July 2022

How I Forced Nigerians To Embrace Local Rice – Buhari

How I Forced Nigerians To Embrace Local Rice – Buhari

July 15, 2022 4:17 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that a vast majority of Nigerians now eat local rice after the closure of the nation’s borders a few years ago.

Buhari praised farmers in the country for the record production of rice and other food commodities.

The President expressed delight that his agricultural policies of the administration are working to good effect.

He made this assertion while speaking in Katsina on Friday at a meeting with elected Local Government Council Chairmen in the state.

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Buhari said he has a good understanding of Nigeria …

Arewa Youths Tear Lawal Apart Over Comments On Shettima

Arewa Youths Tear Lawal Apart Over Comments On Shettima

July 15, 2022 3:39 pm

While reacting to the recent comments by the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, has on Friday taken him to the cleaners over what it described as “narrow-minded, unguarded political sentimentalism and provocative stance” over the 2023 presidency.

Rising from its meeting which had been chaired by the National President of AYCF, Yerima Shettima, the group had declared that there can be no better choice of running mate for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu than Senator Kashim Shettima, who is a nationalist to the core.…

Kogi CP Shares ₦9.8m To Families Of 14 Deceased Officers

Kogi CP Shares ₦9.8m To Families Of 14 Deceased Officers

July 15, 2022 3:33 pm

CP Edward Egbuka who is the Kogi State Commissioner of Police has on Thursday, presented some cheques worth ₦9,800,000 .00 on behalf of the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, to the families of 14 police officers who died in active service in the State.

While presenting the cheques to the families of the deceased officers, the CP Egbuka had announced that the gesture was part of the IGP’s “Family welfare insurance” aimed at improving the welfare of the families of the deceased police officers and to boost the morale of other officers who are in active service.…

Russian Soldiers Are Not Humans – Ukrainian Military To Citizens

Russian Soldiers Are Not Humans – Ukrainian Military To Citizens

July 15, 2022 3:31 pm

As the conflict between Russia and the Ukrainian nation rages on, the acting head of the Kherson region military administration, Dmytro Butriy, has warned the Ukrainian citizens to make sure that they run away from the region, while reiterating that Russian soldiers are not human beings.

Butriy announced this while disclosing that 44 settlements in the area largely occupied by Russian troops have been liberated. He, however, did not give an actual timescale but some of the Ukrainian troops had began an offensive in Kherson in May, recovering a number of villages since then.

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DMO Reveals Nigeria Didn’t Hide Borrowing Plan From World Bank

DMO Reveals Nigeria Didn’t Hide Borrowing Plan From World Bank

July 15, 2022 1:05 pm

While reacting to the worldwide backlash about their rising spate of debt clearances, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has debunked news about Nigeria disregarding the laid down World Bank Disclosure Rule and borrowing loans.

The federal agency which is led by Patience Oniha had issued a straight rebuttal on Thursday. The DMO had also revealed that it was not true that the World Bank blamed Nigeria on the disclosure rule.

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Media reports accuse the Nigerian government of failing to publish its Annual Borrowing Plans (ABP). But …

Massive Gunshots In Osogbo As Army Detains Asiri Eniba

Massive Gunshots In Osogbo As Army Detains Asiri Eniba

July 15, 2022 11:43 am

Africa Daily News, New York has reported that there was some massive gunfire at Old Garage in Osun State on Friday as some of the thugs allegedly working for the Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Oroki Branch, Osogbo, Kazeem Oyewale popularly known as Asiri Eniba exchanged bullets with the Army.

It was reported that the Oyewale was later arrested after the gun duel with operatives.

Asiri Eniba, had previously made some allegations that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, and the state Chairman of the party were threats to his life and …

FCTA To Demolish Shanties In Kuje After Massive Jailbreak

FCTA To Demolish Shanties In Kuje After Massive Jailbreak

July 15, 2022 11:41 am

Due to the recent jailbreak at the medium correctional centre in Kuje, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has slammed down a weeklong ultimatum for the demolition of some of the unauthorized buildings and shanty settlements in the town to avoid harbouring some of the escaped immates.

Already, the area council authority and its traditional ruler have given their consent for the exercise to take effect.

The stakeholders meeting to brief the community on the intended activity was held on Friday.

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Recall that Kuje was in the news recently …

2023 My Social Media Followers Will Give PDP Victory - Funke

2023: My Social Media Followers Will Give PDP Victory – Funke

July 15, 2022 7:58 am

Funke Akindele, the Deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Lagos State has given reason she will defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the 2023 election saying that she has about 20m followers across social media platforms who will help her record victory.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the APC had said Funke had nothing to offer as the PDP deputy guber candidate and that she would lose in the forthcoming election.

When asked how she plans to defeat the ruling party in Lagos, Funke in an interview with Channels Tv on Thursday …

Tinubu's Muslim Ticket, A Plot To Islamise Nigeria –Youth CAN

Tinubu’s Muslim Ticket, A Plot To Islamise Nigeria –Youth CAN

July 15, 2022 7:15 am

Youth Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (YOWI-CAN) in the 19 Northern States and Abuja has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) describing the Muslim-Muslim ticket of Bola Tinubu as ‘evil and satanic plot to Islamise Nigeria’.

The YOWI-CAN also dared the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum and Plateau State, Governor Simon Bako Lalong that unless something was done to correct what it termed an error, it would mobilize its members to embark on a massive protest against the ticket.

Speaking through a press release on Friday signed by its Chairman, Evangelist Musa D Misal, and the Secretary, …

Strike Stop Insulting Lecturers, ASUU Warns Ngige

Strike: Stop Insulting Lecturers, ASUU Warns Ngige

July 15, 2022 5:30 am

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the minister of labour and employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, of insulting lecturers and spreading fake news about the ongoing industrial action.

Speaking on Thursday when he appeared on a television program monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke said that Ngige has resorted to fake news having failed to force its striking members to call off the strike by withholding their salaries for five months.

The ASUU president was reacting to the recent statement by Ngige, who said there is no collective bargaining agreement between the government …

2023 PDP Drags Obi, Tinubu To Court, Seek Disqualification

2023: PDP Drags Obi, Tinubu To Court, Seek Disqualification

July 15, 2022 4:26 am

Stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has instituted a lawsuit compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission to prevent All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu; and Labour Party standard bearer, Peter Obi, from replacing their running mates with Senator Kashim Shettima and Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed respectively.

The PDP is also praying the court to declare that Tinubu and Obi be disqualified unless they contest alongside their previous running mates – Kabiru Masari and Doyin Okupe respectively.

In the originating summons with suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1016/2022, the PDP is seeking an order barring the Independent National Electoral Commission from …

Villagers Flee As Firefighters Battle Blazes In Morocco

July 15, 2022 4:19 am

Dozens of Moroccan firefighters in collaboration with soldiers battled Thursday to put out at least four infernos ripping through forests in the north of the kingdom, officials have confirmed. 

According to officials, several villages had to be evacuated ahead of the flames as military water-bomber planes dropped loads in a bid to extinguish the blaze.

In soaring temperatures, and shocked by how fast the leaping flames were spreading, villagers fled their homes.

Some, where they could, herded their crucial cattle and horses upon which their livelihoods depend ahead of them.

A village in the Ksar El Kebir region of the …

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