Britain’s main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn apologised Sunday for waging a disastrous campaign that handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a mandate to take the UK out of the EU next month.
But the veteran socialist defended his radical platform and blamed the media for helping to cause his century-old party’s worst finish since before World War II.
“I will make no bones about it. The election result on Thursday was a body blow for everyone who so desperately needs real change in our country,” Corbyn wrote in the Sunday Mirror newspaper.
“I wanted to unite the country that I love …
The people of Ijaw have provided the reasons former President Goodluck Jonathan had to work against the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and governor Seriake Dickson in the governorship election in the State.
Giving the reasons, the Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, also warned a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido to henceforth, stop rubbishing their son, Jonathan, with blackmail.
Leader of the group, Comrade Joseph Evah, told the Sun that the Ijaw nation was not happy with the comments of Lamido on Jonathan in a recent interview.
He said the comments were targeted to “blackmail, malign, rubbish and bring to …
President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on his resounding election victory in the United Kingdom’s general election.
Johnson who promised to deliver Brexit and repay the trust of voters after he led the Conservatives to an “historic” general election win, had a majority of 80 in the House of Commons – the party’s largest since 1987.
According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari noted that Britain has been a reliable and historically-unique ally of Nigeria, and has particularly supported this administration’s efforts at improving security and …
Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has downplayed the submission by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (rtd), which rubbished the conduct of the November 16 governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States, describing the two elections as a fiasco where the unthinkable happened.
Monguno, had on Wednesday at an Inter-Agencies Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) meeting in Abuja, said the polls in both states were not credible, despite the assurances of adequate security before the elections.
However, Bello told State House correspondents thursday in …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benny Gantz prepared Thursday for their third election campaigns in a year, with the country trapped in its worst political crisis in decades.
Israel’s parliament dissolved itself and called March 2 elections in the early hours of Thursday morning, less than three months after an inconclusive general election saw neither Netanyahu nor Gantz able to form a governing coalition.
The September election followed a similarly deadlocked vote in April and opinion polls suggested the third round could again be tight, with neither Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc nor Gantz’s centre-left alliance currently on course for …
Britain voted on Thursday in a deeply divisive election that posed a historic choice between an imminent split from the European Union or another referendum that could scrap the entire Brexit process.
A decisive victory for Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the third poll in less than five years would almost certainly end Britain’s 46-year involvement in the European project at the end of next month.
The island kingdom would cut ties with its closest trading partners and enter a new era looking to regain the legal controls that Brexit supporters sought in a 2016 vote.
But a win for …
Britain’s feuding party leaders criss-crossed the country on Wednesday in a frantic push for votes on the eve of a highly-charged general election aimed at finally settling the Brexit crisis.
Polls open on Thursday for the third time in four years in what is widely seen as a re-run of the 2016 referendum in which a narrow majority opted to pull Britain out of the European Union.
AFP / Oli SCARFFCorbyn is a veteran leftist campaigner who confounded pollsters by coming within a whisker of winning the last election in 2017Parliament’s splintered parties — some seeking broader
Candidates hoping to be elected to parliament in Britain have faced all manner of threats and abuse in a particularly hostile campaign, with some worried for their safety when out canvassing.
When one man on Facebook threatened a violent attack on Dominic Graham, the would-be MP immediately called the police, who made an arrest.
It was far from an isolated case in the run-up to Thursday’s snap polls, called on the increasingly divisive issue of Brexit.
Graham is standing for the third time for the centrist, pro-EU Liberal Democrats, who want to cancel Brexit altogether.
“We didn’t see anything close …
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was braced for trouble from Donald Trump’s visit just days before Britain’s election, but the US president headed home Wednesday having largely kept his promise to stay out of the campaign.
Johnson was forced to deny he was dodging Trump during his visit for a NATO summit, after failing to publicly greet him at Downing Street and holding their face-to-face meeting away from the cameras.
He also sidestepped a question about whether Trump was good for Britain, instead emphasising the strength of transatlantic ties — while avoiding using Trump’s name.
In the end, the unpredictable US …
Ahead of today Kogi West Senatorial supplementary re -run election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has boycotted the observation of distribution of election material by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at Central Bank . This is as the PDP agents refused to come forward for accreditation and collection of tags from the Independent National Electoral Commission. The Chairman Inter Party Advisory Council ,Ilyas Badanga made this known while speaking on the sideline of a stakeholders meeting where 16 political parties declared their support for two term senator representing Kogi West, senatorial district, Smart Adeyemi. He however said that the …
The five-man panel of Appeal Court Judges led by Justice Tijjani Abubakar unanimously dismissed the appeal in its entirety and affirmed that Governor Ganduje was elected by the majority of Kano voters.
Meanwhile, counsel to the appellants, the PDP and Abba Kabiru Yusuf, Bashir Yusuf
Lega Serie A president Gaetano Micciche announced on Tuesday he was stepping down from his position amid a probe into his election in March 2018.
Genoa owner Enrico Preziosi’s claims that there had been irregularities concerning Micciche’s election prompted an Italian Football Federation (FIGC) investigation.
“I wish to announce my immediate resignation as president of Lega Serie A,” Micciche said in a statement.
“The disclosures published today and related to the closure of the investigation on my appointment 20 months ago and its possible outcome are unacceptable and required me …
