August 25, 2021

Zambia’s newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema has promised to rebuild the devastated economy and alleviate poverty as he was sworn in following an election hailed as a milestone for African opposition movements.

Speaking to thousands of jubilant supporters — sporting the red and yellow colours of his United Party for National Development in the Heroes Stadium in Lusaka, 59-year-old Hichilema shouted; ‘We will grow our economy so we can lift more people out of poverty than ever before’.

Hichilema also vowed to restore respect for human rights and liberties eroded under his predecessor.

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Former Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has insisted that comparatively speaking, Nigeria fared better during the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), than what it is currently facing under the All Progressives Congress-led by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Alhaji Abubakar made this assertion on Tuesday when he paid a visit to Akwa Ibom State as part of his tour across the nation to ascertain the state of affairs,

He decried the downward economic situation of the nation which he believes was not so under the PDP administration.

The former Vice president …

Following the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) by bandits in Kaduna in the early hours of Tuesday, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), through its Senior Elders’ Forum, has raised fears that bandits may overrun Aso Rock if proactive steps are not taken to safeguard the presidential villa and the entire country.

Former National President of YCE Dansaaki Samuel Agbede, who spoke with reporters in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Tuesday, stated that the invasion of NDA in which two officers were reportedly killed and one abducted was unprecedented in the history of the Nigerian military.

Agbede, …