June 2022

Why We Can’t Release Dariye, Nyame Despite Pardon – NCS

Why We Can’t Release Dariye, Nyame Despite Pardon – NCS

June 26, 2022 2:34 am

Africa Daily News, New York can confirm that over two months after they were granted state pardon, 159 convicts, including a former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, and a former Taraba State Governor, Jolly Nyame, have yet to be released.

The Council of State led by President Muhammadu Buhari, had on April 14 approved the pardon of the convicts, a decision which generated outcries.

Nyame is serving a 12-year jail sentence for diverting N1.64 billion during his tenure as governor of Taraba, while  Dariye is serving 10 years’ imprisonment for ₦1.126 billion fraud.

But while justifying the …

Americans Seeking Abortion Move To Get Help From Mexico

Americans Seeking Abortion Move To Get Help From Mexico

June 26, 2022 2:28 am

Facing high medical costs and pressure to reconsider, a single mother living in California turned to activists across the border in Mexico who helped her have an abortion.

‘We’re supposed to be in a free country, in a state where you can smoke marijuana, but abortion is still somewhat taboo,’ the 31-year-old said, shortly before the US Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to the procedure.

The woman, of Mexican descent, believes terminating a pregnancy will now become ever harder, although the liberal West Coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington jointly vowed to defend abortion rights.

The Supreme …

Bandits Gruesomely Murder 11 Farmers In Sokoto Community

Bandits Gruesomely Murder 11 Farmers In Sokoto Community

June 26, 2022 2:17 am

Armed Gunmen suspected to be bandits, on Saturday, in Sokoto, reportedly killed 11 farmers in the Ghandi district of Rabah Local Government Area of the state.

A source, who disclosed this, said the attackers stormed the community around 12 noon, shooting sporadically, to scare people and later killed farmers working on their farms.

Confirming the killing on Saturday, the Secretary to the District Head of Ghandi, Tukur Muhammad said they met them on their farmlands and killed them for no reason.

Read Also: Vigilante Members Massacred As Bandits Sack Doma Village

He said the bandits attempted to abduct other …

Alleged Trafficking University Of Lincoln Bans Ekweremadu

Alleged Trafficking: University Of Lincoln Bans Ekweremadu

June 26, 2022 2:12 am

The University of Lincoln has announced the banning of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu from undertaking any further duties as visiting professor after he was accused of trafficking a 15-year-old boy to the United Kingdom for organ harvesting.

Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, are currently in detention over the charges ahead of a court date on July 7.

They have both denied the trafficking charges.

Ekweremadu, before his arrest, met with members of the Nigerian community in Lincoln.

Read Also: Organ Harvesting: We Will Not Abandon Ekweremadu – Adeyemi

He had been a visiting professor of corporate and international …

2023 Nigeria is a complex country to Govern, Tinubu Declares

2023: Nigeria Is A Complex Country To Govern, Tinubu Declares

June 26, 2022 2:07 am

Ahead of next year’s general elections, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Saturday admitted that ‘Nigeria is a complex country to navigate through.’

He spoke at a special prayer session at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Central Mosque, Wuse 2, Abuja, which was organised as part of events marking the 60th birthday of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.

The occasion was also graced by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, representing President Muhammadu Buhari.

Read Also: Why I’m Trekking From Bauchi To Lagos For Tinubu – Madaki

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I Made Terrible Mistake With My Choice Of VP In 1999 - Obasanjo

I Made Terrible Mistake With My Choice Of VP In 1999 – Obasanjo

June 25, 2022 3:44 pm

One of the former Nigerian Presidents and elder Statesman, Olusegun Obasanjo  has thrown subtle jabs at his Vice President, Atiku Abubakar as he made revealations that he made a terrible mistake while picking his Vice President when he ruled as a civilian head of state in 1999.

Olusegun Obasanjo had made this statement at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Ogun State, while he was fielding questions from secondary school students in a programme which he had hosted.

