Andrea Binder is a Freigeist fellow and research group leader at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie
Category: Politics
Alberta Law Society tribunal to decide on complaints against Shandro after closing arguments
More than three years after a heated confrontation in a doctor’s Calgary driveway made headlines, a Law Society of Alberta
Live Update: Presidential Tribunal Rules On Peter Obi, Atiku, APM’s Petition Against Tinubu, APC
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) is set to rule on the outcome of the 2023 presidential election today, Wednesday 6th September 2023. Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the February 25 polls. However, the result was challenged in […]
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Reynders to take over as EU competition chief
Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders will take over as the European Commission’s competition chief, after Margrethe Vestager announced that she had
Sam Olugbadebo Appointed New INEC Chairman Voter Education
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has introduced Sam Olugbadebo Olumekun as it’s new Commissioner of Information and Voter Education Committee. Olumekun replaces former National Commisisoner, Barrister Festus Okoye, whose five-year tenure expired recently. Okoye’s tenure, which began on July 25, 2018, as representative of the South-East geopolitical zone in the commission, formally came to […]
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Margrethe Vestager goes on leave from the European Commission
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s longtime antitrust czar, announced today that she has gone on leave from the Commission, having
Court Sets Aside Kwankwaso’s Suspension From NNPP
The suspension of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, from the party has been set aside by a Kano State High Court. In a ruling on Tuesday, the presiding judge, Justice Usman Na’aana, granted an interim injunction in a case filed by Kwankwaso before the court. The […]
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Maldivian Conundrum
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, September 5 (The Citizen): The Maldives is set to have its Presidential election on September 9. But
LGBTQ+ volleyball champion hits a nerve in Turkey’s culture war
Turkey’s women volleyballers may have won the European championship on Sunday but the presence of a prominent LGBTQ+ star in