July 2022

Osun 2022: Live Results Finally Released From Polling Units

Osun 2022: Live Results Finally Released From Polling Units

Africa Daily News, New York can reliably report that results are already trickling in from Polling Units in the ongoing governorship election in Osun State.

INEC officials have already concluded the voting exercises and the sorting of results in some Polling Units while ballot counting has also commenced in the presence of some of the voters.

It has also been gathered that the Osun State governorship election was keenly contested between the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Read Also: Osun Decides: Faulty Machines Disrupt Voting In Ikire

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Panic As Gunmen Kill Seven, Injure Five In Kaduna Community

Catholic Priests Now Major Kidnap Targets For Bandits In Kaduna

One of the foremost Catholic clerics in Chikun, Kaduna State, Dr. Moses Bonugada has revealed that Catholic Priests are now the main kidnap targets in the State while raising an alarm over bandits’ persistent attacks on clerics in Kaduna State.

He had also specifically expressed pains over the kidnap and torture of two Catholic Priests on Friday, July 15, 2022.

Read Also: Pandemonium As Gunmen Kidnap Women Leader In Imo Church

Bonugada, while speaking with Newsmen in Kaduna, on Saturday had also expressed worries over the increased attack on Catholic priests in the State for the past six months.

According …

Osun Decides: Faulty Machines Disrupt Voting In Ikire

Osun Decides: Faulty Machines Disrupt Voting In Ikire

The Voting has been completely disrupted in Naira and Kobo, Ward 9, Polling Unit 4, Ikire, Irewole Local government area of Osun State as the INEC officials complained about faulty machines much to the chagrin of the mammoth crowd of voters.

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The card reader had stopped working while people were jostling to vote which made the voting exercise to be stopped around 12:30 pm.

At Ward 5, Unit 14, Holy Cross Primary School, Ikire, at 1:06 pm, the people were in a rush, with the Independent National Electoral Commission …

How Chacha Eke Allegedly Snatched Gay Husband From Colleague

How Chacha Eke Allegedly Snatched Gay Husband From Colleague

Fresh reports have emerged indicating that popular Nollywood actress, Chacha Eke actually snatched her ex-husband, Austin Faani from her colleague in the industry, Eve Esin 

Controversial faceless IG blog, Gistlovers on Friday rolled out exclusive reports on how Chacha Eke snatched Austin Faani, who was a movie editor then from her colleague, Eve Esin  and later got married to him despite knowing he’s gay.

According to Gistlovers, Chacha did this in a bid to rise to the top, especially because of the ill-treatment she received from Eve Esin.

Read Also: Actress Chacha Eke Faani Quits Marriage Amid Controversies

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Black Man Shot By Police In US Had 46 Bullet Wounds - Examiner

Black Man Shot By Police In US Had 46 Bullet Wounds – Examiner

A 25-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by police in Akron, Ohio on Friday, while fleeing a traffic stop had 46 gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office revealed Friday.

A summary of the autopsy findings on Jayland Walker was released by Summit County medical examiner Lisa Kohler, the Akron Beacon Journal newspaper reported.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the release of body camera footage of Walker’s June 27 shooting sparked several days of angry protests in Akron, a city of 190,000 people in northern Ohio.

Walker had 46 gunshot wounds including graze injuries and 15 exit …

INEC Reacts To Suit Seeking Disqualification Of Tinubu, Obi

INEC Reacts To Suit Seeking Disqualification Of Tinubu, Obi

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reacted to a suit which was instituted by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which is seeking to disqualify the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, and his Labour Party (LP), counterpart, Peter Obi, from participating in the 2023 election.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had dragged INEC to court seeking an injunction stopping Tinubu and Obi from selecting Kashim Shettima and Datti Baba-Ahmed as their running mates.

In the suit, PDP prayed the court to rule that Tinubu and Obi should be …

2023 We Will Wholly Reject Muslim-Muslim Ticket - SOKAPU

2023: We Will Wholly Reject Muslim-Muslim Ticket – SOKAPU

The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union have announced that it has made up its mind not to allow its people to vote for a Muslim-Muslim presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election.

The SOKAPU’s spokesperson, Luka Binniyat, made this known while speaking to reporters on Friday, stating that the southern Kaduna people had resolved never to support the idea.

In a meantime, a Nigerian civil-right activist based in the United States of America, Mr Smart Madu-Ajaja, said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had the basic human and constitutional right to choose whoever he liked as …

Loss of Indigenous Languages A Threat to Herbal Medicines

Loss of Indigenous Languages: A Threat to Herbal Medicines

One of the fondest memories of my maternal grandfather was watching him emerge from the nearby bush with herbs to treat a stomach upset or raging fever. He never attended a botany class but he was a revered medicine man whose herbal concoctions healed many ailments. He orally passed on a fraction of his vast knowledge to my aunty in Idoma– our indigenous language, as he did not speak English at all.

These days, my aunt attempts to pass down what is left of my Grandpa’s rich herbal knowledge, but we often interrupt her to inquire what certain herbs are …

2023 Why We Are Yet To Endorse Any Candidate – Ohanaeze

2023: Why We Are Yet To Endorse Any Candidate – Ohanaeze

The apex Igbo socio-political group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has revealed the key reason why was yet announced its preferred candidate for the 2023 presidential election, despite the endorsement of the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, by its counterpart in the South West, Afenifere.

It pointed out that the Igbo knew where they were going but did not disclose who among the presidential candidates of the various political parties would be endorsed.

Like Afenifere, the Pan-Niger Delta Forum and the Middle Belt Forum, Ohanaeze had called on political parties to zone their presidential tickets to the South-East.

Afenifere’s leader, …

Presidency Clears Air On Purported DSS Report On APC's Ticket

Presidency Clears Air On Purported DSS Report On APC’s Ticket

The Presidency of Nigeria has dismissed as fake news the story that a Department of State Service (DSS) intelligence report to President Muhammadu Buhari revealed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s decision to nominate a fellow Muslim as vice-presidential candidate for the 2023 presidential election is a recipe for renewed sectarian crises that could destabilise Nigeria.

A two-paragraph statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York, read thus: ‘We wish to advise well-meaning Nigerians to ignore a laughably puerile report

Shettima Reacts To Tinubu’s Alleged ‘Islamisation Agenda’

Shettima Reacts To Tinubu’s Alleged ‘Islamisation Agenda’

The running mate to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima has finally reacted to some of the reports making rounds that Tinubu plans to Islamise Nigeria with his nomination of a Muslim-Muslim ticket while insisting that there is no plan to Islamise Nigeria.

Shettima also urged Nigerians in general to look beyond religion when electing leaders.

Read Also: Arewa Youths Tear Lawal Apart Over Comments On Shettima

Shettima’s nomination as Tinubu’s running mate has drawn outrage from certain quarters as they are both Muslims. But speaking on Friday when he received a visit …

INEC Finally Fixes July 31 For Suspension Of CVR Nationwide

INEC Finally Fixes July 31 For Suspension Of CVR Nationwide

Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has finally fixed the 31st of July for the date for the suspension of the ongoing nationwide Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, ahead of the 2023 general elections.

The INEC National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee Mr. Festus Okoye, made the announcement after an extraordinary meeting of the commission in Abuja on Friday.

Read Also: INEC Insists On Rejecting Akpabio, Lawan’s Senatorial Tickets

The decision according to him is to allow the commission to perform the legal …