Politics

President Muhammadu Buhari said the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership has steadily showed that the party is the most organised, well-structured and fully motivated platform for bringing development to the country.

Buhari said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja while felicitating Gov. Mai Mala Buni, Chairman, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) on his 54th birthday.

The statement was issued by Alhaji Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Buhari.

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The president commended the Buni-led APC CECPC for providing exceptional and …

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has explained to his Rivers’ counterpart, Nyesom Wike, why he is against the zoning of the presidency in 2023.

Fintiri spoke when he received Wike who was on a courtesy visit to his office at the Government House, Yola, the capital of Adamawa State on Friday.

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The visit came on the heels of the recent Peoples Democratic Party, PDP National Convention superintended by the Adamawa State Governor as the chairman.

Fintiri who hailed the success of the National Convention acknowledged the role …

Ex-agitators under the Phase III of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) in Delta State have called on the Federal Government to return their guns and other weapons, which they surrendered to the Federal Government in 2011.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the ex-militants are making the demand as a result of the alleged failure of the FG to fulfil its own part of the bargain for the monthly payment of N65, 000.00 stipends to each member of the group.

Coordinator of the Phase III Ex-Agitators in Delta State, Marshal Atake, alleged that the Amnesty Office was excluding them, …

The Nigerian National Assembly has finally transmitted the amended Electoral Bill 2021 to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent.

The Senior Special Adviser to the President on the National Assembly Senator, Babajide Omoworare, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.

He said this is in pursuance of Section 58 (3) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended and the Acts Authentication Act 2004.

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The National Assembly had last week completed work on the amendment of the Electoral Act bill which grants the Independent …

Two years after deadly protests that paved the way for Chile to finally shed its dictatorship-era constitution, elections take place Sunday for a new president to take over in a fast-changing political landscape.

Just months after a poll to select a constitution-drafting body saw voters massively reject traditional political parties in charge since democracy dawned 31 years ago, there are now seven candidates to replace the unpopular President Sebastian Pinera.

The contenders cover the entire political spectrum from left to right, with centrists proving the least popular in opinion polls that also revealed half of the 15 million eligible voters …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said releasing Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally will negate the principles of separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary.

The President, has, however, promised to consider the request of some Southeast elders who were at the statehouse earlier on Friday to discuss the security situation in the region.

Buhari had made the promise when he received a group under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, at State House, Abuja.

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Chief Mbazulike Amaechi had pleaded …

The United States has warned pilots that planes flying in or out of Ethiopia’s main international airport could be ‘directly or indirectly exposed to ground weapons fire and/or surface-to-air fire’ if the country’s spiralling conflict nears the capital, Addis Ababa.

A Federal Aviation Administration advisory cited the ‘ongoing clashes’ between Ethiopian forces and fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), as the reason for the warning to pilots operating from the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the warning was issued on Thursday, a day after the US urged its citizens to leave …

The Senator representing Borno South in the Senate, Ali Ndume on Thursday described the recent attack on Taraba State by some Ambazonia forces as ‘more of communal or tribal conflict’ and not an affront to Nigeria’s territorial integrity as insinuated in some quarters.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that some suspected Ambazonian soldiers had earlier in the week stormed Manga village in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing 11 persons including a traditional ruler.

While the development had raised concerns over Nigeria’s territorial integrity, Ndume has now come in defence of Nigeria, maintaining that Wednesday’s …

Lai Mohammed has hailed the United States for removing Nigeria from its list of countries that violate religious freedom.

A statement issued by Anthony Blinken, United States Secretary of State on Wednesday, had announced the removal of Nigeria from the list of countries that limit religious freedoms around the world.

However, Lai Mohammed in a statement issued in Paris on Thursday described the announcement as fair and just.

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The Minister of Information reiterated Nigeria’s earlier stand when it was put on the list in December 2020, that it does …

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari on Monday stated that he will await the steps taken by various States, before taking action on the report of the Lagos judicial panel of inquiry on police brutality.

Buhari, who made this known during a meeting with Mr. Antony Blinken, United States Secretary of State, stated that quite a number of State governments are involved and have given different terms of reference to the probe panels.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the Lagos State Panel of Investigation in its recently leaked report about the Lekki Toll Gate incident revealed that police and …

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has arrived Abuja, the capital of Nigeria in continuation of his tour of three African countries.

Blinken arrived at the presidential complex in a motorcade on Thursday and is expected to have a meeting with Buhari in his office.

The Nigerian leader and US top diplomat are also expected to discuss security issues facing Nigeria especially terrorism in the northern region.

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Blinken will, after the meeting, head to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s office to sign some agreements between the US and Nigeria and …

The Senate has queried the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for spending N6 billion out of its N9 billion revenue on salaries and other emoluments.

Sen. Ibikunle Amosun (APC-Ogun), the Chairman of, Senate Committee on Capital Market, gave the query when the commission’s Director-General Yuguda Lamido appeared before the committee for 2022 budget defence on Wednesday in Abuja.

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Amosun said that it was out of place for SEC to have expended close to 70 per cent of its revenue on salaries and emoluments.

‘Your emolument was almost ₦6 billion