January 2022

Chairman of the Southwest Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has mourned the passing of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso 1, describing it as another tragedy in Yoruba land.

While describing the death of the revered monarch as a rude shock, Akeredolu said it came shortly after the demise of Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi, which he said was a big blow dealt on the traditional stool in Yoruba land.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Oba Adetunji, who was the 41st Olubadan, had in the early hours of Sunday given …

No fewer than 4,000 Mozambicans have fled their villages in a month due to intensifying jihadist attacks in Niassa, a province neighbouring insurgency hotbed Cabo Delgado, a government official disclosed yesterday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that militants terrorising the gas-rich northern Cabo Delgado province for the past four years have in recent weeks moved their attacks to the west into Niassa.

‘There are 3,803 displaced so far. These are people who fled from areas targeted by attacks in Mecula district,’ Felismino Patricio, a government spokesman in Niassa province, told newsmen.

The latest displacements add to the more than …

Fellow Nigerians,

I welcome us all to 2022.

In high spirits, I congratulate us all for making it thus far as, clearly, we have risen against all the odds that defined 2021 to defeat the travails the past year brought.

Without doubts, we are some of the biggest beneficiaries of God’s kindness to humankind and we must place our unflinching trust and belief in God Almighty as He dictates the affairs of men.

We all are survivors of 2021 and its challenges like sub-regional insecurity, a global cash crunch, severe food insecurity, biting climate change, shrinking forest resources in …

The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy,  Isa Pantami has announced that the deadline for the NIN-SIM verification has been shifted once more time to March 31, 2022. 

In a statement on Friday which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, the minister disclosed that the extension was necessary due to requests by stakeholders, including citizens, legal residents and Nigerians in the diaspora.

He explained that the extension would enable the Federal Government to consolidate the gains of the process and stimulate the enrolment of Nigerians in key areas such as those in …