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Monday, November 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has apologised to Nigerians for the breakdown on the Abuja-Kaduna rail locomotives which occurred between Nov. 18 and Nov. 20. The minister made the plea on Monday at the Moniya rail station during the routine inspection of the ongoing rail project in Ibadan. “I want to apologise […]
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Monday, November 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says that Nigeria will be out of the recession soon. African Examiner reports that Nigeria has slipped into recession over the weekend, the worst in over three decades. Ahmed, speaking at the ongoing 26th Nigerian Economic Summit organized by the Nigerian Economic […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Monday, November 23rd, 2020
Picture for this story has been sent via email (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Minister for Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite has called on the youths in the country to patronize local products instead of foreign ones. Speaking during series of town hall meetings held with the youth in the three senatorial districts of […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, November 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party’s most powerful man after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was rushed to hospital following suspected poisoning at a party rally outside the capital. Victor Matemadanda is the party’s National Political Commissar, a position that is responsible for determining fate of members, accepting or firing people as well as disciplining those […]
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Popoola Kayode, leader of Taskforce team operating around Lekki Ajah area of Lagos State and his team members have been arrested for collecting N100,000 bribe. The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce), Head, Public Affairs Unit, Adebayo Taofiq said this in a statement […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has mourned the death of Phillip Shekwo, its chairman in Nasarawa State, who was murdered by unknown gunmen. African Examiner reports that Shekwo was abducted Saturday night from his residence in Lafia, the state capital, and was found dead on Sunday. In a statement on Sunday, the […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, November 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose, says he won’t join political enemies to shoot down the former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu because of his role as the greatest builder of men in Yoruba land and in Nigeria. Fayose disclosed this in Ado Ekiti while speaking with journalists as […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Saturday, November 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the country’s official data agency, Nigeria has recorded a second recession in the Buhari’s administration. According to NBS, Nigeria slipped into recession at the end of the third quarter (Q3) which ended in September. African Examiner reports that Nigeria went into a recession in […]
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Saturday, November 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Enugu based popular human rights body, Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network (CRRAN), has decried incessant use of arbitrary power by governments in Nigeria, Enugu state inclusive in forcefully taking over, or demolishing citizens lawful properties without compensation, just as it petitions Governor Ugwuanyi, on a particular lingering case in Enugu. It condemned in strong […]
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Saturday, November 21st, 2020
…Named Africa’s Leading Business Hotel for the Sixth Consecutive Year (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Transcorp Hilton Abuja has been honoured with four (4) awards including Africa’s Leading Business Hotel for the sixth consecutive year at the 27th annual World Travel Awards. The hotel, which is owned by Transcorp Hotels Plc, the hospitality subsidiary of Transnational Corporation […]
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Saturday, November 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has begun the distribution of cash and food to vulnerable people in Abuja. The initiative, in partnership with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, was to cushion the COVID-19 effect on the residents. Dr Paul Howe, WFP representative in Nigeria, on Friday […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Saturday, November 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nsukka Zonal chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has condemned the alleged attempt by the Vice chancellor of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Professor Charles Eze to use military to conduct internal examination in the institution. The Zonal Coordinator of the body Dr. Igbana Ajir, […]
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Saturday, November 21st, 2020
By Emmanuel Adigwe (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the world marked World Toilet Day on Thursday, November 19th, 2020 to create awareness about the important health benefits of appropriate toilet hygiene across Africa, it is good that Nigerians learn from Bangladesh and see how it can remedy the amount of open defecation in the country. This […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, November 20th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least thirty-seven people died in violent clashes between Ugandan security forces and supporters of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine this week, marking a particularly violent start to the country’s election season. Two days of protests were sparked by Wine’s arrest ahead of a political rally in the run-up to January 14’s […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Friday, November 20th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the house of representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has stated that he has handed his security aide, Abdullahi Hassan, who killed a newspaper vendor, to the Department of State Services (DSS) for discipline. African Examiner had reported that a newspaper vendor, Ifeanyi Okereke, was shot by Hassan on Thursday evening, near the […]
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Friday, November 20th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva has said that Nigeria will soon begin to import fuel from the neighboring Niger Republic. The minister who disclosed this in a statement explained that the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday for petroleum products transportation and storage. He added that Niger […]
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Friday, November 20th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, says he is “personally distraught” over the killing of a newspaper vendor, Mr Ifeanyichukwu Elechi, by one of his security details. Gbajabiamilia, who expressed his regret over the incident in a statement issued early on Friday, said that his “deepest sympathies” are […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, November 20th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Speaker of the Ebonyi state House of Assembly Hon. Francis Nwifuru and some serving colleagues have joined Governor David Nweze Umahi in his newly found political party, the ruling, All progressive Congress APC. Umahi, finally decamped from his former party, the People’s Democratic party PDP to the APC on Tuesday. Other government […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Friday, November 20th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – As the defection of the governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Dave Umahi from the People’s Democratic party PDP to the ruling all progressive APC continues to attract reactions, the Enugu- state Chapter of the party has described the development as the biggest political earthquake in the modern Southeast history. Umahi, dumped PDP […]
Posted by Eric Ojo
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Friday, November 20th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved grants worth $28.233 million for Sudan to shore up the country’s health system to effectively respond and contain the vagaries of COVID-19 pandemic. The grants which are being provided under the African Development Bank’s COVID-19 Response Facility is aimed at mitigating the social and economic impacts […]
