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Tanzania swears in the first female president after Magufuli’s death

Tanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan was on Friday sworn in as the country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli.

Hassan, 61, a soft-spoken Muslim woman from the island of Zanzibar, will finish Magufuli’s second five-year term, set to run until 2025.

Wearing a bright red headscarf, Hassan was sworn in as the country’s sixth president, at a ceremony in Dar es Salaam, where neither she nor the majority of attendees wore a mask, in the Covid-sceptic nation.

 

Banditry Won’t End in Nigeria ― Wike

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that banditry may not end in the country because the All Progressives Congress-led government has continued to politized security.

Governor Wike in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri said by politicising insecurity, the APC government plunged the security troubled states into an unimaginable banditry scale that may not end soon.

He explained that when Rivers experienced insecurity in 2015, he ran to the federal government but instead of getting their support, they dismissed it because they wanted to make the state remain ungovernable.

 

Okorocha rejoices as court declares Ararume APC senatorial candidate

The Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, on Thursday, congratulated Senator Ifeanyi Araraume at the Federal High Court Abuja on his victory as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Imo North Senatorial bye-election held on December 5, 2020.

Okorocha’s congratulatory message was contained in a statement signed on his behalf by his Media Adviser, Sam Onwuemeodo, which was made available to newsmen in Owerri, Imo state.

Earlier, Justice Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, declared Senator Ifeanyi Ararume as the winner of the bye-election on the grounds that Ararume was the duly nominated candidate of the APC for the election and also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to issue Ararume a Certificate of Return within 72 hours from the date of the delivery of the judgment to facilitate his inauguration as Senator by the President of the Senate.

 

Throwing 2023 presidency open despicable, unconscionable, Ohanaeze tells PDP

The Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has described the People’s Democratic Party’s report on the 2023 presidential election, which throws its ticket open as most wicked, un-reflective and unacceptable.

The Bala Mohammed-led PDP Committee on the Review of the 2019 General Elections had recommended in a report submitted to the National Chairman of the party, Chief Uche Secondus, that the party should allow all aspirants from all parts of the country to contest its 2023 presidential ticket.

Mohammed was quoted to have remarked that in line with certain unwritten conventions of the nation’s history, many people think that for fairness and equity, the North-East and South-East geo-political zones that have had the shortest stints at the Presidency should be given special consideration in choosing the presidential flag bearer of the party for the 2023 election.

Ohanaeze stated that for the avoidance of doubt, Nigerians agreed on the rotation of the presidency between the North and the South; in which case, it is the turn of the South after the tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari.

 

Europa League: Pogba Scores On Return To Send Man United To Last Eight

Paul Pogba’s close-range goal has sent Manchester United to the quarter-final of the Europa League, handing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side a 1-2 aggregate win over, AC Milan.

United won the second leg of the game 0-1 on Thursday after the English were last week forced to a 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture.

The French star was introduced to the game in the 46th minute and it took a few minutes for the former Juventus man to make an instant impact on his return from injury.

 

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