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Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, one of the main contenders in Congo-Brazzaville’s presidential race, on Sunday passed on after becoming seriously ill with Covid-19.

His campaign director told correspondents that Mr. Kolelas ‘died in the medical aircraft which came to get him from Brazzaville on Sunday afternoon’.

The 61-year-old tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, the last day of election campaigns.

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He was diabetic and was one of six candidates running against President Sassou Nguesso, 77.

Sunday’s election was smooth and with low participation, according to observers.

A day before …

A shadowy Fulani group claiming to be protecting Fulani interest, has come out to claim responsibility for the attempted assassination of Governor Samuel Ortom declaring that its original intentions was to eliminate the Benue Governor.

In a poorly prepared press statement, in which Ortom’s name was badly misspelled multiple times, the group claimed its aim was to kill Ortom.

It went further to pledge to get him ultimately because Ortom, as it claimed, stands against Fulani’s interest.

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‘Our courageous fighters carried out this historic …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said as a statesman, he would live the rest of his life serving humanity.

Obasanjo spoke on Saturday in Abeokuta at the 20th anniversary of the Communion Faith Assembly and new chapel dedication.

The head of the church is Bishop Tunde Akin-Akinsanya, the chairman, Ogun chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).

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Obasanjo told the gathering that he arrived from Sudan on Friday night and would be travelling back to the United States on Sunday.

‘I am committed to global peace

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has warned the Federal Government against conspiring to assassinate the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that unknown gunmen suspected to be Fulani militia attacked Governor Ortom in his farm along Gboko-Makurdi road on Saturday afternoon.

Ortom while briefing journalists at the Benue Peoples House after the incident said he was inspecting his farm when the militia attacked.

Reacting, in a statement issued by Kelvin Ebiri, Special Assistant to the governor on Media, the Rivers Governor warned that …

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State, says, by politicising insecurity, the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government plunged the security troubled states into an unimaginable scale of banditry that may not end soon.

The governor was speaking when he received the Board of Editors of Independent Newspapers Limited, led by the company’s Managing Director and Editor- in -chief, Steve Omanufeme, at Government House, Port Harcourt, on Thursday.

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Governor Wike said when Rivers experienced issues of insecurity in 2015, he ran to the Federal Government but rather than offering …

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday decried the rising spate proliferation of illegal arms and ammunition in the country, in spite of the closure of the nation’s borders more than a year ago.

Buhari asserted that the infiltration of countries within the Sahel region of Africa by fleeing bodyguards and the crisis in Libya were primarily responsible for the worrisome development.

He warned that ‘as far as Libya remains unstable, so will the problem remain.’

The President’s lamentation elicited reactions from many Nigerians who complained that he had not taken action against those permitting illegal immigration and inflow of arms …

After almost 6 of most of being out of the country and months of speculations on her whereabouts, the Wife of the President of Nigeria and First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has returned to Nigeria rather unceremoniously.

The Presidency to the surprise of many has kept mum over trending reports on the president’s wife almost 48 hours after.

There was no official confirmation of her return at press time, but sources told The correspondents that the First Lady returned to her official residence in Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday after six months of sojourn in the United Arab Emirates.

Her …

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has said he would not support popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi’s interactions with bandits.

Masari said Gumi’s interaction with bandits was not done ‘rightly.’

The Governor said he expected Gumi to have preached to bandits against abducting and killing people.

He spoke while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

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Challenging Gumi to a debate, Masari opposed the idea of granting blanket amnesty to bandits.

He said: ‘Was he there? What did he know about what we did in Kaduna? I challenge

The President of the United States, Joe Biden has admitted that it would be ‘tough’ to meet the deadline to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by May 1, as agreed with the Taliban in a deal secured under Donald Trump.

Recall that the Taliban insurgents have largely stuck to a promise not to attack the US or other foreign troops since the agreement was struck in February last year, but they say the date to end America’s longest war is inflexible.

‘Could happen, but it is tough,’ Biden said when asked about the May 1 deadline in a TV …

Trouble might be brewing between Moscow and Washington as Russia on Wednesday revealed that it had summoned its Washington ambassador for consultations on its ties with the United States

The European country however believes the consultations won’t prevent an ‘irreversible deterioration‘ in relations.

The announcement from the Russian foreign ministry came after US President Joe Biden said Russia would ‘pay a price‘ for meddling in US elections and he agreed with the assessment that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is a ‘killer.’

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