Politics

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has revealed that one of the reasons for his fallout with his predecessor, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, was his decision to declare a state burial for the late Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Tony Anenih. Speaking at a PDP campaign rally at Opujie Primary School, …

  Former US President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama delivered powerful speeches at the Democratic National Convention underway in Chicago today, rallying the country around the candidacy of Kamala Harris, who is poised to become the first Black and South Asian woman to secure a major party’s …

  Although Donald Trump isn’t physically in Chicago, his influence is palpable, and he’s evidently keeping an eye on the events there. Before Kamala Harris’s speech on Thursday, a few of Trump’s aides claimed, somewhat unconvincingly, that the former president wasn’t paying attention to the Democratic National Convention, dismissing it …

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party has thrown its weight behind the call for former President Goodluck Jonathan to join the presidential race for 2027. In the past few weeks, there has been a growing rumour that northern elites and politicians are not happy with President Bola Tinubu’s administration and subtly …

The deputy leader of South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said on Thursday he was resigning to join the party led by former president Jacob Zuma, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Floyd Shivambu’s departure is a blow to the Marxist EFF, headed by Julius Malema. The EFF saw its share …

It’s been a cruel summer for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. A series of scandals that implicated the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Mr Kishida’s closest allies within it and even his family had put his job on the line. That this happened as living costs shot up and discontent …

Former US president Donald Trump has said that Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote him a beautiful note after the Republican presidential nominee suffered a gunshot wound to his ear during an assassination attempt. Trump said this at an election rally on Saturday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, exactly a week after …

Renowned American election forecaster Allan Lichtman, known as the Nostradamus of US presidential elections, has made a preliminary prediction for the 2024 presidential election, which will be held on November 5. Lichtman, who has accurately predicted nine of the past 10 elections since 1984, currently favours Vice-President Kamala Harris over …

“Trump saw this as a betrayal,” Eyal Lurie-Pardes of the Middle East Institute, told Al Jazeera. “Trump has been very supportive of Israel but critical of Netanyahu, attacking him for [October 7] happening under his watch and as being weaker than ever. “Trump doesn’t like to pick a losing partner,” …

US presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely accused election rival Kamala Harris of being an anti-Semite who plans to allow the murder of newborn babies, in a speech meant to rally religious supporters Friday that quickly went off the rails.   The vice president, who is married to a Jewish man, …