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Tuesday, January 10th, 2017
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gambia’s communication minister, Sheriff Bojang, said on Monday he had left his post in the first high-profile Cabinet defection since President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept losing a December election.Opposition leader Adama Barrow won the polls by a thin margin, sparking nationwide celebrations in the riverine nation wedged within its […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2017
By Niyi Adeyi, Abuja ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Executive Secretary of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), Mr. Jim Obazee. The President has also approved Mr. Adedotun Sulaiman as the new Council Chairman as well as the immediate reconstitution of the body. President Buhari according to a statement […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A pro-democracy and Non-Governmental Organization- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has condemned the planned six weeks shut down of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja and the diversion of all flights to Kaduna Airport as disclosed by the minister of State for transportation in charge of Aviation. The group said it has […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2017
MAIDUGURI, BORNO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Borno State Police Command has confirmed the multiple suicide bomber attack, Sunday in Maiduguri, the State capital which left eight people dead. The Command’s Spokesperson, Mr. Victor Isuku, explained Monday that there were two separate attacks which occurred between 8.20 p.m. and 10.30 p.m yesterday (Sunday). According to […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2017
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Dr. Dakuku Peterside has approved the redeployment of some senior Management staff of the Agency. According to the DG, the new postings are expected to reposition the Agency towards meeting its statutory mandate as enshrined […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2017
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has extended condolences to the government and people of Niger State on the passage of former Governor, Engr. Abdulkadir Kure. Buhari Monday afternoon also commiserated with wife of the deceased, Senator Zaynab Kure and her children, all the Kure family and the Nupe people, on the unfortunate […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2017
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) on Monday resolved to use all constitutional means to resolve the lingering political crisis in Gambia. Rising from a three-hour meeting in Abuja, the Nigeria capital, the leaders will on Wednesday send a powerful delegation to Gambia in a last diplomatic effort […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As Nigeria and the world commemorates the 1,000th day of the abduction of schoolgirls from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, President Muhammadu Buhari has recommitted the Federal Government to securing the release of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents. “We are grateful to God that on this landmark […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has directed that all specialized universities are to stick to their core mandates which they were set up to carry and desist from running programmes which have no bearing to their foundation. Specialised Universities are University set up to pursue specific courses/ programmes to steer the need […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Yobe State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the crisis in Southern Kaduna. Chairman Rev. Jibrin Joshua, in a news conference on Sunday, called on the Federal and Kaduna State governments to find ways to end the killings. His words: “Such killings and destruction of […]
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Sunday, January 8th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gambian ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Samsudeen Sart was allegedly caught sending a nude picture to a white lady, simply identified as “Sarah’ in United Kingdom. Sart replaces Dr. Mamadou Tangara who was sacked last month by President Jammeh for not supporting his decision to remain in […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2017
ACCRA, GHANA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The newly sworn-in Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has promised to protect the public treasury and ensure value for money on all projects executed by his administration. The new President made the pledge Saturday in Accra in his inaugural speech. Akufo-Addo insisted that the mandate of his leadership was to serve, asking […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Miracle can be described as an illogical occurrence that contradicts prevailing conditions or accepted reality. Nigeria is experiencing harsh times, we are acquainted with the stats. Most recently we are battling with acute cash shortage of the US Dollar and even the Naira, with reasons alluded ranging from restricted […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2017
OGUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Overseer (GO) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has retired. Pastor Adeboye who announced his retirement Saturday as he prepares for his 75th birthday also named Pastor Joshua Obayemi as his successor. The famous Cleric next birthday holds March 2, 2017 according to NAN. […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nigerian militant group, which has claimed a wave of attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta, said on Friday that it had asked its fighters to prepare to fight the “enemy” as authorities were not ready for dialogue. The Niger Delta Avengers had declared a ceasefire last year […]
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Saturday, January 7th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of $153,310,000, which a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, allegedly siphoned from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and stashed in three banks in the country. Out of the allegedly […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Many people have been shot dead by a lone gunman at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida. The airport officials said there was an “ongoing incident” at the baggage claim area in Terminal 2. According to BBC, Broward Sheriff’s office tweet that several people died while one person was in custody. […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – When I boarded the protocol bus at Algiers Airport on November 28, 2016, a lady politely greeted me in faulty Yoruba. Given my dressing, she guessed correctly that I am Nigerian. She then added “Iyawo Naija la wa” meaning, I am married to a Nigerian. Her name is Boshigo Ntsi Rosinah […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2017
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Daniel Iworiso-Markson is the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State. In this interview, he speaks on his newly published book: Bayelsa’s Landmark Election: How Dickson Deployed People Power To Defeat Federal Might, and the governor’s administration, among other issues. He spoke with The New Telegraph. You […]
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Friday, January 6th, 2017
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will Saturday attend the inauguration ceremony of Ghana’s President-elect, Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo in Accra. Buhari will join other Heads of State and Government to witness the swearing-in of the President-elect and Vice President–elect, Mahamudu Bawumia. The Nigerian Leader Friday in a statement by his SA on Media and […]
