Two years after deadly protests that paved the way for Chile to finally shed its dictatorship-era constitution, elections take place Sunday for a new president to take over in a fast-changing political landscape.
Just months after a poll to select a constitution-drafting body saw voters massively reject traditional political parties in charge since democracy dawned 31 years ago, there are now seven candidates to replace the unpopular President Sebastian Pinera.
The contenders cover the entire political spectrum from left to right, with centrists proving the least popular in opinion polls that also revealed half of the 15 million eligible voters …
An extremely rare original copy of the US constitution was sold Thursday for $43 million — a world record for a historical document at auction, Sotheby’s said.
It is one of only 11 known surviving copies of the US charter, signed on September 17, 1787, at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall by America’s founding fathers, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison, and ratified the following year.
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The winning bidder was not immediately identified.
A group of cryptocurrency investors had raised $40 million to buy the document but failed to secure the document, …
President Muhammadu Buhari has said releasing Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally will negate the principles of separation of powers between the Executive and Judiciary.
The President, has, however, promised to consider the request of some Southeast elders who were at the statehouse earlier on Friday to discuss the security situation in the region.
Buhari had made the promise when he received a group under the aegis of Highly Respected Igbo Greats, led by First Republic parliamentarian and Minister of Aviation, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, at State House, Abuja.
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Chief Mbazulike Amaechi had pleaded …
Garba Shehu said Nigeria was included on the list of religious violators after Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, paid millions of dollars to spread falsehood against President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
The Senior Special Assistant, Media, and Publicity to President Buhari stated this while reacting to the removal of Nigeria from the religion blacklist by the Biden-led government of the United States of America.
Shehu, in a statement titled WHAT BIDEN’S REMOVAL OF NIGERIA FROM RELIGIOUS VIOLATION WATCHLIST MEANS said Nigeria should have never been on the list.
According to him, IPOB paid right-wing American lobbyists to spread falsehoods against the …
The Nigeria Union of Railway Workers (NURW), has vowed to continue its strike until it has clear and convincing reasons to suspend the strike.
The workers made this known as the three-day warning strike reached its second day.
The President, NURW, Mr. Innocent Ajiji, however, said that the union is willing to negotiate with the management of the Nigeria Railway Corporation.
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Ajiji said the union hopes that the meeting with the management would yield a positive result.
…He said: ‘If nothing positive comes out, we will have to complete our
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has said that it has rescued 100 children and apprehended 120 suspected traffickers within six months in Akwa Ibom.
Mr Ubong Ekwere, Uyo Zonal Commander of NAPTIP, disclosed this on Friday while giving updates on the activities of the command since he took charge six months ago.
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He said the trend of human trafficking in the state had changed, warning parents and guardians to be more vigilant about whereabouts of their children at any point in time.
…‘We
The United States has warned pilots that planes flying in or out of Ethiopia’s main international airport could be ‘directly or indirectly exposed to ground weapons fire and/or surface-to-air fire’ if the country’s spiralling conflict nears the capital, Addis Ababa.
A Federal Aviation Administration advisory cited the ‘ongoing clashes’ between Ethiopian forces and fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), as the reason for the warning to pilots operating from the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the warning was issued on Thursday, a day after the US urged its citizens to leave …
Former Cameroonian football star, Samuel Eto’o on Thursday officially filed his candidacy for the presidency of the country’s football federation promising he would be the ‘next president despite the cheating’.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Eto’o, a four-time African footballer of the year, was accompanied by a crowd of supporters as he submitted his bid at the Cameroonian federation’s headquarters in Yaounde.
‘I urge the opposite camp to be careful because we have accepted lots of things,’ Eto’o told reporters.
The 40-year-old ex-Barcelona and Inter Milan striker said the current leadership had offered him a position as vice-president, …
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that about four men were killed in a shootout in a frontier town near the western border with Congo while attempting to cross back into Uganda. A fifth man, a cleric named Muhammad Kirevu, was killed in ‘a violent confrontation’ when security forces raided his home outside Kampala, police spokesman Fred Enanga said.
A second cleric, Suleiman Nsubuga, is
The Senator representing Borno South in the Senate, Ali Ndume on Thursday described the recent attack on Taraba State by some Ambazonia forces as ‘more of communal or tribal conflict’ and not an affront to Nigeria’s territorial integrity as insinuated in some quarters.
Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that some suspected Ambazonian soldiers had earlier in the week stormed Manga village in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing 11 persons including a traditional ruler.
While the development had raised concerns over Nigeria’s territorial integrity, Ndume has now come in defence of Nigeria, maintaining that Wednesday’s …
