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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – fashion designer, Rukayat Salami, has been hospitalised after men of the Lagos State Police Command allegedly shot her in the stomach at a checkpoint at Lucky Fibre, in the Ikorodu area of the state. Her husband, Ibrahim, was reportedly battered by the cops for complaining about the shooting. African Examiner gathered that […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Court of Appeal, sitting in Ibadan, on Thursday, discharged and acquitted a former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, over N11.5 billion corruption charges leveled against him by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Alao-Akala was discharged and acquitted along with a former Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S. State’s Health Department, has confirmed second case of COVID-19 Omicron variant in Minnesota, a day after it reported first case of the new variant. The U.S. reported its first case of the Omicron variant in California on Wednesday. The concerned Minnesota resident, an adult male, had a recent travel history […]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says Nigeria’s security challenge will soon be resolved with the country coming out of such experience greater and stronger. The vice president disclosed this in Abuja while responding to the remarks made by members of the Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group, who visited him. He said they will […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested one Pastor Izuchukwu Anoloba, 35, and others for kidnapping a Catholic priest, Fr Fidelis Ekemgba. Parading the suspects and others, the state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, said that the suspects held the priest for over seven days and made him to […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some hoodlums in their hundreds on Thursday set ablaze the Gubernatorial Campaign Office of one of the political opponent of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, Sen. Barau Jibrin representing Kano north senatorial district. Some of the attackers were said to have gone with dangerous weapons to the Senator’s office located along Maiduguri Road in […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An international Solution oriented Civil Society organization, Solidaridad West Africa, promoting Agriculture in Nigeria, has appealed to the federal government to prevail on states and local government Areas in the country to remove certain barriers associated with land acquisition so as to enable oil palm farmers, particularly women embrace agriculture, in order […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has tasked the media to exert pressure on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) to assent to the amended Electoral Act. Governor Wike stated that it is important that the media should enlighten Nigerians to know why there should be electronic transmission of election results so […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The African Union’s health watchdog on Thursday appealed for calm over Omicron, the new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant which has prompted many governments to impose new restrictions. The new variant was first reported to the World Health Organization by South Africa a week ago and has quickly shown up across continents, deepening […]
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Entertainment, Latest Headlines
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government has hinted on new moves to introduce censorship laws and regulatory framework for Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming services and content providers in Nigeria. According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed in a two-day conference organized by the NFVCB in Lagos, said that streaming services could be used […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has directed those serving in his government who would like to contest the governorship primaries to tender their resignation latest by December 18. The directive was contained in a statement signed by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, in Ado Ekiti, titled, “Ekiti 2022: Fayemi […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate Committee on Agriculture in Abuja said about two million metric tons of rice is currently being imported or smuggled into the country. This is just as the committee said, in 2021, the production of milled rice in Nigeria was estimated to amount to five million metric tons. Vice Chairman of […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government threw its weight behind the Lagos State government’s White Paper on the report of the judicial panel set up to probe cases of police brutality and shooting at the Lekki tollgate, promising to take further actions. The Lagos State government, on Tuesday, rejected key recommendations of the panel’s report […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said kidnappers have also been declared as terrorists. He said the recent court declaration had been gazetted and would soon be published. He also disclosed that all the relevant security agencies had been notified. Malami made this known while […]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister, Communications and Digital Economy, has said that protection of citizens data in Nigeria is not just a secondary legislation but a constitutional requirement. The minister’s spokesperson, Mrs Uwa Suleiman, made this known in a statement in Abuja, adding that Pantami said this while addressing world forum of ministers in London. This […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian government has described the recent killing of two police officers in Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east as “barbaric and cannibalistic” . The assailants filmed themselves as they were killing the officers and later circulated the clip on social media, the government said. The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, in a statement […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Technology giant, Google, on Wednesday announced it will not accept political advertisements on all its platforms related to next year’s elections in the Philippines to choose a successor for President Rodrigo Duterte. “In connection with the 2022 Philippine national and local elections, election advertisements will not be allowed to run in the […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rate of infection in Somalia has been dropping over the last 14 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. Citing periodic surveys conducted, the WHO warned that in spite of the general decline in HIV prevalence across Somalia, there were locations such as Garowe and […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has expressed shock over the Tuesday evening Bagwai boat mishap that led to the death of 40 persons. Ganduje spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Abba Anwar, in a statement issued on Wednesday in Kano. “We learned that the boat started from Hayin Badau to […]
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa is presently being received by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. President Ramaphosa arrived at the Villa at about 10 a.m amid fear of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 currently being detected in countries across the world. This development is coming after the Nigeria Centre […]
