Politics

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has peacefully resolved its internal wranglings and is now poised for victories in future elections.

Governor Ortom said this on Wednesday at the Makurdi Airport during an interview with journalists on his return from Abuja where he attended an expanded stakeholder meeting as well as that of the PDP Governors’ Forum.

He said the party had resolved to remain focused in the face of intimidation and blackmail from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, stressing that the PDP is prepared to take Nigeria from bottom to top …

Ivory Coast ex-president Laurent Gbagbo yesterday sparked new political speculations by proposing the formation of a new political party.

This disclosure was made by his deeply divided Ivorian Popular Front (FPI).

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that at a crucial meeting of party leaders, Gbagbo lashed out at his former prime minister, Pascal Affi N’Guessan, the FPI’s president, and also proposed ‘creating a new instrument of struggle in line with our ideology and ambitions’, the FPI said.

A congress to set it up could take place in October, it explained.

In a statement sighted by Africa Daily News, New …

Reno Omokri, former media aide to Nigerian ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that the African richest man, Aliko Dangote has lost at least 40 percent of his net worth due to bad policies embarked upon by the current President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

According to Reno. the multinational businessman was ranked 25th richest man in the world during the administration of the former president, Goodluck Jonathan.

In a post on his verified Facebook page which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, the socio-political activist lamented that Dangote’s net worth drastically depreciated since President Buhari succeeded his former boss, stressing …

A group under the aegis of Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, has called on the Federal Government to ban popular reality show, Big Brother Naija, describing it as semi-packaged porn and social monster.

The National President of the OYC, Comrade Igboayaka O Igboayaka, while newsmen on Tuesday in Owerri, the Imo State capital, said BBNaija is deeply affecting the fragile moral upbringing in families and schools.

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While explaining the reasons behind the call for the ban, Comrade Igboayaka pointed out that BBNaija does not have any moral background especially at this …

There is tension in Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) as armed policemen on Monday mounted surveillance at her National Secretariat in Abuja.

According to the Secretary of the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Senator John Akpanudoedehe, the presence of the Policemen was a proactive measure for protection based on a security report which the caretaker committee was privy to.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that early as 9 am on Monday, not less than ten Hilux pickup patrol vans fully loaded with armed policemen were strategically positioned along Blantyre street where the party Secretariat is located.…

Chief Better Joseph Ekeh is an international business man with a vast interest in the hospitality business. The CEO of Alaowerri Restaurant, London and Chairman of Adavinn Executive Inn and Suites in Owerri North-Imo State is equally an astute politician who needs no introduction when it comes to politics in Imo State.

Chief Ekeh who is an All Progressives Congress stakeholder and incidentally, happened to be Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State’s Spokesman in the United Kingdom under the umbrella of CampHope during the 2019 electioneering process, in a media chat with Africa Daily News, New York shared some important …

Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has explained why former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Olubadan, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, and others had to intervene in Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho’s matter.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, had been declared wanted by Nigeria’s security outfit, Department of State Services (DSS), and he is currently detained in Benin Republic.

The activist’s lawyers have applied for asylum on his behalf but the Benin Republic government has yet to respond to that request.

Amid Igboho’s travails, the Ooni of Ife set …

The planned sit-at-home ordered by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) scheduled for Today, yesterday suffered a setback after it was suspended yesterday due to the ongoing National Examination Council (NECO) Exam for junior secondary schools.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that a man identified as Kanunta Kanu, believed to a younger brother to the IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in a statement, stated that a new date for commencement of the sit-at-home order would be announced later.

Recall that the pro-Biafra group had ordered for sit-at-home would be observed every Monday throughout Igbo land, starting from August 9 …