Deadline for Cameroon Presidential Candidates’ Petitions Nears
Aspiring candidates whose candidacies were rejected by the Electoral Board of ELECAM have up to today by midnight to file petitions at the Constitutional Council. After the publication of the list of candidates retained for the October 7, 2018 presidential election, here comes the time for petitions filed at the Constitutional Council. Section 129 of […]
UN-backed meeting of African States targets terrorism, violent extremism
Regional security topped the agenda of a United Nations-backed joint summit on Central and West Africa searching, among other things, for a practical approach to fighting terrorism. In a statement issued on Thursday through his Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, Secretary-General António Guterres commended the Central and West African regions for the successful Joint Summit of […]
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo Sacks Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, August 6, 2018, relieved the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko of his post, with immediate effect. In a press release issued and signed by Eugene Arhin, Director of Communications at the Presidency, the Energy Minister was to hand over his office to the Minister of Lands and Natural […]
How Former State Security Boss Lawal Daura Was Arrested
The plot was like that of a movie, leaving trained security and intelligence officials confused. At the end of it, Lawal Daura, then head of one of Nigeria’s foremost security agencies was whisked away while his well trained security aides waited for him. Multiple sources at the Nigerian Presidency have told PREMIUM TIMES how Mr […]
Mali Opposition Challenges Presidential Election Results
Mali’s main opposition candidate and another contesting for the presidency have appealed to the nation’s Constitutional Court to investigate alleged violations during the July 29 elections. Soumaila Cissé, who received the second-largest number of votes submitted evidence of ballot box stuffing to the Court, Baguiba Bah, a spokesman for his campaign team told Bloomberg News. […]
Kenya Tops African Athletics Champs With 11 Gold Medals
In spite of late gold medal rush by Team Nigerian athletes on the last day of competition, Kenya proved her dominance in athletics once again as the East Africans edged out defending champion, South Africa and host Nigeria to win the 21st African Senior Athletics Championships rounded up last night at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, […]
Two Dead, 3 Injured As Suicide Bombers Attack Maiduguri Suburb
Two suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers on Sunday night sneaked into a neighbourhood of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, to carry out coordinated attacks that eventually claimed only their own lives, officials and witnesses said. The blasts however injured three other innocent residents. Twin deafening explosions, a first of its kind to be heard by […]
Obasanjo Swears He Will Never Support Atiku for President
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Friday that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar should not count on him for support in his latest bid to actualise his life-long ambition of being elected the president of Nigeria. The former president, one of the most influential of his living peers, hinged his blistering position on the unsavoury […]
Work to Begin on Nigeria’s Nightmarish Apapa Gridlock
THE Federal Government, yesterday, assured that work on the Apapa corridor of the Lagos-Ibadan Rail project would commence next week. The Federal Government, at the end of Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, had approved N72.9 billion for the reconstruction of the road from Apapa to the Toll Gate on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. This came as […]
Africa Cannot Grow Unless Nigeria Grows – World Bank
World Bank said it takes Nigeria as a “high priority” in its considerations on how to promote ideas and programmes that can aid development of the African region. The bank said it was looking forward to ways it can assist the Nigerian economy to grow faster and achieve developmental goals. World Bank vice president , […]
