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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Thursday said it had deployed 36,000 personnel comprising regular and special marshals across the country to ensure smooth traffic during the yuletide. The Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abuja according to Bisi Kazeem, Head, Media Relations and […]
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Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Mrs. Ibukun Awosika, Chairman, First Bank of Nigeria Limited and renowned entrepreneur will be speaking with CNN’s Zain Asher on how she launched into Entrepreneurship before she turned 26. Awosika who is also the first female chairman of Nigeria’s premier financial institution, First Bank of Nigeria Limited will share her challenges and how she was able […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has declared Monday December 26 and Tuesday 27, 2016 as Public Holidays to mark this year’s Christmas and Boxing Day. Similarly, Monday, January 2, 2017 has been declared as New Year holiday. In a statement signed Wednesday by the Acting Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Delta State Governor, Mr. James Ibori, has been reportedly released from the UK prison, after serving four years and eight months jail term. Ibori was accused in February 2012 and convicted for stealing $250m, the sum belonging to Delta State Government. He admitted to fraud estimated at £50m. […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia UMUAHIA NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Leaders of the Organized Labour Unions in Abia State, South- East Nigeria, have called on governor Okezie Ikpeazu, to as a matter of urgency sack the management of the state owned University Teaching Hospital, ABSUTH, Abia Polytechnic, and the state’s transport company, ABIALINE, over the inability […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – US outgoing President Mr. Barack Obama has permanently banned offshore oil and gas drilling in the “vast majority” of US-owned northern waters in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. Mr. Obama declared that the designated areas are “indefinitely off limits” to future leasing. The White House said the decision was for […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) Professor Ishaq Akintola, has raised an alarm that four suspected gunmen visited his home on Sunday, December 18, 2016 with attempt on his life. The suspects who arrived around 6 pm, according to a statement issued in Lagos by the group’s General […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government (FG) has released the postings of the recently confirmed 47 career Ambassadors nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari. The postings released Wednesday by FG include: Abia: Obinna Chukwuemeka Agbugba (Togo), Adamawa: Salisu Umaru (Senegal), Paragalda Ilyasu Audu (Turkey), Akwa Ibom: Inyan Udo-Inyang (Gabon), Anambra: Okeke Vivian Nwunaku (Spain), […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the immediate past Attorney General Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN) in a Federal High Court in Abuja, over his alleged role in the $1.1 billion OPL Malabu oil scandal. Mr. Adoke was alleged to have diverted […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday afternoon met behind the closed doors with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. The reason for the enclosed meeting was not disclosed. Still, if the Senate Leader Ali Ndume Monday’s visit to the Aso Villa and similar exclusive meeting with President Buhari as well as […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
YENAGOA, BAYELSA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – For the first time in about five months, the Bayelsa State Government on Monday declared N3.5 billion as balance of funds available for spending at the end of November, 2016. In October, like in the three previous months, the state recorded a deficit balance of N160.4 million, mainly due to the shortfall in […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Germany has released the only suspect held over Monday’s deadly lorry attack on a Berlin Christmas market. The suspect, said to be 23-years-old, was reportedly known to police for minor crimes, but had no links to militant organisations. He arrived in Germany on 31 December last year and his asylum […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the industrial action embarked upon by the staff of Arik Air, many travelers Tuesday were stranded at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The aviation unions with the carrier had hinted about the commencement of a joint strike with effect from today (Tuesday), sequel to the airline’s failure to pay seven […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ghanaian’s President-elect Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo said Tuesday that his decision to visit President Muhammadu Buhari was for familiarization purpose. While responding to the State House Correspondent after a closed door meeting with President Buhari, Mr. Akufo-Addo explained that he primarily came to Nigeria, to participate in the Future of Africa Awards, which held last Sunday […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
The Bayelsa State government on Monday refuted insinuations that its indigenes on scholarship in Ghana were denied access to their hostels and stopped from writing their semester exams. A statement by Mr Jeremiah Owoupele, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Seriake Dickson on Scholarships Welfare, noted that the office had been in constant touch with the […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
Cameroonians got their chance of introducing into the syllabus of Comedy and Other Comic Forms (a subject I taught in my other career), what seemed like a variant of the domestic nature of humour and wit, when in the last week and more days, they forced humour out of what seemed like an ordinary situation […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has called on Ndigbo to support President Muhammadu Buhari for a 2nd term, saying it remains the best and fastest way for the race to position its self for Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2023. He […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), Real Madrid have had their ban on signing players reduced to one transfer window. The Spanish side was originally barred from signing players for two windows by the world governing body FIFA. Despite the ruling, the club remained banned, from […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
Governor Seriake Dickson at the weekend paid tribute to Bayelsans who paid the supreme sacrifice to defend the integrity and honour of the Ijaw nation during the 5th of December, 2015 and rescheduled 9th of January, 2016 gubernatorial election in the state. Speaking at the 2016 Christmas Carol Service held at the Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
A coalition of students’ leaders in Ogbia, Bayelsa State, on Monday lauded what it described as the ‘unrivalled attention’ given to the development of the education in the state by Governor Seriake Dickson. The youths who spoke during a visit to the Special Assistant to the governor on Students’ Affairs for the area, Mr Henry […]
