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The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Devi Harris, starts her week-long trip in Africa by visiting Ghana, then to Tanzania for a three-day state visit, before heading to Zambia in the final leg of her tour, scheduled for 25 March to 3 April The White House has released …

One of the defeated opposition candidates in Nigeria’s presidential election has formally challenged the results in a petition filed at a court tribunal in the capital, Abuja. Peter Obi of the Labour Party came third in last month’s poll behind Atiku Abubakar and victor Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives …

The Global Chamber of Business Leaders (GCBL) has as part of efforts to open up the world to trade and economic partnerships, entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with one of the leading learning institutions in Vietnam, the Institute for Economic and Financial Studies (IEFS). Both IEFS and the Global …

The United States of America (U.S.A. ) Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Accra in Ghana; Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and Lusaka in Zambia from March 25 to April 2. She will be accompanied by her husband Douglas Emhoff.   The visit will build on the recent U.S.-Africa …

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has urged defeated candidates in the just-ended presidential election not to incite violence. He said any candidate who is dissatisfied with the declared results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should seek legal redress. President Buhari tweeted this on Wednesday after INEC announced Bola Amed …

The first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, Dr. Francis Kwame Nkrumah delivered his review in a broadcast on the Eve of the Independence Anniversary March 5, 1958 A year ago today, the people of this country reached the end of their long struggle for Independence and won the fundamental …

  Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu was on Wednesday declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election. The 70-year-old veteran politician got 36% of the vote, official results show. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first constitutional requirement to be …

The collation officer appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the Presidential election in Nigeria’s Rivers State, Prof Charles Adias, has suspended the collation of results over alleged threats to life. Prof Adias who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Otuoke in Bayelsa State, said this …

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP Peter Obi has defeated the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos, his home state. According to the results declared, Obi polled 582,664 while Tinubu scored 541,850. Although, the APC candidate won more local government areas, Obi defeated Tinubu with the majority of …

There have been violent incidents at several polling stations in Lagos. At one visit by the BBC, in Channels Estate, in Ajah, a suburb of Lagos, a group of men were seen holding bottles and sticks and leaving ballot papers spread on the ground. “There was pandemonium, people ran and …