Francisco to provide consular services for the huge population of Nigerians residing on the West Coast of the US. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Gabriel Aduda, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York on Monday that the plan […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than two weeks after two Soldiers were killed by unknown armed men at Adani community in Uzowani Council Area of Enugu state, Opanda village in same Local government, was on Monday, attacked by yet to be identified hoodlums who inflicted various degrees of injuries on some of the natives. African Examiner […]
