Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Monday disclosed that he was abandoning a legal bid to overturn the results of last month’s presidential election, accusing the judiciary of lack of independence and favouring veteran ruler Yoweri Museveni.
The 76-year-old former rebel leader won a sixth term in office on January 14 with 58 percent of the vote. Wine, a 39-year-old singer-turned-lawmaker, came second with 35 percent and decried the election as a sham.
He filed a petition in the Supreme Court on February 1 challenging the result, alleging voter intimidation, the abduction of his party officials, and widespread rigging including …
A Rwandan opposition figure who has been in exile in South Africa was on Sunday shot dead by unknown gunmen in Cape Town, his party has said, calling the attack an ‘assassination’.
Seif Bamporiki, 49, who was the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) coordinator in South Africa, was killed as he delivered furniture in the crime-ridden township of Nyanga.
Although the intentions of his killers is yet unknown, RNC spokesperson Etienne Mutabazi told newsmenthat the method mirrored past politically-motivated attacks.
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The killing ‘was executed in a similar modus operandi of luring …
Crude oil price accounts for a large chunk of the final cost of petrol, and the deregulation of petrol price by the Federal Government last year means that the pump price of the product will reflect changes in the international oil market.
Going by the petrol pricing template of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, the landing cost of petrol rose to ₦186.33 per litre on February 16, with the pump
No fewer than 500,000 people have died of Corona Virus in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University data, it is by far the highest death toll by far of any country in the world right now.
The US reached the mind-blogging tally on Monday, just about a year after the first known death was reported in the state of California during the administration of Ex-president Trump.
‘Today, we mark a truly heartbreaking milestone – 500,071 dead,‘ US President Joe Biden said after a moment of silence was observed on Monday evening at the White House, which was …
United Kingdom Prime minister, Boris Johnson has announced a new four-step plan to ease England’s lockdown that could see all legal restrictions on social contact lifted by 21 June, if stipulated strict conditions are met.
Under new plans set out by the PM, Shops, hairdressers, gyms, and outdoor hospitality could reopen on 12 April in England.
Next from 17 May, two households might be allowed to mix in homes, while the rule of six could apply in places like pubs.
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It requires four tests on vaccines, infection rates, and new coronavirus
Former Barcelona striker, Luis Suarez has revealed that the most disappointing aspect of his departure from his former employers was that the club said he was ‘too old’ to perform at the highest level.
Recall that Suarez left Barca for Atletico last September, in a transfer Barcelona captain, Lionel Messi described as ‘crazy’, and since then he has gone a long way to prove to the club that they were hasty in their actions by firing his new team to the top of the La Liga standings.
However, the 34-year-old Uruguayan is happy in his new abode, despite admitting it …
The presence of a new variant of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Nigeria and 15 other countries, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed on Thursday.
The center’s director-general Chikwe Ihekweazu made the disclosure at Monday’s joint briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19
Although according to him the new strain, B.1.2.5 which is different from the highly infectious B.1.1.7, has not been described as a variant of concern yet.
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He went further to say that researchers and scientists were still working hard to understand …
Dennis Amachree who is a former assistant director of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Monday, explained what he believes was why security agents who were ordered to rescue victims of Kagara abduction didn’t engage the bandits in a gun battle, according to him, they did so to avoid collateral damage.
Amachree stated this on Channels Television morning show: ‘Sunrise Daily which was monitored by our corresponddents’, while noting that the bandits could easily use the captives as a human shield if the security forces had engaged them in a battle.
According to him, the compound where the popular …
Following the recent closed-door meeting between former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Reconciliation and Strategy Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by a former President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki fresh facts from that meeting indicates that the former president complained of neglect by his party.
A source privy to the meeting told to correspondents anonymously over the weekend that Jonathan complained to the Saraki-led committee that the PDP left him in the dark, without any role assigned to him.
According to the source, Jonathan told the committee that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was trying to …
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS has revealed that 1, 354, 314 out of the 1.9 million Nigerians living with HIV are now on treatment across the country.
In commemoration of its 14th anniversary, a report titled, ‘Stewardship of the HIV Response in Nigeria 2007-2021’ was published by NACA which buttresses this claim.
The report states that when NACA was established in 2007, only 124, 567 Nigerians were on treatment. The new figure represents an increase of 987 percent.
A further probe of the report would show that between July 2019 and December 2020, the number of …
The arraignment of former Minister of Aviation, Sen. Stella Oduah, at the Federal High Court, Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday was stalled.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that the case could not commence due to the commission’s inability to present two suspects in the trial.
The counsel to the EFCC, Dr. Hassan Liman, SAN, at the mention of the case before Justice Inyang Ekwo, told the court that the 5th and 6th suspect in the matter were yet to be served with the court processes.
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The Senate Committee on Public petition, Ethics and Privileges has issued a warrant of arrest on the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ayo Akinyelure issued the order following the management’s failure to honour the invitation of the Senate panel to account for how the sum of ₦2.6 billion palliative fund which was released by the Federal Government was spent.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that the Senate panel which began the investigation of the alleged misappropriation of ₦2.6 billion palliative fund has been finding it difficult to have the NDDC management …
