Politics

Japan will on Friday impose sanctions on Russia targeting semiconductor exports and financial institutions, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has confirmed after G7 leaders agreed to punish Moscow economically for invading Ukraine.

The announcement came following the decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin to unleash a full-scale ground invasion and air assault on Thursday.

Kishida said the world’s third-largest economy planned ‘asset freezes and the suspension of visa issuance for Russian individuals and organisations’ as well as asset freezes ‘targeting Russian financial institutions’.

‘Thirdly, we will sanction exports to Russian military-related organisations, and exports to Russia of general-purpose goods such as …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday disclosed that Moscow was fully ready to look for ‘diplomatic solutions’ amid raging tensions with the West over Ukraine but stressed that the country’s interests were non-negotiable.

Speaking on Wednesday, President Putin in a video address to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day, a public holiday in Russia.

But he added: ‘The interests of Russia, the security of our citizens, are non-negotiable for us.’

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Putin spoke after parliament’s upper house, the Federation Council, on Tuesday gave him unanimous approval to …

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, asserted that Nigerians would have been trekking the Lagos-Ibadan rail was not completed.

Buhari made this assertion when he spoke at a meeting with a delegation from Kaduna led by Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, and Deputy Governor, Hadiza Balaraba.

The President said despite dwindling resources, his resolve was to deal with infrastructure deficit.

Buhari stressed that no country can advance without road, rail and power.

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‘Nigerians are competitive by nature, and they will face their businesses when there’s road, rail …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has finally fixed its national convention on March 26, a month away from the February 26 it initially proposed for the convention.

This decision was contained in a leaked letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), referenced APC/NHDQ/INEC/019/22/21, which the ruling party said superseded its earlier national convention notice.

The latest notice also replaced an earlier letter to INEC informing it of APC’s decision to hold its zonal congresses on March 26.

But the party was silent on the zoning of offices, a major concern for stakeholders, which was believed to have contributed to …

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has endorsed the presidential ambition of Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) declaring that the entire Northern Nigeria was behind Tinubu’s 2023 presidential ambition.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Ganduje has been a long standing ally of the former Governor of Lagos State. He is believed to be one of his staunch supporters in Northern Nigerian.

He said the time was ripe for the North to pay back Tinubu for supporting President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Governor spoke on Monday at the inauguration of an office for Northern Youth …

The United States on Monday announced financial sanctions against rebel territories in eastern Ukraine who were freshly recognised by Russia and warned that more were ready if necessary.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order to ‘prohibit new investment, trade, and financing by US persons to, from, or in the so-called DNR and LNR regions of Ukraine,’ White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said, referring to the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.

The order will ‘provide authority to impose sanctions on any person determined to operate in those areas …

A Justice the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday struck out a suit challenging the Nigerian citizenship of presidential aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democcratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Justice Ekwo who struck out the suit which brought by the Incorporated Trustees of Egalitarian Mission for Africa dismissed it for lack of merit.

He struck out the case on the grounds that the plaintiff being a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has no legal right to commence such proceedings against Atiku.

According to the court, the NGO having been registered under Company and Allied …

Thousands of Sudanese protesters on Monday staged a heavy marched against the October military coup which has led to scores of arrests, as authorities released some of those held, witnesses and lawyers have disclosed.

Regular protests calling for civilian rule have occurred throughout the impoverished northeast African country despite a deadly crackdown since the power grab led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

The coup, Sudan’s latest, sparked wide international condemnation and cuts in aid.

No fewer 82 people have been killed, many of them shot dead, and hundreds wounded by security forces, according to medics. The latest fatality came …