August 21, 2021

The Zamfara State Government has reacted to claims by some residents of the State that there has been a lapse in governance since Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Africa Daily News, New York reports that many of them have lamented that Matawalle has occupied himself focusing on the reconciliation with former Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, and Senator Kabiru Marafa’s faction of the APC in the state.

However, in a swift response, the state Commissioner of Information, Hon. Ibrahim Dosara, said that security challenges in the state was a household discussion before Governor Matawalle assumed office …

The Federal Government of Nigeria has hit back at people they described as ‘naysayers’ to stop spewing negative and false narratives around Boko Haram members who are surrendering in droves in the North-East.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the admonition in an interview with reporters in Washington.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that no fewer than 1,000 Boko Haram fighters and their families have handed themselves over to army units in recent weeks in the southern Borno towns of Konduga, Bama, and Mafa.

The minister also lambasted those who were alleging that the surrendered …

Aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) numbering about 100 in Benue State have sued the party’s caretaker committee chairman, Governor Mai Bala Buni of Yobe State.

Africa Daily News, New York repors that the suit, filed over the status of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention (CECPC) of the APC, joins as defendants the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and others.

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The aggrieved APC members through their lawyer, Samuel Irabor, in the suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja, sought …