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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Wednesday swore-in two new commissioners and the Transition Committee (TC) Chairman for Umunneochi Local Government Area (LGA). Speaking during the event at the Executive Chambers of the Government House, Umuahia, Ikpeazu charged the new appointees to see their appointments as a call to duty and service […]
Posted by Niyi Adeyi
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – No fewer than 23 persons including five students of the Kogi State Polytechnic and three children on their way to school were reportedly killed in a road crash – involving a petrol tanker in Felele, along the Lokoja-Abuja Highway. The tanker, which was loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and belonging to the […]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
By JESSICA STANG (AFRICAN EXAMINE) – Every time I take an Uber, the first topic of small talk is what my roots are. The reactions that I am half German and half Congolese differ greatly between Europe and Africa. Typically, when I mention the DRC in Berlin, I get the following response: a compassionate look […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – TIME has named Tony Elumelu, one of Africa’s leading investors and philanthropists, in the 2020 TIME100, the annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The list, now in its seventeenth year, recognises the activism, innovation, and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. Mr Elumelu, who is one […]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, today announced the appointment of Mrs. Oluwande Muoyo as a Non-Executive Director. Mrs. Muoyo joined the board of FirstBank from FBN Holdings Plc., the parent company of First Bank of Nigeria Limited. Speaking on her appointment, Dr. Adesola Adeduntan, CEO, FirstBank […]
Posted by Ganiyu Nasirudeen
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ogun State Police Command Tuesday paraded seven fake soldiers who were arrested in Lagos and Sagamu after a failed operation on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The State’s Commissioner of Police CP, Mr. Edward Ajogun during the parade of the suspects at the command’s headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta, said the accused, operated at Ijebu-Ife around […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – After several months of closure of schools over the outbreak of the dreaded coronavirus, the Enugu State Government has announced the phased re-opening of all primary and secondary schools on Monday, September 28, 2020. This was contained in a statement issued Wednesday by the Commissioner for Education, Professor Uche Eze, who said the […]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Magistrates’ Court in Ilorin on Wednesday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of an officer of the Nigeria Security Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC), Abdulkadir Bello. Magistrate Muhammed Ibrahim gave the order following the absence of Bello, who is charged with assaulting a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin […]
Posted by Oludare Fase
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 176 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Wednesday. According to the agency, the new infection takes the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 57,437. The […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Some natives of Igga Autonomous Community, in Uzo-Uwani Council Area of Enugu State, South- East Nigeria, have dragged the traditional ruler of the area Igwe Herbert Ukuta, to court over his continuous alleged harassment and intimidation of the indigenes. The plaintiff, namely, Anthony Okonkwo, Benedict Okoye, Celestine Nnachetam and Richard Okoye, said […]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, has said that the absence of a stable fiscal environment is inhibiting the growth of the Nigerian petroleum industry, especially the upstream sector. Mallam Kyari, who stated this while playing host to members of the House of Representatives […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Main opposition party MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala who has been in remand prison for over a month on allegations of inciting violence was finally released on Z$50 000 bail on Tuesday. Sikhala had been denied bail by a magistrates’ court before he approached the High Court with an appeal. Justice […]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, who won the September 19, 2020, governorship election in Edo State, has enjoined the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole; and his APC rival in the just concluded election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, to allow the past be the past and let them all work […]
Posted by Ignatius Okpara
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A middle-age widow, Mrs. Annabel, Muoneke, from Nawfia, in Anambra state, South- East Nigeria, has appealed to the police authorities, Enugu state House of Assembly, and its Ministry of Gender Affairs and Social Development, to come to her rescue, over forceful eviction from her matrimonial home as well as alleged threat to […]
Posted by African Examiner
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 195 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Monday. According to the agency, the new infection takes the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 57,437. The […]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
By Mabingué Ngom (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – If today Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad are painted red on the security maps of the world, it has nothing to do with the colour of its soil. As much as it pains me to write it, the terrorist threat is palpable and the risks are real. […]
Posted by Daniel Jones
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Zimbabwean civic activist has been taken to court for allegedly making ‘false’ statements against the State after he made citizens to sign a petition calling on the United Nations to intervene in the Zimbabwean crisis. The Zimbabwean government has maintained that there is no crisis in the country despite deepening economic […]
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Monday, September 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mali’s former Defence Minister, Ba N’Daou has been announced as the President of a new transition government. The leader of the Sahel state’s ruling military junta, Colonel Assimi Goita announced this on national television Monday. According to a roadmap backed by the junta, the new President is meant to lead the country […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, September 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A six-month-old baby was rescued alive while the mother was pronounced dead from the debris of a collapsed building in Obosi, near Onitsha, Anambra State on Sunday. According to eyewitness account, the one-storey building went down around 4pm that many are still suspected to be trapped under the building as others were […]
Posted by Nwa Diokpa
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Monday, September 21st, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana President, Nana Akufo-Addo, met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa on Sunday night. Presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad,disclosed this in a tweet on Sunday but did not give details of the outcome of the meeting. “President @MBuhari receives Ghanian President H.E. @NAkufoAddo tonight in his official residence at the State […]
