The phased withdrawal of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis) began earlier this year and is scheduled to end in December 2024. The withdrawal of African Union (AU) peacekeepers poses risks for Somalia. For one, it may reduce the pressure on al-Shabaab at a crucial time during the Somali government’s latest offensive. These […]
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Zanzibar — ZANZIBAR: THE Minister for Information, Communication and Information Technology, Nape Nnauye has affirmed that Tanzania is on track to achieving its digital transformation goals. Mr Nape stated this while gracing the closure of the two-day ‘Connect-to-Connect summit 2023’ in Zanzibar, on Sunday. The summit has enriched the participants with skills and knowledge in […]
Blending the old and young, President Mnangagwa yesterday announced his new Cabinet that is expected to consolidate gains made in the past five years and accelerate the implementation of programmes and projects that will transform the lives of Zimbabweans towards Vision 2030. The delicate balance between change and continuity, women and men and the country’s […]
As primary and secondary schools nationwide resume for a new academic session, most parents and guardians throughout the country are grappling with the added burden of schools’ decisions to raise tuition fees, findings by LEADERSHIP Data Mining Department have shown. This fee hike coincides with a period of dwindling disposable incomes for families, primarily due […]
“Kidnapping for ransom is also identified as one of the means of funding terrorism.” Yaminu Musa, the coordinator, National Counter-Terrorism Centre in the Office of the National Security Adviser (NCTC-ONSA), says proceeds of kidnapping are being used to partly finance terrorism. Mr Musa, a retired rear admiral, said this on Wednesday in Abuja during the […]
Despite the dangers, Saudi Arabia remains a top destination for irregular migrants searching for a better life. The rise in targeted killings of Ethiopian migrants by Saudi border officials highlights the brutality of efforts to stop irregular migration, and the desperation of those who make the perilous journeys. In August, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported […]
The Board of Trustees (BoT) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has bemoaned the widespread despondency across the country and, particularly, decried the rising poverty and insecurity, as well as the declining rate of the naira. PDP said the lives of Nigerians and their livelihoods were gradually being wasted and destroyed on account of the rising […]
By Bibbi Abruzzini and Marie L’Hostis NEW YORK, Sep 15 2023 (IPS) – At the UN SDG Summit in New York, the Forus global civil society network is calling for decisive action on SDG implementation. Clearly, as we hit the midpoint towards the “finish line” of the Agenda 2030, progress is stagnating. The 2023 Special […]
Following the impasse between Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which led to visa restrictions that are affecting businesses, stakeholders have said that the country needs Nigeria as much as Nigeria needs it. Speaking at the weekend conversation of the LEADERSHIP Twitter Spaces (now X), stakeholders viewed the steps taken by President Bola Ahmed […]
Mass atrocities are once again plaguing the people of Darfur, Sudan, with talk of a genocide taking place. Twenty years after genocide began in the region, recent conflict and targeted violence have forced over 5 million people to flee their homes across Sudan in just five months. In Darfur, non-Arab unarmed civilians have been hunted […]
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, said yesterday the federal government has till Friday to meet its demands or risk another round of industrial unrest. This came as the government pleaded for more time to address grievances of the labour movement. However, Vanguard gathered at the resumed meeting between the Ministry of Labour and Employment and […]
Atiku said in his appeal filed at the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the panel of five justices of the court erred in their decision. The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court seeking to […]
A United States court in Eastern Illinois has ordered the Chicago State University to release the academic records of President Bola Tinubu to his rival presidential candidate in the 25 February election, Atiku Abubakar. Jeffrey Gilbert, a US magistrate judge, gave the ruling on Tuesday, ordering the university to produce “all relevant and non-privileged documents” […]
There are indications that pressures are mounting on the pump price of petrol as the landing cost has risen by 19.3 per cent to N596.93 per litre as of yesterday, from about N500 per litre in July 2023, when the last pump price adjustment was effected across all retail outlets in Nigeria. Petroleum marketers attributed […]
Using billions in public funds for private border security could be the latest chapter in government’s xenophobic fixation. Securing borders against irregular migration has come to dominate global immigration policymaking and spending – driven largely by inaccurate politicised narratives that economic migration is a threat. With that in mind, proposals from a floundering Department of […]
The government is urged to ensure that the gazetted copies of the bill are available to citizens, so they know their new legal rights. President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed into law the Mental Health Bill 2021 after two failed attempts at overhaul in 2003 and 2013. The bill, which was harmonised by both the […]
Having hit the ground running at home, with a series of very bold and unprecedented reform decisions, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has gone ahead to seize the opportunity offered by the month of September 2023, to make a grand entry onto the global stage. In what has been his busiest month on the global stage […]
Five years later, the R27.5-million facility hasn’t opened In 2017, the South African Youth Movement (SAYM) received its first tranche of money, R20-million, from the NLC to build an old age home in the rural Free State. Construction began in Botshabelo but had to be shut down and moved to a new site in Thaba […]