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Polls have now closed in Cameroon in a presidential election that has been disrupted by a number of violent incidents in English-speaking parts of the country. The BBC’s Ngala Killian Chimtom, in Yaounde, reported on the run-up to the polls, as the octogenarian leader, Paul Biya, seeks a seventh term in office. A large poster […]

Former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has emerged as presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the 2019 general election. Duke polled 812 votes to defeat his close rival, former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, who polled 611 votes at the party’s National Convention held at Old Parade Ground, Abuja. […]

Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Van Dyke, who was also found guilty of 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, sat impassively in a dark suit — his shoulders slumped — as the verdicts were read in the […]

The Chinese president of Interpol, the international police agency, has vanished. Meng Hongwei was not on French soil when he was last seen, according a senior French law enforcement official, who declined to say whether he was in China. Meng’s wife went to police in Lyon, where Interpol is based, Thursday night to report his […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, said the anti-corruption war of his administration was not negotiable. He said it was a must for him to fight graft because that was one of the reasons he was elected. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the President spoke while […]

A former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr John Campbell, has said though Nigeria possesses extraordinary potential, it is the truly troubled giant of Africa. Campbell stated this in a new book he co-authored which was presented to the public on Thursday in Lagos at the US Consul General’s residence. He also saluted the entrepreneurial spirit […]

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, were on Monday absent at a parade organised to commemorate Nigeria’s 58th Independence Day anniversary. The strictly military event held at the Eagles Square, Abuja was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. Recall that Saraki […]

The ruling party’s national leader says Akinwunmi Ambode has deviated from developmental blueprint of Lagos, urging primary participant to reject him. Bola Tinubu has endorsed Jide Sanwo-Olu as the preferred candidate for the All Progressives Congress in the upcoming governorship election in Lagos, ending weeks of speculation about where he stands on the stand-off between […]

Nigeria’s minister of communications and a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Adebayo Shittu, has said that he is willing to embark on the mandatory National Youth Service Corps, NYSC. Mr Shittu, a lawyer, made this known in an exclusive interview with popular Ibadan-based broadcast journalist, Edmund Obilo, on his programme ‘State […]

A Nigerian lawmaker has died, according to Premium Times. Funke Adedoyin, a member of the House of Representatives from Kwara State, died on Friday afternoon in Abuja. Her profile on the Nigerian National Assembly website put her age at 56. “This is a big loss to me, I am feeling a personal loss right now,” […]

The election observation team of the U.S., EU and UK have given their initial observation on the conduct of the rerun governorship election in Osun State. The observers gave their stance while addressing journalists in Osogbo in an interview televised by the TVC television station. A member of the observer team, who spoke on behalf […]

President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that China is working to interfere in November’s midterm elections with the aim of damaging him politically. “Regrettably, we found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election coming up in November against my administration,” Trump said during remarks at the UN Security Council. The President offered […]

A Kenyan governor was charged with murder on Monday following the death of his pregnant young lover whose body was found dumped in a forest earlier this month. Migori county governor Okoth Obado, who was arrested on Friday, denies involvement in the killing of 26-year-old student Sharon Otieno. Obado was remanded in custody by the […]