Mauritania’s incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election with 56.12 per cent of the vote, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) said Monday. The victory gives the former army chief a second term as head of the vast desert country, seen as a rock of relative stability in Africa’s volatile Sahel region and set to become …

A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Diaspora 4 Diri (D4D) has thrown its weight behind the re-election of Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, saying he is the best man for the job. Chief Executive Officer of African Tide Association (ATA), Dr Rosalyn Dressman said that the cardinal focus of the D4D was to campaign massively for Diri’s second tenure by raising …

In Lagos, the wheel of governance will now race on higher gears, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu pledged on Thursday when he received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Sanwo-Olu won his re-election in a landslide victory in the gubernatorial election conducted penultimate week, polling 762,134 votes (about 65.95 percent) to defeat the other contestants. The Governor …