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Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu …They Are Terrorists, Cultists –Bishop (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police Command says it has arrested one of the violent masquerades, popularly called “oriokpa Nsukka”, that recently attacked a Catholic seminarian in Nsukka. African Examiner recalled that over the years, the masquerades have remained thorns in the flesh of residents […]
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
Photo Caption: President of the Senate Bukola Saraki Speaks with State House Correspondents after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja. Photo; SUNDAY AGHAEZE; APRIL 3, 2017. ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President of the Senate Bukola Saraki said the meeting he and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu […]
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Monday, April 3rd, 2017
…threatens to Invade Kirikiri Prisons (AFRICAN EXAMINER) From the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), in Abuja on Monday, came a 24 hours ultimatum within which a Special Offences Mobile Court in Lagos, should release 13 students of the University of Lagos, currently being detained at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons. NANS threatened to invade the […]
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Monday, April 3rd, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of efforts aimed at boosting exports in Nigeria, Fidelity Bank has been in the vanguard of providing capacity building initiatives for customers and the business community across the country. To this end the bank in collaboration with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) and Ghanaian based West African Trade and […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that no fewer than 328 persons have died in the latest outbreak of meningitis in different parts of Nigeria. The Centre also confirmed that 2,524 suspected cases have been recorded. The Chief Executive Officer of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikezie Ihekweazu, listed […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South-East governors forum on sunday resolved to wade into the continued detention of leader of Indigenous peoples of Biafra ,IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, and other challenges confronting the zone. It said the body would also take up the agitation issue of Movement for the Actualization of the […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
(African Examiner) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Saturday announced the arrest of about 25 persons throughout the country for extortion and illegally selling registration materials to the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates. The culprits, according to the Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, were apprehended by a combined […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are indications that some unnamed Traditional rulers who recently joined the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, in Enugu North senatorial District, may soon be sanctioned by the state government, African Examiner has gathered. The leadership of MASSOB in the said district […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
Picture caption: Enugu state governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Commissioner for Finance and Lands in Enugu state,Deacon Okey Ogbodo, has protested the alleged illegal demolition of walls of his property by the Enugu Capital Development Authority, ECDA, saying he would rely on the due process of the law and […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
Picture caption: President Muhammadu Buhari (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate deployment of four out of the newly appointed Ambassadors-Designate. Those deployed are as follows: Professor Tijjani Bande, (Kebbi State) to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Headquarters in New York Itegboje Sunday Samson […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan after days of speculation that rocked the country’s markets and currency. Mr Gordhan will be replaced by Malusi Gigaba, said a statement issued late on Thursday by the president’s office. Earlier this week, President Zuma recalled Mr Gordhan from planned events in the UK. […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Awka (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dozens of youths and women in Umuoba Anam community in Anambra East council Area of Anambra State, South- East Nigeria, Thursday staged a nude protest against their traditional ruler, Igwe G.A. Ekwealor, whom they accused of allegedly supporting activities of rampaging herdsmen in the area. The protesters said […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2017
Picture Caption: From (L): Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika; Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Saleh Dunoma during the inspection of the runway under reconstruction at Abuja Airport. (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The reconstruction of the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, has reached […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Ministry of Finance on has announced details of members of the board and management of the newly licensed Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN). The Management team is led by Mr. Tony Okpanachi, a banker and erstwhile Deputy Managing Director/Deputy CEO, Ecobank Nigeria Limited. Before his appointment as Managing Director/ CEO […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An American Airlines co-pilot died after suffering a medical emergency just before landing at an Albuquerque, New Mexico, airport Wednesday afternoon, officials said. American Airlines Flight 1353 landed safely after leaving Dallas and was met at the gate by medical personnel, according to Albuquerque International Sunport spokesman Dan Jiron. The airline identified […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
Picture caption: Former Super Eagles Coach Mr. Paul Hamilton BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Super Eagles Coach Mr. Paul Hamilton is dead. Hamilton’s wife Durdy confirmed that her husband died Thursday, after a lost battle with an ailment which had lasted for some months. The ailment involved an injury on his leg through which he […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
Picture caption: A Nigerian pilot, Ademilola Odujinrin BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian pilot, Ademilola Odujinrin with the Air Djibouti has emerged the first African pilot to fly solo around the globe. “Lola” completed the final leg of his historic journey Wednesday afternoon, landing safely at Washington Dulles International Airport. He has completed the entire […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
Picture caption: Nigeria’s President, Mohammadu Buhari (L) President of the Nigeria Senate Bukola Saraki (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has set up a committee to resolve issues between the executive and legislative arms of the government, Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said. Mohammed told reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The protracted crisis bedevilling the Assemblies of God church has taken another twist, as the embattled factional General- Superintendent of the Church, Rev. Paul Emeka was chased out of the church’s national secretariat in Enugu by the Chidi Okoroafor led group. African Examiner reports that the national secretariat […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2017
By Dr. Peter Ekwueme (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – It was laughable that rivals would resort to the gutter to press against the front line governorship aspirant for the upcoming Anambra State gubernatorial election, Comrade Dr Tony Okey Nwoye. The online rant by one Aniagbaso is even more so. In this era of social media, misfits sit […]
