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Saturday, January 29th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director of Defence Information, Major General Jimmy Akpor, has attributed the attacks in Zamfara and Niger states on poor road networks, communication infrastructure and the vastness of the affected communities. Fleeing terrorists have been launching ferocious attacks on communities, killing and abducting many residents, following the bombardment of their territories in […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has achieved more in infrastructure development in six years than the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) did in 16 years under three presidents. He said the achievement is despite the administration having smaller resources than the preceding PDP administrations. […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A bridge in Pittsburgh, which was covered in snow, collapsed on Friday morning, free hours before the President of the United States, Joe Biden, was expected to visit the city. Biden had previously planned on visiting the city to discuss infrastructure before the unfortunate incident. According to the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Ed […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The lawmaker representing Oyo Central senatorial district, Teslim Folarin, has lost his wife, Barrister Angela, to the cold hands of death. According to the media aide of Senator Folarin, YSO Olaniyi, in a statement made available to Vanguard, the woman died on Friday in the United Kingdom. Olaniyi said: “With total submission […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angry youths on Thursday apprehended and set ablaze two members of a notorious suspected armed robber gang along Nkume junction by Mgbabano-Umuaka Road, Eziama Obaire in Nkwere local government area of Imo State. It was gathered that the suspects have been operating engaging in the criminal act using motorcycles. An eyewitness said […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An Enugu based lawyer, Barr. C.D Ezeh, and Civil Liberties organization (CLO), have urged the inspector General of police (IGP) Baba Alkali, police Service Commission (PSC), and Enugu State CP, Abubakar Lawal, to use their good offices to probe alleged acts of impunity, insubordination, and attempt to truncate justice leveled against a […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The West African bloc ECOWAS on Friday suspended Burkina Faso following a coup, but will not impose other sanctions for the time being, a participant at a virtual summit said. ECOWAS is also calling for the new junta to release ousted president Roch Marc Christian Kabore and other officials detained during Monday’s […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely three weeks after Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), announced his presidential ambition, the former Lagos State governor has traveled out of the country. According to a The Cable, a source who is in the camp of the former Lagos governor stated that Tinubu traveled to London, the […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Biodun Oyebanji, the governorship candidate of the APC, has stated that Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, has no influence in his emergence as the standard-bearer of the party in the state. African Examiner recalls that on Thursday, Oyebanji, former secretary to the state government (SSG), gathered 101,703 votes to emerge as APC’s […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Friday expressed hope that he would emerge victorious concerning the terrorism charges leveled against him by the federal government. Kanu expressed optimism that his present trial at the Abuja Federal High Court would soon end. He disclosed this in his routine […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the military not to spare Bandits and terrorists in the country . The President spoke on his directive to the military high command yesterday in Sokoto at the palace of the Sultan, Sa’ad Abubakar III. He reaffirmed the order in a broadcast to the people of Zamfara […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dangote Cement Plc yesterday announced that it mopped up about 126.75 million ordinary shares of 50 kobo each worth N35.1 billion during its just concluded share buyback programme. In a regulatory filing at the Nigerian Exchange (NGX), Dangote Cement indicated that 126.748 million shares, representing 0.74 per cent of the company’s issued […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government said it would be diverting traffic from Yaba as it continues the First Phase of the construction of the Red Line railways covering Oyingbo to Agbado from midnight February 1, to February 16, 2022. In a statement, the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, said the diversion was […]
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Friday, January 28th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of EEK Fertility, a herbal based company, Dr. Ekinyi Ochete has urged the Federal Government to make the registration of natural and alternative medicines easy for practitioners in the country. Dr. Ochete, a certified natural and alternative specialist, said the current registration process with the appropriate authorities in […]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Police Force has debunked reports that its helicopter crashed in Bauchi State. This was contained in a statement by the NPF’s spokesperson, Frank Mba, on Thursday, titled, ‘Police helicopter in controlled safe-landing in Bauchi … Not crashed as reported, none of the occupants sustained any injury whatsoever.” However, the Accident […]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has reportedly deactivated the international passports of 200 Nigerians for reportedly sabotaging efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country. According to available information, the affected persons were said to have either presented fake COVID-19 test results, vaccination cards or submitted false travel information as they entered […]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has stated that about 136 lives and N3trn worth of property were lost to various fire outbreaks across the country in 2021. Aregbesola made this known in the decoration of the newly promoted Deputy Controllers General of the Service in Abuja on Thursday. The former Osun […]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dare-Devil armed robbers have allegedly attacked a bullion van belonging to a yet to be disclosed bank. African Examiner gathered that the bullion van was successfully robbed while the robbers carted away an undisclosed amount along Otor-Owhe on the Ughelli-Asaba dual carriageway in Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. The […]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One person has been confirmed dead following a liquefied petroleum gas-laden tanker explosion in the Ohoror axis of the East-West Road in Ughelli North Local Government of Delta State. A total of four trucks, including the LPG-carrying truck, were burnt down in the fire accident. It was gathered that the incident happened […]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian Police Force helicopter has crashed in Bauchi on Wednesday, injuring six persons, the Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB stated. The helicopter took off from Abuja but AIB stated that no life was lost in the crash. The Bureau said it was informed of the accident by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) […]
