Sunday 26 February 2023

Nigeria election 2023: Early results arriving

 

Early results have started to arrive from Nigeria's tightest election since the end of military rule in 1999.

Official results from the south-western Ekiti state show a clear victory for ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu in one of his strongholds.

Further results are expected shortly.

Following widespread delays and attacks on some polling stations on Saturday, voting was postponed until Sunday in parts of the country so final results will take some time.

Saturday 25 February 2023

Kenya wrong to ban LGBT rights groups from registering - Supreme Court


Kenyan authorities were wrong to ban the gay community from registering a rights organisation, the country's Supreme Court has ruled.

Yet at the same time it stressed that gay sex remains illegal.

The judges ruled three-to-two that the country's NGO board was wrong to stop the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) from registering in 2013.

As Kenya's highest court, the Supreme Court's ruling cannot be overturned.

Nigeria election 2023: Votes are counted but final results may take days


 Vote counting is under way in Nigeria's tightest presidential election since military rule ended in 1999.

Voting was marred by long delays as polling stations failed to open on time in some areas because of logistical problems and security incidents.

Turnout appeared to be high, with many young, first-time voters arriving before dawn to cast their ballots.

Saturday 16 May 2020

Great Firewall of China: Reviewing the Impacts and the Way Forward


image from pixabay.com

The young population in China do not know about the kind of internet that you and I are enjoying today. This is unless they have traveled out of the country before and now know what the rest of the world is enjoying that

Sunday 22 September 2019

Nigerian authorities to scan ID's in northeast in fight against terrorism

Nigeria will require anyone moving through three northeastern states to carry identification cards in an effort to root out members of Boko Haram and Islamic State, the army said on Sunday.
The new requirement follows credible information that members of the two militant groups were hiding among civilians in the towns and villages of the states, an army statement said.