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ABUJA— NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, welcomed the defection of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, and advised him to resign as speaker because he was no longer a member of the ruling party. After almost one year of speculation and hob-nobbing with APC leaders, Tambuwal, yesterday, …

Rome based Catholic priest Fr. Chanakila Muyunda says it is clear that former president Michael Sata did not want Guy Scott to ever act as president. And former vice-president General Godfrey Miyanda says Scott does not qualify to act as president. Reacting to the death of Sata and subsequent configuration of Scott as acting president, Fr. Chanakila Muyunda ‘From the …

Another sick, old man has taken over as Zambia’s president, but for 90 days. Zambia’s president Michael Sata died last evening, leaving a power vacuum. Defence minister Edgar Lungu was acting president but he has been made to step aside for Scott. According to information received, Guy Scott with the help of Fred M’membe, the owner of Post newspaper, simply …

Zambian President Michael Sata has died at the age of 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, the government says. President Sata, who was being treated in the UK, died in London’s King Edward VII hospital on Tuesday night. Media said that he died after “a sudden onset [of] heightened heart rate”. It is not immediately clear who will …

France and Germany says the outcome of Nigeria’s 2015 general elections is crucial to development and security of the country. The foreign affairs ministers of the two European giants who said this at a meeting with Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister, Aminu Wali on Monday in Abuja however pledged the support of their government for successful 2015 elections. The foreign minister …

The president of the World Bank has made an emotional appeal for thousands of medical workers to volunteer and help contain the growing Ebola outbreak. Jim Yong Kim said at least 5,000 medics and support staff are needed to beat the disease. Many potential recruits were too scared to travel to West Africa, he added. The current Ebola outbreak has …

At least 34 people have been killed and dozens injured following two bomb blasts in and around Iraq’s capital Baghdad. The first attack came when a suicide bomber drove a Humvee at a checkpoint south of Baghdad killing at least 24, Iraqi officials said. The second attack, a car bombing inside the capital, killed at least 10 people, officials say. …

Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected president of Brazil, after securing more than 51% of votes in the closest election race in many years. An official count showed her rival, centrist candidate Aecio Neves, taking just over 48% of the vote. In her victory speech, Ms Rousseff said she wanted to be “a much better president than I have been until …

The purported Secretary General of terrorist Boko Haram sect, Danladi Ahmadu, who represented the group and negotiated the recent ceasefire agreement with the Nigerian government, has affirmed that the abducted Chibok schoolgirls would be released soon to Chadian President, Idriss Derby, for onward presentation to the Nigerian government. Ahmadu, who spoke on the Hausa Service of the Voice of America …

Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s parliament after the first elections to the body since February’s revolution, exit polls suggest. President Petro Poroshenko’s bloc is expected win the most seats, with Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk’s People’s Front party a close second. Mr Poroshenko called an early poll in a bid to set Ukraine on a new path after the ousting of …