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Gabon Conducts First Presidential Poll Since 2023 Coup
Gabonese voters began casting ballots on Saturday in a presidential election with eight candidates that is widely expected to make junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema the oil-rich central African country’s first elected leader since his 2023 coup. Oligui, the general who led the August 30, 2023, putsch that ended 55 years of iron-fisted dynastic rule…
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Tinubu Congratulates Chad’s Mahamat Déby on Electoral Victory
By Abdullah Bello (Abuja) President Bola Tinubu had congratulated the President-Elect of the Republic of Chad, Mahamat Déby, on his election victory. A statement says the president affirms that the successful conduct of elections in the nation underlines the commitment of the government and the people of Chad to democracy and orderly transitions in the…
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Court Dismisses Application for Live Broadcast of Presidential Election Petition
The Presidential Election Petition Court on Monday dismissed the application seeking to allow the day-to-day telecast of the ongoing election petitions proceedings. The five-man panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani dismissed the request which was made by the aggrieved parties and candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party as lacking in merit…
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Oyo CP Expresses Satisfaction over Peaceful Atmosphere
By Mosope Kehinde Commissioner of police in Oyo state, Adebowale Williams has expressed satisfaction with the level of Peace being enjoyed so far in the ongoing Presidential and National Assembly elections in the state. CP Williams made this known this morning during his visit to the Oyo state INEC Residents Electoral Commissioner, Dr Adeniran Tella…
