Politics

Chairman of its Parliament’s Standing Committee on Political Affairs, Peace, Security and African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Edwin Melvin Snowe (Jnr) has appealed to West African leaders to join hands together to restore normalcy in Mali.

The group belives that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission should be left alone to handle the Mali crisis without any form of external interference.

According to him, this would help the legislature to adequately comprehend the happenings in the landlocked West African nation and proffer a way out.

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the Nigerian Senate to immediately reject the nomination of Lauretta Onochie as national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), saying her nomination is a slap on the nation’s democracy.

The opposition party urged the Ahmed Lawan-Senate to get ready for a civil action, in the event of failing to reject the nomination.

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Addressing newsmen at the party’s secretariat, Wednesday, the national publicity secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan,  tasked the Senate Committee Chairman on INEC, Kabiru Gaya, …

Cardinal Anthony Okogie, Emeritus Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, has decried the state of the nation, declaring that Nigeria has virtually become a failed state.

The renowned cleric made the claim while speaking at his 85th birthday thanksgiving mass and 50th Episcopal Ordination anniversary held at the Catholic Church of Assumption, Lagos.

According to him, while the problems confronting the country did not start under the present administration, the challenges have worsened in the last six years.

He said it was shocking for President Muhammadu Buhari to declare during the sixth anniversary of his government that Nigerians …

The Chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and as well the Governor Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, has boasted that the APC is now the largest party in Africa.

Buni made this claim yesterday at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, when the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Chi Tun Chon Hu, visited the party’s headquarters.

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Buni, who was represented by Secretary of the APC Caretaker Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, pointed out that with the last membership registration and revalidation exercise, …

The Chairman of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that he has been receiving death threats from high profile Nigerians over his strong stance against corruption in the country.

Bawa, who spoke on Channels TV Sunrise Daily monitored by Africa Daily News, pointed out that he was in New York last week and that a very senior citizen received a phone call from somebody that is not even under investigation.

He said what the caller said to him on phone was that he was going to kill the EFCC chairman.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he held a ‘fruitful and sincere’ meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels.

Speaking after holding his first meeting with Biden since his election Erdogan said; ‘We believe there is no problem that cannot be resolved in Turkey-US relations.’

Relations between the two NATO allies nosedived after Turkey’s purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defence system that the US believes can be used to spy on Western defences.

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Erdogan announced no progress …

A 28-year-old woman went on trial in Germany on Monday accused of smothering five of her six children in the bath, in what prosecutors called a particularly ‘malicious’ case.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the accused, identified only as Christiane K., faces a life sentence if found guilty of the murders by the district court of Wuppertal in western Germany.

The bodies of her three daughters aged one, two, and three, and two sons aged six and eight were discovered in the family flat in the city of Solingen on September 3, 2020.

They were seen lying on …