Labour Party Chieftain, Prof. Pat Utomi says Peter Obi’s manifesto for the 2023 elections is ready and will be released before campaign starts next week. Utomi made the revelation during a visit on Tuesday by the leadership of Progressive Movement for Better Nigeria, PM4BN in Abuja. According to him, Obi’s manifesto is ready but being carefully kept under raps to avoid opposition candidates from stealing it. According to him, “Obi’s manifesto is ready and it will be released before campaign starts. We have it but we decided to keep it secret until campaigns starts.’’ Utomi, while responding to question on…
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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says most disputes across Nigeria gradually snowball into armed conflicts and human rights violations due to the absence of peaceful, justice, and equitable resolution in the early stages. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Chief Tony Ojukwu, SAN, made this known in commemoration of the 2022 International Peace Day, observed Sept. 21. Ojukwu advised stakeholders and Non-Nigerians to observe early warning signals and to always adopt a peaceful approach to issues rather than engaging in conflict with disagreeing parties. “Such conflicts and consequent insecurity, generate unfavorable development climate as well as drain resources for…
The Federal Government on Wednesday released the line up of programmes to commemorate the country’s 62nd Independence Anniversary. Joe Mutah, the Chief Press Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Culture, in a statement in Abuja said the activities would commence with a press conference on Thursday at the National Press Centre in Abuja. He said a church service would hold on Sunday at the National Christian Centre located in the Central Business District of Abuja. According to Mutah, a public lecture will also take place at the State House Conference Hall on Sept. 29 while Special Juma’at prayers will…
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), Francisco-based research group, says only 10 countries in Africa account for more than 50 per cent of climate finance in the region. CPI said this in its recent study, which report the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) obtained on Wednesday in Benin. The group is an independent non-profit research group and international climate policy organisation based in San Francisco, California. CPI is supported primarily by philanthropic organisations and government development finance. The research body identified these countries to include Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa. The report noted, however, that the total annual climate finance…
Cristiano Ronaldo intends to continue with Portugal until Euro 2024, shutting down any notion this year’s World Cup could be his last major international tournament. The veteran attacker has struggled for form this season at club level with Manchester United FC, dropped by Erik ten Hag and mostly kept on the sidelines by a positive upturn in results. But his place in Fernando Santos’ Portugal squad has never been in doubt, with the 37-year-old leading his country in their Nations League matches with the Czech Republic and Spain this week. Speaking at the Quinas de Ouro awards, where he was…
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau The Federal Government may have scored a big point in its imbroglio with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the National Industrial Court (NIC) sitting in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the beleaguered members to call off the seven months strike. Although details of the court ruling are unavailable to the media as at the time of this report. It is also not clear if ASUU leadership will yield to the call by the court to reopen the shut university gates without the government meeting their demands.
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau Few days to the start of the 2023 Election Campaign, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is rekindling the plot in author Anezi Okoro’s 1971 classic novel “One Week One Trouble” as the crisis rocking the party has deepened further. This is even as the Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike’s group in PDP on Wednesdaypulled out of the Campaign Council of the party’s presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku. The decision to opt out of the Atiku campaign came following a meeting which started on Tuesday night and lasted upto the early hours of Wednesday…
Dr Babatunde Omotosho, an alumnus of the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), has won the 2021 Adam Smith Business School Prize for PhD Excellence in Economics. This is contained in the Unilorin Bulletin Tuesday edition. Omotosho, who is currently an Assistant Director in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently completed his PhD studies at the University of Glasgow under CBN sponsorship. His winning thesis is titled: ‘Oil Price Shocks and Macroeconomic Policy in Resource-rich Emerging Economies’. The prize is in memory of Adam Smith, fondly acknowledged as the father of modern economics. Smith lectured at the University of Glasgow and…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Tuesday published the list of 80 successful candidates, including Gov. David Umahi, for the 2023 National Assembly elections in Ebonyi. The state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Joseph Chukwu, disclosed this at a news briefing at the INEC headquarters on Tuesday in Abakaliki. Chukwu said that the list had been displayed at the state headquarters and INEC Offices in the 13 Local Government Areas of the state. He said that the commission cleared 32 presidential and vice presidential candidates from the 18 registered political parties for the 2023 poll. He said the display of…
Having a baby is a special time in a woman’s life, a period that is meant to be filled with excitement and delight. However, bringing new life into the world is a delicate process and a level of caution is required to avert pregnancy-related conditions that can risk the lives of the expectant mother and her unborn baby. Shockingly, Nigeria is one of the countries with the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, accounting for nearly 20 percent of all global maternal deaths. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or postpartum…