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  • Tanzanian president picks Finance Minister Mpango as VP

    Tanzanian president picks Finance Minister Mpango as VP

    Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday appointed Minister for Finance and Planning Philip Mpango as the country’s Vice-President.

    The appointment of Mpango as Vice-President was unanimously approved by the parliament sitting in the capital Dodoma.

    Speaker of the National Assembly Job Ndugai announced that Mpango got 363 votes from all the Members of Parliament who were present in the House chamber.

    Speaking shortly before parliament endorsed him, Mpango said the best way to honor the late President Magufuli was to oversee what he had stood for, including sound management of the country’s resources and implementation of flagship projects.

    “I am from a poor family and my task ahead will be fighting for the rights of poor people in this country,” said Mpango.

    He said another task ahead will be to ensure that Tanzania moved from the lower-middle-income status it attained in 2020 to the higher-middle income class within a short period of time.

    “This is possible if Tanzanians decide to do so,” said Mpango to thunderous applause from the over 300 lawmakers in the House chamber.

    Mpango was appointed Minister for Finance and Planning in 2016.

    He was born on July 14, 1957.

  • Zimbabwe’s Vice President resigns over viral sexual misconduct allegations

    Zimbabwe’s Vice President resigns over viral sexual misconduct allegations

    Zimbabwe’s Vice President Kembo Mohadi resigned Monday after sexual misconduct allegations, a rare move by a public official in the southern African country.

    Local news outlets have since late last month been awash with audio recordings of phone conversations allegedly of Mohadi soliciting sex from married women, including a subordinate in his office.

    First published by online publication ZimLive, the lurid clips included one where a man can be heard scheduling to meet for sex at his office.

    “I am stepping down as the vice president of the Republic of Zimbabwe … with immediate effect,” the 71-year-old leader said in a letter posted on the Information Ministry’s Twitter account.

    He said he was quitting “not as a matter of cowardice” but out of respect for his office “so that it is not compromised or caricatured by actions that are linked to my challenges as an individual.”

    “I have been going through a soul-searching pilgrimage and realized that I need the space to deal with my problems outside the governance chair,” he said.

    He repeated his denial of any wrongdoing, saying he was “a victim of information distortion, voice cloning, and sponsored spooking and political sabotage,” adding he would seek legal redress.

    Mohadi’s resignation set off a buzz on social media with speculation fast shifting to who President Emmerson Mnangagwa would pick as his replacement.

    Jacob Ngarivhume, an opposition politician and government critic, said he welcomed Mohadi’s resignation and hoped it was the “first of many as more evidence of (ruling) Zanu-PF impropriety is released.”

    Mohadi, a retired soldier and veteran of the country’s liberation war, was one of Zimbabwe’s two vice presidents alongside Constantino Chiwenga.

    He served in several ministerial positions under former president Robert Mugabe and was appointed vice president in 2017 following the longtime ruler’s ouster.

  • Kamala Harris becomes first female U.S. Vice President

    Kamala Harris becomes first female U.S. Vice President

    Former California Senator Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States on Wednesday, the first woman ever to hold the post.

    Harris, 56, took the oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a ceremony at the US Capitol.

    She is the first Black woman and the first woman of South Asian descent to become US vice president.

  • AmericaDecides2020: Meet Kamala Harris, first woman, African-American Vice President, if Biden Wins

    AmericaDecides2020: Meet Kamala Harris, first woman, African-American Vice President, if Biden Wins

    Stereotypes that thought the United States of America (USA) is a racist nation had a second thought when Barrack Obama won election as USA President in 2008. Obama made a case for himself as a capable black president in the US by going ahead to secure a second tenure. With origin from Kenya, Obama gave Africans and indeed black people worldwide, a sense of belonging after clinging power as the helmsman of one of the world’s super powers. USA.

    It’s another transition in the USA and this time, not only a black person is getting involved, but a woman. Kamala Harris is close to being the first ever USA Female Vice President looking the progress Democrat Presidential Candidate, Joe Biden is making in already announced results in the USA Presidential elections.

    Born October 20, 1964, Kamala Harris IS an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States senator from California since 2017. She is the Democratic vice presidential nominee for the 2020 election.

    Born in Oakland, California, Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, before being recruited to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and later the City Attorney of San Francisco’s office. In 2003, she was elected district attorney of San Francisco. She was elected attorney general of California in 2010 and re-elected in 2014.

    She defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to become the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to serve in the United States Senate. As a senator, she has advocated for healthcare reform, federal descheduling of cannabis, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, the DREAM Act, a ban on assault weapons, and progressive tax reform. She gained a national profile for her pointed questioning of Trump administration officials during Senate hearings, including Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault.

