December 18, 2021

No fewer than 12 people were killed and many more injured on Saturday when a gas blast hit Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, the police has disclosed.

The explosion went off in a bank building in the Sher Shah area and social media and TV footage showed the two-floor structure’s windows and doors blown out, with documents scattered across a wide area.

Cars and motorcycles parked nearby were also damaged.

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Provincial police told reporters that a bomb disposal squad was investigating, but ‘apparently the leakage of gas was the cause’.…

A rights group in Guinea on Saturday protested a plan by the ruling military junta to rename the country’s airport after authoritarian ex-president Sekou Toure, urging it to cancel the move.

Africa DailyNews, New York recalls that Toure led Guinea to independence from France in 1958 and was initially acclaimed as a progressive leader. But he later ruled the West African country with an iron fist until his death in 1984.

Rights organisations say his regime was responsible for the death or disappearance of some 50,000 people — many at a military base in the capital Conakry called Camp Boiro.…

The Nigerian Army on Saturday debunked the alleged reports of a police officer’s son who was tortured to death by soldiers, describing the claims as false and a calculated attempt to tarnish the image and good works of military personnel.

This was expressed in a statement which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York on Saturday by Onyema Nwachukwu Brigadier General, Director Army Public Relations.

According to him, contrary to the misgivings peddled on social media, it became imperative to put the record straight, just as he sympathized with the family of late Christopher.

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No fewer than 23 people have been killed in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, officials disclosed on Saturday, amidst ‘alarming’ reports of destruction on islands that bore the brunt of the storm.

At least 300,000 people fled their homes and beachfront resorts as Typhoon Rai ravaged the southern and central regions of the archipelago, knocking out communications and electricity in many areas, ripping off roofs and toppling concrete power poles.

Rai was a super typhoon when it smashed into the popular tourist island of Siargao on Thursday, packing maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres per hour …

The Federal Government has failed to officially designate bandits as terrorists three weeks after a Federal High Court ordered the government to do so.

Africa Daily News, New York learnt that since the judgment was delivered on November 26, 2021, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has yet to gazette the order as ordered by the court, thereby failing to give life to the order.

No fewer than four states in the North-West have been battling banditry. The states are Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna. The bandits have killed hundreds of innocent persons, kidnapped …

The Canadian government has lifted the ban imposed on travel from Nigeria and nine other African countries.

The country’s Health Minister, Jean-Yves Duclos, confirmed this at a media briefing on Friday.

This comes almost three weeks after the Canadian government banned 10 African countries over concerns relating to the Omicron COVID variant.

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Aside from Nigeria, the other countries affected were Botswana, Egypt, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Speaking on the reversal of the ban, Duclos said the new development will take effect from December 18.

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Chief Edwin Clark, the leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), said the Southeast must produce the next president of Nigeria.

He said this when a presidential aspirant, Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, visited him on Friday.

During the visit, Chief Clark reaffirmed his passionate “belief that the presidency of Nigeria in 2023 must go to the Southern part of Nigeria and indeed to South-East zone”.

He encouraged Anyim to work hard with other leaders across the country to build consensus for equity and unity in Nigeria.

Clark said: “I encourage you and others to continue the task of persuading and

The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has attacked former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the latter’s comments on resource control, accusing him of bullying the National Secretary of the group, Ebipamowei Wodu.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that a viral video had surfaced recently, where Obasanjo was shown launching emotional outburst against Wodu during the latter’s presentation of the Ijaw position at a forum organised by the Global Peace Foundation in collaboration with Vision Africa at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja.

Obasanjo was quoted as saying: ‘As long as Nigeria is together, whatever that is under the ground is given to all …