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By Kamil Opeyemi The police have said a lecturer at the University of Lagos is to be arrested and prosecuted after the allegation that he raped a 20 year of female student of the institution. A non-governmental organisation, Inclusive Social Welfare and Empowerment Foundation, where the victim reported the case, said rather than the lecturer attending to the undergraduate’s result issues, he allegedly raped her on August 16, 2023. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident, saying, “He is to appear in court in the coming days.” Reacting, the spokesperson for UNILAG, Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, said that…

Mexico appears all but certain to elect its first ever female head of state after Claudia Sheinbaum was confirmed as the governing party’s candidate in next year’s presidential election. The former Mexico City mayor will face off against Xóchitl Gálvez, who is leading the opposition coalition. Ms Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old trained scientist, is a close ally of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “We will win in 2024,” she told her supporters in a speech. Ms Sheinbaum beat five other contenders to win each of five polls, averaging about 39% of the vote, the Morena party announced. A student leader in…

Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalised abortion nationwide. The judgement comes two years after the court ruled in favour of a challenge to the existing law in the northern state of Coahuila. It had ruled that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies were unconstitutional. Mexico’s states and the federal government had since been slow to repeal penal codes. The new ruling legalises abortion across all 32 states. The supreme court said the denial of the possibility of a termination violated the human rights of women. “In cases of rape, no girl can be forced to become a mother – neither by the…

A dangerous killer who escaped a Pennsylvania prison climbed the same walls another inmate scaled earlier this year to get away, officials say. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, whose escape last week has made headlines in his native Brazil, remains at large. Newly released prison footage shows the inmate “crab walked” up two walls separated by a 5ft (1.5m) hallway. Officials say razor wire was installed after the previous escape, but that it was clearly not effective. The Chester County Prison acting warden said at a news conference that the prison had hired security consultants after the 19 May escape of Igor…

By Kamil Opeyemi President Bola Tinubu has successfully attracted a monumental 3 billion U S dollars investment pledge from Indian investors, to boost steel industry in the country. This is according in a statement by Mr Abdullahi Haruna, Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to Minister of Steel Development, Prince Shauib Audu, in Abuja on Wednesday. The president made the commitment during the Nigeria-India economic roundtable in India. “In a historic move that promises to bolster Nigeria’s steel industry, President Tinubu has successfully attracted a monumental $3 billion investment pledge from Indian investors. “This achievement was met with applause and commendation…

Gabon’s former president Ali Bongo, who was ousted in a putsch, is free to leave the country and travel abroad the leader of the coup that toppled him said on Wednesday. “He has freedom of movement… and can travel abroad if he wishes,” general Brice Oligui Nguema said in a statement read on state television. Bongo, in power for 14 years, had been under house arrest since the military coup of August 30, carried out without bloodshed less than an hour after his party proclaimed his re-election in a vote described as fraudulent by the putschists. “Given his state of…

By Kamil Opeyemi The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and Labour Party, LP, to accept the verdict of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribuna validating President Bola Tinubu’s victory at the Feb. 25, presidential election. The National Chairman of the party, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje made the appeal on Wednesday in Abuja shortly after the judgement was delivered in favour of President Bola Tinubu. Ganduje described the judgement as thorough, saying it addressed all the issues raised by the petitioners. “For the opposition, I urge you to accept the verdict of the tribunal.…

•Says Arguments Stand Against Reason By Halimah Olamide The Peoples Democratic Party late Wednesday said the decisions of the presidential election petition tribunal stood against all forms of reasoning. In its first reaction after the tribunal validated the victory of President Bola Tinubu , the PDP said it was rejecting in its totality, the ruling of the tribunal. “Few moments ago, the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) delivered Judgment in the Petition filed by our Party, the PDP and its Candidate, Atiku Abubakar against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the All Progressives Congress and Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu over…

By Halimah Olamide President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday called on his challengers at the tribunal to come together and support his administration. In his first response after the decision of the tribunal which validated his election, Tinubu said his challengers only exercised their democratic rights. While welcoming the judgment of the court, Tinubu said he is prepared to serve all Nigerians, irrespective of all diverse political persuasions, faiths, and tribal identities. A statement by Ajuri Ngelale, his adviser on media said the President recognizes the diligence, undaunted thoroughness and professionalism of the five-member bench, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani in…

By Kamil Opeyemi The presidential election petition tribunal on Wednesday upheld the victory of the President Bola Tinubu, saying he decisively won the February 25 poll.m The tribunal said the opposition parties failed to prove claims of electoral malpractice against the All Progressives Congress (APC) in February’s disputed elections. “This petition is hereby declared unmeritorious,” one of the judges said, as the tribunal rejected the opposition challenge to Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s win in the presidential election. Tinubu won 37 percent of the vote, defeating Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. With…