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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Tunisian court has issued a verdict in absentia sentencing former president Moncef Marzouki to four years in prison after he criticised President Kais Saied and called for protests. The court found against Marzouki on charges of “assaulting the external security of the state”, according to the state news agency TAP. Marzouki, […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Men of the Enugu State Police Command have arrested Mr. Arinze Ogba,son of Senator Obinna Ogba representing Ebonyi Central senatorial district in Nigeria’s National Assembly (NASS) for driving his father’s official vehicle. African Examiner reliably gathered from a Source close to the Command’s headquarters in Enugu that “Arinze was arrested while driving […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Four persons have been arrested in connection with illegal mining activities at Oketegbe area of Dangbala in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo. The Special Adviser on Security to Gov. Godwin Obaseki, Mr Haruna Yusuf, told newsmen in Benin on Thursday that they were arrested by vigilantes at the mining site. He […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The queen of Ooni of Ife, Naomi Silekunola Ogunwusi has announced her separation from the monarch, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. Queen Naomi announced the decision on her verified Instagram page citing irreconcilable differences between the duo. She writes, “I bless the Lord almighty for His faithfulness in the last 3years of my marriage. […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following the rumored separation by Queen Naomi from the Ooni of Ife, Ooni Enitan Ogunwusi, the palace has faulted the claim saying “it is not true.” When contacted, the Ooni’s Director of Media and Public Affairs, Moses Olafare told Vanguard that “this is not the first time such rumours had been peddled. […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – FRSC arrested 113 traffic offenders in Bauchi State in the last one week. Its Sector Commander in the state, Yusuf Abdullahi, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi on Thursday that 52 of the offenders failed to install Speed Limiting Device in their commercial vehicles. A lot of crashes in the […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
…As Gas Production Goes up 4% (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A total sum of ₦203.73billion was made on the sale of white products in the month of July 2021 by the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a downstream subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd. This was contained in the July 2021 figures of […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has left the Presidential Villa, Abuja to the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport where he’ll jet off to Maiduguri, the Borno State Capital. According to our correspondent, Buhari’s chopper left the Aso Rock premises at exactly 10:04 am on Thursday. The President […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Her Majesty Queen Silekunola Naomi has announced her divorce from the Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II. In a statement posted on her verified Instagram handle on Thursday, she said announced an end to the three-year marriage. She wrote, “Today I announce the beginning of a new dawn and the […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Veteran actor, Sam Obiago, is dead. His death was confirmed by the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Ejezie Emeka Rollas. The cause of his death is yet to be known His colleagues have flooded the internet with condolence messages. Obiago has acted in a series of movies and is […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority has shutdown main switch centre of Globacom Limited at Wuse 2, Abuja over non-payment of outstanding debt of N4.7 billion. The NCAA Director–General, Capt. Musa Nuhu, carried out the exercise on Wednesday, under the supervision of the Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika. Nuhu told the newsmen […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chair of the United States of America Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Chris Van Hollen and the Chair of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congresswoman Karen Bass have urged President Joe Biden to reconsider Ethiopia’s suspension from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) at the end of […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A protest started at the Assemblies of God Church, Jesus Power parish, Ashanti-West Region, Ghana because of the dismissal of seven leaders of the local assembly. The Regional Superintendent, Stephen Yaw Manu, stated that the crisis started over the appointment of a new presiding pastor for the parish. The dismissed members include […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II has stated that he once attempted to commit suicide but had to change his mind after he listened to a series of inspirational music. The monarch stated that music is a key component of human existence, a symbol of cultural expression and the […]
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has tasked Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State to swear he is innocent about the election ethnic cleansing of non-Fulani communities in Southern Kaduna. IPOB stated that no amount of cover-up would exonerate him from the genocide in Southern Kaduna. The separatist group disclosed this as […]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has introduced a suite of digital Tokens to replace the aging NIN slip and polycarbonate card. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami said this at stakeholders workshop on the National Identification Number (NIN) Tokenization Solution organised by National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) in Abuja. He said […]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A UK court has jailed Nigerian-born professional rugby player, Daniel Igbinedion, 26, for beating and strangling his 35-year-old girlfriend, Katy Lyles. The court was told that Igbinedion dragged his insurance broker girlfriend out of a club and tore off her SmartWatch so she couldn’t dial 999 before threatening her with a blade. […]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Hundreds of residents and business owners have been thrown into confusion following their inability to ply the Magodo Phase 2 estate gates to navigate their destinations in and out of the estate located in the Shangisha area of Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the Magodo Residents Association closed the estate gates […]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – American rapper, Belcalis Almánzar, popularly known as Cardi B, has gifted her rapper husband, Offset, a sum of two million dollars on his 30th birthday. She made the presentation to her husband during his birthday party at Los Angeles, United States. In a video shared by the mother-of-two on her Instagram story […]
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Leader of an Orji Kalu pro-group in Abia, Mr Josiah Kalu, says the group is mobilising other affiliate groups in the country for a one-million-man march to persuade the Senate Chief Whip, Sen. Orji Kalu, to declare for president in 2023. Kalu said this in Umuahia on Wednesday during a news […]
