By Africanews
Five of the six men charged with murdering Italy's ambassador to the DRC in 2021 requested acquittal on Saturday, during a
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The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Thursday, broke his silence on the outcome of last Saturday’s presidential election, claiming that the exercise was marred by irregularities.
In the early hours of Wednesday, March 1, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission and returning officer of the 2023 presidential election, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, declared the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the keenly contested election which was held on Saturday, February 25.
Peter Obi, the outsider candidate for Nigeria’s Labour Party, narrowed the gap with Bola Tinubu and opposition leader Atiku Abubakar in the race to become the next president of Africa’s biggest democracy.
Nigeria’s ruling party candidate took an early lead in the West African nation’s presidential elections as results from Saturday’s vote trickled in.
Nigerian presidential hopeful Peter Obi emerged as the preferred choice to become the country’s next head of state in two opinion polls, the third survey in the past week to show the outsider candidate is the frontrunner.
A Russian military frigate docked in Cape Town harbour on Monday ahead of controversial military drills with South Africa and China, coming as Moscow is about to mark one year since its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Save the Children said in a report that about a half million people crossed or attempted to cross the Mediterranean to Europe since 2019. Of those, 8,468 people died or went missing in the Mediterranean, the charity added.
