First, Mrs. Yamb has continued to observe Ghanaian news very closely. In one of her tweets, she even criticized the actions of our current president. She approached some politician; approached some of our political and media leaders to promote her vision of pan-Africanism. What do you care? By Rachael Fall I read an INCREDIBLE article written in the French language on a Sierra Leone-based blog https://regardelinfo.com/2022/12/01/mama-ghana/ about Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings whose life was ruined by the love affair between Papa Jerry Rawlings and one Nathalie Yamb. Under the guise of secrecy and because the memory of Jerry Rawlings cannot…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the candidature and nomination of the governorship candidate of APC in the July 16 governorship election in Osun, Adegboyega Oyetola, and his running mate, Benedict Alabi. Oyetola and Alabi are the immediate past governor and deputy governor of Osun. The court set aside the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, delivered by Justice Emeka Nwite, nullifying the nomination of Oyetola and Alabi as the APC governorship and deputy governorship candidates. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on September 30 nullified the nomination of Oyetola and his running mate, Alabi.…
Tragedy struck on Friday when five persons died in a road crash in Zaranda village on the Bauchi-Jos road. Yusuf Abdullahi, the Sector Commander, FRSC, disclosed this in a road traffic crash report made available in Bauchi on Saturday. The FRSC boss added that five other people were seriously injured in the crash involving one articulated vehicle and one commercial Galaxy Ford car around 7:05 p.m. He said it took the personnel of the corps barely 11 minutes to arrive at the scene of the crash to clear the site. The sector commander attributed the crash to speed violation, loss of…
By Cecilia Ologunagba On November 23, 2022, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on the “Promotion of Inclusive and Effective International Tax Cooperation at the United Nations.” The resolution is expected to lay the foundation for the creation of a new system of international tax cooperation that should be universal in scope and approach. With this, member states agreed for the first time to have a convention on tax cooperation and to annually discuss global tax issues and review progress. The motion, submitted for consideration by Nigeria on behalf of 54-member African Group of States, was adopted by…
Airtel has partnered the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to connect over 300,000 students to digital learning in Nigeria. The Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr Surendran Chemmenkotil, said this at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to flag off the initiative in Lagos on Friday. Chemmenkotil said that in the first year of the five-year partnership, Airtel and UNICEF would provide all the resources for digital learning to 620 schools. He said that the partnership was under the Reimagine Education Initiative. Chemmenkotil said they would also be providing reliable broadband connectivity and free access to a world…
The final year student of Federal University Dutse, Aminu Adamu who was being prosecuted for posting a tweet perceived to be an insult to wife of president Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs Aisha Buhari has been released. He was released following Mrs Buhari’s Friday withdrawal of the case from the court where he was standing trial. Aminu Adamu Aminu was expected to meet President Buhari before reuniting with his family. Recall that following Adamu’s Hausa tweet which reads: “Su mama anchi kudin talkawa ankoshi” (meaning: “Mama is feeding fat on poor people’s money”) on June 9, 2022, he was arrested and arraigned…
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has endorsed Atiku Abubakar for president. A former member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dogara fell out with the party over its choice to fly same-faith ticket for the 2023 presidential election where Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima emerged as candidates. The former speaker joined other members of the Forum of Christian and Muslim Political Leaders from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday to adopt Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Forum, which compose of religious leaders, women and youth organisations, described…
“As we all know, Nigeria is presently in a debt crisis – with a fiscal deficit well above the statutory threshold of 3%, an increasingly unsustainable debt profile, a rising cost of debt servicing worsened by the rising interest rates, and socio-economic investments sacrificed at that expense” Stakeholders including civil society organisations have revealed how private creditors plunge Nigeria into economic crisis as well as impede physical development. The one-day media presentation of research on the role of private creditors in Nigeria’s debt crisis, organised by Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) with support from Christian Aid (CA) held in…
Sex outside marriage, which under the code could be reported only by limited parties such as close relatives, could lead to up to a year in prison, while unmarried couples would be banned from living together Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass a new criminal code this month that would criminalise sex outside marriage and outlaw insults against the president or state institutions, prompting alarm from human rights campaigners. The deputy justice minister, Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej, said in an interview with Reuters that the new criminal code was expected to be passed on 15 December. “We’re proud to have…
The documents also revealed that Russia planned to capture Ukraine’s power stations, airfields, water supplies, central bank and parliament – and that Russian special services were tasked with killing the Ukrainian leadership A British defence and security think tank has revealed details of Moscow’s pre-invasion plan for Ukraine, based on captured Russian documents apparently signed off by Vladimir Putin. Russia had planned to take over Ukraine over 10 days and annex it by August this year, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) said. According to the British Army-linked think tank, only a small group of Russian officials…