Politics

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ‘direct the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to immediately reverse the apparently unjustified suspension of internet and telecommunication networks in Zamfara State and 13 local government areas of Katsina State’.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that the NCC had recently ordered telecom operators to suspend all telecommunications networks in Zamfara State, in at least 13 local government areas of Katsina State to check banditry and terrorism.

However, SERAP in an open letter dated 11 …

Zamfara bandits who are facing heavy fire from the Nigerian military from the air and land are now suing for peace.

Africa Daily News, New York can confirm that the terrorists want to dialogue with the government and have made overtures in this regard.

Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara made this disclosure on Saturday, but he dismissed the moves claiming it was now too late.

He said that the state government is no longer interested in dialoguing with bandits as they rejected the olive branch stretched to them earlier.

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A High Court in Port Harcourt has declared that the suspension of the embattled National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, still subsists while also granting a perpetual injunction restraining Secondus from parading himself as the national chairman of the opposition PDP.

Justice O. Gbasam who presided over the matter upheld Secondus’ suspension Friday, in Suit No: PHC/2183/CS/2021 between Ibeawuchi Ernest Alex, Dennis Nna Amadi, Emmanuel Stephen Umezirike Onucha (as claimants) and Prince Uche Secondus and People’s Democratic Party (defendants).

Earlier, counsel for the first defendant (Secondus), Godfrey Uwalaka, had attempted to stop the court’s judgement slated …

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has blocked the governments of Rivers and Lagos from collecting Value Added Taxes (VAT).

Africa Daily News, New York reports that in a ruling on Friday, Justice Haruna Simon Tsanami, also ordered that the law passed by Rivers State House of Assembly and assented to by Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike be put on hold.

The judge gave the order hours before Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu signed the law on VAT.

Sanwo-Olu signed the law moments after he arrived the state from Abuja.

The appellate court’s decision followed an application by the Federal Inland Revenue Service …

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to striking health workers in the country to return to their duty posts.

The President also called on others unions or groups contemplating strike action to opt for settlement of issues by negotiation, no matter how long it takes.

Buhari made the appeal when he hosted members of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) at the State House, Abuja, on Friday.

According to him, the lives of citizens that can be lost or damaged when doctors withdraw services, are precious enough to be worth opting for peaceful resolution of differences.

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The United Nations (UN) has warned that ‘the collective future of Nigeria is under threat’ owing to the rising insecurity and spate of attacks by bandits on schools in recent times.

The warning is coming on the heels of recent coordinated killings and kidnappings of schoolchildren across Kaduna, Kebbi, Katsina, Niger, and Zamfara states, which was lead to the forced closure of schools in these states.

The organisation lamented that in the last academic year, an estimated 1.3 million children were impacted by attacks or abductions in schools in Nigeria. It urged    President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to tackle the security …

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has told South-East elders how he would want to be remembered.

Buhari stated that he would want to be remembered as the President who stabilised Nigeria in the area of security, economic prosperity, and triumph over corruption.

The president made these comments when he spoke in Owerri at a town hall meeting with South East leaders during his one-day official visit to Imo State, said with less than two years left in his eight-year tenure as President, security still remains a major priority for his administration.

According to a statement by Special Adviser to the President …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has identified impunity as one of the biggest factors responsible for the spate of insecurity confronting the country.

Speaking at an interactive session which was held between the state government and corporate organisations in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the Governor insisted that; ‘Part of the crises in this country today is because of impunity’.

‘We are talking about insecurity in this country today; what are those factors that have led to insecurity? One of such factors, as far as I am concerned, is impunity. Everybody wants to do whatever he wants to do regardless …

The Putschists who seized power in Guinea on Sunday have pledged to release ‘political detainees’ held under ex-president Alpha Conde and repeated a vow to hold talks on forming a new government.

Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that special forces led by Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya seized power in the impoverished West African state on Sunday and arrested the president, sparking international condemnation.

The shock move came amid increasing criticism of the 83-year-old for perceived authoritarianism, with dozens of opposition activists arrested after a violently disputed election last year.

In an announcement on Monday evening, the military …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has appealed to the United Nations and other world bodies to mount pressure on the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari to conduct free and fair elections in 2023.

Wike called on the United Nations agencies, in particular, to continue to advocate for a free, fair, and transparent electoral process in Nigeria.

Wike made this appeal during a Working visit by the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Edward Kallon, at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

Wike who spoke through his Deputy, Ipalibo Harry-Banigo, said Rivers State believes that strengthening democratic Institutions was …

No fewer than 30 people were murdered following an attack in the restive northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local and UN sources have disclosed.

It was gathered that the jihadists of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are suspected to have carried out the attack in the Ituri area on Saturday, they said.

Dieudonne Malangayi, acting chairman of the chiefdom of Walese Vonkutu, initially said 14 people died in the attack but told reporters on Monday that more bodies had since been discovered.

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‘The civilians who …