THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced the fees to be paid by aspirants for various elective offices in the 2023 general elections as it announced that the sale of Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to aspirants in the elections would commence on Saturday, April 23, 2022. APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, made the announcement on Wednesday in Abuja at the end of the party’s 11th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, which is the highest decision-making organ in between the party’s conventions. Aspirants seeking to fly APC’s 2023 presidential ticket are to obtain the Nomination form with…
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THE African Development Bank (AfDB) says it will within the next five years double the climate change finance of Africa to 25 billion dollars. Dr Kevin Kariuki, AfDB Vice-President for Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth, said this at a virtual news conference on Wednesday in preparation for the bank’s 2022 annual meetings to be held in Accra, Ghana. Kariuki said the bank would invest the finance to support African countries to become resilient both in adaptation and mitigation between 2020 and 2025. He disclosed that the AfDB had in the last five years spent 13 billion dollars in the…
THE Africa Centre for Disease and Prevention Control (Africa CDC) on Wednesday called on member states to learn from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and invest in public health emergencies. Dr Mohammed Abudulaziz, Head, Disease Control and Prevention at Africa CDC, made this call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, on the side-lines of a three-day workshop of Regional Integrated Surveillance and Laboratory Networks (RISLNET) implementation for the West African Region. RISLNET is a ‘network of networks’ that harness existing public health assets in five African Union members. It is to strengthen national and regional laboratory…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has written separate letters to leaders of Russia and Ukraine to request meetings with them in their respective capitals in efforts to end the war in Ukraine. UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Wednesday, said that Guterres had asked the Russian President, Vladimir Putin to receive him in Moscow and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to receive him in Kyiv. Dujarric said the letters were handed over to the countries’ UN Missions in New York on Tuesday. “The secretary-general said he would like to discuss urgent steps to bring about peace in Ukraine and the future of…
THE Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Wednesday evacuated no fewer than 94 street beggars, mainly old men, women and 17 children who are being used to beg in the city. The Mandate Secretary for FCTA Social Development Secretariat, Mrs Hadiza Kabir, made the disclosure, while answering questions from newsmen after cross examining the beggars, including the children in Abuja. Kabir explained that the measure was part of continuous efforts of the secretariat to rid the city of environmental and human nuisance as instructed by the FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu. The secretary revealed that the minister had…
GUNMEN, suspected to be kidnappers, at the early hours of Wednesday, invaded and kidnapped four family members in Shadadi community in Kuje Area Council, Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Some residents of the community told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja that the incident happened at about 1a.m. after the suspected kidnappers had shot sporadically into the air. A relative to the abductees, who preferred anonymity, told NAN that the kidnappers, numbering 10 forcefully gained entrance into the house after shooting sporadically into the air and pulling down the widow burglary. “Immediately they entered at about 1.a.m., they told…
THE Federal Government says the National Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos, which is under renovation, will be known as Lagos Creative and Entertainment Center, upon completion. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this on Tuesday in Madrid, Spain while signing an agreement on Nigeria’s hosting of the first Global Conference on Cultural Tourism and Creative Industry. Nigeria signed the bilateral agreement with the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) at the organisation’s headquarters. Mr Mohammed said the global conference, which would hold from November 14 to 17, would be the first event to be staged at the newly…
THE Federal Capital Territory Authorities (FCTA) has sealed off some government ministries and agencies buildings over accumulated waste management debts, reports the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The government buildings, whose actual number cannot be ascertained at the time of filing this report, were on Tuesday sealed by the city authorities for owing the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) about N10 billion. The AEPB, in company of heavily armed security operatives drawn from different security wings, trooped into some ministries to implement the action. Some of the ministries and government owned agencies identified to be indebted include Federal Ministry of Works…
IT’s the first working day, after my resignation. At 7:48am, I thought, I would have been preparing to go to work, at this time, or would already be on the field, if my plan for that day, was to visit schools. That’s life! No matter how long it takes, it ends someday. I truly enjoyed every bit of my stay in office, and was so happy doing what I had started in my private life: working to advance children’s lives, and especially, to secure their future. I thank everyone for the support and encouragement. My team and I started visiting…
THE ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that it would begin selling nomination and expression of interest forms for various electoral offices from Saturday, April 23, 2022. It’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, disclosed this shortly after the 11th National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Wednesday. According to Morka, the sale of forms will run from April 23-May 6, 2022. He also said the party has pegged its presidential nomination and expression of interest forms at N100 million. The nomination form would go for N70 million while expression of interest forms would go for N30 million. Opposing an…