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Thursday, December 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has alleged that the incumbent governor, Hope Uzodinma, is sponsoring unknown gunmen carrying out the killings in the state. He also alleged that the controversial arrest of his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, by the police during a church service on Sunday, was actually an assassination attempt […]
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Thursday, December 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A traditional Chief in Ijan Ekiti , Gbonyin Local Government area of Ekiti State, Chief Emmanuel Obafemi and two other kidnapped cocoa merchants have regained their freedom after the payment of N4 million ransom. They were said to have been released along Ikere road around 3am on Wednesday and had since reunited […]
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Thursday, December 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo urged multilateral agencies, and Western countries to stop the planned defunding of fossil fuels/gas projects in developing countries as part of the energy transition plan towards the global net-zero target by 2050. Prof Osinbajo who has been advocating for a just transition to global net-zero emissions, […]
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Thursday, December 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ahead of the plan to set up vaccine manufacturing plant in Rwanda, the German Government is currently training of specialists for the take- off of the project aimed at using BioTech’s messenger RNA technology. Currently, only 1 percent of the COVID-19 vaccines administered in Africa are produced in the continent but the […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Football Federation has appointed Portuguese coach, Jose Peseiro, as Super Eagles Head Coach. NFF announced this in a communique on Wednesday after its National Executive Council meeting. “After careful consideration of a memo presented by Chairman of the Technical and Development Sub-Committee, the Executive Committee endorsed a proposal for the […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past Chairman of Enugu South Council area of Enugu State, Hon. Sunday Ugwu is dead. He was said to have passed on yesterday, even as circumstances surrounding his demise was still sketchy as at the time of filing this report. However, Sources said he has been having health challenge for […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
…..Demands Immediate Withdrawal (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The umbrella body of South East pro-democracy groups, the South East Democratic Civil Society Coalition (SEDSOC), has rejected “purported endorsement of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim, for president by some South East politicians. Some prominent politicians from South East including ex- Senate […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, has claimed that the federal government is trying to eliminate him in Benin Republic. Igboho disclosed this through his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, in a podcast on Tuesday evening saying that the Nigerian Government was planning to kill him to silence the Yoruba Nation agitation. He said: “The […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has stated that Nigeria is entering into a season of God’s blessings and peace, as the country face a prolonged insurgency, poverty and infrastructure as well as a nose-diving economy. “I believe that we are entering into a season of God’s great blessings of peace and prosperity and […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Abdullahi Adamu (APC-Nasarawa West) said on Wednesday that is happy President Muhammadu Buhari did not sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. Adamu stated in Keffi that the National Assembly had no business passing a Bill to determine how parties nominate their candidates. “It is strange and unfair to come […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Anambra state Chapter of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it will review her performance in the November 2021 gubernatorial election, after which it will sanction any of its member who sabotaged their efforts during the poll. According to the party, its leadership would no longer tolerate its members […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 2019 governorship candidate in Imo State, Uche Nwosu, on Tuesday, said his arrest on Sunday at St Peter’s Anglican Church Eziama Obaire in the Nkwerre Local Government Area of the state was sanctioned by the state sovernor, Hope Uzodinma. But the state government has since refuted Nwosu’s allegations that Uzodinma had […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hugo Maradona, the younger brother of late Diego Maradona who also played football, has died, his lawyer confirmed on Tuesday. Lawyer Angelo Pisani said that Hugo Maradona died of a heart attack at the age of 52. He died in his home in Monte di Procida near the city of Naples where […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Title-chasers Liverpool slipped to their second English Premier League (EPL) defeat of the season after substitute Ademola Lookman earned Leicester City a hard-fought 1-0 victory on Tuesday. Liverpool dominated the first half against an injury-hit Leicester City and looked set to take a deserved lead. This was when they were awarded a […]
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than seven persons died in a boat mishap at Zhigiri village, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger. This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by Mr Silas Saba, the spokesperson of Coalition of Shiroro Associations (COSA) made available to journalists in Minna on Tuesday night. Saba, who decried […]
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government and the family of the late Itunu Babalola, the Nigerian lady who died in Côte d’Ivoire after she was wrongly jailed have rejected the autopsy on the cause of her death. Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) and the father of the deceased, Mr Emmanuel Babalola, […]
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday denied allegation by Chief Edwin Clark, that he (Obasanjo) bore resentment against the people of the Niger Delta region. Obasanjo, in a letter addressed to Clark, a copy of which was made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, insisted that he had been an advocate of Nigeria’s […]
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has stated that the president can end the Boko Haram insurgency before the end of his tenure. Adesina disclosed this in a Channels Tv programme as he stated that everything is possible. “Nothing is impossible,” Adesina said. “I always refer […]
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Senate Minority Leader has declared interest to contest the Abia governorship seat at the 2023 general elections. Abaribe made his interest known at a civic reception organised in his honour by Nzuko Ahiaba La Abayi, a sociocultural organisation in Ahiaba in Obingwa Local Government Area of the state. He […]
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Interim coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, says that he is worried about AFCON 2021 since a lot of European clubs don’t want to release players for the tournament on time. African Examiner recalls that some managers of top European clubs with African players have kicked against the timing of AFCON, […]
