Niger’s electoral commission is set to announce the final results of the country’s presidential election on Saturday with the candidate of the ruling party set for a first-round win. Provisional results showed Mohamed Bazoum
President Faustin-Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic is on track to win the elections, his party said on Thursday despite the initial results of Sunday’s elections only just coming in. The announcement comes a
A chieftain of Nigeria’s governing All Progressives Congress (APC) Daniel Bwala has described the slow-paced leadership style of the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari as a weakness. Mr Bwala was a guest
The US Senate’s Republican leader has rejected calls from an unlikely alliance of President Donald Trump, congressional Democrats and some Republicans to boost coronavirus aid. Mitch McConnell said hiking aid
US President-elect Joe Biden has criticised the Trump administration for its pace of distributing Covid-19 vaccines and predicted that “things will get worse before they get better” when it comes
A recently elected US lawmaker has died from Covid-19 – the first member of the US Congress to die from the disease. Republican Luke Letlow, 41, had been elected as
The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has rebutted allegation that he called for a coup against the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari in his Christmas homily. Kukah, who
President Donald Trump spent Christmas Day golfing at his West Palm Beach club while millions of Americans faced the risk of losing jobless benefits on Saturday and the threat of
Pat Utomi, a Professor of political economy and a management expert has described political parties in Nigeria as becoming anti-intellectuals, where people who think are isolated. Prof. Utomi was a guest
United States President-elect Joe Biden warned the recently uncovered cyber-“assault” on government computers had compromised US national security and would not “go unanswered” once he becomes president. “This attack constitutes
US President Donald Trump hosted several House Republican lawmakers at the White House on Monday to discuss an ultimately futile effort to block Congress from affirming President-elect Joe Biden’s victory
The World Trade Organisation on Friday stated that the absence of a substantive director general is hurting its operations and would not describe 2020 as a very successful year. The
President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, on Wednesday pledged the commitment of the Senate to passing the 2021 budget, at a special session to be held on Monday.
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has congratulated Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their election victories, ending his long silence on the outcome of the
Attorney General William Barr, one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, is departing amid lingering tension over the president’s baseless claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe
US President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the Paris climate accord on the first day of his presidency, as world leaders staged a virtual gathering to celebrate the 5th
President-elect Joe Biden on Friday introduced five top picks for his new administration, drawing on leading names from the Obama White House while also tapping an Ohio congresswoman and a
International observer groups from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Commonwealth have hailed the Ghanaian government for its conduct of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, describing the election
Nigeria’s opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said the party’s caucus in the House of Representatives were exercising their constitutional rights when they called for the impeachment of the country’s President Muhammadu
The argument of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari that he declined to honour an invitation from the House of Representatives because he does not want to divulge national security matters has been described as baseless. A
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