Malawi on Tuesday received a consignment of 2.9 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) for a single dose reactive campaign to the Cholera outbreak. The recent outbreak has killed over 200 people since the country reported the first case in March. A joint statement released by the WHO, UNICEF and Malawi government said the OCV consignment arrived Monday “at a critical time as the country continues to respond to the ongoing Cholera outbreak”. According to the statement, the cholera response has been funded by Gavi, the Global Alliance of Vaccines. It said the WHO, the Malawi government through the…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The World Bank on Tuesday announced a new multi-partner fund that will pool funding from the global community for projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is contained in a statement obtained from the World Bank website on Tuesday in Abuja. The announcement was made at COP27 – Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. According to the statement, funds would also be pooled from donor countries, the private sector and foundations, for scalable pathways to greenhouse gas emission reduction. It said the Scaling Climate Action by Lowering Emissions…
Nigerian government has said that it was pushing for 400 billion dollars commitments from developed countries and partners on climate change to finance its Energy Transition Plan (ETP). Implementable negotiations continued on Tuesday at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, venue of the global conference on climate change otherwise known as COP27. Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, disclosed this on the sideline of the annual global event. Abdullahi, who led the Nigeria delegation to the climate change conference, said that the country expected very positive affirmative commitment when it came to funding to mitigate the challenge arising from climate change effect. “We…
The presidents of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt signed an agreement on Tuesday to develop one of the world’s largest onshore wind projects in Egypt. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the UAE’s renewable energy firm, Masdar alongside its joint venture with Egypt’s main renewable energy developer Infinity and Hassan Allam Utilities. Masdar, invested in a portfolio of renewable energy assets with a combined value of more than 20 billion U.S. dollars and a total capacity of more than 15 GW, said the new project which would be its biggest yet. “With this agreement to develop our…
Plateau state governor and Director- General of APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Simon Lalong has approved the inclusion of members of Kannywood into the council. Lalong, who is also the governor of Plateau, announced the approval in a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Dr Makut Macham on Tuesday in Jos. He said that their inclusion was part of efforts at deepening the participation of creative artistes from the northern zone in the campaigns. The director-general said that the approval was the outcome of the recent visit of the APC presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu to Kano, where he met members…
A Federal High Court sitting in Gusau on Tuesday nullified the Governorship Primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara state for the second time. Justice Aminu Bappa-Aliyu nullified the governorship primaries that produced Dr Dauda Lawal-Dare as the PDP candidate in the 2023 general elections. Delivering judgment, Bappa-Aliyu held that the PDP lost the opportunity to field a candidate in the 2023 polls for failing to conduct Primaries in line with the guidelines of the Electoral Act 2022 as amended. The same court had earlier on September 16, nullified the first exercise, following alleged irregularities in the Governorship…
The $3.1 billion suit on customs modernisation project instituted against the Nigerian government suffered a setback at the Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday, as one of the parties disowned the suit. Two companies, e-Customs HC Project Limited and Bionica Technologies (West Africa) Limited had jointly instituted the legal action against the government claiming $3.1 billion as damages over a disputed customs concession agreement. When the matter was called, e-Customs HC Project Limited, listed as the first plaintiff in the suit announced its decision to withdraw from the suit. In the application to withdraw brought by its counsel, Mr Ugochukwu Nnoli, the…
“NEC noted with dismay that paying academics on “pro-rata” basis, like casual workers, is unprecedented in the history of university oriented labour relations and therefore condemned this attempt to reduce Nigerian scholars to casual workers in its entirety” The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has raised from its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Monday in Abuja, condemning the federal government’s attempt to turn the academics into casual workers through ‘pro-rata’ payment of salaries for 18 days. The union in a press statement by its national president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke on Tuesday, noted that the University lecturers are intellectuals…
By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi Bauchi State House of Assembly has reiterated its commitment to work towards providing quality and affordable healthcare services to people at rural communities. Speaker of the House, Abubakar Suleiman stated this while receiving members of a Bauchi-based CSO, Journalists for Public Health Development and Initiative (J4PD), accompanied by other International Development Partners on an advocacy to the Assembly. Suleiman, represented by the Deputy Speaker, Danlami Ahmed Kawule, said that affordable and quality healthcare service delivery is what the people need in order to have healthy and variant society. According to him, the House is ever ready to collaborate…
The Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, Mary Noel-Berje has expressed shock over the death of former Commissioner for Information in the state, Danladi Mohammed Ndayebo. Noel-Berje in a statement described the death of Ndayebo as a monumental loss to Niger state in particular and country at large. According to her, “We have lost a rare gem, a brilliant and versatile young man who was in his prime and his services still needed by the state and country. “My prayers are with the family, his close friends and associates. At this point, all we can do is…