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The Arewa Consultative Forum, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and other stakeholders attacked the Presidency for stating that President Bola Tinubu would stay in power till 2031. Instead of obsessing over the 2027 election, the ACF admonished the Tinubu administration to focus on delivering good governance to Nigerians. The Secretary to the Government of …

Ghana’s president-elect, John Mahama, says the last eight years under the outgoing administration have been among the darkest moments in the country’s history, noting that Ghanaians have expressed their intolerance for bad governance. Mr Mahama made this statement in his victory speech on Monday after the Electoral Commission (EC) declared him the winner of Saturday’s presidential election. He defeated the incumbent …

…You’ll suffer if you protest in Ekiti, group tells agitators A Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, yesterday, granted a N50 million bail to human rights lawyer and activist, Mr Dele Farotimi, over an alleged 12-count cybercrime charge preferred against him by the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun. Farotimi was last week arraigned before a magistrate’s court, in Ado-Ekiti, …

Okpebholo alleged that Obaseki who governed the state on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not distribute the books to students because they featured President Tinubu’s image on the cover. Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has accused his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki, of deliberately withholding books donated to the state by President Bola Tinubu from students …

The Assad regime’s outgoing prime minister has agreed to hand over power to Syria’s rebels after the insurgents seized the capital Damascus and toppled longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia. A transitional prime minister has yet to be picked, a source told CNN. Led by Islamist militant group HTS, which was formed out of an al Qaeda affiliate, the rebels said they will soon name …

KANO—The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, on Monday, said he told his daughters to make sure they retaliate when they were slapped by their husbands. The monarch made this known at the National Dialogue Conference on Gender-Based Violence, GBV, prevention from an Islamic perspective themed: ‘Islamic teachings and community collaboration for ending Gender-Based Violence’ organised by the Centre for …

(CNN) — After a five-day manhunt that expanded beyond the nation’s largest city and across state lines, a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been arrested on five charges in Pennsylvania and ordered held without bail. Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from Maryland, was apprehended at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania – after an employee tipped …

Altoona police arrested a man “matching the description of the United HealthCare CEO murder suspect” on Monday morning, according to a news release from the Altoona Police Department. Altoona officers were dispatched to a McDonald’s restaurant at 9:14 a.m. ET, according to the news release. The suspect is seen at a hostel in New York pulling his mask down. NYPD …

CNN — President Joe Biden on Sunday called the extraordinary fall of the Assad regime in Syria “a moment of risk” and “historic opportunity” while offering a blueprint for how the US plans to support the region. Speaking at the White House in his first substantive comments since President Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell in the face of an astonishingly swift rebel offensive, Biden also announced the …

The rebels are led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, along with an umbrella group of Turkish-backed Syrian militias called the Syrian National Army Syrians celebrate after armed groups opposed to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham took control of the city of Homs on Saturday. Composite: Getty images The rebels who have swept through Syria are led by Islamist …