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Saturday, 20 March 2021 06:02

The woman who is Tanzania’s new president

On Wednesday evening she had the task of announcing to Tanzanians that President John Magufuli had died and now Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan has taken his place as the country's head of state. First elected as Magufuli's running mate in 2015, she was re-elected last year along with him and, according to the constitution, she should serve out the rest of the five-year term in the top job. She becomes Africa's only current female national leader - the Ethiopian presidency is a largely ceremonial role - and joins a short list of women on the continent to have run their…

Thursday, 18 March 2021 05:57

Southern, Middle Belt leaders: We’ll continue to stay in Nigeria only under the following terms

Leaders of Southern Nigeria and Middle-Belt, under the aegis of Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS), yesterday, set modalities to extricate their people from what they described as the “contraption called Nigeria.” At a world press conference at New Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State, Chairman of NINAS, Banji Akintoye, and other leaders of the group, comprised of indigenous nations and people of southern and Middle-Belt of Nigeria, complained of injustice in the country and contradictions in the polity and 1999 Constitution. The press conference was organised at the expiration of a 90-day notice of grave constitutional grievances Issued by NINAS…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 16:49

Ghana Supreme Court Upholds Akufo-Addo’s Election Victory

Ghana’s Supreme Court has upheld Nana Akufo-Addo’s victory in the December presidential election, dismissing allegations of irregularities. Opposition candidate, and former President John Mahama, had filed a petition asking the court to annul the results of the elections and order a rerun because of alleged irregularities. But the court ruled that Mr Akufo-Addo had obtained more than 50% (51.295%) of total valid votes and that the electoral commission’s corrections of the declared results did not significantly impact the outcome. According to the court, the declaration of the results was therefore legal and represented the will of the people. Mr Mahama’s…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 16:32

Chad President, Idris Deby, Cleared to Run For Sixth Term - After 30 years in power

Chad’s supreme court has cleared President Idris Deby, who has been in power for 30 years, to seek a sixth term in office in the 11 April presidential election. He faces nine other candidates who were qualified by the supreme court, including his main and historical rival, Saleh Kebzabo. The inclusion of Mr Kebzabo, who had on Monday withdrawn his candidacy, has raised questions. The opposition leader had cited the “obvious militarisation of the political climate” following the deadly attempt by security forces to arrest another opposition candidate, Yaya Dillo, at his home in the capital, N’Djamena. The 28 February…

Friday, 26 February 2021 05:25

Deadly protests rock Niger over contested election result

Supporters of the losing presidential candidate in Niger set several buildings on fire, burnt tyres and threw rocks at the police on Thursday, as the authorities announced that two people had been killed in post-election protests this week. The national electoral commission on Tuesday declared ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum winner of Sunday’s runoff election with 55.75% of the vote, but his rival, Mahamane Ousmane, a former president, has alleged fraud and claimed he won with 50.3%. Since then, two people have been killed and 468 detained during protests by Ousmane’s supporters in the capital Niamey, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada…

Wednesday, 24 February 2021 05:33

Niger ruling party's Bazoum declared winner of presidential election

Ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum was declared winner of Niger’s presidential election on Tuesday while his opponent alleged fraud and opposition supporters burned tyres in the streets. Bazoum, a 61-year-old former interior minister, won 55.75% of the vote in Sunday’s election, according to the electoral commission. He beat Mahamane Ousmane, a former president who was toppled by a coup in 1996. The provisional results must still be confirmed by the constitutional court. The election is meant to usher in Niger’s first transition from one democratically elected leader to another, with President Mahamadou Issoufou stepping down after two five-year terms. “I…

Sunday, 21 February 2021 05:11

Niger votes in presidential runoff to usher in first democratic transition

Niger votes today (Sunday) in the second round of a presidential election that is expected to usher in the first democratic transition of power since the West African nation gained independence from France in 1960. Ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum is seen by many as the favourite after leading in the first round on Dec. 27 with 39.3% of the vote. He is up against former President Mahamane Ousmane, who scored 17%. Bazoum, a 61-year-old politician who had held several top positions in outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou’s governments including the foreign and interior ministries, is backed by the candidates who…

