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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that deliberate efforts by agents of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Federal Government to de-market Rivers State are counter-productive to the interest of the nation. Speaking at a state dinner organised for the contestants of Miss University Africa Beauty Pageant on Friday …

  By Bushrah Yusuf-Badmus The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said it would grant financial subsidy of $500,000 (about N175 million) to all five African representatives at the forthcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup. The continental football governing body said the decision was taken by its Executive Committee and other …

By Ismaila Chafe   A Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s contributions to the just concluded 5th AU-EU summit in Abidjan as cogent, timely and highly perceptive. Shehu, who is the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, stated this in a statement issued in …

President Muhammadu Buhari and his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday expressed concern that political instability in Togo, if not averted, could have regional consequences. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media & Publicity, both leaders expressed the view during a bilateral meeting …

By Ismaila Chafe  President Muhammadu Buhari will join other Heads of State in Aqaba, Jordan on December 2, to review strategies for fighting terrorism. The summit would also look at ways of reinforcing joint security structures that would be more proactive in preventing attacks. The President’s Special Adviser on Media …

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday night in Abidjan declared that all Nigerians stranded in Libya and other parts of the world will be brought home and rehabilitated. The President while speaking when he addressed Nigerians in the Diaspora, vowed to reduce the number of Nigerians heading for Europe illegally …

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, for the 5th European Union-African Union (EU-AU) Summit slated for Nov. 29 and Nov. 30. The President was received at the Houphet Airport by Ivoiren President Alassane Ouattara. Those on the President’s entourage include governors Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom …

President/CEO, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has been described as the ‘Pride of the Black Race’. Governor of Kano state, Dr. Umar Ganduje, who was speaking at Dangote Special Day, Monday said Nigeria is lucky to be blessed with someone like Aliko Dangote who has made Nigeria and indeed, Africa proud …

  Salvador Allande’s lifelong goal was the presidency of his country, Chile. During his fourth try at elections to achieve this goal, he used to tell his followers that the route to power for a Marxist was not through violence but by la via pacifica -the peaceful route through the …

Many years after it was conceived, the Zamfara-Sokoto-Kebbi-Tahoua cross border trade route has finally become a reality with its official launch in Sokoto Tuesday. The event, which held in Sokoto Government House, had in attendance Governors Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Sokoto and Kebbi states, as well as …

Cecilia Ijuo Cross River Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has charged the National Assembly, NASS, to live up to its responsibility of repositioning the country’s economy. The governor made the call at the opening of Southern Senators Forum on Friday in Calabar, with “National Unity and Restructuring’’ as theme. He said …

A South African court on Friday, increased Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’ jail sentence from six years to 13 years and five months for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. “The appeal against sentence is upheld … The respondent is sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 13 years and five months,” Judge …

Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in on Friday as President of Zimbabwe in Harare, bringing the final curtain down on the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe. Taking his oath of office, the 75-year-old former security chief known as ‘The Crocodile’ vowed to uphold the constitution of the former British colony and …

The African Union (AU) on Wednesday welcomed the resignation of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Moussa Mahamat, Chairperson of the AU Commission in a statement said Tuesday’s decision will go down in history as an act of statesmanship that can only bolster Mugabe’s political legacy. Mugabe resigned on Tuesday after pressure …

China said on Wednesday that it respects Robert Mugabe’s decision to resign as Zimbabwe’s president, a week after the African country’s army and Mugabe’s former political allies moved to end his four decades of rule. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang made the remark during a news conference, adding that …

  President Muhammadu Buhari has described the early Tuesday morning suicide bomb blast in a mosque in Mubi, Adamawa State as “very cruel and dastardly.” A statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), said that while commiserating with families of the several victims, government …

  By Harrison Arubu  The Hearing Office of Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has dismissed complaints of electoral fraud that has stalled the run-off presidential elections. According to local media, the officer in charge, Mr Muana Ville, trashed the complaints on the ground that the party did not substantiate the …

By Ahmed Ubandoma  The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has expressed her commitment to improving lives of women and children. Mrs Buhari said this shortly after she was invested as the Global Grand Patron of Nigeria-Morocco women summit in Marrakech, Morocco. She was decorated during the maiden edition …

  Kenya’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta in last month’s repeat presidential vote. Chief Justice, David Maraga, said the court dismissed two legal challenges to the vote in a unanimous decision by six judges. “As a consequence, the presidential election of Oct. 26 is …

  By Temitope Ponle  Centre for Strategic Research and Studies of the National Defence College has called on the Federal Government to enhance synergy with the international community to address the anglophone crisis in Cameroon. This formed part of recommendations of its Foreign Policy and National Security Roundtable on the …

  Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, arrived at a university graduation ceremony in the capital on Friday, his first public appearance since a military seizure of power that political sources say is aimed at ending his 37 years in office. Wearing a blue and yellow academic gown and mortar board hat, …

The Federal Government says it is following police investigations on the death of two Nigerians in South Africa. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja on Wednesday, signed by the Spokesperson, Mr Tope Elias-Fatile, said their death occurred in two separate incidents. “The mission informs that the …