Malawian President, Joyce Banda, said on Thursday that the elections were rigged, as counting of votes in the May 20, 2014 Malawi elections continues.She said in Lilonggwe that the electoral officials must go for manual counting of the votes. Banda also called for full auditing of the whole process.Information revealed that local radio stations have been releasing unofficial results that opposition [...]
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A Malawian minister has killed himself after losing his seat in Tuesday's election, police say.Outgoing deputy Local Government Minister Godfrey Kamanya shot himself in his home, according to police.Official results have not yet been declared in what was expected to be a tight presidential race.The chief election officer has said the electronic counting system has broken down and officials are [...]
Residents on Wednesday besieged hospitals in Jos to search for their relations following Tuesday's twin bomb blasts in the city.Many people thronged the hospitals to locate relations who did not return home after the incident.Plateau Commissioner of Police, Mr Chris Olakpe, confirmed 75 deaths on Wednesday, but the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) gave a figure of 118.The casualty and [...]
An Egyptian court has convicted ousted President Hosni Mubarak of embezzlement and sentenced him to three years in prison.In Wednesday’s hearing in Cairo, Mubarak’s two sons, one-time heir apparent, Gamal, and wealthy businessman, Alaa, were also convicted of graft and sentenced to four years in prison each.The Mubaraks were convicted of charges that they embezzled millions of dollars’ worth of [...]
Chairman of the National Conference, Justice Idris Kutigi, has dissociated the conference from alleged plan to elongate the tenure of elected public officials by 18 months.This is contained in a statement issued by the Assistant Secretary of the conference, Media and Communications, Mr James Akpandem, in Abuja on Tuesday.Kutigi said the conference never made the issue of tenure extension for [...]
The new managing director, Bank of Industry, Mr Rasheed Olaoluwa, on Tuesday promised to improve on the bank's service delivery to enable it create wealth and jobs for the citizens.This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs Hadiza Olaosebikan of the Media Unit of the bank, in Abuja.The statement quoted Olaoluwa as making the promise when the former acting [...]
A new phase of deliberations on contentious national issues will soon commence at the National Conference.As many as 14 out of the 20 committees submitted their reports to plenary on Monday.The others are expected to submit theirs on Tuesday.The conference secretary, Dr Valerie Azinge, told delegates that the reports that had been submitted to the secretariat would be distributed to all [...]
UNICEF has warned that hundreds of thousands of children in South Sudan's most crisis-torn areas are at imminent risk of death and disease, including the threat of cholera.The UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Yoka Brandt, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Monday in New York.“The children are suffering from malnutrition due to the conflict in the country, and the [...]
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, on Sunday ordered the strengthening of security in all boarding schools in and around Makurdi.Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, said in Abuja that this was as a result of a threat letter sent to two schools recently.The letter was issued by elements claiming to be Boko Haram members to two all-boys [...]
The Chief Imam of Lead City University, Ibadan, Abdulrahman Muhammed-Liawal, on Sunday urged the media to stop referring to the Boko Haram sect as an Islamic group.Muhammed-Liawal made the plea in Ibadan at a programme organised by the Muslim community of Radio Nigeria, Ibadan, with the theme: "Islam and the Media".The cleric, who noted that the activities of the sect [...]
Ten people have been killed in separate blasts in Afghanistan.According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Provincial Police spokesman, Khali Asser, declared that in one attack, one civilian was killed while 12 civilians were wounded when a bomb attached to a motorcycle went off in Khowja Bahawoddin in northern Takhar province.Aseer, who said that the target of the attack [...]
The Muslim Council of Britain has offered to mediate in the Boko Haram insurgency in the light of the Bring Back our Girls global campaign.The Council's decision followed a meeting with the leadership of the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (CANUK) which had sought its support in the wake of increased assistance to Nigeria from the international community.CANUK [...]
Mr Pedro Peter, a stylist in Wuse Market, Abuja, on Friday said the love for foreign hairs by Nigerian women had greatly devalued the cultural posterity of the country.Peter told NAN in Abuja that local hair style had been the pride and beauty of Nigerian women over the years.The stylist, however, said that the pride had since been compromised and [...]
The senate, for the second time, on Thursday, deferred debate on the President Goodluck Jonathan's request for an extension of the state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states for another six months.But the house of representatives has given Jonathan the go-ahead to extend the emergency.The senate postponed debate on the request to next Tuesday after a closed door [...]
Lucy Samuel, a 29-year-old woman, who resides in Ejigbo, a surburb of Lagos, was on Thursday charged to a Magistrates' Court for allegedly assaulting her 13-year-old stepdaughter.The girl had confided in her stepmother that her father usually forced her to have sex with him in her absence.In anger, Lucy inflicted pains on the girl by inserting knife in the girl’s private [...]
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