Until June 6, 2018, Nigeria’s Democracy Day was held yearly on May 29, the exact date the military handed over power to an elected civilian government in 1999. The new date– June 12– announced by President Muhammadu Buhari on June 16, 2018, was later backed up by an Act of the National Assembly last year in honor of Nigeria’s outstanding hero of democracy, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. GuardianTV brings you sights and sounds of Nigeria's democracy day 2021.

Nigeria, with an estimated population of about 200 million people, celebrates 21 years of returning to democratic rule on what is now known as inauguration day today June 12. GuardianTV takes a look at how far and how well the Nigerian democracy has come after 21 years after returning to civil rule.

A fair number of Boko Haram terrorists on Wednesday afternoon were killed by troops of the Nigerian military in Borno State, after a heavy gun fire with Nigerian troops in Damboa town.

Four people have died in and around Cali as nationwide protests move into a second month. Colombian President Ivan Duque has called upon more than 7,000 personnel to deal with the unrest in the region.

 

Borno state citizens have called on the leadership of the military to restrategise its counter-insurgency operations.

A US military plane takes off for India from Travis Air Force Base in California with 440 oxygen cylinders and regulators, one million N-95 masks and one million Covid-19 rapid diagnostics kits donated by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). On Thursday India reported 3,645 deaths over the past 24 hours, while confirming new cases hit a new global record with more than 379,000. The official numbers are widely believed to be far below the reality.

Authorities said they recovered debris that indicated the submarine with 53 crew members sank. The submarine's oxygen reserve was estimated to run out early Saturday.

As Germany prepares to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, the country's defense minister says Berlin has "a deep obligation" to protect those who might now be in danger.

Chad's army want to return power to a civilian government and hold free and democratic elections in 18 months, the vice president of the Transitional Military Council said in a statement on state television after the country's leader was killed on Monday.

The foreign ministers of the G7 group of economies have told Russia to "de-escalate" tensions on its border with Ukraine. World powers kicked Moscow out of the former G8 club over its 2014 annexation of Crimea.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visits a "War Trophy Park" showcasing military equipment seized from Armenian troops during the war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Yerevan ceded swathes of territories to Baku under a Russian-backed ceasefire, which was seen as a national humiliation in Armenia.