June 16, 2021

Bomb Attack Kills 10 At Somalia Army Training Camp

Bomb Attack Kills 10 At Somali Army Training Camp

June 16, 2021 4:06 am

A suicide bomber has killed no fewer than 10 people at an army training camp in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that many of the injured have been taken to hospital.

The attacker was waiting among new recruits who were queuing up outside the camp, news agency AFP quotes an officer as saying.

No group has said it was behind the attack, but security facilities are a common target for Islamist militant group al-Shabab.

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A military officer quoted by state media said that 10 people had

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Leicester’s Jamie Vardy Becomes Football Club Owner

Leicester’s Jamie Vardy Becomes Football Club Owner

June 16, 2021 3:58 am

Leicester City hitman Jamie Vardy has joined the league of football club owners after investing in US-based team Rochester Rhinos according to the club.

The 34-year old striker purchased a minority stake in the New York-based club, which has not played a competitive game for four years.

The club statement said: ‘The Rochester Rhinos are delighted to announce that Premier League star Jamie Vardy has become a co-owner of the club.

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‘The Leicester City striker has bought a minority stake and is excited by the prospect of being part …

Biden Opens Path For More Migrant Children To Find Guardians

Biden Opens Path For More Migrant Children To Find Guardians

June 16, 2021 3:54 am

President Joe Biden’s administration has broadened the range of legal guardians who can apply to care for migrant children, in a new step to address an influx of young Central Americans seeking safety in the United States.

When he was vice president, under President Barak Obama in 2014, Joe Biden set up a program known as the Central American Minors program which was aimed at allowing parents legally in the United States to claim children who came alone, helping them resettle with the benefit of the family.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that former president Donald Trump, who ran …

Farmers, Herders Clash Leaves At Least 14 Dead In CAR

Farmers, Herders Clash Leaves At Least 14 Dead In CAR

June 16, 2021 3:39 am

No fewer than 14 people were killed in a revenge attack by Chadian herders after a farmer killed a herder in Central African Republic Africa Daily News, New York reports.

Narrating what happened to reporters, the village’s mayor who was identified as Ibrahim Senoussi said; ‘It all started with a dispute between a farmer and a herder who led his livestock into a field Near Tiri’.

‘The herds devastated the field and the crops and the herder was killed after the dispute turned violent’ 

Francois Dieudonne Bata Wapi Yepi, the regional prefect, pointed out that the Chadian herders went …

APC Now Largest Party In Africa, Buni Declares

APC Now Largest Party In Africa, Buni Declares

June 16, 2021 3:27 am

The Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and as well the Governor Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, has boasted that the APC is now the largest party in Africa.

Buni made this claim yesterday at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, when the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Chi Tun Chon Hu, visited the party’s headquarters.

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Buni, who was represented by Secretary of the APC Caretaker Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, pointed out that with the last membership registration and revalidation exercise, …

MTN Nigeria Reacts To Network Outage

Why We Cannot Guarantee Regular Services In Nigeria – MTN

June 16, 2021 3:21 am

Telecommunications giants MTN, have revealed that its services in Nigeria could be disrupted as a result of rising insecurity in different parts of the country.

Africa Daily News, New York has learnt that MTN Nigeria is the first company to acknowledge a possible disruption to its services due to insecurity in Africa’s most populous nation.

Nigeria faces increased insecurity across the country — ranging from mass abductions at schools, kidnappings for ransom, armed conflict between herdsmen and farmers, armed robberies, and various insurgencies — a drag on growth and job creation.

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Don’t Shift Role Of Security To Govs, Wike Tells Buhari

Don’t Shift Role Of Security To Govs, Wike Tells Buhari

June 16, 2021 2:50 am

Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over his subtle attempts at shifting the power of securing the life and property of Nigerians to the state governors.

Wike pointed out that President Muhammadu Buhari is the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces and cannot declare that governors are in charge of security in their respective states.

The governor, made this claim at the commissioning of the 21 kilometres Odufor-Akpoku-Umuoye Road in Etche Local Government Area of the State, yesterday pointing that the position of the President suggests that the APC led federal government has lost grip of …

Nigeria Likely To Disintegrate If.. – Soyinka

Nigeria Likely To Disintegrate If.. – Soyinka

June 16, 2021 2:42 am

Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has expressed deep concerns about what may befall Nigeria if the country’s leadership fails to act fast.

He pointed out that Nigeria could disintegrate if urgent steps were not taken by the government to address the vexatious issue of devolution of powers to the federating units which is being clamoured for in several quarters at the moment.

Soyinka made this revelation yesterday in an interview on Aise Television which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

‘If Nigeria fails to decentralize, as fast as possible, manifestly and without the rhetoric, then Nigeria …

‘I Have Been Receiving Death Threats’ - Bawa Opens Up

‘I Have Been Receiving Death Threats’ – Bawa Opens Up

June 16, 2021 2:35 am

The Chairman of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that he has been receiving death threats from high profile Nigerians over his strong stance against corruption in the country.

Bawa, who spoke on Channels TV Sunrise Daily monitored by Africa Daily News, pointed out that he was in New York last week and that a very senior citizen received a phone call from somebody that is not even under investigation.

He said what the caller said to him on phone was that he was going to kill the EFCC chairman.

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