Countries and investors need to step up the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) to keep roads safe for everyone, three UN Special Envoys said on Thursday, leading a new AI for Road Safety initiative. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a call for action to halve the annual rate of road deaths globally and ensure access to safe, affordable and sustainable transport for everyone by 2030. According to the newly launched initiative, faster progress on AI is vital to make this happen, especially in low and middle-income countries, where the most lives are lost on the roads each…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Nigerian government says it has commissioned several sites in the six geopolitical zones of the country toward actualising its promise of electrifying five millions homes with solar energy by 2023. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said this while declaring open this year’s Seplat Energy Summit in Abuja. Osinbajo who was represented by the Minister of State for Environment, Mrs Sharon Ikeazor, said the effort was part of the country’s direct energy compact. He said the project, expected to affect 25 million people, would also create 250,000 jobs. “The implementation of this job is underway with several sites commissioned and being executed…
The Seventh Triennial Delegates’ Conference of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Thursday elected Chris Isiguzo for a second term in office as President. Isiguzo polled 665 votes to defeat his opponent, Yusuf Idris, from Kaduna State Council of NUJ, who scored 15 votes. The Returning Officer, Mr Joe Ajaero, said that 704 delegates were accredited for the election, which took place at the Okpara Auditorium, Umuahia. Ajaero, who is the Deputy President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, said there were 934 registered delegates, adding that 22 votes were voided. Four other members of Isiguzo’s team were returned unopposed…
We lost Professor A. D. Yahaya on Saturday. For me, he was a teacher, mentor, guide and inspiration. He was my Head of Department and project supervisor in my final year in Ahmadu Bello University. I had proposed to study the political consciousness of the peasantry in Kano and he was so excited by the choice that he called me to his office, commended me on the good subject I had chosen and proposed that he would supervise the project himself. That was in 1976 and since then, we had maintained close relations in the decades that followed. He is…
By Attahiru Ahmed, Gusau The Zamfara police command, in collaboration with other security agencies, have rescued 187 kidnap victims after about two months in captivity. Addressing newsmen Thursday evening, the police commissioner, Mr Ayuba Elkana said security operatives have been carrying out assaults on identified bandits locations in different parts of the state with a view to riding the state of all activities of recalcitrant bandits. “Today 7the October, 2021, Police Tactical operatives in a Joint operations at Tsibiri Forest in Maradun LGA Succeeded in the unconditional rescue of 187 victims abducted in Rini village of Bakura LGA, Gora village…
FBN Holdings Plc (FBNH) emerged the most traded stock by volume on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd on Thursday. Specifically, the company accounted for 605.01 million shares worth N8.90 billion. Fidelity Bank followed with 20.59 million shares valued at N53.59 million, while Wema Bank traded 15.18 million shares worth N11.31million. ETI accounted for 15.03 million shares valued at N88.88 million, while Transcorp transacted 13.77 million shares worth N13.01 million. Consequently, the total volume of trades increased by 102.7 per cent with an exchange of 812.29 million shares valued at N10.58 billion in 4,863 deals. This was against a total of 400.65…
Mr Valentine Ozigbo has been published alongside his running mate, Mrs Azuka Enemo, as gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the final list published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Also in the 18 candidates list published on Thursday were Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Sen. Andy Uba of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The list signed by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner in charge of INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee also had Sen Ifeanyi Uba as the candidate of Young Progressives Party (YPP) while Dr Obiora Okonkwo would…
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) on Thursday, met with stakeholders on ways to improve accountability in the country’s electoral and democratic process. The meeting which was held in Kaduna had in attendance heads of NOA, ICPC, NFIU and the media. It was organised under the Strengthening Accountability Network Among Civil Society (SANCUS) Project, funded by Transparency International. The CISCLAC Country Director, Mr Auwal Rafsanjani said that the meeting was to inform citizens on the need for transparency in the political process, advocate for enforcement of laws guiding political party financing and the demerits of vote trading. He explained…
The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) says it will keep customers abreast with developments around the commission to further improve user ability on the Companies Registration Portal (CRP). The Registrar General of CAC, Garba Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement by Mr Rasheed Mahe, CAC Head of Media Unit, on Thursday in Abuja. Abubakar stated this at a Stakeholders Forum in Lokoja, Kogi to ensure that Stakeholders were made to fully understand the workings of the CRP. The forum was in line with the earlier commitment given by the Registrar-General, Garba Abubakar, The RG stated that in view of the challenges, the Commission…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday unveiled an $8 billion dollar pathway out of the COVID-19 pandemic, to facilitate vaccines’ accessibility to everyone, everywhere. The global COVID-19 vaccination strategy aims to inoculate 40 per cent of people, in all countries, by the end of 2021 and 70 per cent by the middle of 2022. WHO had previously pressed governments to vaccinate 10 per cent of the world’s people by the end of September. However, more than 55 countries, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, missed the target. In his remarks to the virtual launch, UN Secretary-General António Guterres,…