Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Governors of the South East geo political zone of Nigeria, has condemned in strong terms the killing of Gulak Ahmed, a former political Adviser, to Ex- president Goodluck Jonathan, by unknown gunmen in Owerri, the Imo State, capital, describing the act as a national catastrophe. They spoke under their Forum platform on […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Ebonyi has discredited recent reports/ pictures flying on social media that a community in Ebonyi has been attacked by suspected gunmen in the early hours of Sunday. This is contained in a statement issued to reporters in Abakaliki on Sunday by the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah. According […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given two weeks’ extension to candidates genuinely unable to complete their registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The deadline for registration was May 29, 2021. A statement by JAMB’s head of information and protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, noted that such candidates […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – An explosion has rocked parts of mile 3 market in Port Harcourt City Local Government Area, Rivers State. The incident, which occurred around 6:30am on Monday, sent people especially at Mile 3 motor park running to different places for safety. Though no life was lost, many people were reportedly injured. A source […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former presidential candidate and publisher of online news medium, SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, has been “shot” by a police operative in Abuja. Sowore was reportedly shot on Monday by a female police officer at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. The politician was at a rally with some associates when the incident happened. An […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Social and economic activities were grounded in Awka, Anambra State capital, on Monday following the Sit-at-home order (on May 31) given by the proscribed Biafra agitators, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The group said ,it declared a Sit-at-home order in remembrance of more than five million Igbo people who died during […]
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu State Police Command on Monday said it has launched a manhunt for the killers of former Enugu State High Court Judge, Justice Stanley Nnaji. Justice Nnaji was reportedly killed by gunmen suspected to be assassins on Sunday evening. A statement by the Enugu State Police Command, however, could not identify […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Monday, May 31st, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Okwudor, Njaba Local Government Area of Imo, has been gutted by fire set by unknown gunmen. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Prof. Francis Ezeonu, made this known in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday, in Owerri. He confirmed […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says the N200 billion facility earmarked for the Federal Government’s Social Housing Scheme was ready to commence disbursement for the project. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, in Abuja. The presidential aide […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) has stated that the only way to avert the death of Nigeria is to restructure. The forum on Sunday enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to address Nigerians on the numerous challenges facing the country. Edwin Clark, national leader of the SMBLF, disclosed this at a […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A member representing Nasarawa central, Ismail Danbaba, in the state house of assembly, has been abducted by suspected gunmen. According to news reports, Danbaba was kidnapped on Saturday evening along Akwanga/Jos road close to the forest in Sanga LGA of Kaduna state. Dangba was said to have been on his way to […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The sixty two out of the sixty-three newly promoted Senior officers of the Enugu State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have been decorated with their new ranks. Speaking weekend during the colorful ceremony held at the Conference Hall of the Federal Secretariat Complex, Independence Lay Out, Enugu, the State Comptroller […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Police in Imo State, Sunday night, announced that it has captured and neutralized the armed men responsible for the killing of Ahmed Gulak, a former political Adviser to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Gulak, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was gruesomely murdered in a cold blood by unknown gunmen in the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Barely few hours after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Abia State police Command was razed down by yet to be identified hoodlums, the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) head office manager in the state has really been attacked by unknown gunmen who set ablaze some operational patrol vehicles in the premises. […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress [APC)’s primaries were truncated in many parts of Lagos on Saturday by hoodlums and party officials allegedly favouring particular candidates ahead of the July 24 local government elections. African Examiner reports that hundreds of aggrieved APC members on Saturday kept vigil at the party’s state secretariat in Lagos […]
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has warned that traders who comply with the Monday’s sit-at-home order should be ready to forfeit their shops. Umahi issued the warning in a state-wide broadcast on Saturday in Abakaliki to mark the sixth anniversary of his administration. He was reacting to the order by the proscribed […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Police Command in Imo says gallant officers killed four bandits who allegedly attacked Izombe police division in Oguta Local Government Area of the state on Saturday night. The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Abutu Yaro disclosed this in a statement signed by the command’s Spokesman, SP Bala Alkana on […]
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday elected a new leadership to pilot its affairs for the next two years. The executive council of ASUU would however spend a maximum of four years. They were elected at the national delegates conference of ASUU held in Awka, Anambra State. While Prof. Victor […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A onetime Military Administrator (MILAD) of Delta State, Air Commodore Luke Ochulor (rtd) has said that the recent pronouncement banning open grazing by Southern Governors must be promptly backed with implementable and effective laws promulgated by the various State Houses of Assembly. He said that is the only way to make it achieve […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Sunday, May 30th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Pandemonium broke out on Saturday at Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State when some Yoruba nation agitators stormed the area and forcefully opened its land border. They were, however, swiftly repelled by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service who were manning the border town between Nigeria and the Republic of […]
