We will know beyond any doubt in the nearing hours or days… The gathering met today in Lagos to pick a running mate for Buhari and I hear it was Amaechi they picked. The two men were spotted eating at the beginning of today at Intercontinental.
Following the mutiny and failed coup attempt in Niamey on 28 and 29 August, a Nigerien army officer said on state television that Chadian officers and associates of former president Mohamed Bazoum had supported the mutineers. He also alleged that reinforcements were expected to transit through Chad, deepening tensions between Niamey and N’Djamena. The accusations come as relations between Niger’s junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani and Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby have been strained by armed group activity and shifting ...