Tinubu’s praise follows protests in Senegal in the past few weeks following speculations about a third-term ambition of President Sall, who is moving towards the end of his second term in office.
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The Primate has been warning Sall since January 2023 not to embark on his ambition – to run for a third term “because it will lead to problems and unrest in the country”.
In a ceremony in the presidential palace in the capital Dakar, he also appointed team members to the West African country’s prestigious Order of the Lion, as thousands of fans cheered outside the gates.
The Senegalese leader gave the commendation at the end of a dinner meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari and President Umaro Embalo of Guinea Bissau at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday.
Senegalese President Macky Sall, President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast, Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, and President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana led the mediation together with former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in the capital Bamako.
IOC President, Thomas Bach, said the delay was discussed two days ago in a telephone conversation with Senegal President, Macky Sall.
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is among 140 current and former world leaders calling for “a people’s vaccine” against the coronavirus.
Job creation and youth empowerment were the key themes tackled at the Forum
The Tony Elumelu Foundation was inaugurated in 2010 to unlock the obstacles that Africa’s entrepreneurs face as they grow their start-ups into small to medium enterprises and their SMEs into national growth companies, and their national growth companies into African multinationals
The Lions of Teranga, who were chasing their first ever continental title, lost 0-1 in the final to Algeria last Friday.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s champion of entrepreneurship, has announced the line-up of speakers and activities for the 5th Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum, the largest annual gathering of African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday extended “Presidential Handshake’’ to all Presidents and Heads of Government from different parts of the globe who honoured Nigeria’s invitation to its Democracy Day 2019 celebration in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday night hosted World leaders to a dinner and gala night ahead of Wednesday’s maiden edition of the country’s Democracy Day celebration.
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday, June 11, declare open a National Democracy Day Anti-corruption Summit.
President Muhammadu Buhari departs Abuja on Monday for Dakar, Senegal to attend the inauguration of Senegalese President, Macky Sall, following his re-election for a second term.
Senegal President, Macky Sall, won re-election with 58 per cent of votes cast in last Sunday’s poll, the electoral commission said Thursday.
Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sidiki Kaba, said in Dakar, Senegal, at a joint news conference on the Nigeria and Senegal bilateral relations While expressing concerns that the two countries’ joint commission had not met for almost 20 years, he recalled that the large joint commission met only twice, in 1995 in Lagos and 1999 in Dakar.
Sall met with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Russia for FIFA World Cup.
The swearing-in is due to take place on Thursday, but outgoing President Yahya Jammeh has challenged the result of the December 1 election at the Supreme Court