Politics

Why We Purchased N1.4B Worth Of Vehicles For Niger Rep - FG

Why We Purchased ₦1.4B Worth Of Vehicles For Niger Rep – FG

August 4, 2022 5:19 am

The Federal Government of Nigeria has explained that it approved the purchase of vehicles worth ₦1.4 billion for neighboring Niger Republic to tackle insecurity as a way of ensuring the stability of the country.

The Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed gave the confirmation while speaking yesterday, explaining that providing intervention to the neighboring Niger Republic is not new and it is the prerogative of President Muhammadu Buhari who approved the purchase.

According to her, President Buhari, whose actions she cannot question or interrogate, has the right to make his own assessment of situations and give directives …

Zelenskyy Appeals To China To Help End Ongoing War In Ukraine

Zelenskyy Appeals To China To Help End Ongoing War In Ukraine

August 4, 2022 5:07 am

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a case for direct talks with China’s Xi Jinping even as he urged Beijing to use its political and economic influence on Russia to help end the war in his country.

Zelenskyy told the South China Morning Post (SCMP) in an interview published on Thursday that he has been asking for a conversation with the Chinese president since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February, but that one is yet to take place.

list 3 of 4

end of list

‘I would like to talk directly. I had one conversation with [President] Xi …

Iran Dispatches Team To Resume Nuclear Talks In Vienna

Iran Dispatches Team To Resume Nuclear Talks In Vienna

August 4, 2022 4:50 am

Iran has announced that it has resolved to send a delegation to Vienna to resume talks to revive the frayed 2015 agreement on its nuclear programme that has been halted since March.

‘As part of the policy of lifting cruel sanctions against our country, Iran’s negotiating team led by Ali Bagheri, the Islamic republic’s chief negotiator, will leave for Vienna in a few hours,’ foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said in a statement sighted by Africa Daily News, New York on Thursday.

Negotiations in Vienna had begun in April 2021 to restore the deal, but have stalled for the past …

Why Nigeria Is No Longer Attractive For FDI — Senate

Why Nigeria Is No Longer Attractive For FDI — Senate

August 4, 2022 4:46 am

The Nigerian Senate has decried the escalating wave of insecurity in the country stressing that it has made Nigeria unattractive for foreign direct investment (FDI) while calling on security chiefs to up their game to halt the ugly trend.

The red chambers also added that there is nothing to show for the huge investment in security.

Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who expressed the view at a marathon meeting with military chiefs and heads of security and intelligence agencies, described the level of insecurity in the country as most frightening.

Lawan spoke on a day bandits attacked the convoy of Assistant …

DSS Queries Chidoka Over Comments On Security Flop In Nigeria

DSS Queries Chidoka Over Comments On Security Flop In Nigeria

August 4, 2022 4:41 am

The Department of State Security Services (DSS) has tackled the former Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka, over his recent outburst over the security situation in the country in recent times, accusing him of displaying crass ignorance in public.

The former Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps had during a live television interview that was monitored earlier in the week, blamed the worsening insecurity in the country on the failure of the leadership to manage the country’s diversity to promote cohesion and efficiency among the nation’s military and security agencies.

The former minister called for what he termed ‘creative measures’ …

Britain Bans US-Based Consultancy Company Over Corruption

Britain Bans US-Based Consultancy Company Over Corruption

August 3, 2022 9:29 pm

Britain has openly announced on Wednesday that it would be banning the United States-based consultancy giant Bain & Company for three years from United Kingdom government contracts after it was revealed that it became enmeshed in a huge corruption scandal in South Africa.

Bain is being barred for competing in bids for central government consultancy work for three years, effective from January 4 this year, a spokesman for the cabinet office told AFP.

Read Also: Russia Announces Blacklist Of 39 Britain Citizens, Including Cameron

“After reviewing Bain’s role in alleged state capture and corruption by the former government of South …

Buhari's Govt Explains Recent Drop In Electricity Generation

FG Finally Confirms ₦1.4bn Donation to Niger Republic For Vehicles

August 3, 2022 2:32 pm

After a massive backlash on them amidst the speculations of a ₦1.4billion donation to the Republic of Niger to aid in the acquisition of some operational vehicles for their Government, the Federal government of Nigeria has on Wedesday, justified the approval despite the fact the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on a strike action for some months for some lack of funds.

