October 2021

As the people of the South-East anxiously await the expected trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has told the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to ensure that it doused the rising tension in the zone.

Kanu is expected to appear in court tomorrow, Thursday, October, 21, as the Court begins hearing in a case of treason filed against him by the Federal Government.

Africa Daily News, New York had reported that the Court already served a hearing notice on both parties, with the Federal Government also …

The Nigerian and Turkish governments on Wednesday signed eight major Agreements/MoUs on a number of key sectors including Energy, Defense Industry, Mining and HydroCarbons among others.

This development was made known in a statement issued by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, and made available to journalists.

President Muhammadu Buhari heaped praises on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for opening his country’s borders to accommodate millions of refugees in dire need of humanitarian support.

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At a joint press conference on the visit, Buhari said his Turkish …

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, chair of the West African bloc ECOWAS, has told Mali’s ruling junta that elections announced for February must ahead on schedule, his delegation said Sunday.

Akufo-Addo delivered the message to the country’s strongman, Colonel Assimi Goita, during talks in Bamako.

Goita is behind both Mali’s recent coups, having installed a civilian-led interim government under international pressure after the first one only to remove it in May, later declaring himself interim president.

But a senior member of the ECOWAS delegation told AFP: “Our message was unambiguous and we said it clearly: the elections have to be held …

Ahead of the national congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), female members of the party have insisted on having the Deputy Chairman (North) position.

The women made the call during a meeting at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Sunday.

Their demand comes days after the National Executive Committee of the party approved the recommendation of its committee to zone the position of national chairman to the North.

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Based on the decision, all positions in the party currently occupied by people from the South will go to the …

Igbo monarchs have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to de-proscribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organisation, as well as release Nnamdi Kanu from detention.

The call comes a day before the resumed trial of Kanu in Abuja for an amended seven-count charge of treasonable felony.

The monarchs made their stand known under the auspices of the South East Traditional Rulers council.

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The body issued a statement Tuesday night, signed by five state chairmen of traditional rulers.

Eze Joseph Nwabeke, signed for Abia; Obi Nnaemeka Achebe, …

A political economist and former presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi, has described the #EndSARS protests as an ‘event marking the arrival of citizenship’ in Nigeria.

The technocrat added that Nigeria has never had a democracy despite the pretenses.

Utomi made this assertion when he spoke on Tuesday during the commemorative lecture and public presentation of a book edited by Chido Onumah titled, ‘Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices,’ in Alausa, Ikeja.

The event themed, ‘One Year After #EndSARS, 35 Years after Dele Giwa and the Quest to Remake Nigeria,’ was held to reflect on the assassination …

The Ebonyi State government has boasted that the latest rating by BudgIT has confirmed that Governor David Umahi administration is prudent in its management of the State’s finances.

Africa Today News, New York reports that going by the recently released ratings by BudgIT, Rivers State had topped 35 other states in fiscal performance ranking, followed closely by Ebonyi and Anambra states.

In the ratings of 2020 and 2019, Ebonyi had come 6th and 13th respectively.

Reacting to the development, Ebonyi State Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Business Development, Dr. Stephen Odo, said in the first place, the ranking is a …