    Harris ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and attracted national attention before ending her campaign on December 3, 2019. She was announced as former vice president Joe Biden’s running mate in the 2020 election on August 11, 2020. She is the first African American, the first Asian American, and the third female vice presidential running mate on a major party ticket after Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin, respectively.

    Early life and education (1964–1990)
    Early career (1990–2004)
    District Attorney of San Francisco (2004–2011)
    Attorney General of California (2011–2017)
    U.S. Senate (2017–present)
    2020 presidential election

  • JUST IN: Mali gets new transition president, vice

    JUST IN: Mali gets new transition president, vice

    Mali’s former defence minister, Ba N’Daou, has been named as president of the country’s new transition government.

    Colonel Assimi Goita, the leader of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) which overthrew Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, was appointed vice president, state television announced on Monday.

    The transitional government is to be inaugurated on September 25.

    According to a plan backed by the military leaders, the new president is meant to lead the country for several months before staging elections and returning Mali to civilian rule.

    Mali’s military rulers have come under intense pressure from leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to return power to civilians following the August 18 coup that overthrew President Keita.

    It was unclear whether the arrangement would satisfy ECOWAS, which last week threatened to step up economic sanctions and impose a total embargo on landlocked Mali if its conditions were not met.

    Colonel Assimi Goita, the leader of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) which overthrew Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was appointed vice president [Reuters]

    N’Daou and Goita were appointed by a group of 17 electors chosen by the military leaders to oversee an 18-month transition that will culminate in fresh elections.

    Regional leaders had demanded the interim president be a civilian, while signalling they would accept a soldier as vice president so long as he is ineligible to replace the president.

    Goita did not say whether the vice president would remain next-in-line to the presidency as stipulated in a transitional charter approved in multi-party talks earlier this month.

    N’Daou was once an aide-de-camp to Mali’s ex-dictator Moussa Traore, who died last week aged 83.

    A veteran soldier, N’Daou received training in the former Soviet Union as well as at Paris’s renowned Ecole de Guerre.

    Kaou N’Djim, a spokesman for influential Muslim leader Mahmoud Dicko, who led mass protests against Keita before the coup, praised N’Daou’s nomination.

    “Ba is an upright official. He has never been implicated in matters of financial corruption,” N’Djim told the Reuters news agency.

  • Roadside bomb attack misses vice-president, kills 10

    A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted first Afghan Vice-President, Amrullah Saleh, on Wednesday, morning but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said.

    The attack killed at least 10 people.

    The Taliban denied involvement in the attack, which comes just ahead of long-awaited peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Qatar’s capital Doha.

    “Today, once again the enemy of Afghanistan tried to harm Saleh, but they failed in their evil aim, and Saleh escaped the attack unharmed,’’ Razwan Murad, a spokesman for Saleh’s office, wrote on Facebook.

    He told Reuters the bomb targeted Saleh’s convoy and some of his bodyguards were injured.

    Saleh appeared in a video on his social media accounts soon after, saying he had sustained a minor burn on his face and an injury to his hand in the attack.

    Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said in a post on Twitter that Taliban fighters were not involved in the blast.

    The former intelligence chief and the senior of President Ashraf Ghani’s two vice-presidents, has survived several assassination attempts, including one on his office last year that killed 20 people.

    Wednesday’s blast killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 15 people including Saleh’s security guards, according to the Interior Ministry.

    “Such attacks won’t weaken our resolve for a lasting and dignified peace in Afghanistan,’’ Javid Faisal, spokesman for the National Security Council, said in a tweet.

    International powers including the European Union and Pakistan also condemned the attack.

    “This is an attack on the Republic and desperate act by spoilers of peace efforts, who must be collectively confronted,’’ the EU Delegation in Afghanistan said in a statement on Twitter.

    Officials and diplomats have warned that rising violence is sapping trust needed for the success of talks aimed at ending an insurgency that began when the Taliban was ousted from power in Kabul by U.S.-back forces in late 2001.

  • Ivory Coast vice president resigns, days after PM’s death

    Ivory Coast vice president resigns, days after PM’s death

    Ivory Coast’s Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan has resigned, President Alassane Ouattara’s office said on Monday.

    Patrick Achi, the secretary-general of the presidency, told newsmen that Kablan Duncan, who previously served as Ouattara’s prime minister, was leaving for personal reasons.

    His resignation came days after the sudden death last week of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was also the ruling party’s candidate for October’s presidential election.

