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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has decisively won the French presidential election, projected results say. Mr Macron defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen by about 65% to 35% to become, at 39, the country’s youngest president, the results show. If confirmed, he will also become the first president from outside the two traditional […]
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Latest Headlines, U.S./Canada, World News
Sunday, May 7th, 2017
(CNN)North Korea has detained a US citizen on suspicion of acts against the Pyongyang regime, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday. The regime described Kim Hak-song as “a man who was doing business in relation to the operation of Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.” KCNA said the American was detained Saturday, but […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UNICEF has expressed delight over Saturday’s release of over 80 of the girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents at their school in Chibok over three years ago. Pernille Ironside, Acting Representative of UNICEF Nigeria says: “It is heartening to know that the girls will be returning to their families who have been […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez says he is planning for life in the Premier League after a traumatic 24 hours at St James’ Park. The 57-year-old guided the club back into the English top flight, Premiership league. Benitez insisted it was business as usual as he prepared his side for Friday night’s Championship trip to Cardiff, […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ex-Federal lawmaker, Hon Bimbo Daramola, on Friday flagged-off the distribution of free Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, forms to 1,000 prospective candidates from all across Ekiti State. Addressing the prospective JAMB candidates during the event, Hon Daramola, said the flag-off of his ” Teach Them How To Fish Platform” is set […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
* Budgetary Increase Fallout of Presidential Parley with oil Producing Communities (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In sustenance of the new understanding between the Federal Government and the oil-producing communities of the Niger Delta, the President Muhammadu Buhari has released additional N35B to step-up the Amnesty Programme in the region. Although the FG had approved a N20B […]
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One thousand, one hundred and eighteen days after their abduction by terror sect Boko Haram, freedom yesterday came the way of 82 more of the Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, students. The girls were among the 227 kidnapped from their dormitory on the night of April 14, 2014. They were let […]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Amidst controversies on the health status of President Muhammdu Buhari, a pressure group under the aegis of Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Good Governance, (CCSOGG), on Saturday described the demands for his resignation as misplaced. According to CCSOGG, “no organ of state is currently suffering directly or indirectly as a result […]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu state governor, Sullivan Chime has formally dumped the People’s Democratic Party for the All Progressives Congress, APC at a ceremony in Udi local council of the state. Chime told the gathering he was crossing with thousands of his supporters to the ruling party as the the National Chairman of the APC, […]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Department of State Services has arrested Mr Ifeanyi Ubah, Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited over alleged stolen of petroleum products worth about eleven billion naira. A statement by Tony Opuiyo of the DSS, said the arrest was sequel to Uba’s engagement in acts of economic sabotage which include […]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2017
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that the Maritime University in Okerenkoko, Delta state, should take-off in October. The establishment of the university is one of the demands of Niger Delta militants to embrace peace. Governor Ifanyi Okowa of Delta told State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2017
Photo caption: Dr. Lemon A. Ikpea, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Lee Engineering and Construction Company (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chief executive officer of Lee Engineering and Construction Company, Dr. Leemon Ikpea, has urged the Federal Government and stakeholders in the oil and gas sector, in the country to ensure that Nigeria remains a leading nation in the […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In an apparent moves to douse tension about his ill health and his whereabout, President Mohammadu Buhari today attended the Friday Muslim Jumaat service at Aso rock mosque, Abuja. African Examiner correspondent reports that in about four weeks the president has not been seen in public nor attending public functions and weekly […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In line with its determination to dominate Africa’s mobile banking space with the introduction of cutting edge technology-driven products and services, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group, leading African financial institution, has introduced a full-fledged banking platform, tagged UBA Magic Banking and enabled by dialling *919# within Nigeria. The USSD code *919# […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded the immediate resignation of the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, for constituting himself a nuisance and for belittling the high office that he occupies. The party made the demand in a statement issued on Friday in Port Harcourt, in which […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu The recently released Leader of the rebellious Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on Thursday arrived Enugu state, where he is expected to meet with his supporters. African Examiner reports that this is the first time the pro-Biafra agitator is stepping his feet on the South-East, days after he […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER – The GIPLC which is expected to cater for about 1000 patients, in 3 states, over 3 weeks, kickoff on April 25th and is expected to end 17th May 2017. The non-governmental, not-for-profit charity organisation, which was founded in 2006 to cater for orphans and vulnerable children in Nigeria, has launched this new […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has declared that the Ease of Doing Business Initiative programme, coordinated by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is yielding fruits particularly in the maritime sector as red tapes and bottlenecks which hitherto mitigated against investment in the sector, have […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has obtained the conviction of one Adekunle Yakub Asuni who has been sentenced to four years imprisonment without any option of fine by Justice I. B. Gafai of the Federal High Court Akwa Anambra State for attempting to transfer the sum […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Institute of Change Management International (ICMI) has flagged off an initiative aimed at building change management capacity across all sectors through the development of the change management competences in the country. According to a statement by Mr. Joseph Anetor, the Institute which is registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission and approved […]
