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FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, died on Thursday aged 85, his foundation announced.

De Klerk and South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for leading the “miracle” transition from white rule in the country.

He died after a battle with cancer, his foundation said in a statement.

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De Klerk had announced his diagnosis on his 85th birthday, on March 18 this year.

‘It is with the deepest sadness that the FW de Klerk Foundation must announce that former president FW

The National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (Retd) has explained why he feels that Secessionists groups in the West African region were gaining global attention because of the influence, support, and sympathy they get from their foreign counterparts.

The NSA, who made this known at the Nigeria International Partnership Forum in Paris, also said that most of Nigeria’s contemporary security problems were influenced or heightened by external threat factors in the global environment.

Mungono, in a paper he presented titled ‘Combating persistent and emerging threats to regional peace and security In Africa: pivotal role of Nigeria’, pointed …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced plans to travel to Nigeria, Kenya, and Senegal next week, where he is expected to discuss ways to end the Covid-19 pandemic and battle climate change.

According to a statement made available by his spokesman, Blinken will meet with the president of each country to ‘advance US-Africa collaboration on shared global priorities,’ state department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.

Other topics of conversation on the agenda for the Monday to Saturday trip include revitalizing democracies, advancing peace and security, and a more inclusive global economy, Price said.

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The United States has expressed strong support for the moves by former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo to intervene in the crisis between the government and the rebel forces in a bid to bring to an end the ongoing civil strife in Ethiopia.

The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken spoke with Obasanjo, the African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa on Wednesday on the urgent need for a halt to all military operations, negotiations on a cessation of hostilities without preconditions, and unhindered humanitarian access.

Fighters from Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray and their allies are pressing south toward …

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the just-concluded governorship election in Anambra State, Senator Andy Uba, has rejected the election results announced in court vowing to challenge it in court.

Uba stated that he was surprised that the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), a party he described a weak, won the election ahead of his party, the APC.

The result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, shows that Prof. Charles Soludo polled the highest vote in the election followed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Valentine Ozigbo while Uba finished on third …

The Police at Force headquarters on Thursday paraded no fewer than 14 suspects over last week’s invasion of the Abuja residence of Supreme Court Justice, Mary Odili, describing them as impostors who were unknown to any of the nation’s security forces.

Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba who paraded the suspects at Force Criminal Investigations Department, said one of them is a fake Chief Superintendent of Police, (CSP Lawrence Ajojo) while seven (7) others who are still at large conspired to raid the residence following information that the Supreme Court Justice was keeping a large sum of money …

Controversial Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi has predicted that Nigeria would face a more dangerous security situation if proactive measures are not taken to curtail the ethnic crisis in the country.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Gumi, who has been advocating amnesty for the bandits terrorising parts of the North, insists that activities of the criminal elements and how it is been handled by the security agencies may lead to religious terrorism.

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In a recent video posted on his official Facebook page, the Islamic cleric alleged that a …

The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu has re-echoed that he is not joining the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), in Nigeria anytime soon, pointing out that he is comfortable being a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Governor Ikpeazu who stated this while responding to the invitation by the President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan to join the APC, restated that he will remain in the Peoples Democratic Party to continue unrelentingly in providing dividends of democracy to every doorstep of the Abia people.

According to him, ‘I don’t have any plans of joining the …

The Nigerian government has indicated that it is open to all kinds of solutions, including a political solution in order to resolve the crisis surrounding separatist agitations in the south east and south west parts of the country.

Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN on Wednesday in Abuja gave the indication in a chat with some journalists.

The AGF who noted that criminal conducts would never go unpunished, however, remarked that the government has been using the amnesty policy to tackle some security challenges in the country and as such, the possibility …

The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has carpeted the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, for not doing enough to protect the interest of the Niger Delta region in the ₦621.2 billion road projects to be undertaken across the country by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

The IYC in a statement signed on Wednesday by its President, Peter Timothy Igbifa, said the youths would not rest until Sylva took expected steps to remedy the injustice done to the region in the distribution of the 21 road projects.

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Charles Soludo, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in Anambra has thanked the people for his victory.

On Wednesday, the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) gave a victory speech following the results declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Titled, “A Divine Journey Whose Time Has Come”, Soludo said he was grateful to God and described the results as “supreme will”.

He thanked APGA members, Governor Willie Obiano, National Chairman, Victor Ike Oye, members of the BOT, NEC, State Exco, campaign committee and legal team for their support.

Soludo hailed the church, traditional rulers, ASATU, labour, market, …

Ahead of the 4 December Presidential election in the Gambia, Africa Daily News, New York has learnt that campaign activities have officially started officially in the West African country.

On Saturday, the electoral commission approved six candidates to run for the number one office in the country.

Those standing include incumbent Adama Barrow, the main opposition leader Ousainou Darboe of the United Democratic Party and Essa Faal, who was the chief counsel of Gambia’s Truth Commission that investigated human rights abuses allegedly committed under former president Yahya Jammeh.

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