The coalition explained that Ms Onochie’s citizenship will undermine national interest and potentially threaten the independence of INEC.
Speaking for the coalition during a press conference in Abuja yesterday, a board member of YIAGA Africa, Ezenwa Nwagwu noted that Onochies’s dual citizenship makes her fall short of the constitutional requirements for being appointed to that position as stated in Sections 156(1a)
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the review of the timeline for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Congresses.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that the President received the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) at State House, Abuja.
He endorsed the Progress Report, the schedule of outstanding activities with regards to Congresses, the National Convention, and the forthcoming Anambra Governorship election.
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The President approved Ward Congresses to be held on 24th July 2021, Local Government Congresses on 14th August 2021, and State Congresses on 18th September 2021.
CECPC National Chairman and …
The Presidency has maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari has nothing to do with the ongoing attempt by the House of Representatives to amend the Nigerian Press Council (NPC) Act and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Act as insinuated in some quarters by Nigerians.
Africa Daily News. New York reports that the Newspapers Proprietor Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigeria Guild of Editor, and other media stakeholders had voiced its concerns against the proposed amendments seen as an attempt to muzzle the press while pointing accusing fingers at the Buhari led presidency.
Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, while fielding questions from State …
Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has expressed great optimism that the current security challenges bedevieling Nigeria would soon become a thing of the past.
The Vice President also explained that the federal government has intensified efforts aimed at adequately securing the country with the recent supplementary budget sent to the National Assembly for approval for the procurement of military hardware for the use of the military and other security agencies.
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Professor Osinbajo made this known when he received in audience the Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti, His Royal Majesty, Oba …
The Nigerian presidency yesterday disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday (Today), travel to London, the United Kingdom, for a scheduled medical follow-up.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina sighted by Africa Daily News, New York in Abuja Thursday.
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Chief Adesina, in the statement, explained that the President would be due back in the country in the second week of July.
Recall that President Buhari had, on March 30, undertaken a similar trip, which …
Popular controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has accused some police and army officers of adding bandits in the country with weapons and drugs.
The Kaduna based cleric said this in an interview on Thursday calling on the army and police hierarchy to identify and flush out all the bad eggs.
Gumi also said that some officers aid the activities of these criminals by collecting bribe from them.
‘I know we have bad elements in the security and I think it’s high time that those found to be taking bribes, aiding banditry by selling weapons should be flushed out of …
North Korea’s foreign minister has ruled out the possibilities of holding any talks with the United States, insisting that dialogue with Washington would ‘get us nowhere’.
His comments coming just a few after Sung Kim, the top US envoy in charge of North Korea negotiations, visited South Korea this week in a bid to restart diplomacy with the nuclear-armed nation.
But US hopes for a revival of talks were rebuffed by influential official Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea’s leader, hinting that Washington had ‘wrong’ expectations for dialogue.
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A former prime minister of Ivory Coast, Guillaume Soro has rejected a verdict that sent him to prison for life describing it as unfair.
In a statement published on Twitter which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, he said; ‘I totally reject these unfair verdicts, which have been handed down in violation of all the rules of law, and which are solely based on political reasons.’
According to him, the aim of the trial had been to put an end to his political ambitions.
According to him, the trial showed how the Ivorian judiciary could easily be …
World powers gathered Wednesday in Berlin to seek enduring peace in Libya by ensuring the conflict-wracked North African country doesn’t deviate from its plans to conduct general elections on December 24.
Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah of Libya’s interim government joined US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as well as the foreign ministers of France, Turkey, and Egypt at the UN-sponsored talks.
Russia’s Sergei Lavrov was absent, but deputy foreign minister Sergey Vershinin was attending in his place.
The efforts to end a decade-long spiral of violence in Libya are the second round held in Berlin, after the first attended …
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has stated that his government would not succumb to pressure from criminals to lift the curfew imposed in the wake of dastardly attacks on security formations in the state.
According to the governor, the curfew would remain despite sponsored criticisms against it.
Wike spoke at the 60th birthday celebration of the federal lawmaker who represents Rivers South-East senatorial district in the Senate, Senator Barry Barinada Mpigi in Port Harcourt.
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The governor, who reiterated he is not unmindful of the traffic difficulty experienced by …
The Nigerian Army has reacted to claims by Sheikh Ahmad Gumi that the Nigerian military was colluding with bandits responsible for various crimes and atrocities across the country.
The Islamic scholar made the allegations when he featured on ARISE TV Morning Show monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.
The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement condemned Gumi’s allegations.
Nwachukwu said the military arm has conducted its constitutional responsibilities most professionally in line with global best practices of adherence to the rules of engagement and protection of fundamental human rights.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her desire for better coordination on pandemic travel rules among the bloc’s 27 member states.
With the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, which has become more rapid, Merkel have insisted it was problematic to have a patchwork of regulations.
‘I regret that we haven’t managed yet to have completely uniform action among the member states on travel guidelines — that is coming back to haunt us,’ she told reporters after a meeting with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
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