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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government on Tuesday warned that any building used as hideouts by kidnappers, vandals and other suspected criminal elements in any part of the State would henceforth be confiscated and taken over by government. While vowing that it would henceforth scale up enforcement of restriction of commercial motorcycles, […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Drivers of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and ticketers on Tuesday embarked on strike over non-payment of salaries and arrears by the management of the scheme. All BRT plying various routes in Lagos, especially Ikorodu axis were off the road this morning as they decided to commence […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Wiorld Bank has again requested for more time to release details on the spending of recovered loot by late Head of State General Sani Abacha (rted). This followed the bank’s decision to refer “portion of appeal by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) to the […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government on Tuesday began the demolition of structures under high tension lines across the State, with 350 shops and structures first being brought down. This follows the expiration of ultimatum issued the affected property owners – who built their houses under high tension line […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Court of Appeal, Abuja Division has reserved judgment on the appeal brought before it by Abia State Governor Okozie Ikpeazu. The ongoing legal tussle started when on June 27, 2016 Justice Abang Okon of a Federal High court sitting in Abuja, sacked the Governor for filling […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
BALTIOMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Everton Defender John Stones has been signed by Manchester City with the sum of £47.5m. Stones who signed a six-year deal has been named in the City’s official Champions League squad, published on the UEFA website prior to confirmation of his transfer. In his remarks, the elated defender confessed: […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As his relationships with some western nations continue to wane, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived St Petersburg with the main target of reviewing ties with Russia via talks with President Vladimir Putin. It would be recalled that bilateral relationship between the two countries crumbled last November when Turkey […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
By Leo Igwe The reactions that have trailed the decision by the Buhari government to subsidize this year’s Hajj, despite the fact that the Nigerian economy is in recession, underscores the necessity of separating church (mosque) and state. Last year, President Buhari announced the discontinuation of state sponsorship of both Muslim and Christian pilgrimages as […]
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 13 year old United states of America,(USA) footballer, Alex Fung on sunday put smile on faces of his peers in Enugu, as he donated dozens of soccer boots valued several Thousands of dollars to the coal city boys. Before making the presentation to the Enugu […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria media mogul and Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi has denied the allegation that he is one of the sponsors of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, a notorious militant group from the oil producing region of Nigeria. A statement issued […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The new Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar/Chief Executive Prof Is-haq Oloyede has announced a five-point agenda, which include staff welfare and ensure he hands over a more advanced and efficient agency. Other areas of focus according to Prof. Oloyede are: “discipline, improved technology, transparency and advanced […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Paul Pogba has finally arrived his new club Manchester United for a medical. The France midfielder came ahead of his 89 million pounds transfer from Juventus. Pogba flew from Nice into Manchester Airport Monday before making his way to the club’s training ground. Man U is expected to pay the […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Banky W has declared that his planned wedding will be out of public. In his latest posts, the singer who ranks high among the Nigerian music stars indicated that his entire life has been “a show”, therefore has resolved to give his incoming wedding an enclosed approach. Among his speculated […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 63 people have been killed while 120 were injured in a suicide bomb attack at a hospital in Quetta South-West Pakistan. The attack according to officials occurred at the entrance of an emergency department where the body of a prominent lawyer Bilal Anwar Kasi shot dead early […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
By Niyi Adeyi BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan raised death threat alarm against him by the Movement For Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, have denied allegation of funding the raging Niger Delta Avengers (NDA). Special […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu ENUGU , NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police Command has confirmed the arrest of leader of a kidnap syndicate that recently abducted, kill, and buried an over 80 years old woman in Enugu community,after collecting 5million ransom from the family members. Ebere Amaraizu, the state police public Relations officer, […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has raised the alarm that the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) are planning to kill him even as he disassociated himself from the notorious Niger Delta Avengers. A faction of the Niger Delta Avengers over the weekend named the former president and other Ijaw […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s seems to be enjoying more popularity in his country, as hundreds of thousands of people gathered in country’s biggest city, Istanbul, for an anti-coup rally. Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt Friday July 15, 2016. Over 270 people died in the failed mutiny. Interestingly, Erdogan […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
By Ayo Balogun LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the arrested suspects who abducted the Oniba of Iba land, Oba Goriola Oseni has narrated how they kidnapped the monarch and successfully collected N15.1 million ransom before releasing him. The monarch was released on Saturday by his abductors after spending three weeks in captivity in […]
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Monday, August 8th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As reactions continue to trail the exchange rate flexibility for the year’s pilgrims, the National Hajj Commission has denied being given FOREX waiver by the Federal Government (FG). The Commission’s denial was made in a statement issued Sunday in Abuja by its Head of Media, Alhaji Uba […]
