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Saturday, March 1st, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The police in Anambra have apprehended a Calabar based woman child trafficker, and her syndicates in Onitsha. African Examiner gathered that the woman whose identity was concealed by the police, had been in the unholy business of stealing and selling children for quite some time. It was gathered that after allegedly stealing […]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2014
Abia state governor, chief Theodore Orji says contract for the Arochukwu- Ohafia federal road has been awarded while work has commenced on the road. Governor Orji who disclosed this while briefing newsmen in his office was reacting to a statement credited to one Onwuka Ukwa of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in which he […]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2014
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, has called on Nigerians to support their representatives at the forthcoming National Dialogue. Sultan Abubakar who stated this during a visit to the Gbong Gwom Jos, at his palace in Jos on Saturday, said people like the Gbong Gwom Jos with his wealth of experience will […]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2014
It has emerged that the proposal by the finance minister for the forensic audit of the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroluem Corporation is against section 85 ( c ) of the 1999 constitution which prescribes procedures for the auditing of federal agencies . Checks showed that the constitution does not allow the minister of […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
Gunmen believed to be members of Boko Haram insurgents have attacked the convoy of the governor of Adama State, Murtala Nyako. The incident occurred early today at Shuwari area of the State, as the governor was returning from paying a condolence visit to victims of Boko Haram attacks two days ago. The governor reportedly escaped […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The United Nations Children Education Fund UNICEF, has expressed shock over the recent brutal killing of some 45 children, between 13 and 17 years old, by unidentified gunmen at the Federal Government College of Buni Yadi, Yobe State, Nigeria. A statement issued by UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Manuel […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has absolved the Rivers state government of complicity in the kidnapping of three PDP chieftains and in the killing of one other person. The abducted men include the Port Harcourt Local Government PDP Chairman, Ikechi Chinda; a former member of the House of Representatives representing Port Harcourt […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Lagos based constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, on Thursday appealed to the Igbo nation to see reasons with him and former vice president, Alex Ekwueme, on why the they can not attend the forthcoming national conference, scheduled to take place in Abuja. The elder statesman, who tendered unreserved apologies to Igbos on […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
By Eric Ojo President Goodluck Jonathan has urged French companies to invest in Nigeria in order to cement the ongoing favourable trade and investment relationship between both countries. Trade between Nigeria and France has been on a rising growth path over the years and it is one of the fastest growth rates that have been […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has sharply criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for devoting his broadcast to the nation on Wednesday night to the centenary celebrations instead of the national tragedy involving the cold-blood murder of over 40 school children in Yobe State. In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
Family of the late activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi has rejected the Centenary award President Goodluck Jonathan intends to accord the demised activist and social crusader. The family, in a letter addressed to Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria has the caption: Re-Centenary Award to our Late Father, Chief Gani Fawehinmi […]
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has unveiled the delegates of the state to the national conference, charging them to champion among other issues the need for true and fiscal federalism, decentralisation of police as well as security and devolution of power. “We must get these right and clearly define the basis of our existence […]
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Thursday, February 27th, 2014
The horrendous massacre of little children by Boko Haram insurgents and the cluelessness of the security agencies are scary. Since Boko Haram began its frenzied, indiscriminate and callous murder of innocent citizens, our government at the centre has always been caught flatfooted. Initially, the nauseating refrain from its officials was that they were on top […]
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Thursday, February 27th, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Lagos A middle age man, identified as Ogadinma Chukwu, on Thursday lost his life while satisfying his sexual urge with a commercial sex worker at a popular brothel, called New Nigeria City Hotel, located along Saint. Michael’s road, Aba, Abia state. A close Source to the brothel told African Examiner that the deceased […]
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Thursday, February 27th, 2014
An Abuja Federal Court has turned down moves by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to immediately return to office. In his ruling Wednesday, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, said: “It is unsafe, judicially speaking to embark on far reaching interim orders which have all the attributes of a mandatory […]
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged Coca-Cola Limited and the Nigerian Bottling Company Limited to the United Nations, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights over serious breaches of corporate responsibility to respect the right to health of Nigerians and the failure to provide effective remedies to victims. The organization said […]
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
Ayo Balogun, Lagos As the nation prepares to mark the Centenary anniversary, President Goodluck Jonathan says the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern Protectorate by Lord Lugard in 1914 was not a mistake. The president, in a national broadcast on Wednesday on the Centenary celebration said “I have often expressed the conviction that our amalgamation […]
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned Monday night’s horrific attack on the Federal Government College in Yobe State, in which over 40 students were reported to have been brutally murdered by blood-thirsty insurgents. In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos Guaranty Trust Bank plc has begun preparations for its 4th annual Autism seminar with the themed: “On the road to future inclusion”, will take place from March 22nd to April 2nd, 2014. The bank said this in a press statement made available to African Examiner Newsonline on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, that the 4th […]
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
Ruth Bamidele 54-year-old Ghanaian comedian,Musah Iddrisu aka Charles Udunehi and a 20-year-old citizen of Congo DRC, Inana Cedrick who claimed to be a secondary school student has been apprehended by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for being in possession of narcotic drugs. According to Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, […]
