Nigeria’s electoral commission declared that Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has won the election. Tinubu received 37 percent of the votes which means nearly 8.8 million. Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate Atiku Abubakar won 29 percent (approximately seven million) and Peter Obi from Labour Party ranked the third with 25 percent (about 6.1 million). Yet ...
New coronavirus outbreak in China China, the first to defeat the dangerous wave of coronavirus, has taken new tough measures in response to the discovery of new Covid-19 infections in Beijing. It all started with the detection of the virus on a salmon board in the Xinfadi market, Fengtai, Beijing’s largest wholesale market. According to the press service of the ...
US reopening President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a directive for the states to start opening their economies. The US president said the country was now ready to move to the next phase in the war against coronavirus. It was time, he said, “to open up. America wants to be open, and Americans want to be open.” Trump committed his ...
Nigeria is on the verge of serious change, in particular, a change in leadership. General elections (presidential and parliamentary) are scheduled to start February 16th, 2019, but will they mean significant change for the poverty-struck coastal nation? The current President is 76-year-old coup-leader-cum-democrat Muhammadu Buhari who is running for re-election with the center-left All Progressives Congress. His main opposition is ...