February 2022

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has claimed that President Mohammadu Buhari is afraid that giving assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill will make his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) to fail in the 2023 general election.

Governor Wike made the assertion at the inauguration of lecture halls, laboratories and offices of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences of the Bayelsa Medical University in Yenagoa on Saturday, according to a statement signed by his spokesperson Kelvin Ebiri

The Governor pointed to the inclusion of the compulsory transmission of electoral results electronically in the Electoral Act Amendment …

A UN expert who is on social assignment has warned that proper preparations are essential to avoid ‘fuelling violence and polarisation’ if South Sudan proceeds with elections next year.

Barney Afako who is a Ugandan human rights lawyer and a member of the UN’s Human Rights Commission on South Sudan, stated on Friday that ‘South Sudan is at a tipping point [and] and political contention amongst political elites continues’.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the country is poised to conduct its first elections since becoming independent in 2011. Polls had been scheduled for 2015, but were disrupted by …

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that he would back any young person who vies for any position in the upcoming All Progressives Congress (APC), national convention which is scheduled to hold later this month.

This was even as president also mandated his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, to ensure that all ministers and heads of agencies include young people with the requisite skills and experience in all boards and committees of the Federal Government.

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The President of the United States, Joe Biden on Friday seized $7 billion in assets belonging to the previous Afghan government with the aim of splitting the funds between victims of the 9/11 attacks and desperately needed aid for post-war Afghanistan.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Biden officially seized the assets via an executive order on Friday.

It would be recalled that the money had been stuck in the New York Federal Reserve since the fall of the US-backed government in Kabul and takeover by the Taliban insurgency that fought US-led forces for 20 years.

A senior US …

A former member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin has disclosed that the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who is also a presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu has huge shares in Apple Corporation as well as a top English club.

Jibrin explained that he was shocked to his marrows when he discovered that Tinubu also owns large shares in Manchester United Football Club.

Jibrin, who is also the Director-General of the Tinubu Support Management Council, made this disclosure while responding to inquiries on APC National Leader’s source of wealth in an interview with Arise Tv which was monitored …

Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has boasted that given their massive laying down of weapons by terrorists, the insurgency will end within the next 12 months ‘God willing.’

The Governor who visited the State House to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari to apprise him of progress in the surrendering of Boko Haram terrorists, told State House Correspondents, Abuja that over 30,000 former fighters have now surrendered and are in the custody of the authorities.

According to him, Borno state government does not offer any incentive to the fighters to come out of the forests, rather, they have done so …

There could some fresh twist as President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) have asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to dismiss the appeal seeking to nullify his election and swear in Abubakar Atiku as President.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the Incorporated Trustees of the Civil Society Observatory for Constitutional and Legal Compliance (CSOCLC) had filed the appeal over its contention that the affidavit made by the President in the 2019 general elections was false.

The APC and President Buhari, in their submission is contained in their Respondents’ Brief of Argument filed …