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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the automatic promotion of primary five and six pupils to Junior Secondary School (JSS) by Edo Government. Mr Victor Osehobo, the state APC Assistant Publicity Secretary said this in a statement in Benin on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has advised popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, not to take laws into his hands but allow constituted authorities including the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to take charge of the security challenges in the state. The monarch disclosed this when he appeared […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola has cautioned travel agencies never to engage in trafficking and smuggling into the country or outside the nation. He made the call during a joint stakeholders dialogue on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and Smuggling of Migrants (SOM) in Abuja. Aregbesola, who was represented by the Comptroller General […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday signed a law to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, disclosed this while handing over five ambulances donated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to the Federal […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Airtel Nigeria, a telecommunications service provider on Thursday says it has commenced the National Identity Number (NIN) registration exercise in its retail outlets nationwide Airtel in a statement made available in Lagos said it was following an approval from the Federal Government which granted them a verification and enrolment license. The telecom […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Government says plans are set to start implementing the restriction of trucks and long vehicles to night operations on certain routes. The state said that the decision was as a result of traffic menace and fatalities caused by articulated vehicles on roads in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thomas Tuchel said he was excited with his new team in spite of seeing Chelsea draw 0-0 with Wolves in his first match as manager on Wednesday. The German, who replaced Frank Lampard on Tuesday, watched his side create 14 shots on goal but saw them unable to find the breakthrough. The […]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Controller of Works Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola on wednesday announced another three days of total shutdown of the Third Mainland Bridge for another round of delicate expansion joints replacement. Popoola disclose this in a telephone interview that the shutdown would take effect from midnight on Friday to midnight of Monday, […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The US-Nigeria Trade Council, United States of America says there is need to urgently review the challenges faced by Nigerians both at home and in diaspora in the ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) registration exercise. The council made the call in a statement signed jointly by its Executive Director, Mr Titus Olowokere […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Nolly wood popular actor Ernest Azuzu is dead According to reports, the actor slumped and died on Tuesday evening. His death was confirmed by the President Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, on Wednesday. Rollas said: “Yes, Ernest Asuzu is dead. I am trying to reach his wife to get the […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Governor of Benue State,Samuel Ortom has tested positive to COVID -19 His Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, announced this on Wednesday. Akase, in a statement made available to journalists in Makurdi, said: “The latest result of his (governor Ortom) COVID-19 test has returned positive. “This follows the test results of most […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thomas Tuchel was appointed Chelsea manager on an 18-month contract on Tuesday, tasked with hauling the underperforming Blues back into the Champions League next season The 47-year-old German replaces the sacked Frank Lampard to become the 13th Chelsea boss since Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003.
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other agencies to probe the tenure of the sacked service chiefs for human rights abuses and extra judicial killings. President Buhari had sacked the service chiefs after many Nigerians have agitated for their sack. Fayose took to his […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has disowned a recent award of excellence bestowed on the Awgu Council Area Chairman of the state, Chief Pedro Nwankwo, with the name of the organization, describing it as fake and fraudulent. It made it clear that those behind the said controversial award […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Director-General Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, says 70 lockup shops have been destroyed by fire in Alade Market in Somolu He added that goods worth millions of Naira were also damaged by the inferno. According to him, the Agency received distress calls on Tuesday at 1.05 a.m. […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal Government inaugurated 20,000 Extended Special Public Works (SPW) Programme in Lagos state. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, made this known in Lagos during the inauguration of the Extended SPW Programme of the 774,000 jobs in the country. Fashola, represented by the ministry’s Head of Works in […]
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing new service chiefs for the country. The governor made this known on Tuesday in Port Harcourt in a statement by Mr Paulinus Nsirim, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications. He noted that although the appointments came late, the president should […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that the Service Chiefs have resigned their appointments and thus proceeded on retirement from service. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in Abuja. The statement says those retired are the […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Examination Council (NECO) has fixed a new date for the senior secondary school certificate examination for external candidates. The council stated that due to candidates pleas it has extended the registration process . According to NECO, the examination which earlier scheduled to commerce on Monday 1st February 2021 and end […]
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Federal road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged the Council of Works to call on governments at all levels to enforce the minimum 45.72 meters right of way regulation on all highways. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, said this in an interview in Abuja. Kazeem […]
