Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed 749 polling units from inappropriate facilities. The commission took away nine polling units from shrines and several others from religious houses, royal palaces, and private properties. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has called for urgent restoration of the people’s lost values of honesty and integrity in order to stamp out corruption in the country. The ICPC chairman made the call during a one-day Stakeholders Zonal Dialogue on the […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian actor, Olanrewaju James (popularly known as Baba Ijesha), has been denied bail on Wednesday before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for alleged sexual assault and attempted rape of a minor and equally transferred the case to Lagos high court The 48-year-old man was arraigned on a four-count charge […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The dates for the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states have been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The election in Ekiti State will hold on Saturday, June 18, while that of Osun State will hold on July 16. This was announced by the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is afraid of breaching any law or the constitution of the country. Ngige disclosed this when he appeared on ‘News Night’ on Channels Television . According to him, Buhari is a democrat and that former President Olusegun Obasanjo will […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has says corruption is fighting back as he has been receiving death threats since he came on board as the chairman of the anti-graft agency. He disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme. When asked on […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Against the backdrop of the clamour for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023, Chairman of Enugu State Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has asked politicians in the region with ambition for the exalted office, to come out of their comfort zone and start indicating […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
African News, Business News, Latest Headlines, News Around Africa
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Eighteen companies are to face sanctions from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for allegedly abusing the country’s foreign exchange auction system. Dr John Mangudya, the RBZ governor on Tuesday said the companies face allegations of flouting the Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 (SI 127) put in place to provide for penalties […]
Posted by African Examiner
Entertainment, Entertainment News, Featured, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senior Prophet Celestial Church of Christ Genesis Global, Israel Ogundipe has blamed gospel singer, Tope Alabi, for criticising a popular Christian song, Oniduro Mi. African Examiner reports in a video making the rounds on social media, Tope Alabi said God isn’t her guarantor because He’s more than a guarantor. She said: “God […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya who has a pending case of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold has been re-elected as the federation’s president for the next five years. Rushwaya (53) who was released on $100 000 bail some months back, was retained as president of the federation in elections […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, says it is undemocratic for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to shift his constitutional responsibility of securing lives and property of Nigerians to state governors. The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, said the President is the Commander- In-Chief of […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday signed an agreement with South Sudan to provide meals to more than 530,000 children in the country. The meals will be provided in 1,100 schools across the ten states for a period of 19 months. Adeyinka Badejo, WFP Deputy Country Director for South Sudan, […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the health of children, adolescents and expectant mothers worldwide is at risk from the illegal processing of old electrical or electronic devices. WHO raised the alert on Tuesday in a landmark new report on the toxic threat, entitled: “Children and Digital Dumpsites’’. In a statement coinciding […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo says the state governmant is working out a welfare package, including an insurance scheme, for the police personnel in the state. A statement issued in Owerri on Tuesday by Mr Oguwike Nwachuku, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, stated that Uzodinma announced the plan during a […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Consulate General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija, says no fewer than 1,328 passports produced at the mission are yet to be collected. Egopija stated in New York that the passports were among the backlogs cleared, but were yet to be collected by the applicants. The Nigerian envoy said […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The federal government has released a date for the opening to traffic of the 2nd Niger Bridge. The Managing Director and Chief Executive of National Inland Waterways, NIWA, George Moghalu, disclosed that the 2nd Niger Bridge will be opened to traffic from February 2022. Moghalu stated this at the flag-off of a […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unidentified gunmen struck a drinking joint in Jos, Plateau State, fatally shooting no fewer than 10 persons dead on Sunday, the police have said. The gunmen drove in a Hilux van into Kashe (Sabon Layi) community, Kuru District of Jos South Local Government, sporadically shooting at the bar and leaving many dead […]
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Tunde Bakare, the senior pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, has stated that he should not be blamed for the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari. Bakare, who ran as vice president to Mr Buhari in 2011, described himself to the biblical prophet Samuel, who anointed Saul as Israel’s king saying that his […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) has disclosed that the 72-hour ultimatum issued to Delta state by an unknown group to reverse the ban on open grazing is from mischief makers and should be disregarded. It could be recalled that on Sunday, an unknown group threatened to attack Asaba and Agbor in […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Rangers International FC of Enugu on Monday beat Ingas FC of New Layout 1-0 to emerge winner of the 2021 Enugu State Aiteo Federation cup. The Flying Antelopes defeated the Enugu Amateur club side in the final match of the competition played inside the main bowl of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu. […]
