October 2021

Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday demanded ‘total respect’ from France following a row over visas and critical comments from Paris about the North African country.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that last weekend Algeria recalled its ambassador from Paris while also placing restrictions on French military planes from its airspace, which France regularly uses to reach its forces battling jihadists in the Sahel region to the south.

The moves are coming on the heels of a bitter row over visas, followed by media reports that French President Emmanuel Macron had told descendants of Algeria’s 1954-1962 war of independence …

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has disclosed why the South-East Governors are handicapped in moves to stop the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), from enforcing sit-at-home order in the region.

The Governor opened up when he spoke with newsmen on Sunday, he stated the Governors have limitations in determining the number of policemen to be deployed and the equipment to be used by the operatives.

‘If you call governors the chief security officers of their states and they cannot determine the number of policemen they can deploy and the kind of equipment to use, then it becomes extremely difficult for …

The immediate past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, has lashed out at the Nigerian National Assembly for downplaying the importance of the electronic transmission of results in general elections, claiming that federal lawmakers were ignoring the innovation for self-interest.

Jega stressed that the constitutional provision that prohibits the use of technology is a hindrance to electronic voting in the country which he said was cost-effective and easy to deploy.

He, therefore, urged the National Assembly to remove the legal encumbrance for electronic voting to be possible in the 2023 elections.

Speaking at a lecture …

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on Sunday visited Emir of Zazzau, Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamali, in Zaria, and the Chairman of Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Prof. Ango Abdullahi.

Bello said he went back to where he was raised, groomed, and schooled to consult them on his ambition to become the President of Nigeria come 2023, describing his journey to Zaria as a homecoming.

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While speaking with journalists in Zaria, Kaduna State, the governor insisted that Nigerians were calling on him to contest the presidency in 2023.

‘They raised me,