Politics

Buhari Summons Service Chiefs For Emergency Meeting Today

Buhari Summons Service Chiefs For Emergency Meeting Today

July 28, 2022 5:15 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned his service chiefs for an emergency meeting for later today following the nationwide outrage generated by the rising insecurity in the land.

This emergency meeting is coming less than 48 hours after the Presidential Brigade Guards came under attack by terrorists.

Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, confirmed the meeting on Wednesday night during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today which was monitored by Africa Daily News, Newe York.

‘Tomorrow the President has summoned another security meeting with the heads of the security agencies,’ Adesina said.

Read Also: Insecurity: Threat

…
Insecurity Threat To Kidnap Buhari, Funny – Lai Mohammed

Insecurity: Threat To Kidnap Buhari, Funny – Lai Mohammed

July 28, 2022 5:10 am

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described as laghable the threat by terrorirts to abduct President Muhammadu Buhari insisting that such was impossible.

Recall that in a video released at the weekend which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, the abductors of train passengers in Kaduna threatened to kidnap and kill Buhari and Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State.

Addressing reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Buhari at the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday, the minister said the terrorists were also spreading propaganda.

Read Also: Why Buhari Should

…
Harvard Gbajabiamila Apologises To Nigerians After Outrage

Harvard: Gbajabiamila Apologises To Nigerians After Outrage

July 28, 2022 4:59 am

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has described his apologsied who were angered by his decision to post a picture of himself attending a leadership course at Harvard University in the United States of America, saying that his intention was not to be insensitive to the plight of Nigerian students.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Nigerian students are presently suffering from the shutdown of academic activities in public universities due to the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other unions.

Recall that the Speaker had come under serious fire on …

Presidency, Senators Fight Dirty Over Threat To Impeach Buahri

Presidency, Senators Fight Dirty Over Threat To Impeach Buhari

July 28, 2022 4:46 am

Senators have threatened to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over the worsening insecurity in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and other parts of the country at large.

The opposition senators went on to issue a six-week ultimatum to the President to address the security crisis or face impeachment proceedings.

The PDP senators issued the ultimatum on Wednesday as fears over insecurity in Abuja worsened with the government ordering schools to shut to prevent attacks by terrorists.

The Presidency in a statement by the President’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, described the action of the opposition senators as babyish, advising them to put their …

Death Toll Of Philippines’ Massive 7.1 Earthquake Hits Over 100

July 27, 2022 9:01 pm

Reports have revealed that a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck the Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday while badly damaging a hospital and some of the buildings in a northern province and sending strong tremors through the capital, Manila.

This had been confirmed by the United States Geological Survey.

There had been no immediate reports of serious injuries or deaths from the quake, which struck about 11 km (six miles) southeast of the town of Dolores and at a shallow depth of 10 km (6 miles). A hospital in Abra province was evacuated after the building partially collapsed following

…

Pope Francis Schedules Address For Canada’s Political Leaders

July 27, 2022 4:35 pm

Pope Francis has detailed his plans to journey down to Quebec City on Wednesday, where he will be issuing out an address to the political leaders of Canada after he had dedicated the first part of his journey to apologising for the abuse of Indigenous children at Catholic-run schools in the Country.

After two days in the western province of Alberta, during which he begged for forgiveness from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit people of Canada for abuse which had been suffered over the span of a century, the 85-year-old pontiff will fly to Quebec City from Edmonton on …

HURIWA Backs Gov Ortom On Creation Of Armed Vigilantes

Insecurity: Gov Ortom Challenges FG About $1bn Security Fund

July 27, 2022 10:02 am

In lieu of the rising insecurity in the Country, Samuel Ortom who is the Benue State Governor, has thrown an open challenge to the Federal Government of Nigeria to openly give account of the one billion dollars security funds jointly which had been put together by the 36 states of the federation to fight insurgency in the country.

Governor Ortom had also thrown the challenge on Tuesday July 26th, 2022 while addressing some of the journalists at Benue Peoples House, Makurdi shortly before the commencement of the State Security Council meeting.

He wondered what the Federal Government has done with …

Insecurity Terrorism Has Taken Over Nigeria, Falana Cries Out

Insecurity: Terrorism Has Taken Over Nigeria, Falana Cries Out

July 27, 2022 4:14 am

Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has brought depression and hardship calling on the President to resign in the face of growing terror in the land.

Falana made this call while speaking at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) protest in Lagos on Tuesday.

He pointed out Buhari’s remarks that he is eager to leave office as one of the motivations behind his call.

‘The living standards of our people are getting worse by the day. We didn’t vote for a regime to cause hardship in Nigeria and that is what is going …

Emefiele Reps Move To Prohibit CBN Chiefs From Politics

Emefiele: Reps Move To Prohibit CBN Chiefs From Politics

July 27, 2022 3:38 am

The process of barring politicians and those with political links from holding executive posts at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has begun in the House of Representatives after the recent disgracing outing of the current siting Governor for the apex bank.

Politics will also be prohibited for currently employed senior officials of the apex bank.

This is being proposed in the Central Bank of Nigeria (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which is seeking to amend the Central Bank of Nigeria Act 2007, which passed second reading at the plenary on Tuesday.

The legislation is titled ‘A Bill for an Act …

Rivers 2023: I'll Be Clinching Victory Unfailingly - Abe Boasts

Rivers 2023: I’ll Be Clinching Victory Unfailingly – Abe Boasts

July 26, 2022 2:31 pm

Despite the fact that the name of Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, the controversial Rivers State gubernatorial candidate had been conspicuously missing in the list of candidates vetted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. who would be contesting for the Rivers State governorship election in 2023, he has come out to boast that he would be clinching victory in no time as long as he is in the State.

The list which had been published by the INEC had included some of the names of flag bearers of 16 political parties and their running mates who will be on …

Court Nullifies PDP Guber Primary Election In Zamfara

ASUU: Transport, Power Sector May Shut Down As NLC Protests

July 26, 2022 11:11 am

Coming on the heels of the prolonged industrial action which had been embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and some other unions will begin a nationwide solidarity protest today as has been previously announced.

Africa Daily News, New York has also recalled that some of the university lecturers had on February 14, 2022, shut down most of the public universities in Nigeria over the inability of the Federal Government  of Nigeria to fully  implement some of the agreements the two parties entered into in previous years.

Read Also: NLC Issues FG

…
4 More Kidnapped Train Passengers Released By Terrorists

4 More Kidnapped Train Passengers Released By Terrorists

July 26, 2022 5:44 am

About four more kidnapped Abuja-Kaduna Train passengers have been released by terrorists who kidnapped them alongside several others on Monday night. 

Three of them were released on Monday, according to a source privy to the negotiations leading to their freedom from terrorists’ den while the fourth person was released about six days ago.

The kidnap victims include Oluwatoyin Ojo, Hassan Lawan, and Pastor Ayodeji Oyewumi, while Mrs Gladys Brumen was earlier released days ago.

Hassan was one of the kidnap victims who spoke in the latest video released by the terrorists on Saturday, where he called on the international community …

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