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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye famously known as Bobrisky over currency mutilation and abuse of naira notes. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said that the cross-dresser was arrested in Lagos on Wednesday night. “He (Bobrisky) was arrested Wednesday night in Lagos,” the anti-graft agency official told […]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government is set to arraign Binance Holdings Limited and its two top officials, Tigran Gambaryan and the fugitive Nadeem Anjarwalla on allegations bordering on tax evasion. The company and its two executives are set for arraignment before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja. One of the defendants, […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Labour Party on Wednesday said its National Chairman, Julius Abure, escaped assassination attempt on him at his Abuja residence early in the day. “His residence was also gutted by a mysterious fire which started a few minutes after 1AM while Abure and the members of his family were asleep,” a statement […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The video that has now gone viral of former freedom fighter, Asari Dokubo, identifying himself as an Igbo Man has sparked reactions on social media since the former agitator have always bashed Ndi Igbo on social media. So, many netizens were surprised for the change of mind. The African Examiner recalls that […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – General Christopher Gabwin Musa, the Chief of Defence Staff, has stated that the deaths of 16 military officers in Delta State were premeditated. Musa disclosed this in his interview with Arise TV on Wednesday, April 3, 2023. He said: “The attack was premeditated just because there are groups of criminals, cultists, militants […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has said that there is no provision in the law suggesting that crossdressers in Nigeria should be arrested. Amid some debates all over social media involving crossdressing and sexuality, the police imagemaker said the crime for which people get arrested has more […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total of 1.3 trillion naira worth of revenue has been generated by the Nigeria Customs Service in the first quarter of 2024. Speaking during a press briefing on Wednesday, the Comptroller General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, explained that over 572 seizures were made with a duty-paid value of N10bn. He said, […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian singer, Gabriel Amanyi better known as Terry G, has stated that he is not trying to get married as being married would affect his music. Terry G made this revelation known in the recent episode of The Honest Bunch podcast where he stated that marriage and music does not mix well […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election Omoyele Sowore has faulted the attitude of young Nigerians to politics in light of the swearing-in of 44-year-old Bassirou Diomaye Faye as the Senegalese president. Faye was sworn in at an event attended by several African leaders in Dakar […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tottenham missed the chance to move into the Premier League’s top four after a 1-1 draw at West Ham, while Newcastle were also held 1-1 by Everton on Tuesday. Spurs have made a habit of recovering from slow starts to win in recent months, but this time they failed to capitalise on […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Deputy Commissioner of Police serving with the Force Criminal and Investigation Department, Alagbon, Lagos State, Gbolahan Oyedemi, on Monday, allegedly killed himself in his private house in his hometown, Ogbomoso, Oyo State. According to The PUNCH, Oyedemi was the Aide de Camp to the late former Governor of the state, Adebayo […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zenith Bank Plc has emerged as the Best Bank in Nigeria in the Global Finance Best Banks Awards 2024, winning the award for the fourth time since 2019. The Bank was among other banks from 36 countries in Africa recognised as the prestigious Global Finance announced its 31st Annual Best Bank Awards […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in Tuesday before parliament for his third term in office as leader of the Arab world’s most populous country. In power for the past decade, Sisi is set to remain president until 2030, after winning a December election with 89.6 percent of the vote against […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has approved the Federal Capital Territory’s over N1.1trn statutory budget for the 2024 fiscal year. The FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, disclosed this during an ongoing media chat at his office in Abuja on Tuesday. He expressed delight over the assent by the president, and explained that the budget will […]
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least thirty children are believed to have been kidnapped by suspected bandits at Kasai village in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Batsari is one of several Security Frontline Local Government Areas in Katsina State where activities of bandits, and other criminal elements have been on the increase almost on […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israeli air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in Damascus Monday, Syrian and Iranian officials said, with a top Revolutionary Guard commander among seven members the force said were killed, amid worsening regional tensions. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps named Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and another high-ranking officer, Brigadier General […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Democratic Republic of Congo’s planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka on Monday became the African nation’s first woman prime minister, state television announced. An economist, she takes over as prime minister from Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, following President Felix Tshisekedi’s sweeping re-election on December 20. Tuluka said on national television that the “task […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Google has agreed to delete a vast trove of search data to settle a suit that it tracked millions of US users who thought they were browsing the internet privately. If a proposed settlement filed Monday in San Francisco federal court is approved by a judge, Google must “delete and/or remediate billions […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian on X on Monday are reacting to the news of the Minster of FCT, Nyesom Wike, ordering the demolition of a building in Abuja despite two court orders restraining the minister from the FCT administration from touching the property. The African Examiner writes that Chief Nicholas Ukachukwu, the Chairman and Chief […]
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Monday, April 1st, 2024
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, on Sunday, expressed concern concerning what he described as the “ubiquity of the military in our national life”. Kukah stated that the presence of soldiers everywhere “it is impossible to explain how we can say we are in a civilian democracy with the military […]
