Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Mohammed Bello-Koko, Acting Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has said that the two Lagos seaports located in Lekki and Tin Can Island were operating “far beyond their installed capacities”. “What it simply means is that if they were built to handle 500,000 Twenty Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), for instance, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kaduna state government has directed relevant agencies to ensure stricter enforcement of the laws against almajiris, begging, and street hawking in the state. A statement from Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser on Media and Communication to the governor, on Sunday, reminded ‘’all residents that the state has laws protecting children and banning […]
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President George Weah has sent his condolences to President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone and his citizens over the fuel tanker explosion that occurred on Nov. 5, in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Weah made this known in a statement issued by Mr Jarlawah Tonpo, Liberia’s Deputy Information Minister for Press and Public […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Liberian government has announced a total of $15,000 cash reward for any useful information for the arrest of perpetrators of recent high-profile murders in Monrovia. Mr Ledgerhood Rennie, Liberia’s Minister of Information and Culture disclosed this in a statement. According to Rennie, the Liberia National Police has named Christian Anderson and […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, November 8th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended collation of results of the Nov. 6 governorship election in Anambra pending the conduct of the election in Ihiala Local Government Area. Prof. Florence Obi, INEC Returning Officer for the Anambra Governorship election made the announcement Sunday night in Awka. Obi, who is also […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The incessant Communal crisis in the volatile Effium Community of Ohaukwu, Ebonyi State has again reared its ugly head this weekend , as Ezza Effium people allegedly attacked Amuda Effium natives in their sleep, killing no fewer than seventeen people. African Examiner gathered that several people who sustained various degrees of injuries […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, says many Nigerian presidents are not loved by the citizens until they are dead. Fashola disclosed this when he spoke as a guest speaker at the Yoruba Tennis Club public lecture, with the theme, ‘What can the President do for me?’ The former Lagos […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has filed a lawsuit enjoining the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the President Muhammadu Buhari from spending “N26bn in the 2022 presidency budget on local and foreign travels, meals and refreshments, ‘sitting allowance’, ‘welfare package’, and office building.” This was contained in […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr. Gabriel Othong, the Returning Officer of the Idemili South Local Government Area in the Anambra governorship election, has stated that 41 of the 42 result sheets for 89 polling units were carted away. Othong, who is from the University of Calabar in Cross River, made the disclosure while submitting results for […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Frank Mba, has stated the reason why some police officers deployed for Anambra election are yet to receive allowances. African Examiner recalls that reports emerged on Saturday saying that police officers deployed to Anambra for the governorship election were protesting over unpaid allowances. Reacting to […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) with the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation is deploying €25,000 grant for local landscape restoration and conservation projects in the Sahel region of West Africa. The project which are located in Bawku (Ghana), Ibadan (Nigeria), Nkambe and Yaoundé (Cameroon), and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), are part of GLF’s […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Voters who could not cast their ballots yesterday in the Anambra State governorship election because of technical issues and system failure on the part of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will be given the opportunity to do so, today. Contrary to pre-election fears of apathy and violence, three was impressive turnout […]
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Emotions ran high on Saturday as families of those who died in the 21-storey building collapse on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, besieged Lagos Mainland Hospital morgue in the Yaba area of the state to identify corpses of their loved ones. This is just as the wife of Femi Osibona, the developer of […]
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nepali peacekeeper serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been named the recipient of the UN Woman Police Officer of the Year Award. Superintendent Sangya Malla serving with the UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, is Chief of its Police Health and Environment Unit, based in the capital, […]
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Sunday, November 7th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Niger State government has demolished the building of a suspected kidnapper, Mohammadu Umar, on Saturday at Nakagbe in Bosso Local Government Area of the state. Mr Emmanuel Umaru, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, told newsmen in Minna on Saturday that the suspect used proceeds of kidnap and other crimes to […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Celebrity journalist, Dele Momodu, has stated that Femi Osibona, owner of Fourscore Homes and developer of the 21-storey building that collapsed in Lagos, wanted to live in the collapsed Ikoyi building and did not cut corners. It could be recalled that the collapsed building killed over 30 people, including Osibona. In an […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Panic gripped residents as hoodlums on Saturday allegedly made away with ballot boxes from two polling centres at the Immaculate Heart Catholic Church and the St Faith Catholic Church in Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra State. The hoodlums, numbering about six, stormed the St Faith Catholic Church by Mbonu Ejike/Basden Junction in an unmarked […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Angolan private bank, Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) on Saturday signed a financial agreement with a non-governmental organisation (NGO) worth 30 million Kwanzas ($50,000) to combat malaria. Anya Fedorova, Population Services International Angola representative, who spoke to the press said her organisation’s co-funding agreement with BFA was aimed at helping in fighting […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP), Kwara branch, has suspended its 7-day warning strike. Dr Saka Agboola, the Chairman of the association, told newsmen in Ilorin on Saturday that the suspension of the industrial action would take effect by 6 p.m. He said that members were expected […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Dr Chris Ngige, Minster of Labour and Employment, has expressed shock over poor functioning of the Biomodal Verification Machine or Car Reader, of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Ngige spoke to journalists at his Nkwoide Alor ward 1, in Idemili South Local Government Area, during the Anambra Governorship election on Saturday. […]
