August 2022

2023 Tinubu Will Transform Nigeria’s Economy – Hon Faleke

2023: Tinubu Will Transform Nigeria’s Economy – Hon Faleke

August 19, 2022 6:53 am

Ahead of the official commencement of the campaign, the Secretary general, All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council, James Faleke, has asserted that the APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will turn around Nigeria’s economy from import dependent to production based.

Faleke made this assertion when he received members of the APC National Integrity Movement (ANIM) who visited him on Friday in Abuja.

He expressed the strong belief that APC would win the 2023 presidential election, owing to the belief that the Tinubu/Shettima project was a project for all APC groups and party loyalists across the country.

Faleke pointed out that …

Tension As Sri Lanka Police Fire Tear Gas To Disperse Protest

Tension As Sri Lanka Police Fire Tear Gas To Disperse Protest

August 19, 2022 6:20 am

Sri Lanka police fired tear gas and water cannon on a small protest Thursday to break up the first demonstration since the crisis-hit island nation lifted a state of emergency.

An unprecedented economic collapse has sparked often huge anti-government rallies this year after months of hardship caused by shortages of essential goods, rolling blackouts, and spiralling inflation.

The government has curbed dissent by imposing a state of emergency giving security forces sweeping detention powers, but the ordinance lapsed overnight.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that several hundred students attempted to march to the city centre in Colombo for a …

How We Arrested 18,940 Drug Dealers In 18 Months - NDLEA Boss

How We Arrested 18,940 Drug Dealers In 18 Months – NDLEA Boss

August 19, 2022 5:58 am

The Chairman, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), has disclosed the total number of suspected narcotraffickers the agency had detained in the past 18 months; in total, 18,940 drug dealers have been reportedly arrested. 

Addressing a drug awareness conference at Abuja tagged ‘Drug and Substance Abuse: The Effect on Mental Health and National Security’, Marwa stressed that the arrest made shows the extent to which the problem had infused its tap root; the issue poses terrible consequences to the society.

The conference was hosted by the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, and the …

Tesnion As Thousands Hold Protest Over Military Rule In Sudan

Tesnion As Thousands Hold Protest Over Military Rule In Sudan

August 19, 2022 5:55 am

There is pandemonium as Sudanese security forces yesterday fired tear gas at thousands of its citizens who took to the streets to renew demands for civilian rule after last year’s military coup.

According to an eyewitness who spoke to newsmen, protesters were seen in the capital Khartoum carrying Sudanese flags and chanting: ‘No, no to military rule,’ and ‘Civilian rule is the people’s choice’.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that security forces fired rounds of tear gas to disperse the protesters with many of them picking up injuries.

Sudan has been rocked by near-weekly protests and a violent crackdown …

Strke FG’s Recent Offer, Miserable - ASUU

Strke: Why We Turned Down FG’s Latest Offer – ASUU

August 19, 2022 5:43 am

Amid the ongoing industrial action, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that it rejected the Federal Government’s latest offer because it is ‘miserable’.

The President of the union, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke made this known in a statement on Thursday which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York.

The statement was titled, ‘Why ASUU rejects government’s award of salary’.

Osodeke called on the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Education, to return to the New Draft Agreement of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Renegotiation Committee whose work spanned a total of five and half years as a …

2023 I Will Lead Nigeria Out Of Darkness, Atiku Vows

2023: I Will Lead Nigeria Out Of Darkness, Atiku Vows

August 19, 2022 5:37 am

Against the backdrop of the strike saga which involved the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has vowed to lead Nigeria out of the darkness if they elect him as their President in 2023.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the union’s strike which was happened on Wednesday left Nigeria in darkness for over 12 hours after it shut down power stations over welfare issues.

However, NUEE after its meeting with the Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige suspended the strike for two weeks.

