July 2022

Liberia Signs Bill Allowing Dual Nationality Into Law

Liberia Signs Bill Allowing Dual Nationality Into Law

July 25, 2022 5:21 am

Liberia has signed into law a bill that allows dual citizenship, reversing a longtime ban viewed by some as hypocritical going to the fact that the elites secretly held US citizenship.

The bill, signed into law by President George Weah Friday has now been passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the bill now amends the West African state’s nationality law, allowing Liberians to remain citizens after acquiring a second nationality.

Liberia which was presently a country founded by Americans has a significant diaspora living in the United States. An …

2023 You Have Lost Your Memory, Atiku Lambasts Tinubu

2023: You Have Lost Your Memory, Atiku Lambasts Tinubu

July 25, 2022 5:02 am

There appears to be no end in sight to the public exchange of words between the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and his opponent in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the latter has once again attacked his erstwhile associate.

In response to a statement credited to the Tinubu Campaign Organisation on Friday; in which it accused Atiku of lying about his past record of opposition to the Muslim-Muslim ticket, the Atiku Media Office, on Sunday, said it sympathizes with Tinubu, because ‘his memory is no longer what it used to …

Nigeria Will Disintegrate In Two Years – Gani Adams

Nigeria Will Disintegrate In Two Years – Gani Adams

July 25, 2022 4:54 am

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams has raised the alarm that Nigeria might cease to exist in the next two years if the plethora of crisis in the country is anything to go by.

Speaking on Sunday, he stressed that the government’s urgent implementation of true federalism was the only way to save the nation from going off the rails and breaking into several pieces.

According to the Generalissimo of the Yoruba race, the country’s governance has exhibited a lack of coordination, despite the insecurity situation, the economic downturn, and deteriorated institutions, among other things.

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SERAP Sues INEC Over Failure To Prosecute Vote-Buyers

SERAP Sues INEC Over Failure To Prosecute Vote-Buyers

July 25, 2022 4:26 am

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court for ‘failing to prosecute those suspected of vote-buying and electoral bribery’ in the governorship election in Ekiti State which was conducted on June 18.

In a statement yesterday which was made available to Africa Daily News, New York, SERAP cited reports that suggested there was a brazen pattern of vote-buying and electoral bribery at several polling units in the state, including bargaining prices for votes and payments made in uncompleted buildings.

Filing the suit last Friday at the Federal High Court in Abuja, …

2023 We Will Do Our Best To Secure South East – Uzodinma

2023: We Will Do Our Best To Secure South East – Uzodinma

July 25, 2022 4:21 am

The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has asserted that he and his counterparts in the South East will do their best to ensure peace and adequate security of lives and property returns in the zone before the forthcoming general election.

The governor, who made this promise at a South East All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders’ meeting in Owerri, Imo State, said governors of the zone would continue to provide security for the people.

The Imo Governor questioned why there should be continued ait-at-home protests which had affected commercial activities in the area.

‘How do you expect that people …

Gov. Akeredolu Laments Over Abandoned Projects In Nigeria

Gov. Akeredolu Laments Over Abandoned Projects In Nigeria

July 24, 2022 8:36 pm

The Ondo State Governor and the Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has come out to lament ton he spate of abandoned projects in Nigeria.

Governor Akeredolu had noted that abandoning projects at this critical period in the economic life of the country is not cost-effective.

The Governor, who identified corruption, resource control, project goals, contractor selection and supervision as some of the major challenges behind abandoned projects, noted that a reasonable government must work towards achieving successful completion of projects in its state.

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Another Syria Church Attack Leaves 2 Dead, 12 Injured

Another Syria Church Attack Leaves 2 Dead, 12 Injured

July 24, 2022 3:05 pm

Two individuals have been reportedly murdered while 12 were left injured on Sunday by an unannounced bombardment of a church as it was being inaugurated in Syria’s central province of Hama.

“A rocket fired by terrorist organisations targeted a religious gathering in the town of Al-Suqaylabiyah near Hama, killing two people and wounding 12,” it said.

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SANA had also revealed that the attack came during a ceremony to inaugurate the Ayia Sofia church. Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a vast network of sources on the …

Take Power Before Corrupt Leaders Ruin You - Obasanjo To Youths

Take Power Before Corrupt Leaders Ruin You – Obasanjo To Youths

July 24, 2022 3:05 pm

One of the former presidents of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has openly charged all Nigerian youths make to make sure that they wake up from their slumbers and take over their leadership positions, rather than waiting for the future and waiting for corrupt leaders to ruin them.

Obasanjo had made this known while speaking during an interview with Nigerian football legend, Segun Odegbami, on his Eagle7 Sports programme on 103.7 FM, reiterated that the youths should always reject the “leaders of tomorrow” tag as corrupt leaders would destroy the so-called tomorrow if the younger generation fail to rise up and take …

3 Reportedly Dead In Fresh Philippine University Shooting

3 Reportedly Dead In Fresh Philippine University Shooting

July 24, 2022 1:44 pm

Tragedy struck today when three people were reportedly killed in a school shooting which had taken place at a university in the Philippine capital, Manila in what appears to have been a targeted assassination.

The incident had occurred at Ateneo de Manila University as some of the law students and their families had arrived for a graduation ceremony that was to be attended by the Supreme Court chief justice.

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The alleged gunman has also been detained.

Rose Furigay, a former city mayor in the restive southern province …

Camp Military Camp Against Military Camp Foiled In Mali

Military Camp Against Military Camp Foiled In Mali

July 24, 2022 1:33 pm

The Malian army announced on Sunday that they have succeded in thwarting a fresh attack which had been made on a military camp in the centre of the country, two days after a deadly suicide attack in a strategic garrison town near the capital of the country.

Armed forces “once again foiled” an attempted attack on a camp in Sevare early on Sunday, the army said on social media.

“The provisional toll stands at one terrorist neutralised,” it added.

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A high-ranking official from the Sevare camp, speaking on condition …

ISWAP Releases Video, Threaten To Kidnap Buhari, Kill Train Victims

ISWAP Releases Video, Threaten To Kidnap Buhari, Kill Train Victims

July 24, 2022 9:54 am

Panic has gripped Nigerians as a splinter terrorist group in the North West which has been identified as one of the factions of the ISWAP have openly threatened to kidnap the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari and murder the remaining train victims.

The unknown terrorists had made the threat in a fresh video which had surfaced where they were captured flogging some of their captives.

This threat is coming a few weeks after the convoy of Buhari was attacked in Katsina State.

Read Also: ISWAP Takes Responsibility For Massive Kuje Prison Attack

In the new viral video, the daredevil terrorists, who …

Leadership Newspaper Reporter Finally Released By Zamfara Police

Leadership Newspaper Reporter Finally Released By Zamfara Police

July 24, 2022 9:51 am

Comrade Umar Maradun who is one of the correspondents of the Leadership Newspaper in Zamfara State, who had been arrested by the police at his Maradun country home has finally been released on bail after a lot of backlash from the public.

Africa Daily News, New York had also reported that both the leaderships of the Zamfara State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Union had also requested for his bail but the police refused due to reasons best known to them.

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