September 27, 2022

Far-Right Trump Supporters Arraigned For Jan 6 ‘Sedition’

Far-Right Trump Supporters Arraigned For Jan 6 ‘Sedition’

September 27, 2022 8:19 pm

Trouble brews for some of the controversial Trump supporters as the leader and some other four members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia who had joined the January 6th, 2021 controversial attack on the United States Capitol would be going on trial Tuesday for the rare charge of sedition.

Stewart Rhodes who had been identified as the eyepatch-wearing former soldier and Yale Law School graduate who had also plotted a military-style assault on the Capitol, and some of his other followers had been charged with taking up weapons against the United States in an effort to keep Donald Trump in …

Zuma, South African Ex-President Reveals Political Comeback

Zuma, South African Ex-President Reveals Political Comeback

September 27, 2022 8:19 pm

Jacob Zuma who is South Africa’s controversial former president who is also facing some corruption charges for which he has served a short stint in jail, has revealed that he is actually ready for a political comeback with the ruling party.

In a statement which he had put out recently, Zuma who is now 80 years old had also revealed that he has been asked by some of the members of the African National Congress (ANC), which has ruled South Africa since the end of apartheid, to put himself forward as the party finally gears up to elect a new …

Gov Wike Finally Retrieves Rivers Aircraft Abandoned In Germany

Gov Wike Finally Retrieves Rivers Aircraft Abandoned In Germany

September 27, 2022 7:15 pm

Recent reports reaching the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has revealed that the Legacy 600, which is a Rivers-state owned aircraft which had been allegedly abandoned in Germany under some unclear circumstance by the preceding administration has finally been recovered and flown back to Rivers State.

Governor Nyesom Wike who had made the receipt of the aircraft which had flown into the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, Ikwerre Local Government Area, Tuesday had revealed that his administration had not been playing petty politics in the recovery of the aircraft.

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Federal Court Nullifies All Ogun State PDP Primary Elections

Federal Court Nullifies All Ogun State PDP Primary Elections

September 27, 2022 7:11 pm

Tragedy has struck for  the Ogun State PDP Chapter as a Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, which is the Ogun state capital has on Tuesday nullified all the primary elections which had been conducted by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in choosing some of their candidates for the 2023 general elections in the State.

The presiding judge who had given the sentence, Justice O. O Oguntoyinbo  had in his judgement ordered the party to conduct another primaries within the next 14 days.

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The court had also barred the …

Devils Work: Paul Okoye Says what caused Brawl With Brother

Devils Work: Paul Okoye Says what caused Brawl With Brother

September 27, 2022 11:56 am

Paul Okoye, a famous musician from Nigeria, known with the name Psquare that he and his brother share, has given an explanation for why he had a falling out with his twin brother Peter and ended up severing all relations with him for six years.

Paul claimed that the devil was to blame for their six-year separation in an interview that was captured on camera and shared on Monday.

But he went on to say that they were reunited for good and that they had humiliated the “devil” for having broken them up.

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Campaign Council Presidency Reacts To Keyamo’s Alleged Sack

Campaign Council: Presidency Reacts To Keyamo’s Alleged Sack

September 27, 2022 6:35 am

The presidency has reacted to an online report alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari had called for the removal of Festus Keyamo from the campaign council of the All Progressive Congress presidential flagbearer, Ahmed Bola Tinubu.

The report was debunked by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu who said that the news that President Muhammadu Buhari has called for the removal of Festus Keyamo, SAN as a spokesperson of the APC Presidential Campaign Council is fake news.

Shehu pointed out in a terse statement that both President Buhari and the Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola …

Insecurity Akeredolu Vows To Arm Amotekun, Legalise Them

Insecurity: Akeredolu Vows To Arm Amotekun, Legalise Them

September 27, 2022 6:16 am

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu yesterday asserted that state security outfits in the country when backed by law must have access to sophisticated weapons to combat insecurity.

Akeredolu said this during the Passing-Out Parade of Courses 3 and 4 of the State Amotekun Corps in Akure.

His words: “State Security outfits backed by law whether in Western Nigeria, Katsina, Borno, Benue or any Northern state must have access to the same sophisticated weapons that the marauders have. Anything else is a contradiction in terms.

“It is evident that the current internal security framework in the country is ineffectual. The …

2023 Stop Dividing Nigerians With Religion, Ganduje Warns

2023: Stop Dividing Nigerians With Religion, Ganduje Warns

September 27, 2022 6:07 am

Ahead of next year’s general elections, the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has sent a warning to politicians to desist from using religion to further widen the nation’s diversity.

He made this known while speaking on Monday during the inauguration of a committee established to organise an inter-religious conference in the state.

‘Politicians should not be making utterances that create division between the two religions that would make the differences between our tribes and ethnic nationalities become wider and wider and intolerable.’

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Allow Us Buy Nnamdi Kanu’s Medications, IPOB Lawyer Tells DSS

Allow Us Buy Nnamdi Kanu’s Medications, IPOB Lawyer Tells DSS

September 27, 2022 5:53 am

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the legal representative of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has appealed to the Department of State Services (DSS) to allow family members to provide funds to be used for the medical treatment of his client. 

Ejiofor, the lawyer of the pro-Biafran group made the call on Monday, after returning from a court-ordered routine visit to the DSS headquarters in Abuja, where Kanu is being held under solitary confinement for over 14 months.

According to the IPOB lawyer, Kanu’s health condition of recent has been worsening in recent times.

Ejiofor said …

North Korea Fires Warning As US, South Korea Commence Drills

North Korea Fires Warning As US, South Korea Commence Drills

September 27, 2022 5:45 am

The United States and South Korea on Monday commenced their first combined naval exercise near the peninsula in five years, which has led to a warning by North Korea that the allies risked triggering war.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that South Korea’s warlike President Yoon Suk-yeol, who took office in May, has vowed to beef up joint military drills with the United States, after years of failed diplomacy with North Korea under his predecessor.

‘This exercise was prepared to demonstrate the strong will of the South Korea-US alliance to respond to North Korean provocations,’ the South’s navy said …

Tunisian Mayor Detained After Fruit Seller Committed Suicide

Tunisian Mayor Detained After Fruit Seller Committed Suicide

September 27, 2022 5:36 am

Tunisian police yesterday detained the mayor of a town where it was reported that a fruit seller committed suicide after his scales were seized by council officials, sparking protests, a judicial spokesman has confirmed.

Mohamed Amine Dridi aged 25, had hanged himself on Saturday two days after the electronic scales he used on his fruit and vegetable stall were taken, Tunisian media reported.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that on Monday night, protesters in his hometown of Mornag, south of the capital Tunis, took to the streets criticising high rates of unemployment and soaring costs of living.

They torched …

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