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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
…Pledges to Partner MRA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), has affirmed its readiness to partner with the Media Rights Agenda (MRA) to ensure that the examinations body fulfills its constitutional mandate fully, uncompromisingly, and faithfully. Chairman of the newly inaugurated Governing Board of NABTEB, Professor Leonard Karshima Shilgba, gave the assurance on […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Liverpool have reached the Champions League final for the first time since 2007 –now advancing with 7-6 on aggregate. This is despite losing a dramatic second leg to Roma. Leading 5-2 after a devastating semi-final first leg at Anfield, Liverpool went further ahead when Sadio Mane finished from Roberto Firmino’s clever pass. […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki Wednesday declared that failure of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris’s to appear before the upper Legislative Chamber is a threat to the Nigeria’s democracy. Saraki made the declaration on his twitter handle after the plenary Wednesday. The IGP was […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely a month that, Enugu state governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, inaugurated a 2Km road project built at Amukwa community in Nsukka council Area of the state, by Chairman of Peace Mass Transit (PMT) company Limited, Evangelist Sam Maduka Onyishi, the governor has commissioned yet another 600 km road constructed […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara IMO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Major Stakeholders in Imo State, South East Nigeria, including politicians, have vowed to resist the N3000 levy being imposed on every taxable adult in the state by the Governor Rochas Okorocha-led administration. The Governor is being accused of attempting to extort the 637 autonomous communities in the […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
OSUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The main gate and the administrative block of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU Ile-Ife, have been sealed by the officials of Osun State Internal Revenue Service over alleged tax debt of N1.8 billion. Reports confirmed that the State tax officials, who arrived the University’s premises with the heavily armed security […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
Photo: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has urged the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage to expedite the task before it with regards to workers’ new minimum wage. Prof. Osinbajo made this call Tuesday in Abuja at the 2018 May Day celebration with the theme: “Labour […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s International Nwankwo Kanu has been listed among the ex-Arsenal players billed to grace the outgoing Manager of the club – Arsene Wenger’s last English Premier League (EPL) home game. The match is between the Gunners and Burnley and it is scheduled for Sunday, May 6, 2018. According to reports on their […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Almost 40 people have been reportedly killed, while many others were seriously injured Tuesday afternoon, when two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a mosque and a market in Mubi, Adamawa State, Northeast Nigeria. A local volunteer confirmed that following the bloody attack, many victims including the dead and injured have been […]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has captured no fewer than 31 million account customers in its Bank Verification Number (BVN) project aimed at ensuring unique identifier in the Nigerian banking industry. CBN Director, Banking and Payment System, Mr Dipo Fatokun, disclosed this in a paper titled, `Nigeria’s progress towards the creation […]
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Monday, April 30th, 2018
Photo: President Buhari (L) and President Trump (R) (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Donald Trump welcomed the first leader from sub-Saharan Africa to the White House on Monday nearly 15 months into his term. The discussions with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari centered around security challenges, including the nearly decade-long insurgency by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria’s […]
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Monday, April 30th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered an interim forfeiture of two properties in the FCT linked to the wife of the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan. The properties in question are located at Plot No. 1960, Cadastral Zone A05, Maitama District and Plot No. 1350, Cadastral […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pan- African financial Institution, United Bank for Africa Plc, last thursday, ended its annual Group Chairman’s Forum, a platform for group integration, re-strategising and knowledge sharing with the overall aim of putting the bank on firm standing to actualize its goals and targets for the financial year. The theme of this year’s […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday commended constituents in Kogi West Senatorial District for resisting the move to recall Sen. Dino Melaye from the senate. Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, in a statement in Lokoja on Sunday, said that the people of Kogi West where he […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Financial Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Ekiti, Mr Kayode Oni, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Oni was said to have been abducted on a spot on the Efon Alaaye-Erio-Ekiti federal highway while returning to his home, Aramoko Ekiti, headquarters of Ekiti West Local Government area late on Saturday. […]
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Sunday, April 29th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A bomb explosion occurred on Sunday at the country home of the President General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo at Ukehe, Igbo Etiti Council area of Enugu state. The police Bomb Disposal Unit said it was an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that […]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Uganda have rescued more than 100 hostages, including more than 90 children, from a mosque in the capital Kampala, said local police spokesman Emilio Kayima on Saturday. “Last night we rescued 94 children and 18 women who had been held captive in the Usafi mosque,” said Kayim. “We have arrested […]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in South – East Nigeria, have urged people of the region and its governors to support the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, as it remains the easiest way to realise Igbo presidency in 2023. Some of the leaders who […]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2018
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ishieke Campus of Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, was on Friday thrown into shock, as a 40-year-old man, Emmanuel Igwe, popularly known as Ezeugo from Amechi-Idodo community in Enugu State, committed suicide for unknown reasons. Until his demise, the deceased, was operating a restaurant in […]
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Friday, April 27th, 2018
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bayelsa State Government got the sum of N12.949 Allocation from the Federation Account for the month of April. The State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Maxwell Ebibai, said in a statement on Friday that the amount represented a drop of N775 million from the allocation for the month of March which was […]
