October 24, 2021

The youth wing of an Igbo pressure group, Orluzurumee Cultural Union (OCU), has frowned at the gruesome murder of two traditional rulers in Imo State.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that unknown gunmen killed some traditional rulers during their meeting at Nnenasa community, Njaba Local Government Area in Orlu extraction of Imo State, last Tuesday.

The slain Imo monarchs were, Eze Anayochukwu Durueburuo, Obi of Okwudor Autonomous Community, and Eze Sampson Osunwa of Ihebineowerre Community.

Reacting to the ugly incident via a press release forwarded to Newsmen on Sunday, Orluzurumee Cultural Union, called on Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo …

The governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party, Ifeanyi Ubah has said that he would emerge governor in the 6 November governorship election in Anambra State.

Ubah said this on Saturday while speaking to journalists after he was awarded a Bachelor of Law degree at the Baze University, Abuja.

The senator said his knowledge in law would help him as the next governor of the state.

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Ubah during the interview said being a student and a legislator was not difficult for him. He explained he was able to combine both …

As the Port Harcourt Division of the Court of Appeal rules on the suit seeking to restrain the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from holding its National Convention on October 31, the Governors elected under the platform of the main opposition party will hold an emergency meeting to consider any emerging threats against the party’s national convention scheduled in Abuja, Africa Daily News, New York has learnt.

A former special adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Dr. Umar Ardo, has however cautioned the PDP against nominating Atiku or any other northerner as its presidential candidate in the 2023 general election.…

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on Saturday, revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has been scheduled to formally unveil the e-Naira on Monday.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the digital currency was billed to be unveiled on October 1 but was shifted due to activities on Independence Day.

A statement issued on Saturday by CBN’s Director of Corporate Communications, Osita Nwanisobi, stated that the e-Naira is now expected to be activated on Monday by the president.

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The CBN Director who stated that the launching would take place at the States …

The thirty-six House of Assembly Speakers have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare bandits as terrorists and enemies of the nation.

This was their resolution at a Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly in Katsina on Sunday.

The Chairman of the Conference, who is also Bauchi Speaker, Abubakar Suleiman, while making the call at the end of their third annual meeting, said it was part of their five-point communiqué at the end of their 8-hour deliberations.

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He said: ’’We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to

A former presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has described Nigeria as a failed state that is merely pretending.

Moghalu said Nigeria is a failed state pretending to be normal.

The former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was reacting to the terrorist attack on an Abuja-Kaduna train.

He lamented that the inactivity of security agents who were aware of the attack ahead of time, indicated that Nigeria is a failed state.

In a series of tweets which were sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, Moghalu wrote: ‘After reading reports of

The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hamisu Chidari, has revealed that the APC in Kano State would support the 2023 presidential dreams of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in 2023.

He made this revalation at the inauguration of the Tinubu Support Group and the state steering committees of the TSG in Abuja on Saturday.

Chidari said Kano State, which has the highest number of voters and delegates in the country, would repay Tinubu’s act of helping the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to become President in 2015.

‘My purpose is …