October 2021

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday stated that an investigation exposing global leaders’ use of tax havens will ‘enhance financial transparency’ however, he was mum on allegations that his family-owned 11 offshore companies worth millions of dollars.

Based on leaks of some 11.9 million financial documents analysed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the ‘Pandora Papers’ published on Sunday revealed a hidden world of shielded wealth belonging to hundreds of politicians and billionaires.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the investigation showed how Kenyatta — who has campaigned against corruption — is accused along with six family …

No fewer than 500 communities in eight wards of the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State have been taken over by the Boko Haram terrorists and bandits.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that early this year, the state Governor, Alhaji Sani Bello, raised an alarm that Boko Haram had hoisted flags in some communities in Shiroro LGA.

It was gathered on Monday that the members controlling the communities presently were more religious

The Co-convener of Concerned Shiroro Youth, Abubakar Yusuf Kokki, also said Boko Haram elements were in majority of the communities in the council.

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Nigerian Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has advised youths to contest for elective positions during the 2023 general elections if they want to assume power rather than stay on social media and complaining.

Osinbajo made this assertion during a two-day retreat for young lawmakers in Lagos on Monday.

He warned that power is never given on a platter.

The vice-president who was represented by the Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate) to President Muhammadu Buhari, Babajide Omoworare, said the not-too-young-to-run movement would be defeated if the youths fail to contest for elective positions.

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Governors of the South-South have resolved that states in the region should join the suit filed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) challenging the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) by states.

This formed part of the resolutions reached at the meeting of the South-South Governors’ Forum held on Monday at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Delta State Governor and Chairman of the forum, Ifeanyi Okowa, disclosed this while briefing reporters at the end of the closed-door meeting.

While Rivers was initially the only respondent to the suit pending before the Court of Appeal, …

The Archbishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has not shown any iota of sincere in dealing with terrorists killing Nigerians.

The fiery preacher wondered why it is difficult for the government to release names of sponsors of Boko Haram terrorists, while ‘Nigeria is decomposing from within.’

Speaking in a sermon at the Priestly Ordination of Five Deacons at the Holy Family Cathedral, Kukah spoke lamented that Buhari’s administration refusal to release names of Boko Haram sponsors is not doing the country any good at all.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders Advisory Council in Oyo State, has explained why they believe that former President, Goodluck Jonathan can’t be president on the platform of the ruling party in the next general elections.

Chairman of APC Elders Council in the state, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, explained that the party has people already lined up to become president.

The former governor of the state spoke while featuring on Agidigbo 88.5 FM in Ibadan which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

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Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has predicted that the possibility of northerners retaining power in the forthcoming 2023 general elections is highly very likely.

In a post on his official Facebook page on Sunday evening which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, the socio-political activist lambasted Southern Nigerians for not giving much attention to the coming elections like their counterparts in the North.

Omokri accused Southern Nigerians of prioritising entertainment particularly the ongoing Big Brother Naija, BBNaija reality TV show to political issues that may shift power to the region after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure elapses.

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