President Xi Jinping has asked officials to step up efforts to uphold the principle that Islam in China must be Chinese in orientation and religions in the country should adapt to the socialist society being pursued by the ruling Communist Party of China. Xi Jinping underlined the need to improve the governance capacity of religious affairs and realise the healthy development of religions. Xi visited the volatile Xinjiang region, where the Chinese security forces for the last several years have made efforts to control protests by Uygur Muslims over settlements from Han Chinese from outside the province. During his four-day…
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Demographically, Nigeria would occupy the famous (or infamous?) position of the sixth most populous country in the world by November 2022, the next four months. This projection was recently made by the United Nations, which indicates the Nigerian population ascending to over 220 million people thereby overtaking that of Brazil. In the last fifty years, the Nigerian population has risen significantly. Data available in the 2012 revision of the World Population Prospects by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat indicates that the Nigerian population in 1950 was only 37,860,000 compared…
Tehran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has yet to decide whether to build it, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told Al Jazeera’s Arabic service on Sunday. Tehran will also directly respond against Israel should its security be targeted, the report says citing the advisor. Tehran will also directly respond against Israel should its security be targeted, the report says citing the advisor. “In a few days we were able to enrich uranium up to 60% and we can easily produce 90% enriched uranium … Iran has the technical means to produce a…
By Justina Auta The Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF) on Sunday, urged stakeholders to sensitise the citizenry on their rights to exercise their civic duty and shun vote trading. The Chief Executive Officer for Gender and Election Watch (GEW) Room of the NWTF, Mrs Mufuliat Fibaji said this in a statement on Sunday. According to her, said the organisation was in Osun to observe, gather information and carry out analysis about women and men’s participation in the governorship election from a gender perspective. She said they deployed 50 accredited observers and citizens observers across the 30 Local Government Areas of Osun…
The Lagos State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Philips Aivoji has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) conduct and outcome of Saturday’s Osun governorship election is a sign that Nigeria shall be great again. The PDP candidate Sen. Ademola Adeleke, defeated the incumbent Gov. Gboyega Oyetola to emerge winner. INEC’s Returning Officer, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, said that Adeleke polled 403,371 votes to defeat his closet rival, Oyetola, the candidate of the APC, who scored 375,027 votes. Speaking while on transit from Osun to Lagos, Aivoji said that the outcome of the poll was a sign…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, has emerged the 36th President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Maikyau emerged the new president during the NBA elections, which held electronically from 12.00am on Saturday to 11.59am of same day. He polled a total of 22,342 votes to defeat two other contenders, Messrs Joe-Kyari Gadzama (SAN), Chairman of the NBA Securities Agencies Relations Committee; and Jonathan Taidi, a former General Secretary of the NBA. According to the Chairman of the NBA Electoral Committee, Mr Ayodele Akintunde (SAN), who announced the results at a hybrid press briefing on Sunday, the total number of…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke as winner of the Osun state governorship election. He scored a total of 403,371 votes by garnering highest votes in 19 of the 30 local government areas, to beat Oyetola who polled 375,027 votes. The incumbent won in 11 local government areas. Boluwaduro LG APC – 5,649 PDP – 5,860 Ilesa East LG APC – 13,452 PDP – 10,969 Osogbo LG APC – 22,952 PDP – 30,401 Ila LG APC – 11,163 PDP – 13,036 Atakumosa West LG APC – 6,601 PDP…
By Njeri Murigi I healthjournalist3@gmail.com The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that the inaugural meeting to discuss the conservation of Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC), will hold between July 18 and 23 in Kigali, Rwanda. The congress, themed “Protected and Conserved Areas, People and Biodiversity” will have deliberations aimed at generating pathways that build and empower current and next generation of leaders to realise an African future where wildlife and wildlands are valued as an asset that contributes to development. According to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a protected area is a clearly defined geographical…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner the Osun state governorship election. He secured 403,371 votes to beat governor Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who polled 375,027 votes with 28,344 votes difference. Satisfied of Adeleke’s victory, the Returning Officer of the election, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe declare him winner and governor-elect. “I declare that Adeleke Ademola Jackson Nurudeen of PDP, having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and he is returned elected,” Professor Ogundipe declared. Fifteen political parties fielded candidates in…
As the collation results begins, the Osun state candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Adeleke is taking the lead in the ongoing governorship election. According to the results so far posted on the portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Adeleke has polled 67,892 votes while the state governor, Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has 56,915 votes. From the results therefore Adeleke is leading with over 10,000 votes as counting of votes continues. There are a total of 1,955,657 registered voters in the election which held across 3,763 polling units.