Politics

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, chair of the West African bloc ECOWAS, has told Mali’s ruling junta that elections announced for February must ahead on schedule, his delegation said Sunday.

Akufo-Addo delivered the message to the country’s strongman, Colonel Assimi Goita, during talks in Bamako.

Goita is behind both Mali’s recent coups, having installed a civilian-led interim government under international pressure after the first one only to remove it in May, later declaring himself interim president.

But a senior member of the ECOWAS delegation told AFP: “Our message was unambiguous and we said it clearly: the elections have to be held …

Ahead of the national congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), female members of the party have insisted on having the Deputy Chairman (North) position.

The women made the call during a meeting at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Sunday.

Their demand comes days after the National Executive Committee of the party approved the recommendation of its committee to zone the position of national chairman to the North.

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Based on the decision, all positions in the party currently occupied by people from the South will go to the …

Igbo monarchs have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to de-proscribe the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organisation, as well as release Nnamdi Kanu from detention.

The call comes a day before the resumed trial of Kanu in Abuja for an amended seven-count charge of treasonable felony.

The monarchs made their stand known under the auspices of the South East Traditional Rulers council.

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The body issued a statement Tuesday night, signed by five state chairmen of traditional rulers.

Eze Joseph Nwabeke, signed for Abia; Obi Nnaemeka Achebe, …

A political economist and former presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi, has described the #EndSARS protests as an ‘event marking the arrival of citizenship’ in Nigeria.

The technocrat added that Nigeria has never had a democracy despite the pretenses.

Utomi made this assertion when he spoke on Tuesday during the commemorative lecture and public presentation of a book edited by Chido Onumah titled, ‘Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices,’ in Alausa, Ikeja.

The event themed, ‘One Year After #EndSARS, 35 Years after Dele Giwa and the Quest to Remake Nigeria,’ was held to reflect on the assassination …

The Ebonyi State government has boasted that the latest rating by BudgIT has confirmed that Governor David Umahi administration is prudent in its management of the State’s finances.

Africa Today News, New York reports that going by the recently released ratings by BudgIT, Rivers State had topped 35 other states in fiscal performance ranking, followed closely by Ebonyi and Anambra states.

In the ratings of 2020 and 2019, Ebonyi had come 6th and 13th respectively.

Reacting to the development, Ebonyi State Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Business Development, Dr. Stephen Odo, said in the first place, the ranking is a …

US President Joe Biden’s administration, in the latest move in the battle over reproductive rights, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a Texas law that bans most abortions in the state.

The Texas law is “clearly unconstitutional” and violates the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which enshrined a woman’s legal right to an abortion, the Justice Department said.

Allowing the Texas law to remain in force would “perpetuate the ongoing irreparable injury to the thousands of Texas women who are being denied their constitutional rights,” the department said in its request to the nation’s …

President Muhammadu Buhari hosts President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to a two-day official visit to Nigeria starting today, Tuesday October 19th.

Accompanied by his wife Emine, President Erdogan is expected to come in from Angola, and depart to Togo at the end of his visit.

In the course of the visit, the leaders of the two countries are expected to consider about two dozen Bilateral Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding, MOUs.

They will authorise the signing of agreements on which there is a concurrence.

In addition to the bilateral discussions, President Erdogan will hold one-on-one meeting with President Buhari.…

Premier League clubs have voted to temporarily block teams from striking lucrative deals with businesses that have links to their club’s owners after the Saudi Arabia-backed takeover of Newcastle.

Africa Daily News, New York can report 18 clubs voted in favour of the ban at an emergency meeting on Monday, with Newcastle voting against and Manchester City abstaining. It is understood that both questioned the legality of the move.

A temporary month-long ban on such deals will be put in place while the possibility of a permanent ban is debated.

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Senator Rochas Okorocha has described the State Congress of the Imo chapter of All Progressives Congress APC conducted in Owerri, the state capital on Saturday as a birthday party for the governor, Hope Uzodinma.

Okorocha, Uzodinma’s predecessor said this while reacting to the Congress through his media aide, Sam Onwuemeodo.

The former Governor said already there was a substantive Appeal Court judgment bordering on the executives of the Imo APC and also an appeal pending in the Supreme Court over the issue.

He insisted that the substantive Appeal Court judgment on the executives of the Imo APC was not in …

Governor Seyi Makinde has felicitated with Muslims on the occasion of this year’s Eid-ul-Maulud, advising that the virtues of kindness, humility, and peaceful co-existence exemplified by the Holy Prophet Muhammed (Peace Be Upon Him) be emulated.

The governor urged Muslims to reflect on the life of selflessness and piety, which the Holy Prophet lived.

‘Peaceful co-existence is part of Islamic ethics taught by the life of Prophet Muhammed.’

‘As a leader in Medinah, he did not only live peacefully with others but was just to them irrespective of different tribal and religious affiliations.’

‘One of the teachings of Prophet Muhammed

The United States Government has revealed that she is not only fighting terrorism within her territory but also extending a helping hand to Nigeria in a new move to address global terrorism.

As part of measures to tackle the menace, the US Deputy National Security Advisor, Jon Finer, met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, on Monday in Abuja where modalities for collaboration between both countries were discussed.

Although there are plans for other areas of collaboration, tackling terrorism is a common priority for both countries.

According to the US official, the Joe Biden administration underscores the …

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal has appealed to the Federal Government to deploy additional troops to the state, in a bid to stem the rising insecurity currently being experienced.

Tambuwal made the appeal on Monday when the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya paid a courtesy visit to the state.

The governor lamented that as a result of the ongoing military operations in Zamfara State, criminals have been migrating to Sokoto, rendering the state insecure.

He urged the military to carry out a simultaneous operation in all states facing the challenges of banditry and other related security issues …