  • NBA Presidency 2020: Incumbent VP distances self from Egbe Amofin’s letter endorsing a candidate

    NBA Presidency 2020: Incumbent VP distances self from Egbe Amofin’s letter endorsing a candidate

    The drama building up to the national election of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is beginning to unfold to its peak following the recent denial of the knowledge of the endorsement of a particular candidate by the leadership of the Egbe Amofin by the incumbent second Vice President of the association, Dr. Foluke Dada.

    The Egbe Amofin is the umbrella body of lawyers from the South West (particularly Yorubas) extraction. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the NBA presidency returns to the South-West this year and already the duo of Dr. Babatunde Ajibade (SAN) and Dele Adesina (SAN) have signified interest to contest for the position.

    Recall that the Egbe Amofin had in December announced Adesina as its consensus candidate, saying the decision was taken at its meeting held at the Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) Bar Centre, Iyaganku, Ibadan but Ajibade swiftly countered the decision saying he is not a party to it and also gave several reasons the process that led to the alleged endorsement cannot stand.

    Meanwhile, it was also recently alleged that the Egbe Amofin had written its Eastern Bar Forum (EBF) counterpart of its adoption of Adesina as its presidential candidate for the July election.

    It is in direct contrast to the foregoing that Dr. Foluke Dada, incumbent Second Vice President of the NBA and the most senior national officer from the West (South & Mid West), and a vested and key stakeholder of Egbé Amòfin O’òduà and the NBA politics decided to shed more light on the alleged endorsement and subsequent letter written to the EBF announcing same.

    Dada in an article published by TheNigerialawyer.com said while some members of the Egbe had stated their decision to support a particular candidate, however such decision is not binding on the Egbe and presenting it as such anywhere is nothing other than falsehood.

    Read her full article below:

    Re: The Purported Letter By Egbe Amofin To The Eastern Bar Forum By Dr. Foluke Dada

    I am indeed flustered to read on social media that a letter purportedly emanated from our esteemed Egbé Amòfin O’òduà claiming to endorse a single candidate from the Southwest.

    May I remind us all that Egbé Amòfin O’òduà is a common heritage of all legal practitioners of Yoruba descent – A crop of pioneer lawyers who have distinguished themselves throughout the history of Nigeria.

    It is in the spirit of this pedigree that I, Dr. Foluke Dada, incumbent Second Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association and the most senior national officer from the West (South & Mid West), and a vested and key stakeholder of Egbé Amòfin O’òduà and the NBA politics in my humble view, that I seek to correct the erroneous belief that an endorsement, approved by all members of Egbé Amòfin O’òduà or by any such Association from the West has taken place.

    I am indeed aware that a few members of Egbé agreed to endorse their preferred candidate but to announce it as the decision of all members of Egbé Amòfin O’òduà is ludicrous, if not misleading. This is not about any discord within or without any particular Forum. It is my considered view that leadership must start from within our different groups and reflect in the choices we make which ultimately will reflect in what we make of ourselves and the Bar in general.

    We must take a cue and indeed direction from the NBA Constitution of 2015 as amended in 2019 which abandoned the delegate system and instituted the universal suffrage process. This inevitably obliterate the practice of group adoption which does not in any way translate to votes!

    We must show leadership to our younger ones by example, not by dictatorship or by our insensitivity.

    I therefore urge the membership and leadership of the other Fora of the Nigerian Bar Association to keep an open mind and select our future leaders conscientiously. Leaders across the country must act ex propio motu, of their own accord,to choose our next leaders on the conviction that leadership is not by desperation but by your innate abilities to lead.

    The vicissitudes of our fortune in the politics of NBA will only be more alarming if we do not consider that our moral obligations, sense of fairness and fairplay will ultimately determine the quality leadership we acquire!

    Thank you.
    Dr. Foluke Dada

  • US Vice President’s staff tests positive for coronavirus

    US Vice President’s staff tests positive for coronavirus

    A staff member in the office of US Vice President Mike Pence has tested positive for coronavirus, Pence’s spokesperson said Friday night.

    “‪This evening we were notified that a member of the Office of the Vice President tested positive for the Coronavirus.

    Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had close contact with the individual,” said Katie Miller.

    “Further contact tracing is being conducted in accordance with CDC guidelines.”

    The staff was not identified.

  • VP Osinbajo, others survive Helicopter crash

    Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday survived an helicopter accident at Kabba in Kogi.

    The vice-president was on official trip to Kogi along with some of his aides when the incident occurred.

    All the passengers in the flight survived the accident unhurt but the helicopter was badly damaged.

    Security sources in the presidency confirmed the incident to NAN, saying already, all revelant authorities had been informed of the latest development.

    The vice president and his entourage have continued with their engagement in the state.