Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping on Friday declared himself the rightful president while demanding for a vote recount,48 hours after incumbent Ali Bongo was announced the winner of a weekend and election was returened re-elected throwing the central african nation into crisis. “I am the president, ” Ping told a press conference at his home in Libreville late Friday, calling for a recount from every polling station. Since the anouncement of the elections results of the Saturday election huge crowds of irate supporters, some of whom torched the parliament, have taken to the streets. However, Bongo’s government launched a fierce crackdown, with security forces arresting around a thousand people. Two people died early Friday following overnight clashes, bringing to five the number killed in the violence that erupted after Bongo was declared victor of the disputed election on Saturday. Bongo was declared victorious by a razor-thin margin of just under 6,000 votes, but his mai...
Mr Garba Shehu,the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, on Sunday stated that President Muhammadu Buhari would be one of Nigeria’s best presidents even as he described the last couple of weeks as tough on the commander-in-chief as he encountered the graviest public criticism since he assumed office on May 29, 2015. Shehu said much of the criticism which he sees as unfair on the FG had been on account of the unresolved social and economic problems facing the country. In his words, “The currency liberalisation and the deregulation of the petroleum products sale will make President Buhari one of the best presidents till date. “The removal of subsidies on the petrol products has saved the government more than N2tn annual expenditure in this respect. “President Buhari’s foreign trips have brought many things to the country. He has energised our foreign policy. Beyond the enormous goodwill reaped from “resetting” age-old but damaged relations with neighbo...
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The April 14 2014 photo Latest Photo as was screen-grabbed from the video released on sunday by the sect The parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls in coalition with the BringBackOurGirls group on Sunday requested that the Federal Government exchange detained Boko Haram members for the girls who were held hostage by the sect for over two years. This was as a follow up to the video of the girls as was released by the sect on Sunday. Boko Haram captured more than 200 of the 276 final-year girls it abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State, in April 2014. Some of them escaped, but 215 girls remain missing. In May 2016, one of them, Amina Ali, was rescued. Abubakar Shekau faction of the Boko Haram sect In an new video (11 minutes long) avowed that some of the girls were killed by air strikes launched by the Nigerian Air Force on their hideouts. There in the video is a masked armed man standing in front of several girls, wh...
Helen Gradwell, 39, suffered from crippling migraines, and her badly decomposed body was found in her home in Bolton , in April. Sad enough,a publisher had just approved her first novel. Among the post piled up behind the front door was a letter from a London publisher accepting her first novel, The Nature’s Spirits. Ms Gradwell, probably took too much of the strong painkiller Tramadol to treat her debilitating hemiplegic migraines, an inquest heard. She was found lying face down on the floor of her living room by police after a concerned neighbour raised the alarm. The inquest heard that Christmas decorations were still up at her home and analysis of her phone revealed she had last used it to send a text message to a friend cancelling a meeting on December 30 last year. Assistant coroner Timothy Brennand was told by police investigating officer DI Jonathan Kelly that her two beloved pet dogs had also died in the same room. Miss Gradwell spent her early childhood in Egerton and in...