January 17, 2022

China Records Highest COVID-19 Cases In Nearly Two Years

January 17, 2022 9:06 am

The number of Covid-19 cases in China on Monday reached its highest level since March 2020, even as Beijing races to smother outbreaks just three weeks before hosting the Winter Olympics.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that China, where the virus first emerged in late 2019, has stuck to a strict policy of targeting zero Covid cases even as the rest of the world has reopened.

But its approach has come under sustained pressure in recent weeks with multiple clusters across the country just as the Games are about to get under way in Beijing.

On Monday there were …

APC Set To Announce Convention Date On Tuesday

January 17, 2022 8:05 am

The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has concluded that it would on Tuesday meet to announce the date and venue for the national convention of the party.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that this is coming following the meeting of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), the umbrella body of governors elected on the platform of the APC which they held on Sunday.

The APC governors were locked in a meeting at Kebbi Governors Lodge on Sunday in Asokoro, Abuja, and it ended in the early hours of Monday. The meeting was held to …

Help Us Save Nigeria, Utomi Urges Diaspora Based Nigerians

January 17, 2022 7:32 am

Professor Pat Utomi, has called on Nigerians living in diaspora to do what they can to ensure that they champion a massive intervention to rescue Nigeria.

Speaking to a hybrid meeting of Nigerians in Dallas, Texas, in the United States yesterday, the Political Economist, emphasized the need for the Nigerians based abroad to keep their eyes on their mother land.

Professor Utomi explained the clarion call had become imperative, following a look at the apocalyptic image of where Nigeria may be headed under the current political stewardship which has left insecurity, poverty, unemployment, and anger as the main landmarks …