June 7, 2021

Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has invited the evicted Sarkin Fulani of Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Alhaji Salihu Abdulkadir, to Abuja over last Sunday’s violence, which claimed many lives in the community.

The invitation to Abuja is coming on the heels of a petition by an international human rights organisation to the justice minister.

Confirmed sources close to the Sarkin Fulani, informed Newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, on Monday, that the Sarkin is billed to meet the minister on Tuesday in Abuja.

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Governor Samuel Ortom and two of his predecessors – Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume and Senator representing Benue North East, Gabriel Suswam met again on Sunday to discuss security issues bedevilling the state.

According to Ortom’s media aide, Jimin Geoffrey, the meeting aimed at resolving to work together for the security and socio-economic development of the state.

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Governor Ortom briefed journalists shortly after a meeting with the two former governors, the Tor Tiv, Professor James Ayatse and first-class chiefs in Tiv land which took place …

West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a crucial swing vote in the United States Senate, announced on Sunday he intends to oppose a sweeping voting rights bill backed by the majority of his fellow Democrats that would expand access to voting across the US.

Speaking on ‘Fox News Sunday’, monitored by Africa Daily News, New York Manchin asserted that the bill, known as the For the People Act, ‘is the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country, and I’m not supporting that because I think it will divide us further’.

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Colonel Assimi Goïta would be sworn in as Mali’s interim president today (Monday).

Africa Daily News, New York understands that it’s a fortnight since he removed the transitional president and prime minister in a coup – the second he’s engineered in nine months.

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Last week, leaders of the West African bloc, Ecowas, joined the African Union in suspending Mali’s membership, calling on the military government to adhere to an 18-month transition towards presidential elections in February.

France and other Western powers also want a return to civilian rule.

Mali is …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives has threatened legal action against the Federal Government over its ban of Twitter operations in Nigeria. 

A statement by the caucus Kingsley Chinda’s leader noted that the Nigerian government does not have the power to ban the social media platform, arguing that the action lowers the country’s image in the eyes of other democratic nations.

‘We also call on the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture to immediately rescind its directive to the NBC to begin the licensing of social media operators in the country, having regard to the …