March 2022

A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State on Friday ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami to immediately delete Section 84 (12) of the Amended New Electoral Act.

In a ruling, Justice Evelyn Anyadike held that the section was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void and of no effect whatsoever and cannot stand, as it is in violation of the clear provisions of the Constitution.

The section says: ‘No political appointee at any level shall be voting delegate or be voted for at the Convention or Congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination …

Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has expressed strong confidence that newly sworn-in Prof. Chukwuma Soludo will do well in Anambra State as governor.

He asserted that with Soludo as the Governor of the state, the people of the state will begin to see Anambra as the true light of the nation which she truly is.

Obi made this assertions while speaking to journalists on Thursday, after attending the inauguration of the government of Soludo.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that it was Obi’s first time to visit the government house since after leaving office eight years …

As the war in Ukraine entered its fourth week on Thursday, the President of the war torn country, Volodymyr Zelensky has lamented that Russia had already crossed all known red lines in the ongoing war vowing not to give up.

In a live interview with the NBC News which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, on Thursday, Zelensky lampooned the West for not doing enough to stop Russia.

Asked if the use of nuclear weapons would mean that Russia had crossed the red line, Zelensky said Russia began to cross red lines the moment its troop began to …