“Vote for Labour Party so that your children can have jobs,” Peter Obi says. The presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, has urged the electorate in Osun to vote for Yusuf Lasun, during Saturday’s governorship election in the state. Mr Obi, who made the call during the party’s rally on Wednesday in Osogbo, said […]
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The first phase of Census 2023 – the trial house listing and house numbering -took off officially in selected local government areas of the country on Wednesday. President Muhammadu Buhari has urged officials of National Population Commission (NPC) to justify government’s confidence in them by returning accurate, verifiable and dependable data. The President’s Media Aide, […]
In this report, Vanguard Law and Human Rights chronicles cases of jailbreak in Nigeria between 2010 and 2022 with deliberate focus on how they were carried out in order to establish a pattern of attack; digs into existing literature on the social problem and interacts with experts to identify in clear terms, what the problems […]
Representatives and leaders of the Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria (AFAN) who are victims of the Shell Bonga Oil Spill of 2011, yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on multinational oil giants in the region to put an end to the environmental degradation and pollution in the Niger Delta. The representatives of AFAN […]
The apex Yoruba diaspora organisation, Yoruba One Voice, YOV, yesterday, urged the United Nations, UN, Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres, to save Yorubaland from imminent collapse. YOV, in a letter titled; “To Avert Human Tragedy, Yoruba People Seek the Conscience of World Leaders’, restated its belief in the ability of the United Nation’s scribe to avoid […]
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Mathias Schmale yesterday said Nigeria currently lags behind in terms of reaching many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 targets. The UN scribe said the country’s population of over 150 million has majority living on less than N370 per day, quoting data from the World Bank. […]
The 2022 State of the World Population Report has revealed that between 2015-2019, there were roughly 121 million unintended pregnancies each year, which amounted to 48 per cent of all unintended pregnancies, and 61 per cent of them ended in induced abortion. The report which was launched recently, by the United Nations Population Fund, was […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission yesterday lamented that no fewer than 14,500 people have been killed by terrorists in the sub-region. According to the outgoing President of the Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, the figure was recorded in just four and a half years. He also revealed that the number of refugees […]
The paste made from orange-fleshed sweet potato is becoming the new normal in bread-making in Nigeria, where bakeries have fallen on hard times following record jumps in production cost. In the midst of a sunlit room in Nnewi, south-east Nigeria, a woman measures out four parts of sweet potato puree – the colour of apricot […]
Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote has become the 63rd richest billionaire in the world, according to the latest ranking by Bloomberg. In the ranking released yesterday, the chief executive officer of Tesla, Elon Musk, is listed as the richest billionaire. Dangote, who moved up 37 places on the recent Bloomberg billionaire list, is worth $20.2 billion as […]
Cape Town, South Africa — Authorities in South Africa have arrested the owner of a bar and two employees in connection with the deaths of 21 teenagers, who lost their lives at a tavern last month under mysterious circumstances. Vicky Stark reports from Cape Town, South Africa. A team of detectives working on the case […]
African music artists are using personal funds and collectives to invest in startups. Soon, they might launch funds This April, Black Coffee, the famed South African DJ and record producer whose real name is Nkosinathi Maphumulo, made history at the Grammys. With his seventh studio album “Subconsciously,” he became the first African act to win […]
Over $1 million (over Rwf1 billion) is set to be invested in developing the Kigali ‘Stormwater Management Master Plan’ that is expected to be complete by 2024 so as to mitigate floods in the city. Stormwater is surface water in abnormal quantities resulting from heavy falls of rain. The floods are usually triggered by poor […]
Kiambu — Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka has referred to Deputy President William Ruto as the worst dictator, saying that the DP was at the forefront in opposing the 2010 constitution, which entrenched the country’s democracy. Kalonzo while speaking in Kiambu County on Wednesday accused Ruto of being an hypocrite, saying that he is using the […]
Johanneburg — Afropolitan, a pan-African digital nation selling NFTs as passports, says it wants to solve African governance issues Startups target unemployment and governance issues Founders launch virtual African nation, marketplace Critics fear replication of continent’s inequalities It might sound like science fiction, but a Nigerian-born tech entrepreneur thinks he has found a way for […]
Africa seeks ways to meet massive energy demand while on net-zero path With each passing day, global alarms ring louder about climate change threatening the planet. In a race against time, momentum for exploring innovations that will reduce humanity’s carbon footprint, especially in the energy sector, increases. Not surprisingly, energy (electricity, heating/cooling and transport) is […]
If you met Patria Himbaza, you would think her life is perfect. But how can it not with hair like hers? She’s the kind you would turn to see as she disappears down the horizon with her long hair being blown by the wind, just like we see in movies! Hardly a day will pass […]
The decision by the Cour d’assises de Paris to hand former Gikongoro prefet Laurent Bucyibaruta a 20-year jail sentence for his role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi sends a strong message to Genocide fugitives and deniers that truth is catching up with them, survivors and observors say. A senior Rwandan government official has […]