December 2021

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Thursday advised residents to build in accordance with the territory’s urban and regional plan to avoid altering the Abuja Master Plan.

Mr. Ikharo Attah, Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection, and Enforcement, who gave the advice during an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja, said the FCTA would not hesitate to bring down any illegal structure.

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‘I am making a fundamental appeal to residents of the Federal Capital Territory to work in accordance with the urban and regional

About 140 million Nigerians are among the 5.1 billion people in the world that lack access to justice, Country Director, Hague Institute of Innovations of Law (HIIL), Mrs. Ijeoma Nwafor has said.

She said this while addressing the Justice Transformation Lab in Kaduna, adding that 11 million residents in Kaduna State also lacked access to justice.

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According to her, the Hague Institute of Innovations of Law came into being in Nigeria in 2018 and had been in Imo State before coming to Kaduna State, adding that it is ready …

An exchange of heavy ammunition fire erupted on Wednesday between Iranian forces and Afghanistan’s Taliban at Iran’s eastern border.

According to a local Iranian news Agency, Tasnim ‘A clash erupted in the afternoon between Iranian border guards and the Taliban following a misunderstanding at the border near the (Afghan) province of Nimroz’.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Iran, which shares a 900 kilometre (560 mile) border with Afghanistan, does not recognise the Taliban government formed after the insurgents seized the capital Kabul in August.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said a ‘border dispute between residents” of the …

The Chinese embassy have asked its citizens to evacuate three provinces in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo as soon as possible.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the notice is coming on the heels of several cases of armed robbery and kidnappings of Chinese nationals in the region’s mines in recent days.

A posting from the Chinese Embassy in Kinshasa on the WeChat online messaging disclosed that a number of Chinese citizens had been attacked and kidnapped in the three provinces of South Kivu, North Kivu, and Ituri over the past month.

It said Chinese residing …

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has claimed that the constant jailbreaks across the country is a plot by the Federal Government to perpetually keep its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, in the custody of Department of States Services (DSS).

The group alleged that the DSS always arranged a prisons break, each time a suspect of interest is billed to be transferred from its custody to prison to create the impression that Nigerian prisons were not safe.

The secessionist group made this known in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful which was made available to Africa Daily …

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has warned that no Christian should be killed in Zamfara State, while also calling on security agencies to protect all churches in the state and prevent terrorists from carrying out their latest threats against Christians living in the Northwestern State.

The Association submitted that the threat against Christians and churches by the terrorists is a divisive strategy against the effort of Christian and Muslim leaders towards ending criminalities in the North-West and ought to be condemned by all lovers of peace.

CAN also called on the Department of State Security and the Inspector General …

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commenced the enforcement of mandatory vaccination of civil workers against COVID-19 at the Federal Secretariat.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that as early as 7:00 am on Wednesday morning, security men manned the main entrance to the Federal Secretariat where they demanded either a vaccination card or evidence of negative PCR test before allowing the civil servants to enter the Secretariat.

Some of the unvaccinated civil servants who spoke to reporters however questioned the Federal Government’s decision saying COVID-19 vaccination should not be made compulsory but a matter of choice.

Others said they …