The Respondent denied all claims made by the Applicants, asserting that the protesters unlawfully assembled at Lekki Toll Gate on October 20, 2020, under the guise of protesting against SARS.
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has won 99.15 per cent of the votes from the country’s presidential election to secure a fourth term in office. Rwanda’s electoral body said only about 79 per cent of ballots have been counted.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye was sworn in on Tuesday, April 2, as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison.
Tinubu who is the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, disclosed this when he hosted the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday, revealed that he deployed back-channel strategies to avoid bloodshed.
Grace Taiga, who received money from P&ID before the signing, is one of three Nigerians who will get a share of the landmark award if the court orders Nigeria to pay.
LONDON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Nigeria on Monday hailed a landmark victory after it won its bid to overturn an $11 billion damages bill for a collapsed gas project, in a case a judge at London's High Court said exemplified the ravages of greed and corruption.
The wife of Gabon's ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with "money laundering" and other offences, the public prosecutor said Friday, September 29. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin was charged by an investigating judge on Thursday, Andre Patrick Roponat announced on state TV channels.
France’s exit comes after weeks of pressure from the military and popular demonstrations. French President Emmanuel Macron has said that his country will withdraw its ambassador and troops from Niger in the wake of the July coup that overthrew democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum.
A three-year power transition plan proposed by Niger Republic’s military junta has been rejected by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Notorious for persecuting journalists and presiding over a state with a scandalous out-of-school-children figure, Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has been donating millions to Oxford University.
Niger’s military junta has threatened to kill ousted President Mohamed Bazoum if ECOWAS attempts any military intervention to reinstate him. According to a report by The Associated Press on Thursday night, August 10, two “Western officials” said the coup plotters issued the threat while speaking to a top U.S. diplomat.
Recent deals between US Secretary of State Tony Blinken and African heads of state promise eye-popping profits for US mining multinationals and fewer protections for African laborers “toiling in subhuman conditions” to drive the digital revolution.
An investigation by the United Nations has concluded that money provided by the European Union to state entities in Libya has facilitated crimes against humanity ranging from forced labour and sexual slavery to torture.
Sources at the close-door executive session on Saturday told SaharaReporters that the senators would also prevail on the Nigerian government to restore power to the neighbouring country.
The military junta in the Niger Republic that carried out a coup that ousted the democratically elected President of the country, Mohamed Bazoum, has cut off ties with Nigeria and other countries.