Algerian rights groups on Monday pressed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to open an independent inquiry into alleged assaults of women domestic workers on the bases of foreign oil companies. The Collective of Defence and Solidarity (CDS) asked in an open letter for “an independent and impartial inquiry to shed light on all this chronic and organised [...]
Three top officers who quit south Sudan’s army over alleged fraud in national elections are co-ordinating attacks in the oil-producing region, a renegade general said on Monday, but the army played down the threat. South Sudan will hold a referendum on secession in January, and most analysts believe the under-developed region will opt for independence. [...]
Guinea-Bissau’s military has shelved an investigation into the former head of the navy for allegedly being behind an 2008 coup attempt, a military prosecutor said Monday. “In the absence of new evidence and elements in the file, the Military Supreme Court has decided to temporarily suspend the investigation of Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto as [...]
South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday accused France of granting recognition to violent coups by inviting junta leaders from Guinea and Niger to an Africa-France summit. “We don’t want to encourage military people to overturn others and become governments, because by inviting, it means recognition, that’s how we are interpreting it in the continent,” [...]
Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko, has called for a ten-year jail term without fine option for politicians who are involved in electoral malpractices during the 2011 general elections. Mr. Mimiko, who gave the recommendation during a radio programme monitored in Akure, said anybody involved in election malpratices should be arrested, prosecuted, and jailed for five [...]
The Credible Leadership Forum has condemned the rotational presidency system practiced by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) saying it is undemocratic and unconstitutional. Ahmed Abdullahi, the chairman of the group, said in Abuja yesterday that it is a “democratic anathema” for anybody or group of people or a political party to suggest that a qualified [...]
Less than two months after he made frantic efforts to defend his visit to late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua on his sick bed, the President of Living Faith Church, a.k.a Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has threatened to engage in spiritual warfare with those behind electoral irregularities in the country. This is as he told [...]
EVEN from the most unexpected quarters, the rumoured ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest in next year’s election got more support yesterday. The immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Michael Aondoakaa, openly threw his weight behind the yet-to-be-confirmed presidential ambition. He said the zoning formula being used in some [...]
APPARENTLY in a new garb, former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd) has recommended that the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, be immotalised. Babangida’s recommendation came 17 years after his administration annulled the results of the election, which was adjudged the best ever conducted [...]
The Upper East Regional Security Council and the Bawku Municipal Security Council has announced that with effect from Saturday May 28, 2010, women in the Bawku Municipality and its surroundings can ride motorbikes and bicycles for their errands, after a one and a half month ban on riding motorbikes. The Information Services Department in Bawku [...]
