July 2021

Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya has confirmed that the military is already implementing the presidential order to reduce the influence and activities of criminals across the country noting that they have been, albeit silently been sending criminals to ‘God’.

Speaking to reporters after President Muhammadu Buhari decorated him with his new rank at the State House in Abuja, he pointed out that many bandits, terrorists, and other criminals had ‘already been sent to God to go and answer for their crimes.’

He vowed that the Army would give its best to tackle prevailing security challenges in …

The Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the authourisation of ₦2.343 trillion ($6.183 billion USD) as External Borrowing in the 2021 Appropriation Act.

This was just as it directed the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, the Director-General of the Debt Management Office, Patience Oniha, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to submit to the National Assembly within ten working days (excluding the day of close of trading), a letter containing the United States Dollars amount so raised and received as a result of the approval together with the …

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has asserted that it is not a must that the next President of Nigeria will come from the South.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the governor issued the rejoinder as a response to the resolution of his colleagues in the region.

On Monday, 17 southern governors, after a meeting in Lagos, concluded that ‘the next president of Nigeria should emerge from the Southern Region’ as a commitment to ‘politics of equity and fairness’.

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US President, Joe Biden has reaffirmed his unalloyed support to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.

Biden made this known in a letter on Monday even in the midst of efforts to resume negotiations with President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

‘Under your leadership and in coalition with civil society leaders you are preserving those ideals of freedom democracy and sovereignty,’ Biden wrote in a letter addressed to Guaido and sent through the Office of Venezuelan Affairs in neighbouring Colombia.

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Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the letter was sent …

No fewer than six secondary school children were among nine Hong Kongers arrested on terror charges for allegedly trying to manufacture a powerful explosive, police announced yesterday.

Five males and four females aged between 15 and 39 were arrested yesterday by the authorities on suspicion of ‘conspiracy to use explosives for terrorist activities’, police said.

‘Speaking to reporters, a senior superintendent Steve Li, from the city’s new national security unit, explained that TATP is a high-powered explosive. The operation we conducted yesterday was against gangsters (who) tried to manufacture TATP explosive inside a home-made laboratory inside a hostel.’

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