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Wednesday, February 15th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and other principal officers of the National Assembly (NASS) have traveled to United Kingdom (UK) to visit President Muhammadu Buhari. Others Federal Lawmakers included: Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan; Deputy Speaker, Yusuf Lasun and House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila. The NASS leaders left […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Distributors of the Dangote foods companies, including Dangote Flour, Sugar and Salt smiled home last night as the management of the Companies doled out over N2 billion as rewards for their loyalty to the companies over the past one year. At a colourful Gala night which the distributors were hosted to last […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State governor, Henry Seriake Dickson on in Yenagoa on Tuesday celebrated the first year of his reelection and five years in office as the governor, with a pledge to lift embargo on employment into the civil service and broaden the scope of governance by rewarding those who worked for him. He also stated […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The South East Zonal chapter of the ruling All progressive Congresses APC, says it is battled ready to win all the forth-coming elections in the zone based on the solid political structures it has put in place in the five states of the region. It posited that going […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-nam, has reportedly been killed with poison in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. According Malaysian police, a North Korean man who they identified as “Kim Chol”, instead of Kim Jong-nam, was waiting at the airport for a flight to Macau Monday but […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is in The Gambia, has said he is “very pleased” the West African state intends to rejoin the Commonwealth. His visit, the first to The Gambia by a British foreign secretary, comes weeks after long-time ruler Yahya Jammeh went into exile after losing elections. Mr Jammeh took […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned following widespread reports he had misled Trump administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, about his contacts with Russia. In his resignation letter, Flynn, a retired Army general, acknowledged late Monday he had “inadvertently briefed” Pence and others with “incomplete information” regarding his phone […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Monday afternoon from the Abuja House in London, United Kinddom UK, spoke to his United States US counterpart President Donald Trump on telephone. The conversation which was at the request of the American President was cordial. President Buhari’s SA on Media and Publicity, Mr. […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has called on the politicians to shun bitterness and be accommodating to oppositions. Osinbajo made the call Monday night in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital at the Banquet dinner organized in his honour by the State Government. Most of the times, bitter politics Prof Osinbajo said was […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal GovernmeNT OF Nigeria has inaugurated a 14-man committee chaired by Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN) to end incessant and protracted strikes in Nigerian tertiary institutions, with a declaration that it does not see the unions as an enemy. The committee is expected to re-negotiate the 2009 agreement between government, Academic Staff Union of […]
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Seriake Dickson on Monday said, the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Bayelsa State Government and the Bank of Industry was a part of an efforts to raise the N10 billion entrepreneurship development fund to create wealth for small and medium scale entrepreneurs in the state. Dickson, who made the disclosure […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has appointed Mr. Thusang Mahlangu as its new African CEO. Mahlangu succeeded Ms. Delphine Traoré Maïdou who remains on AGCS Africa Board, a position which extends her role for the underwriting group, such as supporting Allianz’s strategy across the African continent. The appointment which […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2017
By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari who is presently on vacation in the United kingdom (UK) is expected to speak today (Monday) with his United States (US) counterpart, Mr. Donald Trump. Indication to this emerged from the President’s SA on New Media Bashir Ahmad via his twitter handle: @BashirAhmaad. […]
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Monday, February 13th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dangote Rice, a subsidiary of Dangote Group is set to launch in Sokoto, Sokoto state it’s multi-million naira 25, 000 hectares of rice Outgrower scheme with a prospect of hundreds of thousand of employment opportunities for the rural communities inhabitants. President of the Group, Aliko Dangote disclosed at the weekend that the […]
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Sunday, February 12th, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia (African Examiner) – The popular Club 25 road Abayi, in the commercial city of Aba, in Osisioma council Area of Abia State, South- East Nigeria and environ, was at the weekend thrown into anxiety and tension, as a man identified as Mr. Peter Ibekwe, was found dead inside his hotel room […]
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Sunday, February 12th, 2017
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu (African Examiner) – The Enugu state Police Command has discovered and successfully evacuated an unexploded ordinance(UXO) being part of the civil war left overs in a farm land. It said the object was evacuated by operatives of the Command’s Explosive Ordinance Department (EOD) “on 7/2/17 at a farmland at Eke in Udi local […]
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Sunday, February 12th, 2017
By Niyi Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The recent Federal Government’s Whistle-blower policy has started yielding fruit, as sum of US$151 million and 8 billion Naira looted funds have been recovered. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who said this in a statement issued in Lagos Sunday, however clarify that the bogus […]
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Saturday, February 11th, 2017
…Receives cash prize of $50,000 By Niyi Adeyi LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For the second time, Abraham Kiptum from Kenya has emerged the winner of the 2nd edition of the Access Bank Lagos city Marathon race which held early Saturday, February 11, 2017. Kiptum achieved similar feat in the maiden edition last year. Ronny […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are heated debates in Africa and in diplomatic circles across the globe over the January 31, African Union(AU) Assembly decision that African countries carry out a collective withdrawal from the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) Although the decision is technically non- binding but it carries a lot of weight and may sound the […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2017
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has arrived Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital to commence the second leg of the Federal Government (FG) Niger Delta Dialogue. Osinbajo’s visit to the South South State is part of his ongoing engagement with the people and communities of the Niger Delta region. While in Yenagoa, the […]
