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Imo State governor, Sen. Hope Uzodimma has lamented that the inmates that escaped from the Owerri Correctional Center some months ago as a result of jailbreak are presently on the rampage, wreaking havoc on the state.

To this end, Governor Uzodimma has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to come to the aid of the state by providing funds to him to tackle the security challenges.

The governor made this appeal after meeting President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday.

He told State House correspondents that his mission at the nation’s seat of power was to ask the president …

Belarus has retaliated against the international community’s latest round of sanctions by imposing its own entry bans and import restrictions, announced by the Foreign Ministry in Minsk yesterday.

Belarus will ban ‘the import of a number of goods originating from the states applying the illegitimate anti-Belarusian sanctions,’ the ministry said.

The European country also plans to impose restrictions on EU and British airlines, in a tit-for-tat response to the sanctioning of Belarusian state carrier, Belavia, for its role in the migrant stand-off at the European Union’s eastern flank.

The names of the companies and individuals affected by the sanctions were …

The police in Sudan on Monday fired tear gas as thousands of protesters rallied against the military-dominated government near the presidential palace in Khartoum, witnesses told reporters.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that an official and medics said close to 50 people had been killed in a outburst of tribal violence.

The Khartoum demonstrators marched from various districts of the capital, many carrying national flags or chanting, ‘No to military rule‘ and, ‘The army might betray you, but the street will never betray you.’

Protesters, in the latest of many rallies in recent weeks, set up road …

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Nigerian Army to do more in intelligence gathering and synergy with other security agencies in order to stem terrorism and other forms of insecurity confronting Africa’s most populous country.

According to him, the war against terrorism is intelligence-driven, saying that the army needed to gather information and process them into actionable intelligence for the conduct of their operations.

Buhari made these comments at the Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference in Abuja on Monday.

The president who was represented by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, however, urged the Nigerian Army …

Former Minister of Aviation and a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has berated the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) for imposing travel restrictions on Nigerians as a result of COVID-19 and its associated variants.

Fani-Kayode, in a post on his Instagram page, said to say that the travel ban imposed on Nigerians by the UK is ‘travel apartheid’ is putting it mildly.

According to Fani-Kayode, ‘It is far worse than that: it is racist, discriminatory, wicked, unacceptable, self-serving, vile, sinister, selective, vicious, provocative and unacceptable.’

Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Culture and Tourism, …

A coalition of northern groups under the aegis of Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria has declared total support of the calls to zone the 2023 presidency ticket to the South-East in the interest of equity, fairness and justice.

According to the Northern group, zoning the presidency to the South-East will automatically quell the agitations for secession by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other secessionist groups and also promote national unity and cohesion.

Addressing a news conference in Kaduna on Monday, the spokesman of the group, Abdulsalam Kazeem, urged all political parties to consider zoning their presidential …

Former President of the Nigerian Senate and a one-time Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, over the weekend paid a visit to two former Nigerian leaders and patriots.

Taking to his Facebook page on Sunday, Anyim wrote: ‘I met with former President Ibrahim Babangida and former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar. I consulted with them on my intention to contest for the presidency of our beloved country. Both leaders are rich in vision and deep in the grasp of our history. They were generous with their wise counsels.

‘I am further emboldened …

A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos under the umbrella of the Lagos4Lagos on Saturday formally defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Africa Daily News, New York reports that they were received into the opposition party by former Senate President Bukola Saraki at a ceremony held in Lagos.

The Lagos4Lagos movement under the leadership of Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has been having a running battle with the APC leadership in the state.

The group conducted parallel congresses during the ward, local government, and state congresses of the APC recently.

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Gambians would today (Saturday) head to the polls in the first presidential election in the tiny West African nation since former dictator Yahya Jammeh fled into exile.

Africa Daily News, New York can confirm that the elections will be closely watched as a test of the democratic transition in the country, where Jammeh held sway for 22 years after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1994.

The former dictator was forced into exile in Equatorial Guinea in January 2017 after Adama Barrow, then a relatively unknown defeated him at the ballot box.

President Barrow, 56, is now running for …

The Governor of Sud Kivu province in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been dismissed by the State assembly.

Theo Ngwabidje was voted out in a motion of no confidence with several accusations made including poor governance.

The assembly session was held amid a clash between the police and members of the public who were outside the assembly building in the provincial capital Bukavu.

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The session was attended by 33 representatives, 28 of whom voted for the governor’s dismissal.

Mr Ngwabidje has been asked to submit his resignation to …

The military leader of Sudan, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has called on the United Nations to show support to the transitional government in place in the country.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Gen Burhan on Thursday met the UN special representative to the country, Volker Perthes, who said on Twitter that despite welcoming the deal for a return to constitutional order, ‘other critical steps need to follow’, without elaborating.

Gen Burhan has said he will co-operate with reinstated civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and support the transitional government he forms until elections are held.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reacted to a letter written to it by President Muhammadu Buhari, over the contentious Electoral Act Amendment Bill which was recently passed by the National Assembly.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that Buhari, who received the bill on November 19, has until December 19 to sign it or withhold his assent and communicate to the National Assembly his views and comments about it.

However, while reacting to the President’s letter on Wednesday, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said its position constitutionally, legally and …