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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 17 December 2020 JOHN ALECHENU takes a look at the seemingly intractable leadership crisis within the ruling All Progressives Congress in the light of the recent National Executive Committee decision to expel the former National Vice-Chairman (South-South), Hilliard Eta, for suing the party The 2023 general elections may be three years away, but to the average Nigerian politician, the scramble to remain relevant and better positioned to either retain a curren...

President Uhuru Kenyatta during a virtual meeting of the 36th assembly of IGAD Heads of State and Government at State House, Nairobi. Also present are; Foreign Affairs CS Amb Raychelle Omamo and Head of Public Service Dr Joseph Kinyua. Photo|PSCU President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of condolence to King Mswati III and the people of Eswatini, formerly referred to as Swaziland, following the death of the Kingdom’s Prime Minister Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini. In his message of encouragement...

In my opinion, I believe that the hatred of Mr. Sandy has clouded the minds of some Sierra Leoneans who are constantly engaged in drawing negative attention towards him. Mr. Sandy is a patriotic Sierra Leonean who has earned the TRUST AND RESPECT of the president and nothing will change that reality. He is an educated man and a former professor of the University of Sierra Leone who has played an important role towards educating our citizens. He is not an uneducated APC thug or thief that has be...

7th Press Statement by the Covid-19 Election Monitoring and Violence Prevention Situation Room on the conduct of the Senatorial and Representative By-Elections and Referendum in Liberia 7th Press Statement by the Covid-19 Election Monitoring and Violence Prevention Situation Room on the conduct of the Senatorial and Representative By-Elections and Referendum in Liberia Share The Election monitoring and Violence Prevention Situation Room after active participation in monitoring and observing the...

To fly. but the fact that boeing is even considering curbing production of this troubled plane is a huge turn of events. up until now, if you remember, boeing has been very positive, in fact bullish, saying that it was looking forward to approval of the plane to fly again some time in the fourth quarter of this year and with that timeline boeing even put out a press statement a while back saying that it was looking to resume deliveries to airline customers in december. thats this month. thats no...

Year a senate trial. on that topic msnbcs garrett haake is on capitol hill with some news for us. garrett. >> reporter: nicole, i was listening to jerry nadlers very short press statement. your comments that this is someone happy to be done with his job as a chairman. i thought it was interesting because hes not necessarily done. now the thing that everyone is really focused on here in the house and in the senate is who is going to be these impeachment managers. jerry nadlers single statement is...

>> none of the discussions changed our findings here. >> thank you. in a press statement, issued monday, u.s. attorney john durham tasked by attorney general barr to also investigate the origins of the russia investigation stated and i quote, last month, we advised the ig that we do not agree with some of the reports conclusion as to pred indication and how the fbi case was opened. whats your reaction to that? >> well, i was surprised by the statement. i didnt necessarily know it was going to be...

Report. the attorney general chose not to make a written submission but instead gave a press statement. thats not the way this is normally done, and given the tenor and tone of that press statement -- or its not just that he gave a press statement. he gave one basically saying that the inspector general was not harsh enough as to the fbi, which is a part of the justice department. >> its interesting to me. when have you ever found anyone who was partially or peripherally the subject of an invest...

Investigation of a u.s. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken. you say that you have never seen anything like this before. why do you say that, matthew? >> this is really a sharp departure from the usual protocol when an inspector general report comes out. whats supposed to happen is that the department of justice and the attorney general as the head of the department is afforded an opportunity to comment on an i.g. rep...

We laid out in this report, the evidence is quite overwhelming that the president of the united states used the power of his office, $400 million of taxpayer military assistance to help an ally fighting the russians as well as a desperately sought meeting in the white house to coerce an ally into doing his political dirty work, to doing these investigations that he thought would help his re-election. the president will have to answer for that, and we will have to decide here in congress whether ...