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Monday, July 18th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Worried by the spate of delay tactics being deployed in the hearing of various alleged criminal cases in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the judiciary to be in the forefront of efforts to develop rights based jurisprudence as an element in the multi-disciplinary approach advocated […]
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Monday, July 18th, 2016
As part of its philanthropic gesture, the Dangote Foundation has delivered food items to alleviate the suffering of the vulnerable and the indigent in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The food items, worth millions of Naira, was last Thursday presented to the Minister of FCT Malam Muhammad Musa Bello. Receiving the items, the Minister said […]
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
– Fixes Primary For August 27 Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja ONDO, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has released the time-table and schedule of activities for the conduct of the Party’s 2016 Governorship Primary Election in Ondo State. The Party’s National Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso made the announcement in a statement […]
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
By Tajudeen Balogun – Seeks To Promote Peace; Discourages Gender Disparity… – Inventor Seeks World Leaders; Industrialists, Others’ Support LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As a measure to promote peace and conciliation in the society; gender equality and equity; education and learning, a fresh football concept: “The Beautiful Ball Game” has been unveiled in Nigeria, […]
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has joined his US counterpart Barrack Obama and other world leaders in condemning the abortive Turkish coup attempt by a group of rebel army officers and men, which resulted in the death of over 100 people. Reacting to the tragic events in Ankara, Istanbul […]
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Almost 300 soldiers including senior officers have been arrested in connection with the Saturday Turkish coup attempt, just as the Prime Minister (PM) Binali Yildirim confirmed that the plot had been foiled and situation is under control. The PM alleged the coup attempt in which 16 civilains were killed and […]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The world was agog this week with the certainty that the next British Prime Minister would be a woman. The attainment of that office this Wednesday by Theresa May who replaced a politically-crushed David Cameron at 10, Downing Street, was a mere formality as her only rival, Andrea Leadsom, was also a woman. As it […]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Turkey is about five hours away from Nigeria by air, about 2, 634 miles from here, but the night there was a coup attempt in Turkey, July 15, with soldiers shutting down parts of Ankara and Istanbul, you’d think Ankara is a city somewhere in Nigeria and Istanbul is an […]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2016
By Olawale Rasheed Turkey is a great country increasingly regarded as a model of a modernised Muslim state thriving under secular rule and enjoying economic prosperity. With a delicately crafted parliamentary constitution, the state structure was designed for inclusivity and secularity for a long lasting stability. Under the presidency of former President Abdulahi Gul when […]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2016
A new group, Network for the Sustainable Development and Empowerment in Borno South (NSDE) has emerged with an avowed determination to champion Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, Reintegration and Resettlement while stressing the position of reconciliation in Southern Borno which has been ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency. A statement by its coordinator, Brig. Gen. DB Shaljaba (rtd) the new […]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2016
Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, has described the late Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice NikI Tobi, as “an ambassador of the Ijaw nation” who lived a life of selfless devotion, integrity and honour in the service of the nation. He died on June 17 at the National Hospital, Abuja, barely one month to his […]
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Saturday, July 16th, 2016
By Akin Soneyin OSUN, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Dino Melaye alleged verbal assault on his Lagos colleague, Oluremi Tinubu has continued to draw reactions, as the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Women wing has condemned the action and called for stiff punishments against the Kogi Lawmaker. The Osun chapter of the group in a […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, ENUGU, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Parents of the two young sisters that died recently at Oakland Amusement Park Enugu, following the alleged malfunctioning of its Roller coaster machine while on motion with the deceased and family members, may likely drag the park owner to court over the incident. AFRICAN EXAMINER gathered that […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
By Tajudeen Balogun, Head, African Examiner, Nigeria Bureau Another history was made in UK Wednesday, July 13, 2016. On that day, the immediate past Prime Minister (PM) Mr. David Cameron ‘acted’ his earlier resolve to exit 10 Downing Street due to his opposition to #Brexit which his country’s Wednesday, June 23, 2016 referendum favoured. Right […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
By IGNATIUS OKPARA ASABA NIGERIA, (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 50 year- old woman, identified as Felicia Otor has met her untimely death in Delta state, as she was electrocuted by electricity cable which fell as a result of a blast from a nearby transformer. African Examiner gathered that the woman before the unfortunate incident was waiting […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
“Have you been to Bourdillon? Or rather I should ask when are you going to Bourdillon?” “What’s happening?” “I hear people are paying solidarity visits to the Tinubus to express their dismay over Senator Dino Melaye’s assault on Senator Remi Tinubu, wife of the APC National Leader.” “Assault?” “That is precisely what it is. Assault. […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the recommendation of the Committee charged with investigating the Defence Equipment Procurement from 2007 to 2015, for further investigation of those involved, after the committee found a number of irregularities in the contract awards. The approval followed the Third Interim Report of the Presidential Committee […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said the country is in a hurry to see projects take off in the agricultural sector to enhance food security and create jobs for teeming unemployed youths. Buhari disclosed this Thursday at State’s House, Abuja, while receiving Ambassador Nasser Bourita, a Special Envoy of King Mohammed […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2016
LAGOS, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government has fixed the commencement of inoculation exercise for all the State’s intending pilgrims for the 2016 Hajj to Thursday, 14th July, 2016 at the State’s Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board (LSMPWB), Old Secretariat, GRA, Ikeja. LSMPWB Executive Secretary Mr. Muftau Okoya said the exercise is compulsory for […]
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Thursday, July 14th, 2016
YENAGOA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There was palpable tension in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Thursday following jubilation of supporters of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last election, Timipre Sylva, over reports of an impending favourable ruling in his favour by the election petition tribunal. Sylva had filed a petition […]
