June 2021

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 …

Hamza Al-Mustapha, Chief Security Officer to late Nigerian military ruler, Sani Abacha, says the elites in Nigeria are killing the country.

Al-Mustapha also declared that the ongoing amendment of the 1999 constitution will not work.

He told the Newsmen that the citizens are not being carried along in the process.

‘Constitutional amendments should be given time and should not be seen carrying the opinions of a few elites abandoning the majority’, he said.

Al-Mustapha regretted that most Nigerians in rural communities are not aware of what is going on.

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The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, has unveiled plans to implement anti-corruption studies in school curriculum as part of measures aimed at preventing corruption in the country.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Bawa, who made this known during an interview with newsmen, also stated that one of the best means to fight corruption in the country is for Nigerians to have attitudinal change.

The EFCC boss emphasised the need to promote anti-corruption and culture of integrity in schools to make Nigeria a corrupt-free nation.

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At least 100 civilians were killed overnight in the deadliest attack in Burkina Faso since jihadist violence erupted in the country in 2015, security and local sources disclosed yesterday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the attack occurred during the night of Friday to Saturday when ‘armed individuals staged an incursion’ into the northern town of Solhan.

‘The toll, which is still provisional, is about 100 dead, men and woman of different ages’, the source said.

The government confirmed the attack and the death toll.

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Assailants struck …