•Nigerian lawyers The 2024 election of new national leaders of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is ongoing. NBA National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, in a statement made available to The Frontier today says the voting process began at midnight today, Saturday, July 20, 2024, and will end precisely at 11:59 pm also today. Accord...
•Obasanjo and Kagame Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has hailed the re-election of Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame, describing it as an affirmation of trust and confidence reposed in him. Obasanjo disclosed this in a congratulatory message he signed and was released by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, to journalists in Abeokuta, the Ogun State...
•Nigerian lawyers The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has fixed Saturday, July 20, 2024 for the elections of their president and other national officers. Ahead of Saturday’s elections, the Electoral Committee has promised Nigerian lawyers free, fair, credible and inclusive elections. Chairman of the Electoral Committee of the NBA, ECNBA, Oluseu...
•Tinubu jets out This piece was first published in Vanguard on April 28, 2015, by Eric Teniola who is a former Director in The Presidency and lives in Lagos UNTIL 1999, the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF) was under the control and supervision of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Before then, senior […]
•President Ruto addresses the press today in Nairobi Kenyan President William Ruto said today that a bill containing tax hikes would “be withdrawn”, dramatically reversing course after more than 20 people died and parliament was ransacked in protests. “I concede and therefore I will not sign the 2024 finance bill and it shall subsequently be [...
•Protesters react as Kenyan Police officers fire tear gas canisters Kenya’s President William Ruto said he was ready for “a conversation” with thousands of young protesters who held nationwide demonstrations this week to oppose proposed tax increases, a presidency official said today. Led largely by Gen-Z Kenyans who have livestreamed the demo...
•Comrade Olusoji Oluwole The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institution (ASSBIFI), has assured workers in the industry that their interest will be protected in the ongoing recapitalisation benchmark recently prescribed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), adding that the union have taken steps to ensure that an...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye (L) being sworn in as president Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a left-wing pan-Africanist, was sworn in today as Senegal’s youngest president after sweeping to a first-round victory on a pledge of radical reform 10 days after he was released from prison. The 44-year-old has never before held an elected office but several African ...
•Jonathan Former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Bolaji Abdulahi has defended former President Goodluck who had been roundly criticised as weak and clueless during his reign as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2010-2015 saying that the former president was not weak or clueless. Abdulahi asserted in Port Harcourt at t...
•Trump and Pence Former US Vice President Mike Pence said yesterday he would not be backing Donald Trump as his old boss runs for a second term in the White House. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said in an interview with Fox News. […]

