South Africa’s highest Court on Monday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma cannot stand as a candidate in next week’s general election. The Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma’s sentence of more than 12 months in prison has disqualified him and made him ineligible to stand. His former party,...
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A helicopter in a convoy carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has allegedly crashed in east Azerbaijan, according to several media reports on Sunday. Rescuers are trying to reach the site of the “incident”, state television reported on Sunday. There was no immediate elaboration on what happened to the helicopter,...
Months after exiting the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have finalised plans to form a new confederation, the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES ), marking a geopolitical shift in the region. This move showed their departure from their former...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted dust haze and thunderstorms from Saturday to Monday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Friday in Abuja forecast dust haze on Saturday over parts of Borno, Yobe, Jigawa and northern part of Adamawa. It envisaged prospects of isolated thunderstorms...
President of the United States, Joe Biden, has said that the mere purchase and usage of Marijuana was not enough reason for anyone to be jailed. President Biden formally made this proposal on Thursday on his official X handle, reclassifying Marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the United...
Africa must unite to defeat terrorism, human trafficking – Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has called for a common front among African nations in the fight against challenges of terrorism and human trafficking bedevilling them. Tinubu said this when he received the new President of Senegal, Bassirou Faye, at the...
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) has alerted Kano State residents on possibility of high risk flooding in 14 out of the 44 Local Government Areas(LGAs) of the state. The NIMET Kano/Jigawa Territorial Coordinator, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, stated this at a Disaster Risk Management Stakeholders Coordination Meeting on Seasonal...
President Bola Tinubu has said Nigeria would continue to play strategic roles in the affairs of the African continent at all times. Tinubu said this on Friday while receiving the letters of credence from the Ambassadors of Egypt, Pakistan and Greece in Abuja. He said that Nigeria would...
Eight elite Nigeria Navy warships have left the country’s waters to join in a global joint naval operation aimed at combating sea piracy in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). Nigeria’s Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Adm. Emmanual Ogalla, revealed this to journalists on Friday during the flag-off of...
Chad’s state election body said interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby had won the May 6 presidential election outright with over 61 per cent of the vote, citing provisional results, even as his main challenger declared himself the winner. Chad’s junta has become the first of the coup-hit...
R’ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described as “treasonous” a campaign advertisement by an opposition party that depicts a burning national flag, as antagonism between political parties rose three weeks before an election. The campaign advertisement released on Monday by the Democratic Alliance uses the burning flag as a...
The Commandant, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), Accra, Ghana, Maj.-Gen. Richard Gyane, says violent extremism and terrorism (VET) are the biggest threats to the ECOWAS sub region, Africa and humanity. Gyane stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) during a mobile...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it is working to set up a counter terrorism force to tackle security threats within the sub-region. The Commissioner Political Affairs, Peace and Security of ECOWAS, Amb. Abdel-Fatau Musah, stated this at the opening of a three-day consultative meeting of...
A scuba diver, Mr Kelvin Ngwa, has been found dead five days after reportedly missing amid an unapproved diving activity at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) facility in Warri, Delta. The Diving Personnel Development Foundation (DPDF) disclosed this in a statement signed by its Principal Investigator, Mr...
The Office of the African Union Chairperson’s Youth Envoy and Google on Monday, announced the launch of the #DiscoverMyAfrica Shorts Challenge. It is a month-long initiative to celebrate the rich diversity, heritage, and vibrant spirit of the African continent. African Union Chairperson’s Youth Envoy, Chido Mpemba, said in...
By PAUL EJIME – As widely expected, Togo’s national electoral commission has declared the ruling Union for the Republic (UNIR) Party, as the overwhelming winner of the country’s divisive parliamentary and regional elections held on 29th of April 2024, paving the way for President Faure Gnassingbe to accomplish the...
Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger’s junta to expel U.S. forces. The military officers ruling the West African nation have told the U.S. to...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says that 1,814,344 candidates from 22,239 schools, registered for the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The council’s Head of National Office (HNO), Dr Josiah Dangut stated this at a pre-examination interactive session with newsmen on Monday in Lagos. He...
A man who smashed his car through the gates of Hamburg Airport and parked it on the tarmac with his 4-year old daughter inside has confessed to the kidnapping of his child and other crimes. “I just wanted to leave Germany. I wanted the police to find ways...