Atiku …

eNaira Transactions Hit N4bn — Emefiele

eNaira Transactions Hits ₦4bn — Emefiele

August 19, 2022 5:32 am
Reports reaching Africa Daily News, New York have it that, since its inception in October of last year, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) e-Naira virtual currency network has seen over ₦4 billion in transactions.
Mr. Godwin Emefiele who is the CBN Governor disclosed this to the public, yesterday, at e-Naira’s Hackathon grand finale, hosted in Abuja.
In his words, ‘Since the launch of this great initiative, the e-Naira has reached 840,000 downloads, with about 270,000 active wallets comprising over 252,000 consumer wallets and 17,000 merchant wallets.’
‘In addition, volume and value of transactions on the platform have been
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Racist Abuse: Chelsea Probes Case Against Spurs Forward, Son

Racist Abuse: Chelsea Probes Case Against Spurs Forward, Son

August 18, 2022 10:05 pm

English Football Club, Chelsea has announced that it is going to be pulling up an investigation after racist abuse had been allegedly directed against Tottenham forward Son Heung-min during a football match at Stamford Bridge, threatening the “strongest action”.

The South Korea international had been alleged to have been racially abused by a member of the crowd at the  Stadium during Sunday’s ill-tempered game, which had ended in 2-2.

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Chelsea has previously handed out life bans to supporters found guilty of similar behaviour. The back of every seat at Stamford Bridge …

Second Niger Bridge, Cost ₦157 Billion - Nigeria's Minister

FG Spends ₦18.397Bn On Petrol Subsidy Daily – Ahmed Zainab

August 18, 2022 5:16 pm

Due to the instabilty in the sale and distribution of petroleum products, the Nigerian House of Representatives’ Ad Hoc Committee which had been installed to investigate the Petroleum Products Subsidy Regime from 2013 to 2022 had  on Thursday, queried the Nigerian Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, over some of the payments of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Zainab Ahmed on her part had also disclosed that the Federal Government of Nigeria spends over ₦283 per litre of PMS or ₦18.397bn per day as subsidy.

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Strike ASUU To Hold Key Meeting With FG On Tuesday

Reason Our Last Meeting With FG Ended In Disagreement – ASUU

August 18, 2022 5:12 pm

While reacting to the massive backlash on them as a result of the bad turn their last meeting with the Federal Government took, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has come out to give a reason why the meeting with the Federal Government of Nigeria had ended in a deadlock.

ASUU had also revealed that it ad rejected the Federal Government’s offer because it is “miserable”.

ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke had also made this disclosure in a statement on Thursday titled, ‘Why ASUU rejects government’s award of salary’.

Read Also: NANS Mulls Nigerian Governments To End Insecurity,

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Insecurity Terrorism Has Taken Over Nigeria, Falana Cries Out

Falana Tackled Over Suit Slammed Against Akwa Ibom CJ

August 18, 2022 5:03 pm

Some of the media Aides to the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel have openly blasted a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, SAN, and some twelve other lawyers for their recent legal action of  dragging the state Chief Judge, Justice Ekaette Obot to court while slamming a suit on him for not releasing the Certified True Copy of court proceedings on July 27.

They had also described Falana’s and Associates’ action as a height of complete embarrassment to their legal profile as court proceedings which are only regulated and provided by Registrar and not the Judge.

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Over 26 Confirmed Dead As Forest Fires Ravages North Algeria

Over 26 Confirmed Dead As Forest Fires Ravages North Algeria

August 18, 2022 6:45 am

No fewer than 26 people have been confirmed dead and a dozen others injured in forest fires that has gone to leave no fewer than 14 districts of northern Algeria devastated. 

Interior Minister, Kamel Beldjoud told state television that 24 people lost their lives in fires in El Tarf, near the border with Tunisia, in addition to two others who died earlier in Setif.

The civil protection agency in Setif had said that two women, “a 58-year-old mother and her 31-year-old daughter”, were killed in the town.

In Souk Ahras, farther to the east near Algeria’s border with Tunisia, people …

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