Politics

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Sunday, posited that the country’s leadership has gone on vacation at a time when the citizens are suffering from the consequences of insecurity.

The PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, made this assertion while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja.

According to him, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had made life ‘unbearable’ for Nigerians, stating that: ‘Government is a continuum.

‘If a government is incapable, why seek election? If you don’t want the heat, don’t go near the fire.

‘This business is about seriousness. The APC and the group …

The United States on Friday disclosed a series of new rights-abuse sanctions on senior officials and entities in eight countries, with targets ranging from a Chinese firm specialising in facial recognition technology to a giant cartoon studio in North Korea.

Timed for International Human Rights Day and supported in part by Britain and Canada, the sanctions took aim at officials accused of abetting the crackdown on anti-coup protestors in Myanmar, the oppression of Muslim Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region and political violence in Bangladesh under the guise of a war on drugs.

‘Our actions today, particularly those in partnership …

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), on Friday declared that it was abominable for the Igbo to kneel to people in order to mount the saddle of power.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the recent call by two prominent Igbo leaders – Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, former Secretary of the Government of the Federation, and Chukwuemeka Ezeife, elder statesman, and former governor of Anambra State on the North to cede the post of the President to a Nigerian of Igbo extraction, is already generating a lot of reactions amongst some Igbo socio-political …

Somalia on Thursday formed a steering committee of commanders from various security agencies to discuss the imminent takeover of national security from the African Union mission (Amisom).

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that Amisom was created in 2007 to help the internationally recognised government in Mogadishu regain control of the country and fight al-Shabab. Countries contributing troops to the mission include Kenya, Uganda, Burundi as well as Ethiopia.

The AU mission’s mandate is set to formally end by 31 December, but the UN Security Council might grant it a temporary extension.

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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, on Thursday held a session with the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations and Communications over the issue of indirect primaries.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the House had last week resolved that committees should meet with the INEC Chairman over the indirect primaries.

The resolution was made last week after a motion by Leke Abejide from Kogi State.

The Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Muktar Batera, while briefing journalists, said lawmakers discussed the cost of direct primaries.

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has challenged anti-graft agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to do well to investigate his administration’s spending of State revenue.

Governor Wike threw up the challenge while speaking on Thursday at the commissioning of the Rumuola Flyover in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the State.

He boasted that the resources of Rivers State have been judiciously utilised which are evident in the numerous projects carried out by his administration in the last 6 years despite the difficulties.

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The Commissioner for Science and Technology in  Katsina State, Dr. Rabe Nasir, was reportedly killed on Wednesday night by unknown persons suspected to be bandits.

Details of the murder were still sketchy as at the time of this report on Thursday but reliable sources revealed that the body of the late Commissioner was discovered in his house late on Thursday morning.

According to one of the sources, ‘the Commissioner lived alone in his residence apart from the security guard and for now, we don’t really know what happened to the security man.

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Malawi police have announced the arrest of a former finance minister and an ex-central bank chief for forging figures in a bid to impress the IMF.

Joseph Mwanamveka, 57, and Reserve Bank of Malawi former governor, Dalitso Kabambe, 48, are accused of having cooked up numbers to secure a loan from the Washington-based development and crisis lender.

The two “masterminded the falsification of gross liability and net reserve base returns with intent to make International Monetary Fund believe that the government of Malawi was meeting conditions connected to the extended credit facility,” a police statement said.

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A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has claimed that some corrupt judges are usually made part of election petition tribunals in order to corruptly enrich themselves by selling judgments to the highest bidders.

Jega disclosed that some of these corrupt judges sold judgments to the highest bidders and quickly retired to avoid being sanctioned by the National Judicial Council.

The former INEC boss, who is also a former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano said this in a lecture he delivered at the Owolabi Afuye Memorial Lecture organised by the Nigerian Bar Association, Ibadan …