Politics

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from jail, three weeks into a five-year prison term for partaking in a criminal conspiracy. A Paris court ruled on Monday that Sarkozy will be placed under judicial supervision and barred from leaving France ahead of an appeal trial due to be held next year. After his release, the former president said …

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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has openly admitted to carrying out a genocide against Christians in Africa while mocking former U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of intervention.The revelation was made by Mario Nawfal, a Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur, business influencer, citizen journalist, and podcast host, via X (formerly Twitter). The terror group described any U.S. attempt to defend Christians …

On Sunday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced Governor Chukwuma Soludo as the winner of the November 8 governorship election in Anambra State. The Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Prof. Edogah Omoregie, made the declaration at the commission’s headquarters in Awka on Sunday. Soludo contested on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, …

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has expressed dissatisfaction with the conduct of the Anambra 2025 gubernatorial election, describing it as a heavily monetized process that undermined the very idea of democracy itself. In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party accused the incumbent and his party of engaging in widespread cash-for-votes, while also criticizing …

The BBC will apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama documentary, the Telegraph can disclose. Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, will write to the culture, media and sport committee on Monday to express regret for the way the speech, made on the day of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot, was spliced together. The …

US President Donald Trump has finally created space for Nigeria in his busy schedule. “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” …

President Donald Trump was heading to Florida on Friday, watching Fox News, when he saw the network run a story on how Christians were allegedly being targeted by Islamic groups in Nigeria, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The President was “immediately” angered by it, one of the sources said, and asked to get further read in on …

The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office has issued a fresh warning against travel to parts of Nigeria, citing escalating insecurity, violent crime, terrorism, and kidnappings across multiple regions. In its latest Foreign Travel Advice published on GOV.UK and sighted by our correspondent on Sunday, the FCDO stated, “Insecurity is increasing across Nigeria. Kidnapping, violent crime, and intercommunal violence …

International observers and civil society organisations have commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the transparent, efficient, and peaceful conduct of the ongoing Anambra State Governorship Election, noting that the exercise has so far been remarkably orderly and credible. Reports from accredited observer groups, monitored at the INEC Situation Room by the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, …