The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Mr. Agboola Ajayi to resign honourably having defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This was contained in a statement by Mr Alex Kalejaiye, the state Publicity Secretary of the party, on Monday in Akure. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ajayi officially decamped to PDP on Sunday. “We wish Ajayi had not taken this decision, after series of efforts and attempts...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has tasked senior military officers and operational commanders to brace up towards ending the menace of insecurity plaguing the country. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting between Buratai and the senior officers on Monday in Abuja. Buratai said the meeting was a wake-up call in the efforts to combat Boko Haram insurgency, North...
The U.S. protests following the police killing of George Floyd have spurred solidarity among many Africans, who have expressed widespread outrage against police brutality. How are African nations reacting to the anti-racism protests in the United States? The main reaction has been one of solidarity. African leaders in government, civil society, and creative communities have condemned the police killing of George Floyd and raised alarm about police brutality and systemic racism in the United States. One of...
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar have indefinitely postponed a long-awaited peace treaty intended to curb fighting between government and rebel factions. South Sudan plunged into a brutal civil war following independence in 2011, which pitted Kiir’s ethnic Dinka forces against Machar’s ethnic Nuer and displaced nearly a third of the country’s population. A peace treaty signed in August 2015 collapsed after violence re-erupted. Since the resumption of talks in September 2018, Kiir...
The global coronavirus pandemic drastically slowed down and in most cases halted completely business activities. But as signs of re-opening slowing gains traction, Nigeria’s economic mainstay, oil, is in the news. Today marks the deadline for oil companies and investors to submit bids to the Nigerian Department of Petroleum Resources for the first marginal oil field award round in two decades. The submission deadline, originally slated for June 14, was extended last week. Nigerian oil...
Morocco will resume domestic flights starting June 25, the state news agency said on Sunday, citing the ministry of tourism, air transport, handicrafts and social economy. Earlier today, the government said it would further loosen lockdown measures for the services sector and domestic transport starting June 24, adding domestic travel would resume including flights and railways. (REUTERS)
Liverpool may have to wait a little longer for their English Premier League (EPL) title celebrations after they were held to a 0-0 draw at Everton on Sunday. But it could have been worse for the leaders in the behind-closed-doors Merseyside derby, after Tom Davies hit the post in the 80th minute for Everton. The hosts will feel a little disappointed they did not take full advantage of a below-par performance from the European champions....
The Kwara Government says 13 more persons have tested positive to Coronavirus (COVID-19), while two patients were discharged having tested negative to the virus twice. The Chief Press Secretary to the Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and Spokesman of the Technical Committee on COVID-19, Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Ilorin. According to him, the additional 13, brings to 199 the total number of confirmed cases with 124 patients discharged and...
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s Progressive Party (SNS) Sunday won a partially boycotted, pandemic-delayed parliamentary election by a huge margin, collecting nearly two-thirds of the votes, early results confirmed. Claiming victory after an initial projection, Vucic said his triumph was “historic” because “out of 3.3 million votes, we won more than two million.” “We received a huge vote of confidence, which is also a call for us to do even better,” he told supporters in the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Edo Governorship Primaries Committee, headed by Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo on Sunday released procedures for Monday’s primary election in compliance with the state government’s COVID-19 regulations. A statement by the Secretary of the committee, Dr. Ajibola Basiru said voting would commence simultaneously by 8:00 a.m. in the 192 wards of the state. It explained that not more than 18 persons would be allowed to gather at the same time...
