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Sunday, June 20th, 2021
(AFRICAAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has reaffirmed that construction of the Second Niger Bridge would be completed next year. The minister gave the assurance at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday, to mark the sixth-year anniversary of the present administration. According […]
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Sunday, June 20th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities in Dubai has announced a revision in procedures for travellers coming from South Africa and Nigeria on June 19. This is contained in a statement issued by the UAE Embassy in Abuja. According to the statement, the new rules issued by the Supreme Committee of Crisis […]
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus says every region has countries facing a steep increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths, with cases in Africa on rapid increase. Ghebreyesus, who spoke on Friday at COVID-19 news briefing at WHO headquarters in Geneva, expressed concerns that COVID-19 cases in Africa had increased by […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Kebbi has confirmed that the vehicle used to abduct students from Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi, belongs to a high court judge in the state. Nafi’u Abubakar, Kebbi police spokesman, stated that the van was hijacked by bandits on Birnin Yauri road. Abubakar disclosed that the police […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three bodies have so far been recovered from the scene of Thursday night’s tanker explosion on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos State. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, confirmed the development in Ikeja on Friday. Our correspondent reports that […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North) of N322 million money laundering charge Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke held that the agency failed to prove the elements of the offences for which it charged the lawmaker. Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, represents Delta North […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the 2023 general elections gathers momentum, the people of Enugu East Senatorial Zone of Enugu State, have sounded a note of warning against any plan to truncate the existing zoning arrangement of the governorships position which favours the district. They threatened to resist any zone or individual who may make any […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) says the new management of the fund is not under probe by the Public Accounts Committee of the Senate over alleged N62 billion fraud. Ms Alexandra Mede, Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs, NSITF, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Mede said that the […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ekiti on Thursday said it has arrested a 65-year-old man, Durodola Ogundele, for allegedly having canal knowledge of his stepmother. A statement by the command’s Spokesperson, Mr Sunday Abutu, in Ado-Ekiti, said Ogundele was apprehended by the Ido-Osi Divisional Headquarters of the command on Wednesday at in Ido-Osi, […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Mnangagwa has fired with immediate effect High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere for gross incompetence after a Tribunal Mr Mnangagwa set last year recommended that she be removed from office. The sacking of Justice Ndewere coincides with setting of another Tribunal to investigate Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa who is being charged […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Father Emmanuel Francis Ribeiro, one of the most famous Zimbabwean Roman Catholic Church priests who contributed to the country’s liberation struggle has died at the age of 86. Fr Ribeiro, a theologian, music composer, educationist, writer, media activist and nationalist, died Thursday morning, hours before Zambia’s nationalist founding father Kenneth Kaunda also […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday said that the commission would prosecute a former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, again. He said Kalu “will be prosecuted all over again”. Bawa disclosed this while speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Recall […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -Another set of female students of Federal Government Girls College have been abducted by Bandits in Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, according to Daily Trust. Details of the incident are still sketchy but there are reports that a security operative was shot dead during the operation. The attackers, who rode on motorcycles, were said […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya who has a pending case of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold has been re-elected as the federation’s president for the next five years. Rushwaya (53) who was released on $100 000 bail some months back, was retained as president of the federation in elections […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo says the state governmant is working out a welfare package, including an insurance scheme, for the police personnel in the state. A statement issued in Owerri on Tuesday by Mr Oguwike Nwachuku, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, stated that Uzodinma announced the plan during a […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera says he has relayed a message to South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, condemning the “despicable behavior” of Malawian diplomats in South Africa. They were expelled for abusing diplomatic privileges. In a special address, three days after the South African government declared Malawi diplomats persona non grata and ordered […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – June 14, 2021 (NAN) The Victims Support Fund (VSF), an NGO, on Monday lamented the appalling conditions of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Niger State. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Shiroro, Niger State, on Monday, its Executive Director, Prof. Nana Tanko, lamented that “with all the humanitarian agencies, […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Army has dismissed reports that troops were on revenge mission in some communities in Abia following the alleged killing of six soldiers in a clash with ESN/IPOB terrorists. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Yerima, in a statement on Monday, said contrary to reports, no soldier was killed in […]
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Monday, June 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN has welcomed G7 nations’ commitment to immediate sharing of 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, supporting global access and helping to end the pandemic. The Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, in a statement, said equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines represented the clearest pathway out of the […]
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Sunday, June 13th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe has announced new lockdown measures as the Southern African country bans all gatherings except funerals with effect from Monday 14 June following a surge in new cases and deaths. Government rolled out vaccination of citizens in February and while hope was high that new infections were being contained, the country witnessed […]
