A new report shows that despite warm words about the importance of Africa and the Commonwealth by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the leaders of Australia and Canada, their countries’ carbon emissions, and lack of action on a climate-friendly, post-Covid green recovery, threatens the future of other Commonwealth countries – especially those in Africa. The report, Climate Change Inequality in the Commonwealth, is produced by the Kenyan-based climate and energy think tank, Power Shift Africa. The report findings include: Per capita, the UK, host of the next global climate summit COP26, burns more CO2 than 18 Commonwealth countries combined The figure…
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Former governor of Kaduna state, Alhaji Balarabe Musa is dead. He died at 84 years following a protracted illness. Late Balarabe’s close confident, Senator Shehu Sani conformed the death on his Facebook account. “I received the shocking news of the death of our father and leader, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, the former Executive Governor of Kaduna State. May Allah grant him Aljanna Firdausi.Amin.” AsheNews also confirmed in a telephone conversation from Senator Sani, who said, “Yes, I can confirm that Balarabe is dead. May his soul rest in peace.” Details later…
About 17,606 teachers across the country are to sit for the 2020 qualifying examinations billed for November 12 -14, the Registrar and Chief Executive of the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, has said Ajiboye, who announced this at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, said that Osun state tops the list with 1,727 candidates, followed by Adamawa, 1,623 candidates, Nasarawa State 934 candidates and the FCT with 850 candidates. He said that Jigawa and Ekiti states were, however, excluded from the computer-based examination for their failure to meet the benchmark of 100 candidates per state.…
Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) and the Counselling and Rehabilitation of Prisoners Initiative (CAROPI), an NGO, have pledged to collaborate in assisting Nigerians in the Diaspora who were victims of wrongful incarceration. The two organisations announced their commitment in a statement signed by Gabriel Odu of NiDCOM’s Media, Public Relations and Protocol Unit, and made available in Abuja on Tuesday. The statement quoted the Chairman/CEO NiDCOM, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, as reiterating the need for an accurate and comprehensive database of Nigerians incarcerated in various prisons globally, at a closed door meeting she held with members of the CAROPI. The four-man…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the establishment of an Economic Sustainability Committee (ESC) as part of a plan to provide electricity for 25 million citizens who lacked access to the national grid, a statement from the Ministry of Power said. Mr Aaron Artimas, Special Assistant, Media and Communication to the Minister of Power, Mr Sale Mamman, who announced the ESC in Abuja on Tuesday, said that the programme tagged, ‘Energy for All’, aimed at providing five million solar connections to various locations throughout the country, in collaboration with state governments. He added that the committee will ensure accelerated…
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged agencies involved in agriculture to include youth in driving modern methods of farming. The president stated this in Abuja on Tuesday when he inaugurated the National Young Farmers Scheme designed by the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) to elicit more youth interest in farming. He assured all those interested that an enabling environment would be created for full participation. According to him, agriculture remains the backbone of the Nigerian economy, being the largest contributor to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “We will do more to expand, modernise and revolutionise our agriculture, which is…
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), has announced 152 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), pandemic in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Tuesday. The public health agency said that two additional deaths were recorded as a result of coronavirus complications, raising the death toll in the country to 1,160. The country’s COVID-19 tally of infected people is 64,336, making it the fifth on the list of African countries worst hit, behind Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa. Also, there has been significant improvement in recoveries even as fears of an imminent and…
Nigeria has joined China and United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the only countries operating the WingLoong II Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV). In addition to the two inducted into the Nigeria Air Force (NAF), six other UCAVs are expected by early 2021. The two WingLoong II can remain airborne for 31 hours in internal security reconnaissance (ISR) mode and 26 hours in offensive role. NAF Spokesperson, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, said in a statement on Tuesday that the aircraft will add significant value to the nation’s counter-insurgency and anti-banditry operations. Daramola said that in the last five years, 22 new…
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered Liberia to pay Counsellor Kabineh Muhammad Jan’neh, an impeached Judge of the Supreme Court of Liberia, the sum US$200,000 as reparation for moral prejudice suffered for the violation of his rights. Delivering judgment on Tuesday, 10th November, 2020, in a case filed by the Judge, the Court also ordered Liberia to restore, calculate and pay to the Applicant all his withheld entitlements, including salaries, allowances and pension benefits as from the date of his impeachment to the date of notification of the Court’s judgment. It further ordered his reinstatement as an Associate Justice…
The House Committee on Police Affairs has said that N449 billion 2021 budget operations for the Nigerian Police is grossly inadequate. Rep. Mohammed Kumo, chairman of the committee, said this during budget defence by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that it was an open knowledge that the Nigerian police were underfunded, adding that the N449 billion proposal for 2021 operations was unacceptable. He called on the Federal Government to immediately increase police funding while assuring the police that at the end of the budget defence their budget would be increased. “The Speaker…