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The Presidents of these three West African States have officially  engaged their nations in the creation of the Confederation of Sahel States called “AES”. Treaties Adopted The president of the transition of Mali, Colonel Assimi GOÏTA will assume the presidency for a mandate of one year.  Burkina Faso will host the first parliamentary session of the alliance. Creation of an AES investment bank and a stabilization fund for immediate launch and use of a single currency.  The alliance's stated goal is to protect against possible threats of armed rebellion or external aggression by emphasizing that "any attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of one or more contracted parties will be considered an aggression against the other parties." The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have hailed a newly signed treaty as a step “towards greater integration” between the three countries, in the latest showing of their shift away from traditional regional and West...

Dele Momodu, a prominent figure, has spoken out against the actions of Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, who publicly insulted Ireti Kingibe, a senator, and suggested she harm herself on national television. Momodu expressed his disappointment and shame at the National Assembly's failure to denounce Wike's behavior, stating, "Power drunkenness, a 56-year-old man insulting a 70-year-old woman, a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria telling her to go and hug a transformer and die on national television, and the National Assembly has not called the bluff off this man who acts like Nigeria now has two presidents. He also questioned President Tinubu's inaction, asking, "How many votes and how much money did this Wike man give Tinubu that he is allowing him to go rampage in Rivers, FCT, and some other parts of Nigeria? Momodu's criticism was aimed at the weakness of Nigeria's democratic institutions and the enabling of Wike's ...