•UN The United Nations Security Council will vote tomorrow on the Palestinians’ application to become a full UN member state, several diplomatic sources have told our correspondent. Amid Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the Palestinians in early April revived a membership application first made to the world body in 2011, though the veto-wi...
The House of Representatives has rejected a bill seeking to amend sections 134 and 179 of the constitution, which provide the conditions to be elected president and governor, respectively. The bill, which sought to make it mandatory for presidential and governorship candidates to secure more than 50 percent of the total votes cast, to be [&hel...
•A Congolese police officer stands guard at a polling station People in the Democratic Republic of Congo were voting today in a high-stakes election pitting the incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi against a fragmented opposition, whose leaders denounced “chaos” and “irregularities”. The first polling stations in the east of the vast central A...
•Ladi Adebutu Days after losing at the appeal court, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, insists his party won the March 18 poll with over 50,000 votes. Governor Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared winner of the poll after polling 276,298. Adebutu scored 262,383 wh...
The Supreme Court has agreed with the Court of Appeal that the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, is like other states. The presiding justice of the panel, John Okoro, asked, “Are you saying if someone scores 25% votes in 30 states but not in Abuja, he should not be president? Is that how you interpret the […]