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Court upholds Buhari’s Executive Order on seizure of assets linked to corruption

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday upheld the validity of the Presidential Executive Order 6 of 2018 which provides for the interim seizure of assets linked to ongoing criminal trials and investigations. resident Muhammadu Buhari had on July 5, 2018, issued the Presidential Executive Order, which two lawyers, Ikenga Ugochinyere and Mr. Keneth Udeze, had instituted a suit before the court to challenge its validity. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu dismissed the suit for lacking in merit and affirmed that the President has the constitutional powers…

Atiku to visit Obasanjo after intervention of Afenifere leaders

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tiku was Obasanjo’s vice president for 8 years while the latter presided over the country between 1999-2007. Both men fell out after Atiku tried to succeed Obasanjo in office, but the former president preferred the late Umaru Musa Yar’adua. The visit to Obasanjo would be the first time the former president would meet with his former deputy since the latter emerged as presidential candidate of the PDP. Though Obasanjo had in the past vowed not to ever support Atiku’s long nurtured presidential aspiration, there is expectation that the former president…

Sierra Leone scraps controversial Chinese airport deal

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Sierra Leone scraps controversial Chinese airport deal Sierra Leone’s new government has finally announced the cancellation of a controversial Chinese airport project sanctioned by its predecessor. The construction of the $318 million airport, which began earlier this year, was being funded by a Chinese loan, which the government says it cannot afford to repay. The proposed Mamamah International Airport is located just outside Freetown, designed to replace the current one in the town of Lungi, which is said to be an obstacle to the country’s development due to connectivity difficulties…

Education is antidote to extremism, terrorism’ says Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja urged religious leaders in the country to assist government to overcome forces of destruction by enlightening their followers to guard against religious extremism and terrorism. He made the call while receiving the leadership of Qadiriyya Islamic Movement in Africa at the State House, Abuja. Buhari, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, also noted that Muslim leaders have a duty to promote the principles and tenets of Islam as a religion of peace and justice. He…

Protests overshadow party rallies ahead of Bosnia vote

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Protests organised in Bosnia’s two largest cities on Friday by a pair of fathers demanding the truth about the alleged murders of their sons overshadowed rallies for Sunday’s general election. The young men’s parents and the opposition accuse the authorities of being involved in what they say were murders that were concealed by police and prosecutors for political reasons. Wide public support for the two grieving fathers has bridged Bosnia’s ethnic divisions, reflecting discontent with a political system and judiciary mired in corruption and party dominance in the 23 years…

Cameroon’s Paul Biya seeks seventh term in office

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Cameroonians are heading to the polls on Sunday where they are expected to re-elect their 85-year-old president to a seventh term. The election comes amid a tense backdrop of spiraling violence and unrest in the north and southwest of the country. President Paul Biya has ruled the country since 1982. Observers say he is almost certain to win the election, which means he will be 92 at the end of that term. Biya has often won past elections by a landslide. In the last election in 2011, the Supreme Court…

US Congress calls on Liberia to implement truth commission’s recommendations on war crimes

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The United States Congress has given its support for the complete implementation of Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) recommendation for the creation of a tribunal to try suspected war crimes and other atrocities committed during the nation’s 14-year civil war, which ended in 2003. On Wednesday, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed a resolution supporting the creation of an Extraordinary Criminal Tribunal for Liberia. Between 1990 and 2003 the West African country was caught in a spiral of civil conflicts marked by an orgy of killings. During…

Dankwambo denies steps down for Tambuwal

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Gombe State governor Ibrahim Dankwambo has denied the report that he is set to step down for Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal as the People’s Democratic Party picks its presidential candidate for the next general elections. The primaries will hold in Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, alleged to be in support of Tambuwal, is the governor. Two other aspirants – David Mark and Sule Lamido – were also reported by Sahara Reporters to have agreed to drop their own campaigns to support Tambuwal. “They have been able to get David Mark,…

30 Million Lagosians ready to deliver Ambode from cabal, says PDP chieftain

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Barely one week after Former Enugu North Senatorial Aspirant, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Chinedu Eya, pledged to sell off his Lagos property worth over N53 million to purchase nomination and expression of interest forms for the embattled governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, if the governor will contest the 2019 elections on the PDP platform, Chief Eya has said that over 30 million Lagosians were willing to shock the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his co-travellers, in the event of…

President Buhari Speech At Independence Day 2018

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Today is a day of celebration and solemn reflection. It is the anniversary of the day Nigerians realized one of the most cherished of human desires – the desire for freedom. We, therefore, give thanks to and remember our founding fathers who laboured so hard and sacrificed so much to build and bequeath to us this wonderful nation. It is our duty to consolidate this great legacy. On this first October date and on the eve of the start of the general election cycle, we should do well to reflect…