Zainab Ahmed who is the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning had also confirmed the purchase, while fielding questions from reporters, shortly after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting which had been presided over …

2023 Soyinka Clears Air On Alleged Tribute To Tinubu

Buhari Is A Failure – Soyinka Maintains Stand On Impeachment Plot

August 3, 2022 1:33 pm

Professor Wole Soyinka who is a celebrated Nigerian Nobel laureate has on Wednesday maintained his recent backing on the six weeks ultimatum which had been slammed on the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, by some federal lawmakers to find a solution to the incessant terrorism besieging the country or be impeached.

Soyinka had made this stand in Abeokuta, Ogun State, during an interactive session organised to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Abeokuta Club. He condemned a situation in Nigeria, where a failure, who has occupied a seat of government for eight years, would “give us another failure for another eight years”.…

Nuclear Arms: US Has Not Reached Out To Us For Talks – Russia

Nuclear Arms: US Has Not Reached Out To Us For Talks – Russia

August 3, 2022 9:28 am

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has recently announced that the United States and her Governmemt have not yet offered any new talks on nuclear arms control.

“They have not even proposed to resume these talks,’’ Lavrov said on Wednesday during a visit to Myanmar, according to Russian state news agency TASS.

Read Also: Ukraine War: Russia Accuses US Of ‘Direct Involvement’

At issue is a replacement for the New START disarmament treaty, the only remaining major arms control agreement between the U.S. and Russia.

The treaty limits the nuclear arsenals of both countries to 800 delivery systems and 1,550 operational …

Ukraine War Russia Accuses US Of ‘Direct Involvement’

Ukraine War: Russia Accuses US Of ‘Direct Involvement’

August 3, 2022 6:20 am

The government of the United States has been accused by Russia of direct involvement in the Ukraine war, as the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Moscow’s invasion continued its passage to Lebanon without problems.

Moscow declared on Tuesday that it was reacting to remarks made by Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of military intelligence for Ukraine, regarding the manner in which Kyiv used long-range HIMARS rocket launch systems provided by the US based on what he referred to as excellent satellite imagery and real-time information.

While claiming that US officials were withholding specific target information, Skibitsky …

2023 Tinubu Will Run An Equitable, Inclusive Govt — Shettima

2023: Tinubu Will Run An Equitable, Inclusive Govt — Shettima

August 3, 2022 6:04 am

Ahead of next year’s general elections, the Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kashim Shettima, has assured Nigerians that when elected, the Bola Tinubu administration would run a just and inclusive government, irrespective of tribal, religious, and political affiliations.

Senator Shettima made this promise while speaking at the one-year memorial service for Dr Emmanuel Abiodun, father of the governor of Ogun State, held at the St. James Anglican Church, Iperu-Remo, Ikenne Local Government Area in Ogun State.

His words: ‘We need to build a new nation because the hope of the black man is on Nigeria. …

Blasphemy Investigative C’tee’s Submits Report To Tambuwal

Blasphemy Investigative C’tee Submits Report To Tambuwal

August 3, 2022 5:47 am

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has received the report of an investigative committee set up by the state government to investigate the May 12, 2022 students unrest at the Shehu Shagari College of Education (SSCOE) in Sokoto which saw the lynching of a Christian girl for alleged blasphemy.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that sometime in May, a student of the College, Deborah Samuel, was killed by a mob in the College premises over alleged blasphemy.

The Governor stated yesterday that having received the recommendations of the committee and heard from several stakeholders and leaders in the state …

TRENDING

Breaking

𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬, 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤, is a nonpartisan online news portal founded on the truth to provide you with weekly, insightful articles written with precision and current updates on current events from Africa in particular and the rest of the world in general. All of our reports undergo extensive fact-checking to ensure their veracity, and we adhere strictly to the facts, no matter whose ox is gored.

follow on social media

Facebook Twitter Youtube Telegram Linkedin

subscribe to newsletter

© 2018 - 2020 Africa digital news, New York
Powered by

People and Polity