Nigeria Now Divided Than Ever Before, Needs Healing –Obasanjo
A former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has asserted that Nigeria is currently more divided than it has ever been after the 2023 general elections, stressing that the country needs healing. He advocated national reconciliation in order to enhance the healing needed for national peace and cohesion. Obasanjo said this on Thursday at the Yaradua […]
Zimbabwe Set To Criminalise Foreign Recruitment Of Doctors
Zimbabwe has concluded plans to a law in place that will criminalise the recruitment of its health personnel by other countries, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has revealed. Mr Chiwenga, who is also the health minister, said the drain of health care professionals was as good as human trafficking. He said stiffer penalties will be imposed on […]
2023: Real Reason I Refused To Endorse Anyone – Soyinka
Nigerian Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has opened up on the real reason behind his decision not to endorse any candidate in the 2023 elections. Soyinka made this known in an interview on Channels Television’s Roadmap 2023 which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York. The Nobel laureate described the 2023 elections as “not […]
You Are Desecrating Office Of Minister, Afenifere Hits Lai
Pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has come down hard on Nigeria’s Minister of Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed over his stance that the 2023 general election was credible. Afenifere, in a statement issued by its Secretary-General, Sola Ebiseni, asserted that the minister was not sincere in his claims. The group maintained that Mohammed’s plan to give […]
NNPC Indicted By Senate Over ₦102bn Crude Oil Deliveries
The Nigerian Senate has indicted Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited accusing it of poor record-keeping for crude oil deliveries to Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company and Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company worth $376, 655,589 (₦102.6bn). The indictment was captured from the 2016 Auditor General report submitted and presented by Senator Mathew Uhroghide, which was upheld […]
Ekweremadu: Obasanjo Writes UK Court, Pleads For Clemency
Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday wrote to the Chief Clerk of the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London, making a case for clemency for former deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, who was recently convicted for organ harvesting in the United Kingdom. In a letter dated the 3rd of April, […]
I Am Under Intense Pressure To Leave Nigeria – Peter Obi
Mr. Peter Obi who is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party has revealed that he is being pressured to leave the county with attacks against his person emanating from different quarters. Obi, who made this known in a statement on Wednesday night on his Twitter handle, also went on to add that the leaked […]
Antisemitism: It Is Time To Speak Up To Save America – Biden
The President of the United States, Joe Biden has sent out an appeal to citizens to remember, speak out, as well as act to restore the soul of America together. Biden stated this in his passover message titled, ‘My message to the Jewish community this Passover,’ delivered on Wednesday which was monitored by Africa Today […]
Davido’s ‘Timeless’ Becomes 1st African Album To Top US Chart
Nigerian Afrobeats superstar, David Adeleke, aka Davido, has officially broken an African record on the US iTunes Albums Chart with his new album ‘Timeless’. This is as the album topped the chart on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, making history in the process as the first African album to reach Number 1 in the world’s biggest […]
Nigeria’s 2023 Election Was Credible — Lai Mohammed
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari actually delivered on his pledge to leave behind a legacy of free, fair and credible elections through the conduct of the 2023 election. Mohammed made this known in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations. He went […]
We Didn’t Leak Obi’s Phone Conversation With Oyedepo – NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has come out to debunk reports that it was complicit in the move to tarnish the image of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, by tracking and leaking a controversial phone conversation Obi had with Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church. […]
Nigeria More Divided Now Than During Civil War – Sanusi
A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Muhammed Sanusi, has asserted that Nigeria has never been this divided since the Civil War of 1967 to 1970 warning of a looming danger. He said the country, because of the elections, was now ‘dangerously divided along ethnic and religious lines’, adding that it had […]