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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has defied Federal government’s ban on Twitter operation in the country by tweeting via his official handle.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that FG had on Friday last week suspended the operation of the microblogging platform for allegedly allowing contents capable of threatening the corporate existence of Nigerians.

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Despite the ban, some users have continued to access the social medium via the use of Virtual Private Network, VPN.

Governor Ortom who tweeted on Tuesday evening, said the decision by the FG …

Clashes between Arab and non-Arab tribes in South Darfur have left no fewer than 36 people dead and dozens wounded.

The fighting broke out on Saturday between the Arab al-Taisha and ethnic African Fallata tribes in the remote Um Dafuq area of South Darfur, witnesses said.

According to sources in the area, calm has been restored to the city as the people mourn the dead.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the clashes but similar fighting often erupts in the Darfur region over land and access to water.

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Malian coup plotter Colonel Assimi Goita was sworn in as transitional president of the chronically unstable Sahel state yesterday, Africa Daily News, New York can confirm.

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of two aides to work in the ‘Office of the First Lady’, an office that has no backing in the 1999 constitution.

The first appointee, according to a statement by media adviser Femi Adesina is Dr. Rukayyatu Abdulkareem Gurin.

She will serve as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Administration and Women Affairs.

Rukayyatu is a doctorate degree holder in Curriculum Instruction from the University of Maiduguri.

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She was at various times a Lecturer at the University of Maiduguri; a …

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has been given 72 hours to appear before the ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives investigating recovered loots.

The ultimatum is also affecting the Inspector General of Police, Usman Akali Baba, National Security Adviser, Babangana Monguno, and the Director-General of NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh.

The decision to summon them followed a motion moved at the hearing on Monday. The CBN Governor and others had failed to appear before the investigative committee, instead sent representatives.

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Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has invited the evicted Sarkin Fulani of Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Alhaji Salihu Abdulkadir, to Abuja over last Sunday’s violence, which claimed many lives in the community.

The invitation to Abuja is coming on the heels of a petition by an international human rights organisation to the justice minister.

Confirmed sources close to the Sarkin Fulani, informed Newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, on Monday, that the Sarkin is billed to meet the minister on Tuesday in Abuja.

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Governor Samuel Ortom and two of his predecessors – Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Senator George Akume and Senator representing Benue North East, Gabriel Suswam met again on Sunday to discuss security issues bedevilling the state.

According to Ortom’s media aide, Jimin Geoffrey, the meeting aimed at resolving to work together for the security and socio-economic development of the state.

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Governor Ortom briefed journalists shortly after a meeting with the two former governors, the Tor Tiv, Professor James Ayatse and first-class chiefs in Tiv land which took place …

West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a crucial swing vote in the United States Senate, announced on Sunday he intends to oppose a sweeping voting rights bill backed by the majority of his fellow Democrats that would expand access to voting across the US.

Speaking on ‘Fox News Sunday’, monitored by Africa Daily News, New York Manchin asserted that the bill, known as the For the People Act, ‘is the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country, and I’m not supporting that because I think it will divide us further’.

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Colonel Assimi Goïta would be sworn in as Mali’s interim president today (Monday).

Africa Daily News, New York understands that it’s a fortnight since he removed the transitional president and prime minister in a coup – the second he’s engineered in nine months.

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Last week, leaders of the West African bloc, Ecowas, joined the African Union in suspending Mali’s membership, calling on the military government to adhere to an 18-month transition towards presidential elections in February.

France and other Western powers also want a return to civilian rule.

Mali is …