By Chidi Nkwopara – Owerri Angry reactions have continued to trail the alleged intervention of the Presidency, when Senator Rochas Okorocha was arrested weekend, by the police in Owerri, for breaking the seal of Imo State Government. While the Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, claimed that the police released Okorocha late Sunday night, […]

Senegal’s President Macky Sall said Tuesday that his native country and neighbouring West African states must “prepare to do battle” to stop jihadist expansion beyond the Sahel. In an interview broadcast that day by French radio RFI, the president also urged a more combative role for United Nations peacekeepers in Mali, and ruled out dialogue […]

South Africa’s scandal-tainted former president Jacob Zuma and French arms giant Thales, accused of graft in a case going back more than two decades, will go on trial in May, the High Court ruled Tuesday. Zuma is facing 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering relating to a 30-billion-rand ($2-billion /  1.67-billion-euro) purchase in 1999 of […]

Opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane on Wednesday claimed he narrowly won Niger’s presidential elections, a day after official results said he lost by more than 11 percentage points. “The compilation of results… which we have in our possession through our representatives in the various polling stations give us victory with 50.3 percent of the vote,” he […]

Ahead of the Delta State Local Government elections slated for 6th of March 2021, the PDP Campaign train for Hon. Jite Brown PDP flag bearer, his Vice, Barr. Eloho Awinoron and the 20 Councilors for Udu Local Government Council elections stormed Udu Ward 1, 2 and 3 led by the party chairman Hon David Siloko to seek the support of the people at ward levels.