In Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on Tuesday, was sworn in as Senegal’s youngest president, at 44-year-old, making history as the youngest elected president in Africa.

Several African leaders, including Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, attended the ceremony, near the capital city Dakar, Faye’s ascent follows a surprising election win, just 10 days after his release from prison under President Macky Sall’s amnesty.

The Senegalese president was also joined on stage by his two wives, Marie Khone, whom he married 15 years ago, and Absa Fall whom he married last year.

Both will hold the title of First Lady, marking a historic moment for the West African country, where two women will occupy the office of the first lady.

The development which calls for a revision of protocol, has been met with controversy. Senegal is one of 58 countries in the world that legalises polygamy, while some argue that Faye’s position with his two wives is the ultimate recognition of the tradition of polygamy which in turn sends a strong signal to other men to accept their polgygamy and demonstrate transparency like him.

Many Senegalese women say they find polygamy hypocritical and unfair, while the UN Human Rights Committee said in a 2022 report that it amounted to discrimination against women and should be ended.

A recent article by the BBC has revealed that some of the rescued Chibok secondary school girls, abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State, have chosen to abandon their families and remain with their insurgent husbands

Yama Bullum, one the parents of the abducted chibok girls told the the news outlet, how outraged he feels about the Borno state government housing his daughter Jin-kai Yama and her husband, a former insurgent.

Yama was one of 276 girls kidnapped from a secondary school in the early hours of April 14th 2014. She now resides in the city of Maiduguri the Borno state capital, in housing organised by the state's governor Babagana Zulum.

Mr Bullum said he only found out that his daughter was married to a former insurgent after she called him up to tell him last August but that before then, he had assumed that his daughter was living with other freed Chibok captives in a special welfare programme.

The Borno state commissioner for women affairs and social development, Zuwaira Gambo when contacted about the Freed women and their husbands said the women were in no way coerced into staying with their spouses in the housing estate, stating that the freed women usually insist that without their husbands, they will not stay in Maiduguri.

The First Lady of Nigeria, Remi Tinubu, has made a passionate call for Nigerian youths to embrace their national identity and promote unity, transcending ethnic and cultural divides.

Speaking at an event hosted at the State House in Abuja, on Monday, the First Lady emphasised the importance of prioritizing “Nigerianness” over narrow ethnic or cultural affiliations.

Forbes Magazine yesterday released the 38th edition of its World Billionaires List for 2024 and, Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, Abdulsamad Rabiu and Femi Otedola emerged as the only Nigerians on the list.

Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list is a ranking of every person on the planet with a net worth of $1 billion US dollars or more as of March 8, 2024.

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote maintained his position, recording $13.4 billion as of April 2nd, while NIgeria’s second richest man, Mike Adenuga followed with a net worth of $6.7 billion dollars, Abdul Salman Rabiu and Femi Otedola, according to the new report, were worth $5.2 billion dollars and $1.7 billion dollars respectively.

Femi Otedola who is the Chairman of Geregu Power plc has been in the news lately after the company pledged to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s power sector reforms during its 12th annual general meeting while highlighting a $500 million dollars investment in power plant transformation.

The Forbes list of billionaires in the United States now boasts a record of 813 billionaires worth a combined $5.7 trillion dollars, with 34 year old super star, Taylor swift making the list with an accumulated fortune of $1.1 billion dollars.

In Enugu State, a video showed the moment a relative accused some officers of the Nigerian police force of abandoning his uncle who was reportedly kidnapped along the Eke-Affa-Ezinze road in Udi Local Government of the state under their watch.

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