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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The ongoing violent clash among youths of Inalende, Abebi and Oopo areas of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has claimed more casualties. Though, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Adewale Osifeso, while confirming the incident, said he has yet to establish the number of casualties, a witness insisted that the casualties increased […]
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus says every region has countries facing a steep increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths, with cases in Africa on rapid increase. Ghebreyesus, who spoke on Friday at COVID-19 news briefing at WHO headquarters in Geneva, expressed concerns that COVID-19 cases in Africa had increased by […]
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister for Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, on Friday commended the dedication of former Super Eagles Captain, John Mikel Obi. He also announced Mikel Obi as an Ambassador of the sports ministry. The minister gave the commendation at a press conference held in Mikel-Obi’s honor at the National Stadium, Lagos. […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Saturday, June 19th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s Tourism Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has expressed her delight over the announcement that the annual Africa Oil Week will be hosted in Cape Town from 2022 and beyond. Africa Oil Week is the meeting place of choice for the continent’s upstream oil and gas sector. Now entering its 27th year, the […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The police command in Kebbi has confirmed that the vehicle used to abduct students from Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi, belongs to a high court judge in the state. Nafi’u Abubakar, Kebbi police spokesman, stated that the van was hijacked by bandits on Birnin Yauri road. Abubakar disclosed that the police […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With the goal of stirring youth to work, Adedolapo Adekanbi, popularly known as DolapoTheVibe is a fast-rising Nigerian-American singer, songwriter and performer on Friday released first official single for the year 2021 titled, WORK. “Work” is created with the aim of encouraging listeners to work for whatever they want, because of course […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The frontline Civil Society and not-for-profit group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the United Nations (UN) and global leaders to intervene and rescue students kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria. The association said it is only in Nigeria globally that terrorists have made it a hobby with the […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says it will soon begin prosecution of fans exhibiting hooliganism at match venues. NFF’s First Vice-President, Seyi Akinwunmi, said this while addressing participants at the Nigeria National League (NNL) Football Development Summit for Club Administrators and Media, in Abuja on Friday. Akinwunmi, who declared the event open on […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of five new Permanent Secretaries into the civil service of the federation. This followed the recent successful conduct of the selection process of permanent secretaries. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan made the announcement in a statement by […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Union of Road Transport Workers, (NURTW) has distanced itself from the violence that claimed lives and properties with many sustaining varying degrees of injuries at Iwo Road Ibadan and equally shift the blame on the Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State for empowering Mukaila Lamidi (aka Auxilliary) who is responsible […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Gov. Nasir El’ Rufai of Kaduna State has disclosed that 99 political appointees were sacked as part of government right sizing. El-Rufai, who made the disclosure at news briefing, said that the government was yet to disengage any state civil servant in the state. The governor explained that the disengaged political appointees constituted […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka as Sunday Igboho, is set to visit Lagos for Yoruba Nation rally. African Examiner reports Yoruba nation protesters have held rallies across southwest states, including Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, and Ondo. Igboho in the past weeks expressed dissatisfaction over the continuous activities of killer herders in the […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says three bodies have so far been recovered from the scene of Thursday night’s tanker explosion on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos State. Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, Acting Zonal Coordinator, South West Zonal Office, NEMA, confirmed the development in Ikeja on Friday. Our correspondent reports that […]
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi (Delta North) of N322 million money laundering charge Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke held that the agency failed to prove the elements of the offences for which it charged the lawmaker. Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, represents Delta North […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the 2023 general elections gathers momentum, the people of Enugu East Senatorial Zone of Enugu State, have sounded a note of warning against any plan to truncate the existing zoning arrangement of the governorships position which favours the district. They threatened to resist any zone or individual who may make any […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Friday, June 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Nigerian government to step up efforts aimed at strengthening the country’s tax administration to mobilize additional revenues and help address priority spending pressures on the economy. The global monetary body gave the charge at the conclusion of its virtual meetings with the Nigerian authorities to […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) -The Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) says the new management of the fund is not under probe by the Public Accounts Committee of the Senate over alleged N62 billion fraud. Ms Alexandra Mede, Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs, NSITF, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Mede said that the […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of the All-Progressives Congress, APC, ward seven, Igbo Eze North Council Area of Enugu State, Southeast Nigeria, Mr. Nwokedi Ugwoke has been sacked from office, over alleged anti-party activities. Following the development, a new chairman, Mr. Nduka Obeta has been sworn in as his replacement. Disclosing this to newsmen on […]
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ekiti on Thursday said it has arrested a 65-year-old man, Durodola Ogundele, for allegedly having canal knowledge of his stepmother. A statement by the command’s Spokesperson, Mr Sunday Abutu, in Ado-Ekiti, said Ogundele was apprehended by the Ido-Osi Divisional Headquarters of the command on Wednesday at in Ido-Osi, […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Thursday, June 17th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Mnangagwa has fired with immediate effect High Court judge Justice Erica Ndewere for gross incompetence after a Tribunal Mr Mnangagwa set last year recommended that she be removed from office. The sacking of Justice Ndewere coincides with setting of another Tribunal to investigate Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa who is being charged […]
