June 2021

El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin As legal Tender

El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin As Legal Tender

June 10, 2021 12:16 am

Crypto enthusiasts have gotten something to cheer about as El Salvador yesterday adopted the Bitcoin cryptocurrency as legal tender becoming the first country in the world to do so in the process.

The adoption came after President Nayib Bukele’s proposals to embrace cryptocurrency were approved by congress.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that on Tuesday night, lawmakers voted in favour of the plan with 62 out of 84 possible votes.

The country’s president made the proposal at a Bitcoin conference over the weekend.

Read Also: Most Cryptocurrency Transactions Are Illegitimate – Emefiele

The approval means that the cryptocurrency can …

South Africa Intensifies Power Cuts As Winter Demand Climbs

South Africa Intensifies Power Cuts As Winter Demand Climbs

June 10, 2021 12:07 am

South African embattled power utility Eskom has announced severe nationwide power cuts, blaming rising electricity demand as winter sets in alongside breakdowns at two power plants as the reasons behind the moves.

In a statement yesterday, the power company pointed out that the expanded electricity rationing would last from 2 pm until 10 pm from Wednesday through to Sunday.

It also disclosed that the escalated power cuts were to ‘ration the remaining emergency generation reserves, which have been depleted.’

Read Also: World Bank To Boost Electricity In Nigeria With $500m

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Eskom is at …

Morocco Legalises Medicinal Cannabis

Morocco Legalises Medicinal Cannabis

June 9, 2021 11:59 pm

The Moroccan parliament has passed a law legalising the production of cannabis for medicinal and industrial uses.

 The North African country has been considering the move for a while. On 11 March, the Moroccan government approved a bill authorising the ‘medical, cosmetic and industrial’ use of cannabis.

The interior ministry, headed by Abdelouafi Laftit, drafted the bill, and it paves the way for the legalisation of cannabis for medical use as which has now been completed.

The authorities are also going to put in the needed frame work to regulate its production.

Read Also: Tunisia’s Heavy Jail Terms For Cannabis

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Nigeria To Sell Unused Power To 4 Countries

Nigeria To Sell Unused Power To 4 Countries

June 9, 2021 6:58 pm

West African heavy-weights Nigeria is in talks with four countries in the West African region over the possibilities of selling unused Electricity to them through a planned $570 million Northcore Power Transmission Line.

The acting Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Chairman, Executive Board of the West African Power Pool (WAPP), Engr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz made this revelation on Wednesday during the WAPP meeting on the Northcore project in Abuja.

Read Also: There Is No Plan To Hike Electricity Tariff – Minister

Daily Trust reports that about 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity is said to be …

Shun Agitation For Nigeria’s Disintegration, Obasanjo Warns

Shun Agitation For Nigeria’s Disintegration, Obasanjo Warns

June 9, 2021 6:52 pm

Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, had sent out a warning to those agitating for the disintegration of the country to drop the idea, insisting that a United Nigeria would be of more advantage to every current component of the West African Country.

He pointed out that the country and its people would be better for it if the country remained an indivisible entity.

Obasanjo made this claim at his investiture as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), organised by the Body of Fellow of NIS, Ogun State chapter, held on Wednesday, in Abeokuta.

The former …

Trump Hails Buhari, Asks More Countries To Ban Twitter

Trump Hails Buhari, Asks More Countries To Ban Twitter

June 9, 2021 6:44 pm

Ex-US President Donald Trump has praised the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over the suspension of the operations of Twitter in the country.

In a statement on Wednesday sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, Trump urged other countries to emulate Nigeria.

‘Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President. More COUNTRIES should ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing free and open speech — all voices should be heard,’ the statement read.

‘In the meantime, competitors will emerge and take hold. Who are they to dictate good and evil if they themselves …

I Am Ready To Die In Hands Of Kidnappers – El-Rufai’s Wife

I Am Ready To Die In Hands Of Kidnappers – El-Rufai’s Wife

June 9, 2021 6:36 pm

The wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajia Asia, has claimed she is ready to die at the hands of kidnappers if that’s what would bring peace to Nigeria in these trying times.

The first lady appealed to Nigerians to make sacrifices to end banditry and kidnapping, by refusing to pay ransoms as advised by security agencies.

The Governor’s wife made the remarks in Kaduna while addressing participants of a peace and security training, organized for Kaduna women by Equal Access International (EAI), on Wednesday.

Mrs. El-Rufai who emphasized that ransom should not be paid if she is kidnapped added that, …

Polytechnic Lecturers Suspends Two Months Old Strike

Polytechnic Lecturers Suspends Two Months Old Strike

June 9, 2021 6:29 pm

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has announced the suspension of its over 60-day old industrial action with effect from Thursday, June 10, 2021.

 

This announcement was revealed by ASUP’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Abdullah Yalwa, in a press statement issued made available to Africa Today News, New York in Bauchi on Wednesday.

Yelwa said ASUP called off the three months strike to give the federal government ample time to meet its demands which are contained in the Memorandum of Action signed between the federal government and the Union on April 27, 2021.

He explained that the decision …

Adesina, Garba, Mohammed: The Lying Machines Of APC Cabal

Adesina, Garba, Mohammed: The Lying Machines Of APC Cabal

June 9, 2021 8:23 am

No country where sane people are found deserves the trio of Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu, and Lai Mohammed. For a crisis-ridden country like Nigeria, it is even worse; their notoriety for lies, fake news, and serial misrepresentation of facts have seen them destroy whatever is left of the inept APC administration in which they serve, as media aides, they have been nothing but media ‘AIDS’ to the President.

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari won the historic 2015 presidential election defeating an incumbent in a well-coordinated and well-funded propaganda-filled campaign. Back then, his message of ‘Change’ was drilled into the …

New East Myanmar Crises Have Displaced At Least 100,000 - UN

New East Myanmar Crises Have Displaced At Least 100,000 – UN

June 9, 2021 5:55 am

Approximately 100,000 people have been displaced by new fighting between Myanmar’s military and rebel groups in the east of the coup-stricken country, the UN disclosed yesterday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the generals ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in February, accusing it of fraud during the 2020 elections.

Fighting has flared in several communities — especially in townships that have seen a high death toll at the hands of police — and some locals have formed ‘defence forces’.

Yesterday, the UN’s Myanmar office revealed that recent clashes …

Crises Looms As Brazil Braces For Covid-19 Third Wave

Crises Looms As Brazil Braces For Covid-19 Third Wave

June 9, 2021 5:47 am

Already reeling from one of the highest death tolls in the pandemic, Brazil is bracing for the threat of a third wave of Covid-19, fueled by vaccination delays and a lack of containment measures.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that so far, each pandemic wave has been successively worse in Brazil, peaking at a weekly average of around 1,000 deaths per day in July 2020 during the first wave and 3,000 deaths per day last April during the second.

However, the curve has since turned down, with an average of around 1,600 deaths per day over the past …

Tambuwal Rejects Honorary Degree, Cites Insecurity

Tambuwal Rejects Honorary Degree, Cites Insecurity

June 9, 2021 5:34 am

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal has rejected an honorary degree offered by the Nahda International University College (NIUC), Khartoum, Sudan, due to Nigeria’s security challenges.

Tambuwa’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Muhammad Bello, made the disclosure in a statement he issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Sokoto.

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