Author: Opalim Lifted

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan has fired two top security ministers, violating the terms of a peace agreement reached with opposition party leader First Vice President Riek Machar. Kiir fired the country’s defense minister, Angelina Teny, who is also Machar’s wife, and interior minister Mahmoud Solomon in a presidential order read on state TV late Friday, the President’s spokesperson Lily Martin Manyiel said on Saturday. “There is no reason I can give you right now” for their dismissal, but “it’s a normal procedure usually,” Manyiel said, adding that no decision on their replacements had yet been made. “There is…

Dr. Josef Onoh, the All Progressives Congress (APC) South East Presidential campaign spokesperson, has urged Igbos in Lagos to re-elect Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on March 11. In a statement, Onoh stated that Sanwo-Olu has shown affection and support for Igbos in Lagos for the past four years and deserves reciprocation from well-meaning Igbos who are good tenants and have shown fidelity in project Lagos State over the years. He said: “I recall how he helped former super Eagles captain, Henry Nwosu, who was at the point of death and couldn’t get any assistance even from our Igbo brothers, Sanwo-Olu took…

Tunisia’s powerful UGTT labor union held a rally in the capital on Saturday in what appeared to be the largest protest yet against President Kais Saied, demonstrating strength in the aftermath of his recent crackdown on opponents. Thousands of protesters marched down Habib Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis’s main thoroughfare, holding banners that read “No to one-man rule!” they chanted. Put an end to the police state “. They were marching in response to weeks of arrests of prominent opponents of Saied, who has launched his first major crackdown since seizing broad powers in 2021, shutting down parliament and instituting rule by…

Seun Kuti, a popular Nigerian afrobeat singer, has broken his silence following the outcome of the presidential election in 2023. Speaking to Nigerians in a post shared on his Instagram page, the singer, who had previously stated that he was a fool when he campaigned for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State, in 1999, noted that Nigerians wanted the lesser of three evils but got the best of the evil. Seun wrote: “When you realize all your actors, musicians, politicians, business leaders, influencers, comedians are using your support and resources to become American and British citizens, so…

Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, a disgraced lawyer and member of a powerful South Carolina family, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for killing his wife and son in an attempt to conceal his drug addiction and theft of millions of dollars, according to prosecutors. Murdaugh, 54, was found guilty on two counts of killing his wife Maggie, 52, and their youngest son, Paul, 22, on June 7, 2021, on their family estate. After a five-week trial, the jury decided in three hours. At a hearing on Friday, Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Murdaugh to life in prison, with…

Prof. Pat Utomi, a political economist, has called for a review of the results of Saturday’s presidential election in ten states of the federation. Utomi, the Convener of The BIG-TENT Coalition of Political Parties, Social Movements, and Civil Society Organizations for Obi-Datti, made the announcement at a news conference in Lagos on Friday. Lagos, Rivers, Imo, Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna, Katsina, Adamawa, and Akwa Ibom were among the states he mentioned. “We want to urge INEC to show good faith and not wipe their server of activities of the Feb. 25 presidential election in the excuse of having it ready…

Capt. Augustine Okon, Director-General of the Obi/Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Akwa Ibom State Chapter, expressed confidence on Friday that the mandate given to Peter Obi during the recently concluded presidential elections would be recovered through legal means. While speaking at a conference on Thursday, Obi indicated his willingness to challenge the election results. Okon said, “The PCC Akwa Ibom State has collated enough evidence to prove that His Excellency Peter Obi won the election in Akwa Ibom State and will liaise with the legal team to ensure that the stolen mandate is recovered. “You are aware that prior to the…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-controlled state governments have dropped their lawsuit against the federal government over the conduct, subsequent collation, and announcement of the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections. “Take notice that the plaintiffs doth hereby wholly discontinue this suit against the defendant herein,” said the Notice of Discontinuance signed by their lawyer, Mr Mike Ozekhome, SAN, on Friday. The states had taken the Federal Government to the Supreme Court over the conduct, collation, and announcement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 25. In the originating summons, the plaintiffs specifically request that the Supreme Court…

Flooding caused by days of heavy rain has forced nearly 40,000 people to flee their homes in Malaysia’s southern Johor state, which borders Singapore, and at least four people have died in the last week, officials said on Saturday. “We used to always prepare for the rainy season in November and December,” said Mohd Noor Saad, 57, of the town of Yong Peng in Johor’s Batu Pahat district. “Every household had a boat, but with the unpredictable weather, it appears that we are unprepared, and things have become chaotic.” According to the national disaster management agency, authorities have set up…

Several economists have implored the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to follow the Supreme Court’s ruling and keep the old Naira notes legal tender until December 31. The experts made the request in separate interviews with on Friday in Lagos, while applauding the Supreme Court’s decision on the old Naira notes. According to them, the time frame set by the Supreme Court will allow the CBN to reconsider its policy. They also noted that it would allow the bank to improve its implementation without causing economic distortions. The Supreme Court also nullified the Federal Government’s Naira redesign policy, declaring it…