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Sunday, May 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ongoing rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, retaliatory airstrikes by the Israeli army and confrontations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Arab-majority areas in Israel marked a region inflamed with violence unlikely to subside anytime soon. Saturday marked Nakba Day, referring to the Palestinian “catastrophe,” which remembers the mass displacement of […]
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Sunday, May 16th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ethiopian election officials announced on Saturday that it had postponed the planned June 5 election indefinitely. The move came amid the widespread security and logistical challenges the country is facing. Birutkan Mideksa, chairwoman of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, confirmed the change of date in a press statement: “The vote will […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – United Airlines on Saturday relaunched its passenger flight operation from Washington, D.C. to Accra, the capital of Ghana, after a hiatus of about a decade. A speech read on behalf of the Minister of Transport Kweku Ofori Asiamah at a news conference held at the forecourt of the Kotoka International Airport commended […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers, on Saturday said that the decision of the Southern Governors on open grazing and other issues remain irrevocable and must be respected. NAN reports that the Forum of Southern Governors in one voice, recently announced a ban on open grazing in all the 17 Southern states. Wike […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ebonyi State Commissioner for Housing, Uche Okah, is dead. She reportedly died on Friday at a hospital in Abuja, where she was getting treatment over an undisclosed illness. Governor David Umahi on Saturday condoled with the husband of the deceased, Celestine Okah, in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday leave Abuja for France where he will attend the African finance summit. While in France for four days, Buhari will participate in the summit and meet with Emmanuel Macron, who is the host country’s president. The summit is organised by Macron to look into external funding […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Wilfred Ndidi and Kelechi Iheneancho’s Leicester City have beaten Chelsea 1-0 to win the FA Cup for the first time in the club’s history. Telemann’s second half cracker settled the game in which Chelsea were largely poor. Chelsea’s equaliser in the dying minute was rightly ruled out for offside with the Leicester […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Osun State Government is yet to respond as the opposition People’s Democratic Party berated Governor Adegboyega Oyetola for not participating in the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum meeting held in Delta State earlier in the week. African Examiner recalls that governors from the southern part of the country had at the meeting discussed […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Heavy rain and thunderstorm on Saturday dispersed agitators of Yoruba Nation at the popular Nelson Mandela Freedom park via Old garage area of Osogbo capital of Osun State on Saturday afternoon. African Examiner reports that scores of Yoruba Nation agitators stormed the streets of Osogbo on Saturday after they changed the venue […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has arrived Osogbo the capital of Osun State to join other agitators who had stormed the streets at the early hours of Saturday. Igboho stormed the capital city with many of his supporters in his convoy. He arrived around 1:40 pm. Details […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) has been shifted from June 19 to July 3. Prof Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced. He made the announcement at an ongoing press conference on Saturday in Abuja. The examination was slated to hold between June 5 and […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Prof. Yohana Izam, the Vice Chancellor, Plateau State University, Bokkos, has announced the release of a student of the institution, Stanley Showul-Mushi, kidnapped by gunmen on Thursday. Izam announced the rescue of the final year accounting student in a telephone interview on Saturday in Jos. The vice chancellor said that it was […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ferran Torres scored a remarkable hat-trick as Manchester City celebrated being English Premier League (EPL) champions with a thrilling 4-3 win over Newcastle. The visitors dominated the early stages, although without creating meaningful changes, and it was the Magpies who took the lead with 25 minutes gone. Jonjo Shelvey delivered the set-piece […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sen. Seriake Dickson, representing Bayelsa West (PDP) in the National Assembly on Friday said police was not the problem of Nigeria and should not be seen as an enemy . The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba in Abuja in a statement on Friday in Abuja quoted Dickson as saying […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Lagos State Ministry of Justice, has delayed any possibility of releasing Olanrewaju James, popularly known as, “Baba Ijesha” on bail. According to it, this is based on criminal charges he had to answer to. The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made the […]
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Saturday, May 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency says the person declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) is not an in law to President Muhammadu Buhari as being claimed in some quarters. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja […]
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Friday, May 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bayelsa State government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in the state from 8pm to 6am daily. The Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Mr Ayibaina Duba, in a statement on Friday, said the curfew was part of the measures to prevent the spread of the surging trait of the new […]
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Friday, May 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari says that his regime will assist the Republic of Chad in any way possible to stabilise and return to constitutional order. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President made the promise when he received the […]
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Friday, May 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are strong indications that workers at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology ( ESUT ) Teaching Hospital, Parklane, may soon embarked on indefinite industrial action, following series of disagreements, alleged injustices, and maltreatment by the Enugu state government on the labor unions in the health facility. Some of the […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, May 14th, 2021
…….Wants Past Confab Documents reviewed Now (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), has hit hard on members of the upper and lower Chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly (NASS) describing their current leadership, as the worst performing principal officers in history of the Nation. Reacting to a recent call by Mike Ozekhome […]
