September 14, 2021

Commander-In-Thief Of Nigeria And His Worthless Visit To Imo

September 14, 2021 3:26 pm

Last week, Imo State was the talking point again as a worthless charade became the centre of attraction. It was the first working visit of President Muhammdu Buhari to Imo State since the last elections. Residents of parts of Imo made a bold statement on their stand with the President. They had been hounded for years by security agencies whose siege to the South East is becoming a permanent pillar of national pettiness.

The madness somewhat reached a crescendo because both the visitor and the host were annoyingly desperate; Governor Uzodinma was desperate to show Imolites that State funds have …

Buhari Writes Senate, Requests Fresh $4bn, €710m Loans

September 14, 2021 1:42 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari has again written to the National Assembly, seeking approval to borrow the sum of $4,054,476,863 billion and €710 million.

The request was made known in a letter read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan at plenary on Tuesday.

In the letter titled Addendum to Request For Senate’s Concurrent Approval Of Multilateral Fund Projects Under the 2018-2021 Federal Government External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan, Buhari explained that owing to ’emerging needs’, there is a need to raise more funds for some ‘critical projects’.

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‘The projects listed in the addendum to …

Jail Break: 114 Fleeing Kogi Inmates Rearrested

September 14, 2021 12:59 pm

The Nigerian Correctional Service has revealed that no fewer than 114 inmates out of the 266 that escaped from the Kabba Medium Custodial Centre in Kogi State on Monday have been recaptured.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that a total of 294 inmates were in the facility when some gunmen attacked the Centre but 28 of them refused to escape.

Public Relations Officer of the Service, Francis Enobore, attributed the recapturing to the swift intervention of the Controller-General Haliru Nababa.

In a statement on Tuesday, Enobore narrated that the Controller-General personally led a team to the Custodial Centre for …

South Korea Fines Google $180m For Market Abuse

September 14, 2021 12:43 pm

South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has fined Google nearly $180 million for abusing its dominance in the mobile operating systems and app markets.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that this is the latest in a series of regulatory moves against tech giants around the world.

The penalty came weeks after South Korea passed a law banning major app store operators such as Google and Apple from forcing software developers to use their payment systems, effectively declaring their lucrative Play Store and App Store monopolies illegal.

And last week a US judge ordered Apple to loosen control over its App Store …

2023: Zoning Presidency To South, Wishful Thinking – Sen Adamu

September 14, 2021 6:34 am

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has kicked against the clamour by southern Nigerians for the presidency to be zoned to them.

Adamu, who represents Nasarawa South in the Senate, said the 1999 Constitution (as amended) did not mandate political parties to zone presidency or any other political office to any part of Nigeria.

Responding to a question on power shift to the South at a briefing yesterday in Abuja, the lawmaker said, ‘My answer to that is constitution. Nowhere in the Nigerian constitution that says we should zone any public office.

‘There is federal character, …