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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Evangelist Naomi Silekunola, the estranged wife of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, on Tuesday, broke her silence on social media since her divorce post on December 23, 2021. Taking to her Instastories and Facebook status simultaneously on Tuesday night, the 28-year-old evangelist uploaded a short video of herself […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday said Ukraine believes there was still a chance of resolving the West’s standoff with Russia through diplomacy. Kuleba made the statements when he visited Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares adding that there are already grounds to impose sanctions on Moscow. The United States and the […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Super Eagles’ Interim Technical Adviser, Augustine Eguavoen, says the appointment of former teammate Emmanuel Amuneke to assist him at the senior national team is “a very good development”. Eguavoen stated in Ilorin on Wednesday that the coming of Amuneke would be a great addition to the quality of the team’s coaching. African […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Manger of Plateau Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Mr Peter Kassam, says open defecation is punishable under the law in Shedam Local Government and residents found culpable of such acts risk imprisonment. He made this known in an interview on Wednesday in Jos, observing that Shendam is the first […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President of Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture(ECCIMA), Barr. Jasper Nduagwuike has expressed concern over the effect of the Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB continued Monday sit- at home and insecurity challenges in the South East region. Speaking with Newsmen in Enugu shortly after his investiture as the 16th President […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Residents in a community in Oyo town have uncovered activities of suspected ritualists in an uncompleted building in the area. Our correspondent gathered that those living close to the building, which is along the Oyo-Ilora Road, in the Oyo West Local Government Area, Oyo State, started combing the bushes after perceiving a […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government through its Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority may return to the overseas supplier, the contaminated Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, which was imported into the country by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. Oil marketers estimated that about 100 million litres of contaminated petrol were imported […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN says death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has risen to 21, with more than 62,000 men, women and children displaced in Madagascar. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General said this on Tuesday while giving update on the situation in Madagascar at the UN headquarters in New York. The cyclone is […]
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Edo Police Command says the driver to the state Chairman of the Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Abdul-Hamid Egele, has died. The command’s Spokesman, SP Kontongs Bello, confirmed the death in Benin on Tuesday night. African Examiner reports that the deceased, whose identity could not be ascertained, was driving Egele’s […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Afghanistan said it has received a batch of 32 million U.S. dollars in humanitarian cash assistance on Tuesday, according to the country’s central bank. “Following a series of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, 32 million USD in cash reached Afghanistan on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022,’’ Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) said in a statement. […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least five people on Tuesday sustained injuries when a cargo plane crashed while landing at Agok Airstrip in the Abyei Administrative Area disputed between the border of Sudan and South Sudan. Kuol Diem Kuol, Chief Administrator of Abyei Administrative Area, told Xinhua that the Antonov 26 plane, owned by the Ministry […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority on Tuesday said adulterated petrol, fuel with methanol quantities above Nigeria’s specification, was discovered in the supply chain. In a statement, it said the supplier had been identified and appropriate sanction would apply. It also said oil marketers had been […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – knight of St. John International (KSJI), a United States-based international organisation of the Catholic Church, has declared war against consumption of methamphetamine popularly known as (MKPURU MMIRI) in Igbo parlance and other forms of psycho-substances by youths in Nigeria. President of (KSJI) in Nigeria, Major General (Prof) Remy Uche stated this when […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Tuesday, stated that the continued detention of Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho is a miscarriage of justice. Adams made this known in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, saying that the self-determination campaigner had not committed any crime […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As part of measure to equip newsmen on objective reportage and election observance ahead of the forthcoming Enugu State Local government elections scheduled for February 23, the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES), has organized a one day training for selected Journalists in the state. Project Coordinator of ECES, Mr. Hamza Fassi-Fihri, […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, has stated that the federal government may prosecute popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, in Nigeria following his detention in Benin Republic. African Examiner recalls that in July 2021, Igboho was nabbed at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, Cotonou over alleged possession of a […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has confirmed Professor Ayo O. Omotayo as Director-General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, Plateau State. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Special Assistant (Press) to the Senate President, Ezrel Tabiowo, on Tuesday. According to the statement, Omotayo’s confirmation was sequel to […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn a case against the owner of Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin; and six others charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021. African Examiner learnt that the police told an Abuja High Court on Monday that the […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen have invaded Ekwulobia town in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday. According to an eyewitness account, the gunmen shot and killed an unidentified official of the Anambra State Traffic Management Agency, who was controlling traffic at the busy Ekwulobia Junction. It was not yet clear if the gunmen […]
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ontario Provincial Police, said Canadian protesters demanding an end to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine mandates on Tuesday blocked the Ambassador Bridge linking the U.S. city of Detroit and the Canadian city of Windsor. The police said on Twitter “motorists heading to the Ambassador Bridge border point on #Hwy401 westbound are advised to […]