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2023 Assess Me With My Records As Vice President - Atiku

Atiku Congratulates New CAN President, Mulls Interfaith Relations

Atiku Abubakar  who is the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), 2023 Presidential candidate, former Vice President, has also congratulated and felicitated with the newly elected President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Most Rev. Daniel Chukwudumebi Okoh.

The Waziri Adamawa had also charged the new CAN President to forge interfaith relations in Nigeria. He also assured him of total support for the promotion of peace and unity in Nigeria.

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Atiku on his verified Facebook page, on Friday, stated “I wish to congratulate Archbishop Daniel Okoh, the General …

Nigeria Is Broke, Can’t Fund Capital Projects In 2023 - Ngige

Nigeria Is Broke, Can’t Fund Capital Projects In 2023 – Ngige

Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige has claimed that the country is bankrupt at the moment noting that even the funds for capital projects in 2023 will be a major challenge. 

Addressing a media briefing, on Thursday in Abuja, to mark the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour, the minister stated that the Federal Government does not have money to prosecute capital projects next year, a development which might worsen unemployment and poverty.

He equally told students of federal universities that negotiating separately with members of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would not resolve …

2023 Downtrodden Nigerians Are Our Structure

2023: Downtrodden Nigerians Are Our Structure – Labour Party

The National Chairman of the Labour Party Hon. Julius Abure has called on Nigerians to remain resolute in their quest for good governance and not be carried away with insinuations that the party has no structure to win the 2023 presidential election, pointing out that the suffering Nigerians are the party’s structures.

Abure stated this at a North West one day mobilisation, sensitisation program with national officers in Kaduna.

Represented by the national secretary, Alhaji Umar Farouq, the national chairman said the program is aimed at sensitising and mobilising more supporters to ensure they go to the polls against all …

Impeachment: We've Got Enough Votes To Remove Buhari –Reps

Impeachment: We’ve Got Enough Votes To Remove Buhari –Reps

Barely twenty-four hours after some senators threatened to serve an impeachment notice on President Muhammadu Buhari over worsening insecurity, their counterparts in the House of Representatives, have also joined the fray saying that they have to numbers to do that.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that senators from the various opposition parties and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) had on Wednesday after walked out of plenary told newsmen that they were giving President Buhari six weeks to address the problem of insecurity across the country or face impeachment.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the Senate met

Over 75,000 Russian Troops Killed, Injured In Ukraine - US

Over 75,000 Russian Troops Killed, Injured In Ukraine – US

The Joe Biden-led administration as President of the United States has asserted that over 75,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded during the ongoing war in Ukraine.

It informed US lawmakers this during a classified briefing on Wednesday.

‘We were briefed that over 75,000 Russians have either been killed or wounded, which is huge,” the official said, according to CNN.

‘You’ve got incredible amounts of investment in their land forces, over 80% of their land forces are bogged down, and they’re tired.”

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Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a Democrat …

HURIWA Blasts National Assembly For Failing To Impeach Buhari

HURIWA Blasts National Assembly For Failing To Impeach Buhari

Fresh reports hitting the desk of Africa Daily News, New York has revealed that the National Assembly has come under serious fire from the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) for refusing to resume the process of impeaching President Muhammadu Buhari over the deteriorating security situation and the massive insecurity in the country and fears of a terrorist attack around Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) had also slammed Buhari for his alleged leadership failure in securing lives and property and for jetting out of the country despite attacks and fears of more terrorist …

Federal Court Nullifies All Ogun State PDP Primary Elections

PDP Senators Are Childish, Confused On Impechment – Presidency

The presidency has mocked some the calls the impeach President Buhari while describing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senators who have been trying to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari as divided and confused.

It had also recalled that the performative and babyish antics of those senators who had resorted to staging a walk out was wrong even though Senate President Ahmad Lawan had totally refused on Wednesday to entertain the ridiculous motion to impeach our President was quite appropriate and correct.

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Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a

LASG Debunks Report About Assault On Lagos Dep. Gov. Hamzat

LASG Debunks Report About Assault On Lagos Dep. Gov. Hamzat

While reacting to reports which have been making rounds about the assault on the deputy governor, the Lagos State Government has rubbished and debunked all the rumours that the Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Hamzat was beaten up in a free for all which had occurred at the APC Secretariat.

The report, which has already gone viral had also indicated that Hamzat and some senior members of the Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were beaten up by aggrieved political miscreants during a reconciliation meeting at the party secretariat in Ogba.

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President, Security Chiefs Meet To Brainstorm Over Kidnap Threats

President, Security Chiefs Meet To Brainstorm Over Kidnap Threats

In lieu of the brazen kidnap threats which had been made against him over the weekend, the Nigerian President, Muhamadu Buhari and his security chiefs are currently engrossed in a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja which is to brainstorm on the spate of terrorism in the country.

The meeting, which has been scheduled to hold at the Council Chambers, State House was convened following contemporary security threats in the country, particularly in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

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Among those sighted at the meeting includes the Secretary to the Government …

'Tell Buhari To Resign', NEF Spokesman Urges Appointees

‘Tell Buhari To Resign’, NEF Spokesman Urges Appointees

The spokesperson for the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has tasked those around President Muhammadu Buhari to ask him to resign.

Baba-Ahmed asserted that his call followed the recent state of insecurity in the country.

In series of tweets yesterday, the NEF spokesman feared things might be worse in 2023  considering the current situation in the country.

He said as president, the bulk stops at Buhari’s desk, and that he should take responsibility and not buck-pass to anyone.

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‘When you have a President with huge powers

Zelenskyy Calls On Johnson Not To ‘Disappear’ From Politics

Zelenskyy Calls On Johnson Not To ‘Disappear’ From Politics

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hopes that embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stays in a frontline political role when he leaves office in early September, after becoming one of Kyiv’s staunchest foreign backers.

In an interview which aired on Wednesday with Britain’s TalkTV monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, Zelenskyy further reaffirmed his hope that US President Joe Biden will join other Western leaders including Johnson who have made their way to Kyiv.

Biden failed to do so on two trips to Europe this year, but Zelensky said via an interpreter that a presidential visit “would be the strongest …

New York Urges WHO To Rename Monkeypox Over Stigmatisation

New York Urges WHO To Rename Monkeypox Over Stigmatisation

New York City urged the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday to rename the monkeypox virus to avoid stigmatizing patients who might then hold off on seeking care.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the city of New York has seen more cases of the disease, which the WHO had over the weekend declared a global health emergency than any other city in the United States, with 1,092 infections detected so far.

‘We have a growing concern for the potentially devastating and stigmatizing effects that the messaging around the ‘monkeypox’ virus can have on… already vulnerable communities,’ New York …