BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).

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Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...

GILLES CISTAC,MOZAMBIQUE INFLUENTIAL LAWYER,WAS ASSASSINATED TODAY IN A TAXI.

               According to Mozambique police spokesman Orlando Modumane,he said ''54 year old Gilles Cistac,who is a French by origin,had been in a taxi on his way to work when a car carrying four men pulled up alongside the cab and one of them shot him several times.The assassination took place today tuesday.Cistac had been a central figure in a debate about the creation of autonomous states in Mozambique,a country that has attracted billions of dollars in foreign investments in recent years after making huge coal and natural gas finds.Mozambique's main opposition party Renamo has called for its politicians to govern regions where it won more votes than the ruling Frelimo party in elections last year.Last month,Cistac told reporters that the creation of autonomous regions would be allowed under the constitution,a controversial stand point given that Renamo party has also proposed that Mozambique should be divided into two countries.For rebel group Renamo said Cistac had been killed because of his views on decentralization.Renamo spokesman Antonio Muchanga said ''He was killed for having expressed his opinions regarding the most contentious political issues in the country''.Presidential spokesman Antonio Gaspar said ''We condemn the attack and demand that the perpetrators are caught and brought to justice''.

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