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Biden’s family encourages him to stay in the race

Camp David, July 1, 2024 – Joe Biden’s family on Sunday encouraged the president to stay in the 2024 race and privately discussed whether top aides should be fired on the heels of Biden’s stunning poor debate performance which has thrown his campaign into turmoil. Biden’s family, including first lady jill Biden, son Hunter Biden and their grandchildren, convened at Camp David for a previously scheduled get-together and implored the president to keep fighting in his bid for reelection, Biden advisers told CNN. One adviser described the family members as having offered their “unequivocal support.” …

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‘It’s a mess’: Biden turns to family after his disastrous debate

Washington, June 30, 2024 – President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family at Camp David on Sunday, following a nationally televised debate Thursday that left many fellow Democrats worried about his ability to beat former President Donal Trump in November, according to five people familiar with the matter. Biden’s trip was planned before Thursday’s debate. He and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to join their children and grandchildren there late Saturday. So far, the party’s top leaders have offered public support for Biden, including in …

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Odinkalu, others offer hope to millions of the stateless in Africa

By Michael Blanding Abuja, June 26, 2024 – When refugees seek asylum, they leave one country for another. But what happens when they don’t have a country that recognises them in the first place? That’s the problem that Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, a Professor of the practice at The Fletcher School, has spent nearly two decades trying to solve. He and his fellow human rights crusaders made a breakthrough with a new Treaty to protect citizenship rights and eradicate statelessness, adopted by the African Union (AU) in February 2024. Statelessness affects …

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Democracy Day: Return Nigeria to true democracy – Peter Obi

Abuja, June 12, 2024 – Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party  in the 2023 Elections, has called on Nigerians to restore the country to true democracy. He made the call on Wednesday on the anniversary of Democracy Day in the country. He wrote: “As our dear nation marks Democracy Day today, commemorating 25 years of striving to be a democratic country, the fundamental question for all of us remains: are we truly democratic? “An unexamined life is not worth living, so it is now time to re-examine what we …

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Democracy Day: Wipe tears of Nigerian workers, group urges Tinubu

Lagos, June 12, 2024 – A group, The Collective, has called on President Bola Tinubu to ensure that Nigerian workers are paid living wages to improve their welfare. The group gave the advice in a statement signed by its Director of Media, Ndubuisi Nwachukwu, on the occasion of the celebration of 25 years of unbroken democracy in Nigeria. The group said the plight of Nigerian workers had worsened and no longer unbearable, a situation which called for urgent attention of the government.  It advised the government to come up with …

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2024 Elections in India, South Africa: Similarities and Differences

By Paul Ejime Abuja, June 9, 2024 -Politically speaking, India is the World’s largest democracy with a voter population of 969 million from the more than 1.4 billion inhabitants. It towers above South Africa, which has less than 62 million people, and about 28 million registered voters. The Asian giant is also the World’s fifth-largest economy, while Africa’s “Rainbow Nation,” ranks a distant 36th. However, both countries share much in common in international relations, particularly as members of the geopolitical bloc BRICS, formed in 2009 and includes Brazil, Russia, India …

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Senate passes 2024 FCT budget for second reading

Abuja, June 6, 2024 – The Senate has passed for second reading the 2024 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Supplementary Budget of N98.5 billion. This followed the presentation of the budget estimates by the Deputy leader of the Senate, Sen. Lola Ashiru (APC-Kwara) at plenary on Thursday. The Senate had, on June 5, stood down the consideration of the budget for lack of details on the document presented to the lawmakers. Deputy President of the Senate Barau Jibrin (APC-Kano), urged his colleagues to allow the passage of the bill to second …

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South Africa’s 2024 Election, a referendum on black leadership

By Paul Ejime Abuja, June 6, 2024 – The results of South Africa’s 2024 elections further illustrate what pro-democracy groups have always canvassed – good governance/leadership is tribe and race-blind. South Africa comprises people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions, including Indian South Africans, who constitute 2.7% of the population, the 8.2% coloured South Africans,  and the indigenous majority Blacks who make up more than 81% of the nation’s estimated 62 million inhabitants. Much of the atrocities wrought by the authoritarian, minority white regimes that dominated the political, social, …

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Local Government: Financial, administrative autonomy will be a game changer

By – Dr Ade Dosunmu Lagos, May 30, 2024 – The proposal by the Federal Government to grant full Autonomy to the local governments in Nigeria is a welcome development and long overdue. I commend the Federal government whose Attorney General Of The Federation,  Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) has approached the Supreme Court to pursue this landmark initiative. There is no doubt that our democratic journey has been very slow due to lack of autonomy for the third tier of government as practised in other Democratic climes. The office of the Attorney General …

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I will wait for justice – deposed Emir

Kano, May 2024 – The deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, has appealed to his followers to wait for justice, rather than take laws into their hands. Bayero, wo made the appeal at a mini-palace where he has been since returning to Kano on Saturday morning, assured them that that justice would prevail at the end. He pledged to follow whatever the law states, adding that Kano is too important to Nigeria. Speaking in his native language, Bayero said: “I call on the people to remain law-abiding, while awaiting …