February 22, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, asserted that Nigerians would have been trekking the Lagos-Ibadan rail was not completed.

Buhari made this assertion when he spoke at a meeting with a delegation from Kaduna led by Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, and Deputy Governor, Hadiza Balaraba.

The President said despite dwindling resources, his resolve was to deal with infrastructure deficit.

Buhari stressed that no country can advance without road, rail and power.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has finally fixed its national convention on March 26, a month away from the February 26 it initially proposed for the convention.

This decision was contained in a leaked letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), referenced APC/NHDQ/INEC/019/22/21, which the ruling party said superseded its earlier national convention notice.

The latest notice also replaced an earlier letter to INEC informing it of APC’s decision to hold its zonal congresses on March 26.

But the party was silent on the zoning of offices, a major concern for stakeholders, which was believed to have contributed to …

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has endorsed the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) declaring that the entire Northern Nigeria was behind Tinubu’s 2023 presidential ambition.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Ganduje has been a long standing ally of the former Governor of Lagos State. He is believed to be one of his staunch supporters in Northern Nigerian.

He said the time was ripe for the North to pay back Tinubu for supporting President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Governor spoke on Monday at the inauguration of an office for Northern Youth …

The United States on Monday announced financial sanctions against rebel territories in eastern Ukraine who were freshly recognised by Russia and warned that more were ready if necessary.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to ‘prohibit new investment, trade, and financing by US persons to, from, or in the so-called DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine,’ White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, referring to the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

The order will ‘provide authority to impose sanctions on any person determined to operate in those areas …

A Justice the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday struck out a suit challenging the Nigerian citizenship of presidential aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democcratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Justice Ekwo who struck out the suit which brought by the Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa dismissed it for lack of merit.

He struck out the case on the grounds that the plaintiff being a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has no legal right to commence such proceedings against Atiku.

According to the court, the NGO having been registered under Company and Allied …