Kagame of Rwanda is repeating the same African leadership mistake, By Azuka Onwuka

Last week, Paul Kagame of Rwanda was sworn in for his fourth term in office, thereby adding another five years to the 24 he has spent. By the time this new term is over in 2029, he will have officially governed Rwanda for 29 years without taking into consideration the unofficial six years he was […]

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Rwanda president retires 12 Generals, 1,013 other military officers

President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame has approved the retirement of 95 Military Generals and senior officers as well as 930 junior soldiers. This is coming barely 48 hours after the military coup that sacked President Ali Bongo Ondimba from power in Gabon. The military in Gabon, on Wednesday, August 30, ousted Ali Bongo Ondimba from […]

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Remember Rwanda, By Niyi Osundare

Parables from Our Recent Polls                     I The journey from hate to holocaust       is perilously short. . . .* In the national ballot just concluded: Many voted their tribe Many, their tongue Many saw nothing holier than Crosses and Crescents In the polling booth Utterly mesmerised by The poisonous correspondence Of region and religion Many […]

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Ex-Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan bags peace award in Rwanda

Former Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has urged African leaders to seek to improve the lives of the citizens they serve as such a legacy of good works would speak for them after they leave office. Jonathan stated this in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, where he bagged the ‘African Democracy and Peace Icon Award’ at […]

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Now that we have arrived Rwanda, By Festus Adedayo

Just before genocide broke out in Rwanda in 1994, a broadcaster on the Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) had said: “Someone must … make them disappear for good … to wipe them from human memory … to exterminate the Tutsi from the surface of the earth.” That statement, among others, from that Kigali-based radio which broadcast from July 8, 1993, to July 31, […]

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Buhari jets out to Rwanda to attend Commonwealth summit

Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for Kigali, Rwanda, to attend the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), being held from June 20 to 26, 2022. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, said that at the meeting, the President will join other leaders to […]

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Buhari: Tweeting Asaba massacre on the road to Rwanda, By Festus Adedayo

Like a suicide bomber ready to sacrifice his life, I slid into the Nigerian war theatre last week. No, not Northeast Nigeria, where kaffir soldiers are busy bombing Boko Haram faithful; nor Northwest, where good bandits are in an orgy of kidnapping hundreds of school children – apologies to bandits-negotiating merchant mullah, Sheik Gumi. I was in Igboland where the […]

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