Browsing: President Paul Kagame

Kagame, who became president in 2000, is eligible to continue in office for another decade after a constitutional amendment in 2015 changed term limits that would have forced him to step down two years later.

He also said N300 billion had been disbursed to farmers.

Buhari, in a statement issued by Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Sunday warned that the organisation would become stale, except it becomes more result-oriented.

Kagame has since held forte for 20 years as President of Rwanda. As he does, a world which, like a famished hyena, hungrily proclaims “democracy,” has been looking the other way as the baboon is daily bathed with blood in Kigali. In 2017 when he sought re-election, Kagame went down in the Guinness Book of Record as the first president in the world who would be elected by his people with 99 per cent votes.

With the deal, the East African country has established a commercial bond with President Paul Kagame’s favourite football club.

Kagame, who addressed delegates at the US-African relations’ Corporate Council on Africa, stated that corruption was brought to Africa by foreigners and that bribery was not a flourishing business in Africa

Dangote said agriculture should be the focus of government, as well as gas and minerals, in an effort to diversify the economy

Both leaders spoke on Friday in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, at the inauguration of Kagame for a third term.

“Africa is on the right path, and we are going to do just fine,’’ the 59-year-old said during a ceremony in the capital, Kigali.

Kagame has won international plaudits for presiding over a peaceful and rapid economic recovery in the Central African nation since the 1994 genocide, when an estimated 800,000 people Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.

This is the third time since the end of the genocidal regime in 1994 that elections would hold in Rwanda.

Kagame, also the chairperson of RPF, was the sole candidate in a unanimous vote conducted by RPF Congress at the party’s new headquarters in Kigali, capital of Rwanda

The Catholic Church in Rwanda last year publicly sought forgiveness for the part played by some of its members, who it said had fanned the ethnic hatred that led to the killings