September 2021

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it has suspended in-person or physical registration of voters in Anambra, though online pre-registration of voters in the state would still continue.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made this disclosure at the commission’s 3rd quarterly meeting with leaders of political parties on Monday, in Abuja.

According to the decision was to enable the commission prepare for the state governorship election scheduled for Nov. 6.

This is just as he disclosed that 717, 947 Nigerians had so far participated in the nationwide physical registration at INEC state and local government offices, beginning …

Popular activist, Aisha Yesufu, has lambasted Nigeria’s major opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), describing it as a terrorists party.

Yesufu, co-convener of BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, an advocacy group said PDP is a pathetic terrorists’ party.

The socio-political activist made the remark while expressing her displeasure for former President Goodluck Jonathan.

In a tweet that was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, the activist said she would have voted for Jonathan to be stoned.

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Yesufu said Jonathan was the least of her choice as Nigeria leader in 2015.…

The President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian Government has condemned what it describes as an ‘apparent coup d’état‘ in the Republic of Guinea.

The position of the government known in a statement issued by a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Esther Sunsuwa which was made available to Africa Daily News, New York on Sunday

According to the statement, the takeover of power by the military is in clear violation of the ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance.

‘The Government of Nigeria strongly condemns and rejects any unconstitutional change of government and therefore calls on those behind this …

Former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has lamented bitterly that he has not been paid his pension entitlements for six years by the current State government.

Kwankwaso revealed that the state government did not build house or office for him, which is provided in a law that every former governor should be provided either an office or a house as one of his or her benefits.

He made the allegations in an interview with BBC Hausa service which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York on Sunday Morning.

The former governor decried that he is the …

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, have asserted that Nigerian politicians are the ones behind the problems the country is presently grappling with.

The experienced lawyer and and other prominent Nigerians on Satureday expressed optimism that Nigeria will overcome its challenges because it is a country with wonderful opportunities.

He pointed out that Nigerians should be wary of politicians using ethnicity and religion to divide the people for their selfish gains.

Falana made these assertion when he spoke to journalists on the side of an inauguration ceremony of the Old Seminarians Association of Nigeria (OSAN) in Abuja yesterday.

‘This …

Nigeria’s immediate minister of power, Sale Mamman has narrated how it took President Muhammadu Buhari less than two hours to make him a minister.

Mamman, who made this revelation in an interview with BBC Hausa on Saturday which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York stated that he never thought he would be made a minister as he neither solicited nor lobbied for it prior to his appointment.

Africa Daily News, New York had reported that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Wednesday announced the sack of Mamman and his Agriculture and Rural Development counterpart, Sabo Nanono, as ministers.…