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Chief Edwin Clark, the leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), said the Southeast must produce the next president of Nigeria.

He said this when a presidential aspirant, Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, visited him on Friday.

During the visit, Chief Clark reaffirmed his passionate “belief that the presidency of Nigeria in 2023 must go to the Southern part of Nigeria and indeed to South-East zone”.

He encouraged Anyim to work hard with other leaders across the country to build consensus for equity and unity in Nigeria.

Clark said: “I encourage you and others to continue the task of persuading and

The Ijaw National Congress (INC) has attacked former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the latter’s comments on resource control, accusing him of bullying the National Secretary of the group, Ebipamowei Wodu.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that a viral video had surfaced recently, where Obasanjo was shown launching emotional outburst against Wodu during the latter’s presentation of the Ijaw position at a forum organised by the Global Peace Foundation in collaboration with Vision Africa at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja.

Obasanjo was quoted as saying: ‘As long as Nigeria is together, whatever that is under the ground is given to all …

The Zamfara State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has revealed that its operatives have recovered ₦2.5 million from a spot where an auto accident occurred in Kwartarkashi – Gusau road in Zamfara State.

Addressing newsmen in Gusau, the State capital, the commandant of the Corps, Mr A. A Sparks said the operatives of the command demonstrated a high sense of patriotism by returning the money to the owner.

“They recovered two million and five hundred thousand Naira from an accident scene and returned the money to the owner without thinking of converting it to themselves,” he added.

An appeal court in Morocco’s capital city of Casablanca on Thursday approved the deportation of a Muslim Uyghur activist to China despite strong fears that he would be tortured in the Asian country over his beliefs.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Amnesty International has warned that 33-year-old computer engineer Idris Hasan is at ‘grave risk of facing torture’ in China.

The 33-year-old computer engineer was arrested sometime in July this year at his arrival at Mohammed V international airport in Casablanca from Turkey, where he lives and works.

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Rwanda on Thursday detected its first six cases of the fast-spreading Covid-19 Omicron variant, prompting the government to escalate pandemic measures, including shutting down nightclubs and extending quarantines for international travellers.

Africa Dai;y News, New York gathered that visitors will now be required to quarantine for three days instead of the current 24 hours, the government announced, after recording six cases of the Omicron variant in travellers and their contacts.

‘A Covid-19 PCR test will be taken upon arrival and an additional test, taken on day three and on day seven at own cost, from the arrival date,’ the …

The Nigerian Senate, on Thursday, approved $5,803,364,553.50 and a grant component of $10 million under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) plan for the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

The approval followed the consideration of a report by the Committee on Local and Foreign Debts.

Chairman of the Committee, Clifford Ordia, in his presentation, said the $2,300,000,000 would be sourced from the World Bank, $2,300,000,000 from the German Consortium, $90,000,000 from the Islamic Development, 786,382,967 from the China Exim Bank, $276,981,586.50 from the Bank of China, and $50,000,000 from the International Fund for Agricultural Development. 

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has uncovered an additional $72, 870,000 million linked to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

The sum was said to have been discovered in an account domiciled in Fidelity Bank Plc.

Consequently, a former Managing Director of the bank, Nnamdi Okonkwo, has been arrested.

Okonkwo, who is currently the Chairman of First Bank Holding, alongside others, had earlier been grilled over a sum of $153million and $115million by the Commission.

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While all the $153 million was recovered by the EFCC, …

Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday warned EU lawmakers that the bloc’s drive to deliver Covid-19 booster jabs could hamper vaccination in Africa, as he slammed travel bans over the Omicron variant.

Speaking in a speech at the European Parliament on Tuesday, Akufo-Addo said; ‘The unsavoury politics of vaccine nationalism we’re witnessing could… potentially derail global efforts made (to contain) the pandemic to date’.

‘We, like the World Health Organization, are worried that the phenomenon of hoarding vaccines will worsen even further, as countries begin to administer booster shots.’

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China has reported its first case of the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant, state media disclosed on Monday.

Authorities in the northern city of Tianjin confirmed the case in an individual who entered the country from an undisclosed overseas location, according to the Tianjin Daily newspaper.

The asymptomatic patient tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday before further tests ‘confirmed the detection of the… Omicron variant’, the report said, adding that the person was being treated in isolation at hospital.

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The world’s most populous nation is on high alert for …