November 2021

France on Tuesday handed back 26 treasures that were looted from Benin during colonial times, fulfilling a promise made by President Emmanuel Macron to restore a lost part of Africa’s heritage.

Benin President Patrice Talon and Culture Minister Jean-Michel Abimbola travelled to Paris to bring home the artefacts that were snatched by French forces 130 years ago.

Talon said he felt “overwhelming emotion” at recovering the objects taken during the ransacking of the kingdom of Dahomey in the south of present-day Benin, including a royal throne.

Speaking to reporters at the presidential palace in Paris, where France signed over the …

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) on Tuesday reiterated the call for the separation of the office of the Attorney-General and that of the Minister of Justice.

The CNPP, while reacting to the accusation by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum against the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, over his special interest in the controversial $418m refunds requested by consultants with respect to the Paris Club refund.

The umbrella body of all registered political parties and political associations in Nigeria also backed the governors of the 36 states of the federation on the accusation that Mr. …

Fuel scarcity is gradually biting hard in Damaturu and other parts of Yobe State with the resurfacing of long queues in filling stations where the product is available.

Checks by Africa Daily News, New York reveal that many petrol stations within the metropolis have remained closed over lack of product.

In few other stations where it is available, motorists have to wait in long queues and spend hours to get fuel.

Inusa Mamman Mohammed, a taxi driver who after spending about five hours lamented buying a litre of petrol at the cost of N175.

“We do not know what is …

The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has stated that bribe-seeking workers at Nigeria’s airports will be barred for life from working at airport terminals across the country if caught.

The FAAN Managing Director, Capt. Rabiu Yadudu said this while addressing newsmen in Abuja after an emergency meeting with FAAN’s management over rising cases of bribery at airports.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that an American vlogger, Sabbatical in a viral video called out airport officials for requesting money at different points.

He went ahead to describe the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos as “extreme corruption.

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Embattled pro-Biafra agitator, Nnamdi Kanu has reacted to news that some of his close allies and family members were instrumental to his rearrest in Kenya.

Kanu said the rumour that his brother, Kanunta; Secretary, Carolyn Okoroafor, and one Madam Nnennaya Anya, were behind his rearrest in Kenya is false.

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, described the news mischievous; hence those behind it must stop and issue a retraction.

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Kanu’s reaction was made public by his Lead Counsel, Ifeanyi Ejiofor during their routine briefing at the …

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday called on member states to work towards imposing new sanctions against Belarus, which she blamed for an influx of migrants at the Polish border. 

The use ‘of migrants for political purposes is unacceptable’, she said in a statement which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, adding that the EU would also look at how to sanction ‘third-country airlines’ that bring migrants to Belarus.

‘We will not hesitate to adopt sanctions if necessary against companies and countries that play into the hands of smugglers,’ EU diplomatic chief Josep Borrell warned

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Monday stated his administration would prepare a law that will recommend jail terms for heads of building control agencies if a building collapses in the state under their watch.

The governor disclosed this during the Treasury Board Meeting on the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and the 2022 Budget in Abeokuta, the state capital.

He said, ‘I am coming up with a law that will send workers in the building industry to prison. Workers in the agencies responsible for building control are susceptible to taking bribes.

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