Niger and six other nations lost their right to vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) because they have not paid their dues, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. The other countries losing their UNGA voting rights are Iran, Libya, the Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, South Sudan and Zimbabwe, the Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Three more countries – Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe and Somalia – will be allowed to continue to vote despite missing dues payments, because they sufficiently demonstrated that they are incapable of paying. Guterres wrote a letter to General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir…
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Pope Francis has appointed the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah as a member of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Human Integral Development. This is contained in a letter dated 11th December, 2020, signed by the Prefect of the Dicastery, Cardinal Peter Turkson. Kukah will join other members of the Dicastery, to advise and promote Pope’s concerns on issues of justice and peace, human rights, torture, human trafficking, care of creation and other issues related to the promotion of human dignity and development. The appointment, which will be inaugurated formally on a yet-to-be-mentioned date, is renewable is for an…
Kano Investment and Diaspora, in partnership with the Foreign Commonwealth Development ((LINKS) and Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) have secured a N10 billion intervention fund from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to revive companies impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking at the sensitization meeting on Kano Turnaround Project in Kano on Monday, the Director General of KanInvest & Diaspora, Hajiya Hama Ali, said the programme, which was designed to revive companies that had been affected by COVID-19 pandemic, would target at least 50 companies. She explained that the CBN initially donated N10 billion to the agency, for the project’s…
A peaceful protest against epileptic power supply in Kafanchan, Kaduna state, on Monday, turned violent as one person was shot by security operatives. The protesters stormed the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KAEDCO), Kafanchan business office, in their numbers carrying placards with inscriptions: ‘Stop charging us high’, ‘Stop the blackout’, ‘Give us stable power supply. A protester was shot in the back and rushed to the hospital, as security operatives fired shots to disperse the angry mob, when the protest turned violent, with a car and some motorcycles at the KAEDCO office torched. Some of the protesters who spoke lamented that…
The newly elected council chairman of Bebeji local government, Ali Nnamandi is dead. His death, after a brief illness, is coming barely 48 hours after the announcement of local government election results by the chairman of Kano state Electoral Commission (KANSIEC), Prof. Garba Ibrshim Sheka. The All Progressives Congress, APC, Publicity committee chairman in the local government, Ibrahim Tiga in a statement made available to newsmen, said Nnamandi died in the early hours of Tuesday. According to the statement, the chairman-elect, suspected to have died from high blood pressure, drove himself to a nearest Hospital at the local government area,…
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden plans to quickly extend travel restrictions barring travel by most people who have recently been in much of Europe and Brazil, a spokeswoman for Biden said. Trump signed an order Monday lifting the restrictions he imposed early last year in response to the pandemic from Jan. 26, after winning support from coronavirus task force members and public health officials. Soon after Trump’s order was made public, Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki tweeted “on the advice of our medical team, the Administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on 1/26.” She added that “With the pandemic worsening,…
AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice on his first Serie A start since returning from injury, helping his side to a 2-0 win at Cagliari on Monday. The win meant the league leaders moved three points clear at the top of the standings. Ibrahimovic picked up a thigh injury in AC Milan’s win at Napoli on Nov. 22, and that kept him out of action until last weekend. Then he had returned as a substitute against Torino, but the evergreen Swede was fit enough to start in Sardinia. He wasted no time in getting back among the goals, winning…
The Baby Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire on Monday defeated Nigeria’s national under-17 male football team 3-2 to win the WAFU “B” U-17 Tournament in Lome, Togo. The Golden Eaglets were unable to defend the title they won two years ago after going down to the Ivorians for the second time in the regional tournament. Nigeria who are five-times world champions fought from 0-3 down to score twice, but it was a little too late for a comeback on the night. The impressive Ivorians finished the tournament unbeaten by winning all their four matches, while Nigeria on the other hand won…
Nigeria’s death status has reached a total of 1,449 from the deadly COVID-19, with the report of 14 more on Monday, the Centre for Disease Control has announced. The centre on its official Twitter handle @ncdcgov also reported 1,617 new cases of the virus. The country has so far tested 1,172,234 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on February 27, 2020. It said that till date, the country had recorded 112,004 COVID-19 infections with 89,939 cases successfully treated and discharged in the country. The NCDC said that the 1,617 new cases were reported from 17 states…
Gunmen Sunday night kidnapped Prof. Aliyu Mohammed of Department of Agriculture, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, and killed his son, Abdulaziz. The lecturer, who is also the Wazirin Wusasa, was abducted Sunday night at Wusasa Zaria, Kaduna state. Mr Usman Aliyu, son of the kidnapped professor, told newsmen in Zaria that the incident took place on Sunday at about 10.30 p.m. He said besides kidnapping his father and killing one of his brothers, they also shot Malam Abubakar Kabir, who is a younger brother to the deceased (Abdulaziz Aliyu). Aliyu said no sooner than he returned to the family house…