MALI RENAMES COLONIAL FRENCH STREET NAMES. (PHOTO).

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 Mali renames colonial French street names Mali followed Burkina Faso and Niger on Wednesday in renaming streets and squares in its capital to get rid of their French colonial names, AFP reported. Streets bearing the names of members of France's colonial administration have been rebaptised in Bamako, according to a decree by the junta chief. Cedeao Avenue (the French acronym for the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS) is also now named after a new strategic confederation that Mali has formed with Burkina Faso and Niger – the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). In all, nearly 25 names have been replaced, among them boulevards, streets, squares and public establishments. Niger and Burkina Faso have already made several changes to street and monument names in the last two years. In October, Niger renamed several historic sites in its capital Niamey which previously bore references to old colonial master France. Mali has been ruled by the military since back-to-back coups ...

1,331 GANDUJE'S KINSMEN DUMP APC FOR NNPP IN KANO. (PHOTO).


 1,331 Ganduje’s kinsmen dump APC for NNPP in Kano


No less than 1,331 All Progressives Congress, APC, members from the Dawakin Tofa hometown of the National Chairman of the Party, Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje have decamped to the ruling New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kano State.


The decampees, said to be mainly from 11 wards of Ganduje’s Dawakin-Tofa local government area, vowed to work against the return of APC in Kano.


Prominent among the former APC leaders who decamped to the NNPP included a former Vice Chairman, Dawakin-Tofa local government area, Malam Isyaku Dahiru Kwa, former state House of Assembly aspirant, Hon. Audu Magaji Tumfafi, Bashir Musa Sani, APC Youth Leader for Takai Organization, among others.


Receiving the defectors at a grand  reception held at Dawakin-Tofa, State Chairman of NNPP, Alhaji Hashimu Sulaiman Dungurawa applauded the ingenuity of the Ganduje’s kinsmen for deciding to dump APC.


One of the leaders of the decampees, Isyaku Dahiru Kwa alleged that Ganduje’s inability to develop Dawakin-Tofa local government area during his eight years tenure was the major reason for their decision.


Kwa also claimed that the former governor lacked ability to manage the affairs of the party at the national level.


Dungurawa, responding, declared that NNPP under the spiritual leadership of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was committed to entrenching socio-economic and infrastructural development in Kano.


While assuring the newest members of NNPP equal opportunity within the party caucus, Dungurawa dispelled rumour of mass defection of NNPP members to APC.


According to Dungurawa, “we learnt one APC man has been receiving members of NNPP into APC.


“Let me remind the Abuja man that we have checked the roll call of our members and we have not noticed any reduction in the volume of our numerical strength.


“Perhaps, I need to advise the Abuja APC man to shine his eye and beware of 419 people coming to collect the public fund in his disposal in the name of decampees.


“In any ways, we would not blame anyone claiming to have decamped from NNPP to APC simply to collect his own share from the disposable income”.

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