The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi yesterday met with the Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The WTO boss disclosed this via her verified Twitter handle. She wrote: “With Governor @PeterObi at the @WTO discussing Nigeria’s economic recovery and the role of trade.” The Labour Party presidential candidate […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the Oyo State Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) and the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Oyo State chapter, recently organised a day training program, which focuses on COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination and more importantly Infodemic for journalists in the state. The training, which attracted participants from print, broadcast […]
The APC accused the PDP of politicising the building collapse, adding that it is “unacceptable, devilish and uncivilized.” The All Progressive Congress in Lagos State has replied the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate’s call for the resignation of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Olajide ‘Jandor’ Adediran, the PDP candidate, had called for Mr Sanwo-Olu’s resignation following the […]
Crude oil prices fell yesterday to their lowest since before Russia invaded Ukraine as COVID-19 curbs in top crude importer China and expectations of more interest rate hikes spurred worries of a global economic recession and lower fuel demand. Brent crude futures fell $1.35, or 1.5 per cent, to $91.48 a barrel earlier , after […]
Geneva — A report published by the U.N. Development Program finds the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, economic uncertainty and other crises have halted progress in human development and reversed gains made over the past three decades. Data from 191 countries show 90% failed to achieve a better, healthier, more secure life for their people in […]
One Wellness Centre has unveiled its best-in-class fertility care centre with the latest state-of-the-art equipment to provide standard and quality care in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) in Nigeria. Addressing the media during the tour of the facility in the Victoria Island area of Lagos State, the Practice Manager, One Wellness Centre, Chibuki Aigbe described the […]
Bangourain, Cameroon — Military officials in Cameroon say armed separatists killed at least six people and wounded nine when they attacked a bus on a highway in the country’s troubled Southwest region. The military has deployed scores of troops to track down the rebels. Locals say there has been heavy fighting between the two sides […]
Between January and July, Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, lost an average of 437,000 barrels of oil a day to criminals. Last week, the Group Managing Director of NNPCL, Mele Kyari, headlined the State House media briefing, expressing concern about the menace of oil theft undermining Nigeria’s production and consequently fiscal capacity. Mr Kyari blamed […]
*Approves N829m for road linking Anambra to Enugu Deji Elumoye in Abuja The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP) Establishment Bill, 2022. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, who made this known to bewsmen after the weekly FEC meeting, at the State House, Abuja, […]
*As Osinbajo’s wife advocates more action against GBV Deji Elumoye in Abuja The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has disclosed that more than 20,000 adolescent girls have been retained in schools and safe places, while over 5,500 women and girls are living with Obstetrics fistula in Nigeria. Making this known Wednesday at the State House, […]
Renewed fighting between a federal-Amhara-Eritrea coalition and Tigray’s forces has shattered a tenuous months-long truce. The reversal heralds a return to one of the world’s deadliest conflicts. International envoys should keep pressing the Ethiopian parties to renew the truce and begin formal direct negotiations. War rages – again – in northern Ethiopia. The resumption of […]
For nearly two decades, successive Kenyan governments have promoted mega infrastructure projects as a pathway to development. The Lamu Port has been one of them. In 2012, then president Mwai Kibaki – at the inauguration ceremony for a transport corridor that stretches from the Lamu Port to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and known as Lapsset […]
Investigating magistrates found no evidence that French troops were complicit in crimes against humanity during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. French magistrates dropped a case against French peacekeepers accused of being complicit in a massacre during Rwanda’s genocide. They found nothing that would point to the “direct participation of French military forces in abuses committed […]
London — African leaders will push for more help in meeting billions in shortfalls for climate change adaptation plans at U.N talks Africa emits 3% of global CO2 but suffers serious impacts Its leaders say rich countries must help fund adaptation Climate finance discussions could dominate COP27 talks When African leaders gathered in the Dutch […]
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has disclosed that over 20,000 adolescent girls have been retained in schools and safe places, while over 5,500 women and girls are living with obstetrics fistula in Nigeria. UNFPA’s country representative, Ulla Mueller, disclosed this yesterday at the launch of the National Landscape Analysis Report on Sexual and Gender-based Violence, […]
Kampala/Kabale — Before the outbreak of COVID-19, an education officer in the district neighbouring Uganda’s capital Kampala decreed that teachers could not take computers, mobile phones, or tablets into classrooms. Frederick Kiyingi said phones and information and communications technology (ICT) tools distract learners and would compromise their learning and focus. But William Musaazi, a teacher […]
Kenya’s sexual health rights are beholden to US decisionmakers. New legislators must take back control. For too long, sexual and reproductive rights in Kenya have operated in a vacuum. Despite the constitution providing for the “highest attainable standard” of reproductive health, legislators have failed to enact any legislation on the issue, shooting down a bill […]
Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe — In Chitungwiza, right next to the highway, 36-year-old Nesbit Gavanga and his five colleagues use shovels as they load trucks with sand. The six apparently are in the business of sand-poaching and openly explain that every other day they engage in running battles with environmental officials who seek to curtail land degradation […]