October 2021

US President Joe Biden’s administration, in the latest move in the battle over reproductive rights, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a Texas law that bans most abortions in the state.

The Texas law is “clearly unconstitutional” and violates the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which enshrined a woman’s legal right to an abortion, the Justice Department said.

Allowing the Texas law to remain in force would “perpetuate the ongoing irreparable injury to the thousands of Texas women who are being denied their constitutional rights,” the department said in its request to the nation’s …

President Muhammadu Buhari hosts President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to a two-day official visit to Nigeria starting today, Tuesday October 19th.

Accompanied by his wife Emine, President Erdogan is expected to come in from Angola, and depart to Togo at the end of his visit.

In the course of the visit, the leaders of the two countries are expected to consider about two dozen Bilateral Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding, MOUs.

They will authorise the signing of agreements on which there is a concurrence.

In addition to the bilateral discussions, President Erdogan will hold one-on-one meeting with President Buhari.…

Premier League clubs have voted to temporarily block teams from striking lucrative deals with businesses that have links to their club’s owners after the Saudi Arabia-backed takeover of Newcastle.

Africa Daily News, New York can report 18 clubs voted in favour of the ban at an emergency meeting on Monday, with Newcastle voting against and Manchester City abstaining. It is understood that both questioned the legality of the move.

A temporary month-long ban on such deals will be put in place while the possibility of a permanent ban is debated.

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Senator Rochas Okorocha has described the State Congress of the Imo chapter of All Progressives Congress APC conducted in Owerri, the state capital on Saturday as a birthday party for the governor, Hope Uzodinma.

Okorocha, Uzodinma’s predecessor said this while reacting to the Congress through his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo.

The former Governor said already there was a substantive Appeal Court judgment bordering on the executives of the Imo APC and also an appeal pending in the Supreme Court over the issue.

He insisted that the substantive Appeal Court judgment on the executives of the Imo APC was not in …

Governor Seyi Makinde has felicitated with Muslims on the occasion of this year’s Eid-ul-Maulud, advising that the virtues of kindness, humility, and peaceful co-existence exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) be emulated.

The governor urged Muslims to reflect on the life of selflessness and piety, which the Holy Prophet lived.

‘Peaceful co-existence is part of Islamic ethics taught by the life of Prophet Muhammed.’

‘As a leader in Medinah, he did not only live peacefully with others but was just to them irrespective of different tribal and religious affiliations.’

‘One of the teachings of Prophet Muhammed