Voters In Senegal Select New President Amidst Political Crisis
As the dust settles from recent political unrest, eligible voters in Ndiaganiao have eagerly participated in the electoral process, in the spirit of democracy in Senegal. With President Macky Sall’s tenure coming to an end due to term limits, seventeen contenders throw their hats into the ring, each aspiring to assume the highest office in […]
Nigeria Ranks High In Global Aviation Safety, Security Audit
Nigeria has shone brightly in the recently concluded International Civil Aviation Organization Universal Safety Audit Programme Continuous Monitoring Approach. This announcement came from Obiageli Orah, the Director of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, in a statement on Saturday evening. “The objective of the USAP-CMA was to promote global […]
Plateau: Commissioner Affirms Dedication To SME Development
Ephraim Usman, the Commissioner responsible for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Plateau State, spoke confidently of Governor Caleb Mutfwang’s administration’s dedication to fostering the growth of small businesses through substantial support. Usman delivered these insights while giving a keynote address at a gathering of entrepreneurs and stakeholders convened in Jos, the state capital, on […]
I Won’t Fight Drug Cartels On US Orders – Mexico’s President
The President of Mexico has declared he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels just because the United States ordered him to do so, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Africa Today News, New York reports that over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has churned out various justifications for […]
State Police Will End Insecurity In Nigeria, Atiku Insists
A former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has reiterated his call for the establishment of the state police to improve the deteriorating security crisis in the country. This is coming less than 24 hours after Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde described the submission of memoranda on state police by governors as a waste of […]
Biden Signs $1.2 Trillion Funding Package, Averts Shutdown
The President of the United States, Joe Biden has ended the threat of a partial government shutdown as he signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after the United States Congress passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier. In the statement on Sunday morning, Biden said; “The bipartisan funding bill I just signed […]
19 Killed As Israeli Forces Open Fire On Gaza Aid Seekers
No fewer than19 Palestinians have been killed following an Israeli attack which was said to have targeted civilians who were waiting for aid southeast of Gaza City, Gaza’s Ministry of Health and its Media Office said. Gaza’s media office said in a statement on Sunday that “The Israeli occupation commits a massacre, killing 19 and […]
Moscow Attack: Putin Vows Retribution As Death Toll Hits 133
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin has vowed to severely punish those behind what has been described as a “barbaric terrorist attack” on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130, disclosing that Russia had arrested four gunmen who were trying to flee to Ukraine. Kyiv has strongly denied any connection, and Putin made […]
Netherlands Constructs Safe Toilets For 800,000 In Nigeria
No fewer than eight hundred thousand villagers in the northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe will now have access to safe toilet facilities which was made possible by the government of the Netherlands through its partnership with the government of Nigeria at various levels. The programme which was tagged Accelerating Sanitation and Water for […]
APGA Berates Ganduje Over Comment On Anambra State
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has offered a strong reponse to the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, over his comments that the decision of Anambranians to remain in APGA has caused the state politically dislocated. Mr. Ejimofor Opara who is the National Publicity Secretary of APGA, who reacted to […]
Nigeria’s Debt Soared To ₦97.34tn In Q4 2023 – DMO
Africa’s most populous country – Nigeria’s public debt rose to ₦97.34trn ($108bn) as of the fourth quarter of 2023 according to data released by the Debt Management Office (DMO). DMO made this known in a statement which was obtained by Africa Today News, New York on Sunday. The Federal Government’s new domestic borrowing programmes were […]
How We Secured Release Of Abducted School Children – Sani
Two weeks after they were taken away in what was one of Nigeria’s largest mass kidnapping in years, scores of schoolchildren abducted from Kuriga, Kaduna have were on Saturday night released by their captors. Africa Today News, New York recalls that the students, numbering 287, were kidnapped when the gunmen on motorcycles rode through their […]