Interpol, the international criminal police organisation, on Wednesday elected Kim Jong-yang of South Korea as its new president.Interpol’s 194-member states, meeting in Dubai for their annual congress, elected Jong-yang to succeed China’s Meng Hongwei, who disappeared in September.Hongwei, whose term was due to end in 2020, later resigned after Chinese authorities said he was being investigated for suspected bribery.Jong-yang, who [...]
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Ben Nwabueze, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says he will live to witness Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), become the president of Nigeria.Nwabueze said this on Wednesday when Abubakar paid him a visit in Enugu.Segun Showunmi, spokesman of the Atiku Abubakar presidential campaign organisation, shared a picture of both men locked in a warm [...]
The year 2018 is a great time to be alive. No one, in 2008, could have predicted what is happening in the world today; Donald Trump running the show in the United States, Britain breaking away from Europe, a 39-year-old winning the French presidential election. It is what it is.Nigeria has not been left out of the fireworks; in 2008, [...]
Senate President Bukola Saraki says it's the turn of the north-central to produce president of the country.Saraki, who is seeking to contest the 2019 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said this when he visited delegates and party executives in Benue state to seek their support.An indigene of Kwara state, the number three citizen said [...]
The race to 2019 began in 2015, but the last lap of this marathon started in 2018, with the scheming and plotting getting thicker and thicker by every passing day. Everyone wants to be president!Muhammadu Buhari, Bukola Saraki, Atiku Abubakar, Jonah Jang, Rabiu Kwankwanso, David Mark, Aminu Tambuwal, Donald Duke, Remi Sonaiya, Kingsley Moghalu, Omoyele Sowore, Fela Durotoye... by now, [...]
Attahiru Bafarawa, a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has promised to give priority to the south-east if he wins in 2019.Bafarawa, a former governor of Sokoto state, said his quest to become president is not a do or die affair, but a desire to unify Nigeria.Speaking when he visited Enugu as part of his consultation to clinch [...]
Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, has asked Nigerians to revisit the issue of single term for the president and governors.In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Ekweremadu said when the issue was first proposed in the seventh assembly, it did not succeed because the legislation was misunderstood.The deputy senate president said some countries in South America adopted a single term and [...]
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been elected president of Mexico.Obrador received over 53 percent of the vote, more than double the total of his closest rival, according to the country's electoral commission."Today, they have recognised our victory," Obrador said after he emerged the winner.Conservative-centrist Ricardo Anaya received 22.8 percent while Jose Meade from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had [...]
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a pan-Igbo cultural group, has proposed a single tenure of six years for presidents in the country.The group made its position known through Chukwuma Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), at the south-east summit on restructuring Nigeria in Awka, Anambra.It suggested five vice-presidents serving at a time — one from each geo-political zone.According to [...]
There was an explosion at the residence of John Nwodo, president of of Ohanaeze Ndigbo,the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, on Sunday.The explosion was said to have shattered some window panes and roof of a part of the house located at Ukehe town in Nsukka, Enugu state.Ebere Amaraizu, spokesman of the state police command, who confirmed the incident to TheCable, said [...]
President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim of Mauritius has resigned over a credit card scandal.Yousouf Mohamed, her lawyer, told reporters on Saturday that Gurib-Fakim submitted her resignation in “national interest”.Mohamed said the resignation would take effect on March 23.Her resignation comes after Pravind Jugnauth, the prime minister, accused her of backtracking on a promise to quit amid allegations of misconduct.Gurib-Fakim had denied having any plans [...]
James Ibori, former governor of Delta state, says late Alex Ekwueme, former vice-president, is being mourned by a nation which failed to allow him rescue it from "political and economic morass will.According to Ibori, Nigerians are "shedding crocodile tears" over the passing of Ekwueme. In a statement by Tony Eluemunor, his spokesman, Ibori said Nigeria is the biggest loser in Ekwueme's [...]
Sule Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa state, has written a letter to members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to express his interest in the party’s presidential ticket in the 2019 general election.Lamido, in the letter dated October 22, shared some of his thoughts and concerns about PDP and Nigeria.He said the country’s founding fathers shared the dream of [...]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says there should be no age limit for the position of the president.Obasanjo said this at the Archbishop Vining Memorial Church during a programme organised by the Torchbearers society in Lagos.He questioned why there is no maximum age being a president when there is a minimum age for the position.He expressed support for the call for [...]
Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, wife of the president, says her husband thanks Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for his loyalty.She said this in a statement issued on Tuesday by Suleiman Haruna, her media aide.According to the statement, Aisha returned on Tuesday morning from the UK, where she went to visit her husband, who is on medical leave.On arrival, she conveyed the appreciation [...]
Hassan Rouhani has been re-elected president of Iran following Saturday's presidential elections.He has been congratulated by the state television.According to the near-complete results announced, Rouhani leads with 58.6 percent of the vote, compared with 39.8 percent for his main challenger, hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi.Although the powers of the elected president are limited by those of unelected supreme leader Ayatollah Ali [...]
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