Politics

Mali’s interim vice president Colonel Assimi Goita yesterday announced that he had seized power as a fresh coup within an older coup unravelled in the country.

Goita was one of the coup plotters that toppled the elected government of Ibrahim Boubacar Keita last August.

He said he took over power because President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane failed to consult him about a cabinet reshuffle, which dropped two former coup leaders.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that both leaders have been detained at a military base outside the capital Bamako since Monday evening.

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The Delta State government has denied reports that it has received the £4.2m Ibori loot from the federal government.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris on Tuesday, 25 May 2021, told the House of Reps ad-hoc Committee on Assessment and Status of all recovered loots movable and immovable assets that the federal government had returned the looted money to Delta state.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Delta State Governor, Olisa Ifeajika while denying the statement by Idris, said the state is yet to see the said amount reflect in its …

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has slammed the Buhari government’s insistence on open grazing and cattle routes, saying they are ideas that were prevalent in the 1950s and no longer tenable in the 21st century.

‘We find the move not only shocking and curious but also as a misplaced priority,‘ he said.

The Buhari Presidency on Monday queried the legality of the ban on open grazing by governors in the entire southern part of the country.

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President Muhammadu Buhari has said happenings in Libya have implications for Nigeria and other countries in the Lake Chad Basin.

He said this when he hosted Mohammed Younis Menfi, Chairman, Presidential Council of Libya, on Wednesday.

Buhari noted that the Republics of Chad and Niger have extensive borders with Libya.

‘Whatever affects them affects us. The stability or instability of Libya will directly affect us’, he said.

Buhari said Nigeria’s security is his top priority, noting that ‘unless a country or institution is secured, there’s no way you can efficiently manage it.’

He thanked Menfi for personally attending the Summit …

Super Eagles striker Paul Onuachu is happy to have been awarded Belgium’s Professional Footballer of The Year and top scorer awards for the 2020/21 season, Africa Daily News, New York reports.

The 27-year-old made history by becoming the first-ever Nigerian to win the award after he bagged 35 goals with five assists in 38 games across all competitions.

He also won the Belgium Cup and helped Genk qualify for the UEFA Champions League after they finished as runners-up to Club Brugge in the league.

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A former Vice-Chancellor of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Professor Akin Oyebode has faulted the ongoing moves by the National Assembly to amend the 1999 constitution, saying what the country need is a new people’s oriented constitution.

Oyebode, a professor of International Law and Jurisprudence noted that there is no amount of amendment to the current 1999 constitution that would make things work for the country, adding that is difficult to review or amend what he described as a forged document.

The elder statesman spoke in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital on Tuesday at a public consultation for the amendment of …

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has come hard on the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu for criticising the ban on open grazing by Southern governors.

Akeredolu’s reaction was contained in a statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties and Strategy, Dr Doyin Odebowale, yesterday, title ‘Mr. Garba Shehu: On the trail of an agent provocateur’.

According to Akeredolu, anyone who has been following the utterances of Shehu, as well as his fellow travellers on the self-deluding, mendacious but potentially dangerous itinerary to anarchy, could not but conclude that …