October 2021

President Joe Biden will address Americans Thursday just ahead of his departure to Europe, the White House said, amid reports he will announce progress in the search for a deal in Congress on his social spending plans.

Biden was due to make remarks from the White House at 11:30 am (1530 GMT), right before he leaves to board Air Force One for Rome.

Biden had been hoping to get Democrats to end weeks of intense wrangling and conclude a deal on major social spending legislation before he left. According to The Washington Post, Biden may instead announce a revised package …

Ahead of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed 20,000 personnel to provide security for the poll.

Africa Daily News, New York those deployed include personnel in the NSCDC Arms Squad Unit, Counter-Terrorism Unit, and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosives Unit.

NSCDC Commandant-General, Dr Ahmed Audi, said this on Thursday in Abuja while delivering a keynote address at a three-day Train-the-Trainers Capacity Building and Electoral Workshop, ahead of the Anambra poll.

Audi said the special forces would be drafted to key areas in the state where they would be saddled …

The Appeal Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State will on Friday determine the fate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as to whether or not it will go ahead with the conduct of its National Convention this weekend.

A panel of three justices, headed by the Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, reserved the ruling on Thursday after hearing arguments in the application filed by the former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus to suspend the conduct of the convention.

The convention, slated for October 30 and 31 in Abuja, had been fixed by the PDP’s National Working Committee as …

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has dismissed a suit filed by five Nigerian politicians who sought the court order to abolish excessive nomination and expression of interest fees being charged by political parties in Nigeria.

In a judgment read by the court’s President, Justice Edward Amoako Asante, the court said the clause in Article 13 of the African Charter, relied on by the politicians, provides that “ every citizen shall have the right to participate freely in the government of his country, either directly or through freely chosen representatives in accordance with the provisions of the law,” has “put national …