Politics

The Supreme Court in Ghana on Thursday delivered a judgement that upheld Nana Akufo-Addo’s victory in the December presidential election, dismissing allegations of irregularities.

Opposition candidate, and former President John Mahama, had filed a petition asking the court to annul the results of the elections and order a rerun because of alleged irregularities.

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But the court ruled that Mr. Akufo-Addo had obtained more than 50% (51.295%) of total valid votes and that the electoral commission’s corrections of the declared results did not significantly impact the outcome.

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US Vice President Kamala Harris, in a call yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has restated the United States’s opposition to an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, the White House said.

The call between the two world leaders was their first since Harris and President Joe Biden took office in January, it came on the heels of the ICC’s announcement of the investigation on Wednesday.

The court determined in February that the occupied Palestinian territories fall under its jurisdiction, …

Senate President Ahmad Lawan, yesterday stated that insurgent groups such as Boko Haram, bandits, and kidnappers get funded by drug barons who provide with arms and ammunitions to undertake criminal activities in the country to destabilize the country.

Lawan made this heavy revelation when the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier-General Buba Marwa (Rtd), paid a visit to his office on Thursday at the National Assembly, Abuja.

According to the Senate President, such drug barons who engage in trafficking heroine, cannabis, and cocaine have made Nigeria a major transit route for plying the illicit trade, which …

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for directing security agents to shoot anyone illegally bearing AK47 rifles.

Africa Daily News, New York reported that Buhari also directed the suppression of bandits who have refused to surrender.

Reacting, Ortom who spoke during a function at the Benue Peoples House, Makurdi stated that the Buhari’s order would reduce the level of criminality, banditry and militia herders’ attacks on Benue communities as well as other parts of the country.

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According to the Governor, the order would also …

The Federal Government has said Nigerians will not be mandated to take the COVID-19 vaccination. Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora disclosed this yesterday during a chat on Arise Tv.

‘Nothing will be made mandatory. It’s optional. The choice is yours. Nobody will be forced to take any vaccine,’ he said.

Asked if it might become mandatory later, Mamora said, “If that happens, it would not be a decision of Nigeria.”

According to him, just like Yellow Card certificate, countries might have to start demanding a COVID-19 vaccination certificate before allowing outsiders in.

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U.S. President Joe Biden made has made calls with a number of African leaders snubbing Nigerian president Muhamadu Buhari in a move that has raised eyebrows.

Mr. Biden reached out to Africa Thursday after more than a month in office and a flurry of phone calls to American allies around the world.
He spoke to President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, while Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday.

Mr. Biden had earlier spoken to President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa in November 2020, days after his election.

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Popular Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko has been arrested by state forces, this was confirmed by his lawyer on Wednesday.

The politician is being accused of disturbing public order and breach of peace in the capital, Dakar, as he travelled to court for a hearing in a rape case.

Owing to his popularity, his motorcade was followed by hundreds of chanting supporters, who were dispersed by police with teargas.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, on Wednesday admitted that French soldiers actually murdered a top Algerian independence figure then covered up his death as part of its colonial-era crimes over 60 years ago.

Macron when meeting four of the grandchildren of Ali Boumendjel and admitted ‘in the name of France‘ that the lawyer had been detained, tortured and killed in Algiers on March 23, 1957, this is according to official sources from Paris on Tuesday.

The previous lie with successive French governments have always sustained was that he had committed suicide while in detention, a lie that his …

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has declared that it is an injustice to clamp down on the activities of the Eastern Security Network while the Fulani who carry AK-47 rifles are allowed to go about with arms committing heinous crimes.

Ortom stated this in an interview with BBC News Pidgin.

According to him, the treatment meted out to the ESN, the Indigenous People of Biafra, and its leader Nnamdi Kanu, should be the same for Fulani people who carry guns.

‘Why should they allow Fulani from a foreign land to come to Nigeria to disturb us?’ Ortom queried.

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The House of Representatives In Nigeria on Wednesday raised serious concerns about the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in some African countries.

To this effect, the House has mandated the Ministry of Health to enhance surveillance at all entry points into the country so as to provide prompt response to any suspected case of Ebola coming from neighbouring countries, especially Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The House also charged the health ministry to do whatever they can to create awareness about the virus.

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The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, on Wednesday, made a shocking revelation as to how the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) allegedly spent ₦443 billion on oil subsidy in 2016 without budgetary provision or appropriation by the national assembly.

To this effect, the panel has summoned the leadership of the oil firm to brief it on the expenditure.

The committee’s chairman, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, issued the summon on Wednesday when the panel considered a 2016 report by the Auditor-General for the Federation.

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‘During the examination of subsidy records provided …

The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has urged the Federal Government to extend its ‘no-fly zone’ order which was recently declared in Zamfara on other states with security challenges.

The forum noted that it has credible evidence that Bandits in different states such as Taraba, Benue, Borno, and others always get weapons and ammunition delivered to them in their various enclaves via Helicopters.

The ACF equally congratulated the people and government of Zamfara state on the safe release of the kidnapped schoolgirls from Jangebe Government Girls Secondary School in the state.

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