May 2022

APC Primary Committee Members Escape Mob Attack In Taraba

APC Primary Committee Members Escape Mob Attack In Taraba

May 30, 2022 5:38 am

The Police Command in Taraba State has rescued members of the Primary Election Committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC) sent to conduct the elections for the party’s senatorial tickets in the state.

The members were reportedly ambushed and almost lynched by aggrieved party members on Saturday for allegedly conniving with a faction of the party to manipulate the outcomes of the exercise.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the committee members who were led by Muhammad Alkali were on their way from Yola in Adamawa when they were stopped at a point – some a few kilometres to …

Pope Francis Announces Okpaleke As Cardinal

Pope Francis Announces Okpaleke As Cardinal

May 30, 2022 5:34 am

The Supreme Pontiff, Pope Francis, has revealed that he will on August 27, 2022, create new 21 new cardinals amongst who is Most Revd (Dr) Peter Ebere Okpaleke of Ekwulobia Diocese.

Okpaleke, it would be recalled, was appointed as Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, but was rejected by the diocese.

Read Also: Pope Promises Fresh Start In Fight Against Clerical Sex Abuse

Following his appointment to the see of Ekwulobia on March 5, 2020, Okpaleke was installed on April 29, 2020, as the bishop of the new Ekwulobia diocese having renounced …

PDP Primaries Obi Congratulates Atiku, Calls Him His Leader

PDP Primaries: Obi Congratulates Atiku, Calls Him His Leader

May 30, 2022 5:11 am

Presidential hopeful on the platform of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has congratulated former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on his emergence as the flagbearer for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming presidential election. 

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Obi who was Atiku’s running mate in the 2019 election, took to Twitter on Sunday afternoon to share a warm message of compliments for his associate.

‘On behalf of my family, I sincerely congratulate my leader and dear elder brother, H.E @atiku, on his emergence as the 2023 presidential flag bearer of the
@OfficialPDPNig.

‘I pray that …

Panic As Bomb Explosion Hits Kogi

Panic As Bomb Explosion Hits Kogi

May 30, 2022 4:43 am

Residents in Kabba, Kogi State, have been thrown into confusion following an explosion which has left an undisclosed number of people dead and many people injured. 

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the ugly explosion occurred opposite Mannajot Petrol Station on Sunday evening, with a yet-to-be-ascertained number of people feared injured.

Details of the blast are still sketchy but a security source linked the bomb explosion to the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād.

Read Also: Kogi: Dino Melaye Loses Senatorial Ticket To

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2023 Kalu Urges APC Delegates To Elect Lawan To Stop Atiku

2023: Kalu Urges APC Delegates To Elect Lawan To Stop Atiku

May 30, 2022 4:36 am

Former Governor of Abia State and Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor-Kalu, has sent out a congratulatory message to the Peoples Democratic Party for electing former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s candidate for the 2023 presidential election while calling on the APC to imitate the opposition party.

In a statement which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York on Sunday, Kalu asserted that Atiku’s victory during the PDP presidential primary meant that Nigerians understood the 2023 political calculations.

He postulated that since Atiku hails from the North-East geopolitical zone, the All Progressives Congress (APC) should also …

U.S. DOJ To Investigate Police Response To Uvalde Shootings

U.S. DOJ To Investigate Police Response To Uvalde Shootings

May 30, 2022 4:29 am

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a review of the entirety of the response by local and federal authorities to last week’s school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

In a statement on Sunday that was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, DOJ spokesperson Anthony Coley said that Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin had asked the department to conduct a Critical Incident Review.

Coley also said that the DOJ’s Office of Community Oriented Policing will handle the investigation.

‘The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses …

Alleged ₦2.9bn Fraud EFCC Set To Arraign Okorocha

Alleged ₦2.9bn Fraud: EFCC Set To Arraign Okorocha

May 30, 2022 4:26 am

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has removed all bottlenecks and are now set for a formal arraignment of ex-Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, with the service of the criminal charges on his person in the detention facility.

According to sources inside the anti-graft agency, Okorocha was said to have been handed a copy of the charge on Sunday evening preparatory for his appearance in court on Monday, May 30 to take his plea.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Okorocha, now a Senator representing Imo State in the Senate was made to personally sign for the …

Lithuanians Raise Millions To Procure Ukraine A combat Drone

Lithuanians Raise Millions To Procure Ukraine A Combat Drone

May 30, 2022 4:22 am

Lithuanians have donated more than five million euros to a public fundraising campaign that was set up to buy a combat drone for Ukrainian forces fighting Russia’s invasion.

The money needed to buy a Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drone was raised in three-and-a-half days which came to an end yesterday evening in the country of 2.8 million people.

“Probably for the first time in history, citizens of one state can buy and donate such heavy weapons to another state,” said influencer Andrius Tapinas, founder of the online broadcaster Laisves TV which launched the initiative.

Read Also: We Have Captured Ukraine’s Lyman

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Ganduje Renames Kano State Varsity After Dangote

Ganduje Renames Kano Varsity After Dangote

May 30, 2022 3:49 am

The government of Kano State has approved the renaming of Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil after Nigeria’s richest man, Aliko Dangote.

The State Executive Council approved this at its last sitting presided over by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Aliko Dangote has been the Chancellor of the University for the past few years.

Read Also: Bomb Laden Vechicle Intercepted In Kano State

In a statement on Sunday which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, said renaming of the institution followed recommendation by the …

Mustapha Mulls Nullification Of Lagos APC Guber Primary

Mustapha Mulls Nullification Of Lagos APC Guber Primary

May 29, 2022 4:51 pm

Mr. Abdul-Ahmed Mustapha  who was an aspirant of the May 26 governorship primary election has tasked the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives to nullify the governorship primary election in Lagos State.

Mustapha made the call for nullification following his alleged exclusion from the governorship primary election.

Mustapha, a former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in the state, in a statement on Sunday in Lagos, described his disqualification and exclusion from the election as illegal.

Read Also: 2023: Sanwo-Olu Declared Winner Of Lagos APC Guber Ticket

“I strongly request that the exercise be nullified and

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Israeli ‘Flag March’ Throws Jerusalem Into Serious Tension

Israeli ‘Flag March’ Throws Jerusalem Into Serious Tension

May 29, 2022 4:51 pm

Sunday saw Jerusalem being thrown into a state of trepidation as some Palestinian groups have threatened to retaliate over the annual rally that sparked a war last year.

Israel deployed 3,000 police on the day that marks its 1967 capture of east Jerusalem, home of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound located on what Jews revere as the Temple Mount.

Flag-waving Jewish nationalists chanting pro-Israel slogans, among them a far-right lawmaker, in the morning visited Al-Aqsa, where Israeli police said several Palestinians threw rocks toward the officers. Isolated clashes also broke out at the Old City’s Damascus Gate where dozens of Jewish …

Nigeria Police Announce Preparations For 2023 Elections

Port Harcourt Church Stampede Leaves 31 Dead – Police

May 29, 2022 11:57 am

In a deadly freak accident that occurred during a pandemonium in Rivers State, the Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the death of 31 persons in a stampede that occurred during a church program in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Saturday.

The command also disclosed that those who were injured were “swiftly evacuated to the hospital for immediate medical treatment”.

According to the statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe Koko, preliminary investigations conducted by the command indicate that the “unfortunate incident occurred when the management of Kings Church Assembly organised a crusade which attracted mammoth crowd”.…

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