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Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
By Eric Ojo, Abuja (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) has strongly condemned the Cameroonian government over its decision to introduce travel permits requirement and restrictions in the Anglophones regions of the country. The CHRDA, the leading human rights organization working to realize human rights in Cameroon, said […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Britain and Finland have frozen funding to Zambia on suspicion that four million dollars they channelled into a social welfare scheme may have been misused, the Zambian presidency said on Tuesday. The social cash transfer scheme is a donor-supported programme under which the government relays money to vulnerable households in rural areas […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has re-emphasised that the National Assembly should reconvene immediately to attend to crucial and pending legislative business. The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yekini Nabena on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the majority must be allowed to lead the Senate. “We are in […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Roberto Firmino struck a stoppage-time winner as Liverpool beat Paris St Germain 3-2 at Anfield on Tuesday after Kylian Mbappe looked to have secured a point for the French side in a compelling Champions League Group C clash. PSG had come back from two goals down with Mbappe equalising in the 83rd […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party has condemned in strong terms the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission to ban the use of smart phones in polling units. The National Chairman òf the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, accused INEC of a surreptitious move to prevent the global community from knowing its plan to […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
PLATEAU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Convicted Senator Joshua Dariye has picked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) nomination form to contest in the next year’s election. Dariye is currently serving a 14-year jail term over financial misdeeds while he was Plateau State Governor. The Plateau State APC Publicity Secretary Mr. Chindo Dafat confirmed the development Tuesday in Jos, […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
OYO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Oyo State House of Assembly Speaker Hon. Olagunju Ojo, the Minority Leader and five other lawmakers have defected to three different political parties. The Clerk of the House, Mr. Paul Bankole, read the separate letters of defection written by the lawmakers during the Tuesday plenary session in Ibadan, the State capital. The Speaker […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance (2015-2018), Kemi Adeosun threw in her letter of resignation on Friday, September 14, to bring to a temporary closure, the public outcry and the embarrassment that her possession of a fake National Youth Service Corps Exemption Certificate had generated since July when it was first reported. Her […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A witness, Edwin Uduji, on Monday told an Igbosere High Court in Lagos how kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, threatened to collect a fine of 10, 000 dollars for any fake 100 dollar bill in the ransom paid to him. Uduji, an elder brother to abduction victim, Mr James […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Monday met with leaders of the Ogun chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abeokuta to seek their support ahead of the party’s national convention scheduled for Oct. 5 and Oct. 6. Saraki, who is seeking to be the party’s flag bearer in the […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
Photo: Delta APC Leader, Olorogun Otega Emerhor (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leader of the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Olorogun Otega Emerhor, has challenged the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District, Ovie Omo-Agege, to direct primaries contest for the seat. The primaries are scheduled for next week. In a statement signed by […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The OurMumuDonDo civil society group led by Charles Oputa,a.k.a Charly boy , on Monday held a public campaign against vote- buying in Osun, ahead of the governorship election on September, 22. Members of the group, drawn from across the country, took the “Don’t sell your Vote” campaign across major streets, markets and […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Qatar’s authority Monday confirmed that the country had plans to produce her first electric cars by 2023. The Qatari media reported that the electric vehicles will be manufactured by the factory which will be established at a cost of $9bn. The Chairman of the Qatar Quality company, which is responsible for the project, Ali […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2018
OSUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has barred the voters from taking phones and other electronic devices to the polling booths during elections. INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made this disclosure Monday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, at the stakeholders’ forum organized ahead of the State’s Saturday Governorship election. Prof. Yakubu said the measure was taken […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has called on the twelve Presidential Aspirants of the People’s Democratic Party to avoid disparaging utterances as they campaign ahead of the party’s national convention. In a statement on Monday, by his Special Adviser on Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, Dickson said that […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied freezing the bank accounts of Sen. Ademola Adeleke and those of his family members, including popular musician, Davido. Adeleke is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Sept. 22 governorship election in Osun. Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, in a […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Transportation and Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State and the South-South zone, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has repudiated comments by the senator representing Rivers South-East in the National Assembly, Magnus Abe, that he (Amaechi) is Sen. Abe’s Leader. Last week, at the APC National Secretariat […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some coastal communities in Bayelsa State have been submerged by ravaging floods, the State Government confirmed on Sunday through the Information and Orientation Commissioner, Daniel Iworiso-Markson. The Commissioner who spoke to journalists in Yenagoa, hinted that the number of communities affected by the flood is increasing on a daily basis and insisted […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Sokoto, the Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, on Sunday gave insight into how former President Goodluck Jonathan became Acting President through the popular Doctrine of Necessity. Tambuwal said that the Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honorable Henry Seriake Dickson, approached him in the heat of the tension that followed the incapacitation and […]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu …Says It Makes Me Weep (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the key governorship aspirants in the forthcoming general election in Enugu state, under the platform of the ruling All progressive congress APC, Barrister Ifeanyi Nwoga on Sunday expressed worry over the alarming rate of abject poverty in the state, saying the development […]
