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The Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, has called for parliamentary system of government in the country, saying that the current presidential system is too expensive and cumbersome. Ekweremadu spoke, during a parliamentary session of the Enugu West People’s Assembly in Udi Local Government, Enugu State, where opportunities were given to the people in the grassroots to interact …

The election of football icon, George Opong Weah as President of Liberia in a run-off poll conducted December 26 has a “very serious implication” for Africans all over the world, former Nigeria international, Chief Segun Odegbami has said. Reacting to the result of the poll, Thursday, Odegbami enthused, “Weah’s election is of very serious implication for the world and Nigeria, …

The family of detained former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, yesterday, took up issues with the Buhari administration, formally asking it to free their son from captivity and give him the privileges being enjoyed by similar ex-security chiefs in the country. At the a press conference in Abuja on Friday, the spokesman for the family, Comrade Kabir T. Auwal, …

An overwhelming crowd of supporters and sound-system malfunctioning forced Liberia’s President-elect, George Weah, to postpone his victory speech on Friday night. Weah was billed to formally accept his election at his Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) headquarters in Monrovia at 6.30 p.m., an hour after his declaration as President-elect. Immediately after the National Elections Commission announced the final results of …

There was anxiety on Thursday over the state of health a son of President Muhammadu Buhari, Yusuf, who was on Tuesday night involved in a bike accident in Abuja. Yusuf, who sustained a head injury and had one of his limbs broken, was said to have undergone a successful surgery at a private hospital in Abuja. Unconfirmed reports said that …

Zimbabwe’s former army commander who led a military takeover that helped end Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule was Thursday sworn in as one of the country’s two vice presidents. General Constantino Chiwenga, 61, took the oath of office in Harare, pledging to be “faithful” to Zimbabwe and to “obey, uphold and defend the constitution”. “I will discharge my duties with all …

Ex-football superstar George Weah was announced the winner on Thursday of Liberia’s presidential run-off, beating Vice President Joseph Boakai in the first democratic transfer of power in decades following two devastating civil wars. Weah is set to replace incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took over at the helm of Africa’s oldest republic in 2006. The National Election Commission (NEC) said …

The day before last year’s presidential election, a hungry homeless man named Jonathan Manley stopped at a dumpster outside a warehouse in San Francisco. Unmarked on the outside, the building was occupied by Amazon. For those able to tolerate the grime and the smell, and who have no other choice but to risk eating expired or rotting food, the large …

    Boxers or briefs? Prince Harry’s quickfire questions for Obama By The Guardian US Politicians, and others in positions of power, should stop corroding civil discourse and seek to unify society, the former US president Barack Obama said in a rare interview conducted by Prince Harry for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Obama did not mention his successor, Donald …

BENIN CITY– Riding on the back of the impressive outing of Azura Edo Independent Power Project (IPP), which has just begun generation of electricity seven months ahead of schedule, investors are thronging Edo State to pitch their tent and partake of the conducive business environment and progressive posture of the government towards genuine investments. Special Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki …