The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has commended the Senate for re-amending the Electoral Act Amendment Bill giving room for direct, indirect, and consensus options for nominating candidates for the various political parties in the country.
They commended the Senate for amending clause 84 regarding the mode of candidate selection in the Electoral Act Amendment Bill.
They also urged the House of Representatives to do the same by adding the consensus clause.
They resolved to engage the organized labour on the best approach to take to avoid causing hardship to citizens concerning the fuel subsidy removal.

Former Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar raised concerns over the removal of fuel subsidies.
General Abdulsalami says the country is facing challenges on multiple fronts and a fuel subsidy removal will only compound the situation.
The Federal Government says it plans to discontinue the payment of fuel subsidy by June but the move has been rejected by several stakeholders, including the Nigeria Labour Congress.
General Abdulsalami says Nigeria now faces a food security crisis that is compounded by the COVID-19 global pandemic and the banditry in many states in Northern Nigeria.

US mobile networks AT&T and Verizon have agreed to postpone the rollout of their new 5G service at some airports.
The telecoms firms expressed frustration as they bowed to pressure to limit their rollout.
AT&T says it was temporarily deferring the rollout at a limited number of towers around certain airport runways adding that regulators had had two years to plan for the start of 5G service.
Verizon says it had voluntarily decided to limit our 5G network around airports.

The Finance Ministry says Britain is to crack down on misleading advertisements for crypto assets, which often target retail consumers with poor knowledge of the risks.
The finance ministry says that about 2.3 million people in Britain now own a crypto asset, but research suggests that understanding of the sector is declining, suggesting that some users may not fully understand what they are buying.
Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak says crypto-assets can provide exciting new opportunities, offering people new ways to transact and invest but important that consumers are not being sold products with misleading claims.

The British parliament is expected to debate a motion entitled recognition of Somaliland which has been tabled by MP Gavin Williamson.
Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but it is not recognised as an independent state by the African Union or the United Nations.
Somaliland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed the motion and urged Somalilanders in the UK to contact their respective MPs.
Local governments in the British cities of Sheffield, Cardiff and Birmingham support Somaliland's independence, but the British government does not.

President Tayyip Erdogan says that he was pleased with the lessening in lira volatility and that the government was working on steps to increase interest in the Turkish currency.
State-owned Anadolu news agency reports that the president said the lira will get firmer, interest rates will fall in the same way, and 2022 will be our brightest year.
He says they are quite pleased with the lessening volatility in the exchange rate adding that their additional work is continuing on maintaining stability in financial markets and boosting interest in the lira.

The South African government is collaborating with the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development to promote the development of green hydrogen in the country.
Minister Mondli Gungubele says the German ministry would be supporting the project with at least €12.5 million in funding.
Gungubele added that the Investment and Infrastructure Office in the Presidency has also pledged its support to a project by energy giant Sasol and the German government supported the H2Global initiative to produce sustainable aviation fuel to the international community.

Kenya has extended the suspension of all inbound and transit passenger flights from the United Arab Emirates for a further seven days.
The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority, Director General Gilbert Kibe, says this because of the impasse between the two countries which he says is still persisting.
The Dubai Aviator regulator had pointed out that the middle eastern country had banned all inbound and transit passenger flights from Kenya because travellers were testing positive for Covid-19 after arrival despite carrying negative test results.

Kenya’s highest court began weighing a legal bid to revive government plans to shake up the country’s political system, just months ahead of crucial elections.
The Supreme Court ruling on the proposed constitutional changes, expected after three days of hearings this week, may have major consequences for the August 9 presidential and parliamentary polls.
The government is seeking to overturn court rulings that had dealt a blow to President Uhuru Kenyatta and his allies by rejecting the reforms and the way they were introduced as unconstitutional.

The trial of the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu stalled on Tuesday after he objected to the fresh charges brought against him by the Federal Government.
The Federal Government had filed fresh terrorism charges against the detained leader of the proscribed IPOB leader before the Federal High Court.
Kanu objected to the fresh charges bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism, against him, increased to 15.
The court is now expected to reconvene on Wednesday, January 19, for him to take his plea.