Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, April 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has berated the Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, for refuting the claim that the Federal Government printed N60 billion in March to support allocation to states. Governor Obaseki, who had accused the Federal Government of “monetary rascality’, stated that the finance minister is […]
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Crime Watch, Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Acting Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate disbandment of the IGP Monitoring Satellite Offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt over complaints of harassment and operating beyond their briefs by Nigerians. Speaking at his maiden meeting with Command Police Commissioners and zonal AIGs, in Abuja , Baba said the IGP […]
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Asia, Featured, Latest Headlines
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The French embassy in Pakistan on Thursday advised all French nationals and companies to temporarily leave the country, after violent anti-France protests paralysed large parts of the country this week. “Due to the serious threats to French interests in Pakistan, French nationals and French companies are advised to temporarily leave the country,” […]
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Thursday, April 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Greece plans to lift its one-week quarantine requirement for tourists from European Union countries from Monday. The government’s plan still requires approval by epidemiological experts on Friday, the daily newspaper Kathimerini reported on Thursday. The prerequisite would be that the tourists were either fully vaccinated or have a current, negative PCR test. […]
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African News, Latest Headlines, News, News Around Africa
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Somalia’s health ministry on Wednesday rolled out doses of Sinopharm vaccine donated by China to boost the war against the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in the Horn of Africa nation. The country’s deputy minister of health Ahmed Hussein received his first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine during the launch of the exercise in […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, April 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Akwa Ibom State, Uwemedimo Nwoko. Nwoko, an alleged accomplice in the N1.4bn money laundering charge against Paul Usoro, a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association had been at large […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, April 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ponder on this irony: On the same day that microblogging site, Twitter, announced the decision to situate its Africa operational base in Ghana (to the chagrin of Nigerians), Pornhub, described as the world’s leading free pornography site, hinted that the University of Ibadan might be its African headquarters. To be sure, no […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Thursday, April 15th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Communications and Digital Economy Minister Dr. Ali Isa Pantami has vowed to sue a national daily for publishing a report that he has been placed on the watch-list by the United States (U.S.). Pantami made the threat in a statement by his lawyer, Michael Jonathan Numa, Senior Partner of the Karina Tunyan […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As a way of assisting government in conserving wildlife in the country, a philanthropist, Mr Innocent Onwubiko, has formally adopted three lions from the Imo Zoological Garden and Wildlife Park, Owerri. Speaking with newsmen on Wednesday in Owerri shortly after signing a one-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the management of the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Popular blogger and social media influencer, Japhet Omojuwa, has stated that he got the “full consent” from former minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, before making her a director in his company, Alpha Reach Limited. African Examiner reports that Ezekwesili had spoken out on her alleged role in the company after the controversy […]
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Court of Appeal, Benin Division, set aside the dissolution of the Edo State Law Review Commission for the past 13 years over failure to follow due process. The commission was dissolved in 2008 by the administration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole. In a unanimous judgment, the court ordered that the commission’s members […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Security has been beefed up in Benin ahead of the 20th National Sports Festival closing ceremony on Wednesday evening. This is seen in an increase in security personnel’s presence, though African Examiner could not get the actual figures. The security measure may not be unconnected with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who is […]
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Military Administrator of Oyo State, Colonel Ahmed Usman, is dead. He was said to have died around 3.00am on Wednesday in Jos, the Plateau State capital, during an illness. It was gathered his remains were being moved to his village, Okura-Lafia, Kogi State for burial according to Muslim rites. Usman […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said Nigeria’s victory against insecurity is around the corner. Pastor Adeboye, who made this known yesterday when he paid a courtesy call on Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State at the Government House, told the governor that he […]
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Immediate past Imo Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has broken his silence on his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged misappropriation of public funds. Okorocha was arrested by the EFCC operatives at about 4:10pm on Tuesday at his Unity House office located at Garki, Abuja. But speaking through […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Senator Rochas Okorocha was questioned at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday for “suspected multiple cases of fraud and money laundering during his tenure as governor”. Okorocha, representing Imo West in the Senate, was governor between 2011 and 2019. He was arrested about 4pm according to a source in […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A 41-year-old woman, Oluwakemi Odugbesan, has been murdered by suspected armed robbers in Ketu, Lagos. The deceased was said to have been stabbed multiple times by her attackers around 6am on April 10, her husband’s birthday It was gathered that the woman was returning from a vigil when her attackers in an […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The arrest of former governor of Imo state by the Economic Financial and Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has sparked social media reactions as some Nigerians took to their social media accounts saying that the arrest of the senator representing Imo West Senatorial district by the EFCC is an APC affair and nothing new […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The U.S Consul-General in Nigeria, Claire Pierangelo, on Tuesday, announced that the US government had provided over $6 billion since 2003, as assistance for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in the country. Pierangelo revealed this when she led a delegation on a courtesy visit to Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa’s University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Monday inaugurated the Acupuncture Centre and Museum in collaboration with Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Acupuncture Centre and Museum was first conceptualised a few years ago, with renovations and design commencing in 2019. The UJ Dean of Faculty of Health Science, Sehaam Khan, […]
