Politics

Mali’s constitutional court has installed military coup leader, Colonel Assimi Goïta, as transitional president.

The court explained that its decision followed the ‘vacancy in the presidency’.

Goïta had declared himself interim president on Wednesday, two days after seizing power, the second time.

Goita led the mutiny that ousted ex-President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August 2020.

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Interim President, Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane were detained by the military on Monday.

They were held along with Defence Minister, Souleymane Doucouré.

Goita, the former interim Vice President, said they were removed for …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received ex-President Goodluck Jonathan over the political crisis in Mali.

Jonathan, who is Special Envoy and ECOWAS mediator to the West African country, briefed the President on the situation in Mali after meeting with the key political actors ahead of the meeting of ECOWAS leaders under the Chairmanship of President Nana Akufo-Addo of the Republic of Ghana.

The ex-President said the meeting of the regional leaders was necessary to urgently find an acceptable solution to the current impasse in the West African nation.

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The Presidency, yesterday, asserted that when the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari comes to an end in another two years, the applause would be resounding, even from the worst of critics.

A presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said this in a statement titled ‘The Buhari Administration at 6: Counting the Blessings One by One’ which was sighted by Africa Daily News, New York.

The statement catalogued the achievements of the incumbent federal government led by President Buhari in the last six years.

Adesina said the administration had recorded giant strides in various sectors of the economy that would be recognised …

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has hailed a speech by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron recognising France’s role and responsibility in the 1994 genocide.

‘His words were something more valuable than an apology. They were the truth,’ he told a joint press conference after the two leaders met in Kigali.

Macron said he ‘recognises’ France’s role which included backing the former genocidal regime in Rwanda and ignoring warnings of the impending massacres which left some 800,000 mostly Tutsis dead.

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His highly anticipated speech did not contain a formal apology, but he went …

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met behind closed doors with his Ghanaian counterpart, President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The agenda of the meeting was not disclosed to State House correspondents at the time of filing this report.

Akufo-Addo, who is the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was speculated to have come to discuss issues concerning the sub-region with the Nigerian leader

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The Ghanaian leader also used the opportunity of the visit to …

Amid allegations flying around that a whopping N2B was paid to his office from the repatriated Ibori loot, the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has come out to defend himself saying that recovered funds are not channelled to his office.

Malami said that the Federal Government has a designated account at the Central Bank of Nigeria for all recovered assets to be domiciled.

There had been the widespread accusations that the AGF’s office benefitted to the tune of N2B from the recently repatriated money from the United Kingdom for undisclosed services.

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