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The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has concluded that it would on Tuesday meet to announce the date and venue for the national convention of the party.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that this is coming following the meeting of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), the umbrella body of governors elected on the platform of the APC which they held on Sunday.

The APC governors were locked in a meeting at Kebbi Governors Lodge on Sunday in Asokoro, Abuja, and it ended in the early hours of Monday. The meeting was held to …

Professor Pat Utomi, has called on Nigerians living in diaspora to do what they can to ensure that they champion a massive intervention to rescue Nigeria. 

Speaking to a hybrid meeting of Nigerians in Dallas, Texas, in the United States yesterday, the Political Economist, emphasized the need for the Nigerians based abroad to keep their eyes on their mother land.

Professor Utomi explained the clarion call had become imperative, following a look at the apocalyptic image of where Nigeria may be headed under the current political stewardship which has left insecurity, poverty, unemployment, and anger as the main landmarks …

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has set five key criteria for anyone seeking the position of the president from the South-East zone.

Although the group said it had no favourite candidate among the presidential aspirants that had already declared interest, it noted that anyone who wanted to be the president of Nigeria must be a person with high intellect, courage and audacity.

The National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, who stated these in an interview with on Saturday which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, said such qualities were necessary for anybody thinking …

The Governor of Ebonyi State and Presidential hopeful, David Umahi, has called on Nigerians not to be afraid of an Igbo presidency come 2023.

Umahi made this call in Abakaliki, the state capital yeserday during a reception organised for him after declaring his presidential bid in Abuja earlier in the week which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

The governor allayed fears making the rounds suggesting that any southeasterner who emerges president might split the nation.

He argued that Igbos have investment everywhere across the country, saying it would be impossible to think of secession when in …

An opposition Senator was shot dead in western Cameroon where a bloody insurgency is being waged by anglophone separatists against the Cameroonian State, his party and an official has disclosed.

The lawmaker by name, Henry Kemende, whose body was found Wednesday, ‘was killed (overnight) by unidentified armed assailants’, a local communications ministry official confirmed to newsmen on the condition of anonymity.

He had been a lawyer and lawmaker for the Social Democratic Front (SDF), one of Cameroon’s main opposition parties.

The killing happened in Bamenda, a major town in the country’s northwest region which, along with the southwest, has seen …

Nigerians woke up on Thursday and noticed that they were able to access Twitter without using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) after the Federal Government lifted its suspension on the microblogging network on Wednesday evening.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the Federal Government had in June last year suspended Twitter in Nigeria after accusing the platform of enabling the spread of fake news and hate speech that undermined national security.

The Twitter hammer came into effect days after the platform deleted a tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari referencing the Nigerian civil war.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that the national flag be flown at half-mast, effective from today, the 12th to 14th of January, 2022, as a mark of respect for the former Head of State Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, (GCFR) who died on Tuesday, January 11.

This was disclosed in a statement signed by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.

Chief Ernest Shonekan, who headed the Interim National Government that succeeded the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, died on Tuesday at the age of 85.

Aftrica Daily News, New York recalls that he was the interim head …

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has explained why he believes that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governors and other stakeholders should work tirelessly for the party to produce the next Nigerian president in 2023.

He called on all those fanning the embers of discord over the issue of zoning of presidential ticket and dividing governors, to focus their energy on rebuilding and strengthening the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Governor Wike made these statments when he paid a courtesy call on the Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, at the Government House, Yenagoa, on Monday.…

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has revealed that he has informed President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to contest for his seat as the next President of Nigeria in 2023.

He, however, maintained that he has yet to formally inform Nigerians of his intention to succeed the President.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Tinubu made this statement on Monday while briefing State House correspondents after he met with President Buhari at the Aso Villa in Abuja.

According to him, the President is a democrat and therefore, has not asked him to …

Former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has debunked speculations of him defecting from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Kwankwaso stressed that he had no plan to dump the PDP for the APC, maintaining that he is still committed to ensuring his party’s victory in 2023.

Speaking with Channels Television yesterday in an interview which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, the former governor admitted that there are issues regarding him in the PDP.

He recalled how his supporters were unfairly treated during the party’s congress in Kaduna in 2021.

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The UN Security Council has announced that it will meet next Wednesday in an informal session to address the latest developments in Sudan as demonstrations against military rule in the African nation continue.

According to diplomatic sources, the session will be behind closed doors, the sources said Friday, adding that the meeting was requested by six of the council’s 15 members.

A common position of the Security Council ‘is not expected, as China and Russia would oppose it,’ a diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

Africa Daily News, New York undertsnds that Beijing and Moscow in the past have stressed …