Read Also: 2023: Obasanjo Meets Wike, Ortom, Seeks Justice, Fairness

While interacting with the students, Obasanjo revealed that he had made

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Strike ASUU Tackles FG Over Railway Construction To Niger

ASUU Suggests Aqequate Solutions To Quell Ongoing Strike Action

June 25, 2022 3:37 pm

In a new announcement which was put out by the organisation, the head council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has made some suggestions that the method to resolving its ongoing strike action could be done with the full adoption of the transparent payment platform, University Transparency and Accountability Solutions (UTAS) which would be used as an alternative to IPPIS.

The Chairperson of ASUU, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State chapter, Dr Socrates Ebo had in a statement which he had put out made the lamentations that the deep-rooted penchant for corruption within the Nigerian government ethos is …

CVR Online Registration Remains Suspended, INEC Clarifies

INEC Chairman Reveals Extension Of Voters’ Registration Process

June 25, 2022 3:35 pm

As he caves in to the mounted pressures to extend the date for the Continuous Voter Registration exercise, Professor Mahmood Yakubu who is the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has made announcements that the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration which had been initially scheduled to come to an end on the 30th of June, 2022, has been adequately extended.

Professor Mahmood Yakubu made this announcement on Saturday.

Read Also: We Didn’t Extend Voters Registration Deadline, INEC Clarifies

The Federal High Court in Abuja had earlier stopped INEC from ending the ongoing voter registration exercise.

Professor Yakubu, during

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Yobe North; Machina Debunks Letter About Withdrawal For Lawan

Machina Lands In Court Over Tussle For Yobe North Senate Seat

June 25, 2022 2:00 pm

It has been tussle after tussle for Bashir Sheriff Machina as he has been embroiled in another new controversy in the race for the Yobe North Senatorial seat which came about as another fresh aspirant of the All Progressives Congress slammed a lawsuit against him which conflicts with his recent ticket win.

The hearing of his peculiar case and that of six others has been slated for 21 July in Damaturu High Court.

An aspirant, Abubakar Abubakar Jinjiri has also come out to challeng Machina’s election on the ground of exclusion at the primary elections in the State.

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Gov Akeredolu Orders Installation Of CCTV In Worship Places

Gov Akeredolu Orders Installation Of CCTV In Worship Places

June 25, 2022 1:58 pm

The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu while setting new implementations to further strengthen the security structure in the State has openly signed an Executive Order which would be implementing for the compulsory installation and use of Close Circuit Television (CCTV) in all public and private institutions in Ondo State.

The signed executive order which was released today 25 June, weeks after the killings in a Catholic Church in Owo, his hometown would cover  for Churches, Mosques and some other public institutions.

Read Also: Terrorists Now Control Forests In Nigeria – Gov Akeredolu

According to a statement by the governor, the …

Vigilante Members Massacred As Bandits Sack Doma Village

Vigilante Members Massacred As Bandits Sack Doma Village

June 25, 2022 1:57 pm

Pandemonium struck in some parts of Niger State as some terrorists who have been branded as bandits abducted two residents of Doma village in the Lapai Local Government Area of the Niger State after killing some of the village vigilantees and other volunteering security officials who tried to thwart their plans.

Public Relations Officer of Niger Police Command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun had made confirmations on the incident on Saturday.

Read Also: Zamfara Lecturer Killed By Bandits Despite ₦5m Ransom Payment

Abiodun had reported that on June 22nd, the terrorists had abducted the two unfortunate victims from Doma village, Lapai who …

Lagos Is The Second-Worst Liveable City On Earth - EIU Rankings

Lagos Is The Second-Worst Liveable City On Earth – EIU Rankings

June 25, 2022 10:19 am

Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU which is a global business intelligence group has finally ranked Nigeria’s commercial capital city, Lagos as the world’s second-worst liveable city. This ranking shows that Lagos was charted as one of the worst inhabitable cities in Nigeria.

The EIU group which according to its recent publication, has charted Lagos 171 out of 172 countries in the list of its global liveable cities in the world.

The latest 2022 Global Liveability Index published by the EIU had also revealed that Vienna regained its customary position as the number one while the Canadian and some other European cities …

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