Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed his government’s commitment to implementing global climate change adaptation initiatives. Kenyatta said this in Nairobi during a virtual high-level session of the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021. Kenyatta called for concerted global efforts in addressing climate change saying, like COVID-19, the challenge is a reality that the world must confront urgently. “Kenya commits to implement the adaptation action agenda, but we can only succeed if we all, as a global community, collaborate in this noble endeavour,” Kenyatta said. The meeting was attended by several world leaders including UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. According to a statement…
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By Suleiman Mande Leadership is an act of surrender, an act of sacrifice of ones health, wealth, time, energy and any other resources that one possibly possesses in order to add value, create meaning and purpose, build and enlarge the society to attain to its ideal goals, dreams and aspirations. “Standing between Problem and solutions to those problems are critical entities called leaders” – William Ruto, Kenyan Vice President. Standing between where we are and where we want to be is decisive, pragmatic and bold decisions that takes leaders to make. When we say leaders in this respect, we are…
“Omo Ghetto” (The Saga), a movie by Actress Funke Akindele-Bello, popularly known as Jenifa has been declared Nollywood’s highest grossing movie of all time. The 2020 comedy film has broken a four-year record formally held by Kemi Adetiba’s ‘The Wedding Party’. In a statement released by Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the 2020 comedy film has so far grossed N468,036,300 after holding the number one spot for its third week in a row. “Omo Ghetto’ has officially broken a four years record by knocking off Kemi Adetiba’s 2016 Comedy movie” The Wedding Party” The movie had been Nollywood Highest…
One of the residences of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, in Soka area of Ibadan was gutted by fire in the early hours of Tuesday. Property worth millions of naira was damaged by the fire, the source of which could not be immediately ascertained. It was gathered that fire fighters from the Oyo State Fire Service arrived at the scene few hours after to douse the fire. Speaking about the incident, the Director of Operation Oyo State Fire Service, Mr Ismail Adeleke, said no life was lost in the fire incident. Adeleke said that it was the only the…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadia Umar-Farouk to publish details of the proposed payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months. The non-governmental organisation also wants the minister to provide details about the mechanisms and logistics for the payments, list of beneficiaries, how they have been selected, projected payments per state, and whether the payments will be made in cash, through Bank Verification Numbers or other means. SERAP’s request follows the announcement by the minister last week that the Federal Government would pay about…
By Lai Mahmood, Ilorin The Alliance for Democracy (AD) 2019 governorship candidate in Oyo, Engr Oyèdélé Hakeem Alaó has charged governor Seyi Mákindé not to blame Sunday Igboho over what happened in Igangan and listen to voices of reasoning as insecurity in the state had reached a boiling point. In a statement made available in Ibadan by his spokesperson, Omotayo Iyanda, Àlàó noted that the composition of Amotekun was wrong from onset and that impacted negatively on the present state of security in the state. “If the recruitment into Amotekun has not sidelined our local warlords among the hunters association,…
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Monday, disclosed that four Nigerians had tested positive for the highly contagious United Kingdom (UK) COVID-19 strain. Ihekweazu, who disclosed the at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, in Abuja, stated that those that tested positive included three Nigerians who had travelled out of the country, while one was in-country, adding that it was not surprising to find the new strain in the country given the frequency of travel between the UK and Nigeria. “In the last week, we have had three reports of the UK variant…
The Centre for Information Technology and Development, CITAD, has trained 120 youths in the area of health, communication, social media and community mobilization, some of who produced hand sanitizers and face masks as a way of curbing the spread of COVID-19. This is contained in a statement by the Campaigns and Communication Officer of the Centre for Information Technology and Development, Ali Sabo and made available to ASHENEWS on Sunday. According to the statement, the grant for the training was provided by International Institute of Education and MacArthur Foundation to engage the youth to help in propagating the knowledge on…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,430 cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 122,996. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Monday. The country has so far tested 1,270,523 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on Feb. 27, 2020 in the country. The Nigeria’s public health institute sadly registered three additional coronavirus related deaths in the last 24 hours in the country. The NCDC stated that the new infections were reported from 18 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The agency, in its breakdown of the…
By Dr Attahiru Ahmad Sifawa Two days ago, there was widespread outcry on the social media over the unfortunate disconnection of the house of late President Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari from the national grid by the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company. Many people lamented the insensitivity of the company as well as the seeming neglect of the onetime number one family by the concerned authorities. It is a well-known fact that Federal government of Nigeria is responsible for the basic needs of past Presidents. Whether that also extends beyond their lifetime, by which authority and for how long, is not…