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At the 50th Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government (HOSG) scheduled to hold on Saturday in Abuja, the political crisis in Gambia would top the agenda. President Muhammadu Buhari, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and current Chairperson of the Authority of HOSG, and President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra-Leone, were in The Gambia on Tuesday. The leaders went to convince the long-ruling President Yahya Jammeh to relinquish power after losing an election on 1 December. The leaders urged Jammeh to reconsider his rejection of the election results, based on what he called “tallying errors”…

The results of 13,488 private candidates, out of the 172,699 who sat for the 2016 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), have been withheld. Mr Olu Adenipekun, Head of National Office (HNO) of the WAEC, announced this while releasing results of the Nov/Dec diet of the examination on Friday in Lagos. Adenipekun said the results were withheld in connection with various cases of examination malpractice. According to him, the results withheld represent 7.81 per cent of the total number of candidates who sat for the examination. He said that the cases of malpractices were being investigated and that reports…

The Wife of the President, Hajia Aisha Buhari, has awarded scholarship to 300 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) college children. This was contained in a statement by Mr Ben Onwudinjo, Proprietor, The Praxis Catholic e-School, on Friday in Abuja, said that the award was given to the children by the school. Representing Aisha Buhari was Mrs Paulen Tallen, former Deputy Governor of Plateau State, who promised to partner with the school to ensure that infrastructure, feeding and logistics were guaranteed. Onwudinjo showed appreciation by thanking the first lady and called on well meaning Nigerians to also support for a successful scholarship…

On Friday, Lagos State Government condemned in strong terms the mob action that led to the death of an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Mr. Tajudeen Olatunji Bakare and vowed to bring the perpetrators to book. The Government also denied involvement of LASTMA in an incident which led to the death of a motor boy attached to a Tanker in Apapa area of the State on Thursday. As a result of the incident, a mob in the area had gathered to attack the LASTMA Official and stoned him to death. Bakare, a level 14 officer, was…

It was a mouthwatering event on Friday as top notch Nigeria Politicians storm the wedding of Zahra Buhari. The President’s daughter got married to Ahmed Indimi, the son of a multi-billionaire oil tycoon, Mohammed Indimi. Here are few pictures from the event;

On Friday, the former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, paid a courtesy visit to the imprisoned leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, where he said the latter did not deserve to be in detention. Kalu, who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, posted on his Facebook page a picture he had taken with Kanu during his visit to Kuje Prison . In the post, Kalu said, “Today, I visited Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Kuje Prison and we engaged in a very long discussion. Kanu is my brother and a son of the soil.…

About twelve soldiers have allegedly killed in Northern Burkina Faso when some unidentified gunmen attacked a military post near the border with Mali, President Roch Marc Christian Kabore said on Friday. Attacks in Burkina Faso were relatively rare before a major attack by al Qaeda-linked fighters on a hotel in the capital, Ouagadougou, that killed 29 people in January. “This attack demonstrates that the fight against terrorism will be without respite and also underscores the necessary decisions that must be taken to give confidence and vitality to our army,” Kabore said. He stated that those killed were members of the…

On Friday, Belgium has advised against all travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo and urged citizens whose presence was not essential to leave its former colony due to fears of violence in planned anti-government protests. Condemning the expulsion of two Belgian television crews, Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said in a statement: “Belgian citizens who remain in the country are requested to exercise utmost caution, in particular during movements.” An updated travel advice on his ministry’s website cited as reasons for avoiding the DRC: “political tensions, recent measures taken by the authorities to suppress rights and freedoms, the expulsion of…

Global food security monitors said on Friday that Nigeria’s Borno state was at increased risk of famine, with one study projecting the number of those affected will rise to 115,000 in 2017 from 55,000 this year. The northeastern state is the area worst hit by the seven-year Boko Haram insurgency that has killed 15,000 people and uprooted more than 2 million during the Islamist militants’ attempt to create a “caliphate” in the area. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which is backed by U.N. and other aid agencies, issued a special alert calling for urgent humanitarian action. “There is…

The UN sanctions in Central African Republic have reported that violent clashes are currently spreading in the state, despite successful polls that elected a new government earlier this year. The new government of Faustin-Archange Touadera has limited control outside the capital Bangui and has failed to convince the dozens of armed factions around the country to lay down their weapons, according to their report. Central African Republic descended into chaos in 2013 when mainly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power in the majority Christian nation, toppling President Francois Bozize and sparking a backlash from Christian anti-balaka militias. Touadera was sworn in…