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Sunday, August 24th, 2014
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has suspended its 64 days old nationwide industrial action. The confirmation to this effect was made on Sunday afternoon by the NMA National President, Dr. Kayode Obembe after an Emergency Delegates Meeting (EDM). African Examiner’s correspondent gathered that the meeting which was attended by the National President of National Association […]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2014
Ignatius Okpra, Umuahia The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP has suspended its 12- day old strike at the Abia state Polytechnic, Aba. African Examiner reports that the union had on August 12 embarked on an industrial action, following the failure of the governing council and management to pay lecturers’ their salary arrears. Chairman of […]
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Sunday, August 24th, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu To demonstrate their love as well as pay last respect to Nigeria’s late ex-minister of Information, professor Dora Akunyili, scores of Nigerians from different walks of life on Saturday defied a heavy downpour to attend the deceased wake-keep in Enugu. Present at the event were, Enugu state Governor, Sullivan Chime, represented by […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
In the final match of the 2014 FIFA U-20 women world cup holding in Canada, President Goodluck Jonathan has encouraged the victorious super falconets to go all out on Sunday to beat the German team. President Jonathan who is currently on a private visit to Germany called the Falconets at their base in Montreal to […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Awka Residents of Onitsha, Anambra state, south East Nigeria, have called on chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, professor Atahiru Jega, to investigate the alleged sale of permanent Voters card in the state. They made the accusation in Onitsha in an Interview with African Examiner’s correspondent. According to some residents of the […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
Nigeria’s police have said that 35 police officers are still missing following attack on its training camp in Gwoza, Borno State by Boko Haram fighters. Confirming the incident, the new Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu (DCP) however assured Nigerians that the missing officers would be rescued. His words: “Following the attack launched by insurgents […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi has opened up on his dragging renewed contract with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), complaining the glass house is prolonging the negotiation. Keshi who insists on monthly pay of N15 Million complained of delay and declared he would leave the country for a new coaching career, if the present situation […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
There is still confusion on whether Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state, South Western Nigeria, has crossed from his Labour Party (LP) to the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP). As at last night, the PDP state leaders revealed to the journalists in Akure, the state capital that Mimiko has dumped his party – LP and […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
(Reuters) – A wooden boat with around 170 African migrants on board trying to reach Europe has sunk off the Libyan coast, a spokesman for the Libyan navy said on Saturday. Migrants have been streaming out of North Africa in rickety boats in rising numbers for years. So far in 2014, the total number reaching […]
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2014
The world will contend with the outbreak of the deadly and ravaging Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) for the rest of the year, just as the possibility of putting it out now is remote, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed. The global heath body’s Spokesperson, Fadela Chaib, droped this hint weekend at a press briefing. […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
Factional deputy national chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance(PPA), Ogbuishi Benjamin Oborota, has described the recent press attack by former Abia State governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, on incumbent Governor Theodore Orji as “myopic and an afterthought”. Reacting to Kalu’s description of Orji as a chameleon, Oborota said the write up was “an expose to […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
The just-concluded exercise for the issuance of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been received with mixed feelings throughout the federation. While a few people have applauded the exercise, many participants on the other hand, who had turned out to collect their cards complained that the process was slow, […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria On Friday August 1 2014 I arrived at the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) Ikotun Lagos Nigeria at about 5 pm to have a weekend fellowship and rival with the team at SCOAN. The central attention man remains the very founder of […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
From Agabus Pwanagba A body – Solid Political Group of Nigeria (SPGN) has thrown its weight behind the former EFCC Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, in his bid to contest October 11, Adamawa governorship election. SPGN in a press statement signed by its Leader, Chief Medan Teneke and made available to African Examiner described the Ribadu’s […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
No fewer than 322 Nigerian students under the Federal Government scholarship are currently begging for food and means of survival in Russia. House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Diaspora Affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. According to her, the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs has recently received with a deep sense […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
Mario Balotelli has arrived at Liverpool’s Melwood training base after the Reds agreed a fee with AC Milan for the striker and is now set to put the finishing touches to his return to the Premier League. Liverpool officials agreed terms on Balotelli’s contract with his agent Mino Raiola Friday morning to give the green […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
By Ayo Balogun The Federal Government has confirmed the country’s first two cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in secondary contacts of the index case – the Liberian-American, Late Patrick Sawyer. Minster of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu made the confirmation Friday in Abuja at a press briefing. Professor Chukwu explained that the two patients were […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Asaba Residents of Oko-Amakom community in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State, on Thursday staged a protest over alleged neglect and non-payment of compensation to them by the federal government on the 2nd Niger-bridge. The protestants, made up of mainly indigenes of Anambra and Delta States, had also kicked against what […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
A multi-million-pound emergency funding package for research that could help to contain the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and future outbreaks of infectious disease was announced on August 20, 2014, by the Wellcome Trust. Wellcome Trust also announced the establishment of a strategic partnership with the Dangote Foundation, an African-based international philanthropic organisation, to support […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
Moves to secure a second term ticket for Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara have received a boost as the people of the north senatorial district have endorsed him for re-election in the 2015 polls. At town hall meetings convened by political office holders from the Kwara North comprising Moro, Edu, Pategi, Kaiama, and Baruten Local […]
