May 23, 2021

The wife of the Vice President, Dolapo Osinbajo, has condoled with Fati, the widow of late Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru.

A source informed the Africa Daily News, New York that Osinbajo, again, visited the deceased’s wife on Sunday.

Dolapo was among the early sympathizers at the Flag Staff House at Niger Barracks, Abuja.

During her first visit on Friday, Dolapo was received by the DEPOWA President and Chief of Defence Staff’s wife, Victoria Irabor.

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The Second Lady expressed condolences on behalf of the First Lady, Aisha …

The Kwara State government has sacked the Provost of the College of Education, Ilorin, Professor Abdulraheem Yusuf.

Yusuf, who has almost 12 months more before the expiration of his tenure was allegedly engaged in running battles with the management and staff of the institution since the assumption of office.

The altercation with the management had bordered on maladministration.

His sack letter, Africa Daily News, New York gathered was delivered on Friday.

Professor Yusuf was replaced by Dr Ahmed Jimoh Ayinla, a staff of the college who is to act as the new provost of the institution.

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US President, Joe Biden has pledged to help organize efforts to rebuild Gaza and said creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel is the ‘only answer’ to the conflict.

Biden also said he had told the Israelis to stop ‘intercommunal fighting’ in the flashpoint city of Jerusalem.

However, he stressed ‘there is no shift in my commitment, commitment to the security of Israel” and added that until the region ‘unequivocally‘ acknowledges Israel’s existence ‘there will be no peace.’

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The idea of a two-state solution …

A former presidential aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has criticized President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for not attending the burial of the late Chief of Army Staff, General Ibrahim Attahiru, on Saturday.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that Buhari and Osinbajo were conspicuously missing at the burial of the late COAS and other military officers on Saturday.

Attahiru died in a plane crash close to the Kaduna Airport on Friday.

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Ten other officers were also killed when the Beachcraft 350 …

Somali leaders and stakeholders yesterday commenced negotiations Saturday aimed at organising new elections after the postponement of recent polls sparked one of the country’s worst political crises in years.

Tensions have continued to mount around the nation after President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed last month extended by two years a mandate which had expired on February 8.

Days after that decision, violence erupted in the capital as government forces clashed with pro-opposition groups who briefly took control of parts of the city.

In a bid to de-escalate the unrest, the president, better known by his nickname Farmajo, earlier this month …

The United Kingdom through the British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing has sent its condolence to the government and people of Nigeria over the death of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru.

Africa Daily News, New York had reported that the COAS died in a helicopter crash on Friday alongside 10 others in Kaduna.

In a tweet on Saturday, the British High Commissioner said; ‘Profoundly shocked & saddened by this terrible news’.

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‘Our deepest condolences to the family & friends of the late Chief of Army Staff,