Politics

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Senate to confirm the appointment of the new Chief of Army Staff, Major General Farouk Yahaya.

Buhari’s request was contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and read during resumption of plenary on Tuesday.

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The President, in the letter, said Yahaya’s appointment was in compliance with the provisions of Section 18 subsection 1 of the Armed Forces Act 2004.

The letter reads in part: ‘In compliance with the provisions of section 18(1) of the Armed Forces Act Cap

Kenya has warned that it may impose a total ban on flights from Somalia including those on humanitarian missions that Somalia was exploring loopholes to undermine their bilateral relationship.

The foreign affairs ministry said in a letter to diplomatic missions that humanitarian flights were being misused for ‘bilateral and political matters’ even after Kenya had suspended flights.

Kenya recently suspended flights from the neighbouring country but exempted medical emergency evacuation flights and those on UN humanitarian missions.

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But it now warns that ‘humanitarian flights must strictly be used for humanitarian …

Egypt’s intelligence chief Abbas Kamel was expected in the occupied Palestinian territories yesterday, a Palestinian minister has after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire ended a flare-up of fighting between Israel and Gaza’s rulers Hamas.

Africa Daily News, New York Kamel was set to meet with Palestinian leadership, Palestinian civil affairs minister Hussein al-Sheikh said on Twitter, following the truce on May 21 that ended 11 days of deadly exchange of fire between Israel and armed Palestinian groups that ravaged the besieged coastal enclave.

‘Abbas Kamel arrives today in Palestine to consult with the Palestinian leadership on the latest developments after the recent …

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) yesterday said the North can no longer continue to coexist with people of Igbo extraction in Nigeria.

CNG said the assassination of Ahmed Gulak, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in Imo State, was an indication that the North can no longer coexist with southeasterners in Nigeria.

Spokesman of CNG, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, said Gulak’s assassination is a wider plan by the people of Igbo extraction to replicate the ugly events of 1966.

In a statement by Suleiman, CNG claimed that people of the Southeast are funding “gangs” like the Indigenous People of Biafra …

A former Niger Delta warlord and freedom fighter, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, Alias Tompolo, yesterday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to inaugurate the substantive Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Tompolo described the continuous running of the NDDC by a sole administrator at the instance of the Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio as undemocratic,  anti-development, and unacceptable.

He said: ‘I have watched and observed with keen interest, the circumstances surrounding the constitution of the NDDC board for some time now. I would have continued to keep watching and observing, but for love …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday declared that over 5,300 youths have benefited from the ₦75 billion Nigeria Youth Investment Fund (NYIF).

The NYIF was set up as an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development and funded by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to invest in innovative ideas, skills and talents of Nigerian youths to build sustainable businesses that can activate enterprise and increase job opportunities in the country.

Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, disclosed that his administration in his effort to empower youth had dished out …

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to fly out of Abuja on Sunday for Accra, Ghana, where he will attend an emergency Extraordinary Summit of ECOWAS.

The summit has been convened to discuss recent political developments in Mali.

A statement issued by Buhari’s Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, noted the meeting was at the instance of the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS and President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.

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It read: ‘As the situation in Mali continues to evolve, Nigeria

No fewer than six people were killed, including a woman who was burned alive, during an attack blamed on the regional militia group ADF in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Allied Democratic Forces were believed to have carried out the overnight attack on a road near the border with Uganda, where the group was founded.

‘ADF fighters attacked Kinyatsi, a village near the Virunga national park,’ said Donat Kibuana, local administrator for the Beni territory in North Kivu province.

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‘We have counted six people killed, …