May 27, 2021

Mali’s interim vice president Colonel Assimi Goita yesterday announced that he had seized power as a fresh coup within an older coup unravelled in the country.

Goita was one of the coup plotters that toppled the elected government of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita last August.

He said he took over power because President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane failed to consult him about a cabinet reshuffle, which dropped two former coup leaders.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that both leaders have been detained at a military base outside the capital Bamako since Monday evening.

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The Delta State government has denied reports that it has received the £4.2m Ibori loot from the federal government.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris on Tuesday, 25 May 2021, told the House of Reps ad-hoc Committee on Assessment and Status of all recovered loots movable and immovable assets that the federal government had returned the looted money to Delta state.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Delta State Governor, Olisa Ifeajika while denying the statement by Idris, said the state is yet to see the said amount reflect in its …

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has slammed the Buhari government’s insistence on open grazing and cattle routes, saying they are ideas that were prevalent in the 1950s and no longer tenable in the 21st century.

‘We find the move not only shocking and curious but also as a misplaced priority,‘ he said.

The Buhari Presidency on Monday queried the legality of the ban on open grazing by governors in the entire southern part of the country.

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