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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged warring factions inthe Republic of Chad to prioritize national interest and securetheir country, rather than decimating it through infighting.Buhari said this when he received the country’s transitionPresident, General Mehmet Déby-Itno, who visited him on thesidelines of the ongoing United Nations Conference on LeastDeveloped Countries in Doha, the Qatari capital.The Presid...

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The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) hasinaugurated a 16-member budget committee to prepare its2024 budget through engagements with stakeholders.The NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, said thatthe committee must first identify the vision of the commissionas an interventionist agency in order to prioritize the allocationof available resources.Ogbuku said that, the 2024 NDDC budget should strike abala...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan is set to receive AfricanDemocracy and Peace Icon Award for being the first leader toconcede power to an opposition government on the continent.Also to be honoured are former President of Tanzania, thelate John Magufuli, Vice President of Liberia, Dr. JewelHoward-Taylor, former President of Botswana, RetiredLieutenant General Seretse Khama and many otherprominent Africans.Announcin...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) hassaid that supplementary election will hold in places whereresults had not been declared for last Saturday’s NationalAssembly poll.The commission said it will announce the date for thesupplementary poll after conducting the governorship andHouses of Assembly elections on March 11.In a statement after its weekly meeting, INEC NationalCommissioner for Inform...

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The head of Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Martha Chizuma, has been suspended over a leaked piece of audio in which she can allegedly be heard discussing official matters with a person not employed by her office.The comments that she allegedly made could prejudice the trial of people charged with corruption.Chizuma remained in the job with the president’s backing and went ahead to indict several high profile officials, including Vice-Presi...

 The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso has faulted the new naira swap deadline, claiming it only affects the masses and not the political elites who he said have banks. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had on Sunday extended the deadline for the swapping of the newly-designed naira notes, bowing to pressure from many quarters.But Kwankwaso said the February 10th deadline given by the apex bank is not e...