Politics

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari, over his stance on open grazing claiming that he is suffering from ‘mental delusion.’

Soyinka was reacting to Buhari’s review of Open Grazing routes in some states of the country.

While lampooning Buhari for ordering a review of the grazing routes despite public outcry, Soyinka said the President may be suffering from noise deafening.

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Addressing a press conference in Lagos, Soyinka said: ‘It’s like there’s some delusion about this thing, a kind of mental delusion about this thing. What …

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has reiterated that Nigeria would continue to exist despite secession moves by various agitators.

According to Obasanjo, Nigeria would continue to exist because the cost of break up will be devastating on all parties.

The former president made the declaration during the 85th Birthday of Prelate Sunday Mbang of the Methodist Church Nigeria on Friday, in Lagos.

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According to Obasanjo: ‘I want to assure you that Nigeria will continue to exist because the cost for Nigeria not to continue to exist is much more …

The Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar, has assured that the management of the State House will make an example of anyone who betrays the trust and confidence reposed in them in the course of their duties around the Presidency.

Umar made this disclosure on Thursday while speaking at the inauguration of the State House Anti- Corruption and Transparency Unit, by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, in Abuja.

This was contained in a statement by the State House Deputy Director (Information), Abiodun Oladunjoye, titled, ‘We will not hesitate to make an example of you, permanent …

The Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial zone, Stella Oduah has explained the reasons behind her decision to dump the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

A statement by APC Director of Publicity, Salisu Dambatta which was made available to Africa Daily New York quoted Oduah as saying she defected to co-change the ‘political narrative’ in the Igbo-speaking States.

‘She said during the occasion that she joined the APC family as part of the process of the changing political narrative in the South-East’, the spokesman explained.

Oduah announced that she moved along with her multitude of supporters …

US President Joe Biden’s plans to spend nearly $5 trillion to change the US economy got a major boost in the House of Representatives yesterday after Democratic leaders reached an agreement with centrist lawmakers to end a dispute threatening the bills.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Biden and his Democratic allies controlling the chamber are pushing for passage of both a $1.2 trillion infrastructure overhaul and a bill costing $3.5 trillion over 10 years that would pay for improvements to education, health care, and climate change resiliency.

According to reports, the dispute erupted when centrist Democrats in the …

Former Niger Delta agitators have threatened to make the region ungovernable until the provision in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) for oil-bearing communities is reviewed upward from the current three percent equity.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the ex-militants under the aegis of  Urhobo-Isoko Youth Wing and ex-agitator leaders of phase I, II, III of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), bemoaned the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, and Niger Delta senators for the deprivation of the region in the Act.

According to him, the minister and senators from the region backed President Muhammadu Buhari in hurriedly …

The Presidency of Nigeria has lambasted Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom over his recent comments on the killings in the country.

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu while defending his principal on Wednesday he stressed that President Muhammadu Buhari has no connection with the killing of innocent Nigerians by criminals.

‘President Buhari does not kill people; he is not a cultist,‘ said the President’s media aide who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

A day before Shehu’s interview, Governor Ortom had criticised the present administration and described President Buhari as …

Zambia’s newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema has promised to rebuild the devastated economy and alleviate poverty as he was sworn in following an election hailed as a milestone for African opposition movements.

Speaking to thousands of jubilant supporters — sporting the red and yellow colours of his United Party for National Development in the Heroes Stadium in Lusaka, 59-year-old Hichilema shouted; ‘We will grow our economy so we can lift more people out of poverty than ever before’.

Hichilema also vowed to restore respect for human rights and liberties eroded under his predecessor.

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Former Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has insisted that comparatively speaking, Nigeria fared better during the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), than what it is currently facing under the All Progressives Congress-led by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Alhaji Abubakar made this assertion on Tuesday when he paid a visit to Akwa Ibom State as part of his tour across the nation to ascertain the state of affairs,

He decried the downward economic situation of the nation which he believes was not so under the PDP administration.

The former Vice president …

Following the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) by bandits in Kaduna in the early hours of Tuesday, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), through its Senior Elders’ Forum, has raised fears that bandits may overrun Aso Rock if proactive steps are not taken to safeguard the presidential villa and the entire country.

Former National President of YCE Dansaaki Samuel Agbede, who spoke with reporters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Tuesday, stated that the invasion of NDA in which two officers were reportedly killed and one abducted was unprecedented in the history of the Nigerian military.

Agbede, …

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to deploy drones and missiles against bandits ravaging the Northern part of the country.

El-Rufai disclosed that the Federal Government should furnish troops with more sophisticated weapons against bandits.

Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, the Governor said the Federal government does not have any other option but to deploy a combination of air and ground forces against bandits in the North.

According to El-Rufai: ‘I think the security agencies also need more advanced technology. The Air force needs more drones.

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