The Senator representing Imo West senatorial district and former governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, yesterday, said that the time is ripe for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction to emerge. Okorocha spoke in Owerri, when a group called Igbos for Rochas 2023 President, led by Jeff Nwaoha, from the five states of the Southeast […]

Hope Uzodinma, governor of Imo state, says the defection of David Umahi, his Ebonyi state counterpart, to the All Progressives Congress (APC), will be confirmed in a few hours. Addressing journalists after meeting with Mai Mala Buni, Yobe state governor and chairman of the APC caretaker committee, in Abuja on Monday, Uzodinma said the party […]

Peru ’ s Congress on Monday chose a 76-year – old former World Bank official as the South American country ’ s new president , the third in a week . Francisco Sagasti was elected as lawmakers met to try to find a way out of a political crisis , sparked by the impeachment of […]

United States President Donald Trump says he is not conceding the presidential election despite admitting that Joe Biden won. He had for the first time, admitted that Biden won but added a caveat – that the election was rigged. “He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed,” he had written […]

Three South East governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have been fingered to lead a mass defection from the party, if the opposition party fails to reveal where it intends to zone the 2023 presidency. A youth body, Ohaneze Ndi Igbo Youth Council, in a statement by its President General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzro, said […]

As the ruling party of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region fires rockets at the capital of neighbouring Eritrea, we look at the crisis stoking fears of a devastating conflict in Africa’s second most populous country. A timeline of the crisis: – Power struggle – Ethiopia’s worrying clash with the ruling party of its northern region has […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to close its national secretariat if it cannot pay the entitlements of its Staff. The APC said a political party that does not pay its workers but allows them to wallow in penury should not be voted into power. The APC in […]

United States President Donald Trump has finally admitted Joe Biden won the presidential election. In a tweet on Sunday, the president acknowledged Biden’s victory but said attributed it his rival’s victory to irregularities. “He won because the Election was Rigged. NO VOTE WATCHERS OR OBSERVERS allowed, vote tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, […]

Peru’s President Manuel Merino resigned Sunday, just five days after taking office, sparking celebrations in the capital Lima following street protests against him and the ousting of his popular predecessor. “I want to let the whole country know that I’m resigning,” Merino said in a televised address, a day after a police crackdown on protesters […]

Supporters of President Donald Trump are protesting his defeat in the United States presidential election. The protesters stormed major streets in Washington as they backed the president’s claim of alleged fraud in the election. Trump was defeated by Joe Biden, Democratic candidate who has now polled 306 electoral votes, more than the 270 threshold needed […]