Tuesday, 16 February 2021 05:18

Leader of Anglican Church advocates massive Christian participation towards 2023

Christians have been urged to come out in encouraging numbers to register in any of the political parties for the 2023 General Elections. Making the call is the Archbishop Metropolitan and Primate of Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion, Henry Ndukuba, while delivering his Opening Address to the Standing Committee Meeting of the Church at All Saints Cathedral Onitsha recently. He said this was the right time for Christians to register in any party of their choice "and be involved in the activities of the party from the ward level to the national". Ndukuba further emphasized that with what was going…

Sunday, 14 February 2021 04:17

Trump not guilty in impeachment trial: What verdict means for Trump, Biden and America

Only five days after it began, Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial has concluded. As was widely predicted, the final verdict was that the former president was not guilty of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol last month. There have now been four presidential impeachment trials in US history, and this one was by far the shortest. What it lacked in duration, however, it will make up in consequence. A precedent - a former president standing trial - was set. Reputations were burnished and tarnished. And a tumultuous stage was set for political battles to come. Here's a look at…

Monday, 08 February 2021 03:59

APC registration exercise offers unique opportunity for youth to lead - Olaosebikan

Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee for the Membership Registration and Revalidation Exercise of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Kehinde Olaosebikan, has said the ongoing exercise offers a unique opportunity for the Nigerian youths to achieve all the positive things they set to achieve with the #EndSARS protests if they are prepared to end the passivity of quality youths in active politics. He also said all the youths need do is to register for the party in good numbers at their various polling units and form the majority from the grassroots, where the lines of leadership and control begin.…

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Sunday, 31 January 2021 06:09

Senate president, govs, APC chieftains ‘swarm’ Daura as Buhari revalidates party membership

President Muhammadu Buhari has revalidated his membership of All Progressive Congress (APC) in his constituency in Daura, Katsina State, declaring that there will no longer be endorsements from Abuja. The President, accompanied by APC Caretaker Committee members, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, Governors and other party members, said his objective was to ensure that the party is returned to the people at the grassroots, progressing upwards from polling unit, to ward, to the local government, to state and federal level. “No more crowning from Abuja downward. Let the people know this and appreciate it that they are in charge of their…

Thursday, 28 January 2021 05:08

Tinubu won’t speak about criminal herdsmen because he believes Buhari would make him president - Ayo Adebanjo

Ayo Adebanjo, chieftain of Afenifere, the Yoruba socio-political group, says Bola Tinubu is afraid to speak on the activities of some herders in the south-west because he does not want to offend President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking in an online interview with The PUNCH, on Wednesday, Adebanjo said Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), believes Buhari will make him president in 2023 so he does not want to oppose the president. Although Tinubu has not declared that he will be running for president, the APC chieftain is rumoured to be nursing the ambition to lead the country in…

Wednesday, 27 January 2021 05:16

Why convicting Trump in Senate impeachment trial just got a lot harder

Donald Trump left Washington DC almost a week ago, but he continues to cast a long shadow over the Republican Party in Congress. In the first on-the-record test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted to stop the trial before it even starts. After the vote Rand Paul, who pushed for the dismissal, crowed that the impeachment article delivered by the House on Monday was "dead on arrival". He's probably right. It would take 17 Republican senators breaking ranks and…

Friday, 22 January 2021 05:56

Restructuring not sufficient to solve Nigeria’s problems - Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the quest for restructuring may not work until issues that divide Nigerians are resolved. Jonathan stated this on Thursday at the 18th Daily Trust Dialogue. He lamented how divisive politics and mistrust have retarded the progress of the country. The former president, whose administration convened the 2014 National Conference, prioritised restructuring as a way forward for the country but not without love and unifying leaders. Against the country’s prevailing ethnic and religious borderlines, he urged Nigerian leaders to encourage a “healthy conversation on restructuring and reforms that stir national pride and love and faith…

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