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12 years after UN Declaration of water as a human right: Groups warn African governments against privatisation agenda
On July 28, 2022, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), alongside the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition hosted a webinar with African water justice campaigners, in commemoration of the 12th year of the United Nations Resolution declaring water and sanitation a human right (Resolution 64/292). This was declared on July 28, 2010. […]
Govt shuts unity school over threats by bandits
The Federal Government has ordered the immediate closure of the Federal Government College, Kwali, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, over the threat of attack by bandits. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, gave the directive in a statement by the Director of Press at the ministry, Ben Goong. This has disrupted the ongoing […]
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Alternative Paths to Ghana’s Success
By Toyin Falola There is always a community of Afro-pessimistic scholars, occasionally joined by their in-house accomplices, who assert that the unity and togetherness that Africans try to muster in their contemporary history is a recent development whose timeline emerged with colonialism. Under this assertion lies an impression that there was nothing like a […]
Court sends ex-AGF, others to prison over N109bn scam
A Federal Capital Territory High Court has remanded a former Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and two others in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Kuje. Justice Adeyemi Ajayi ordered that Idris and his co-defendants be kept in Kuje Correctional pending the hearing of their bail applications on July 27. This followed the […]
Tinubu, Shettima meet Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu and his vice presidential candidate Kashim Shettima are about now in a closed-door meeting at the Aso Villa, Abuja. The delegation, which is made up of others was ushered in to see the President at about 3:00 pm. The visit […]
Thabo Mbeki and the Quest for an Independent and Prosperous Africa
By Toyin Falola The quest for an independent and prosperous Africa spans several generations, continents, and themes. Notably, from the eighteenth century, people of African descent in Europe, America, the West Indies, and on the continent have been engaged in different kinds of the liberation struggle to uphold their humanity, independence, and right to self-determination. […]
Impeached Oyo Deputy Gov faults process
The sacked Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, has faulted the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Munta Abimbola, over the constitution of the seven-man panel which recommended his removal from office. In a statement on by his lawyer, Afolabi Fashanu (SAN), the former deputy governor alleged that the panel constituted to investigate the allegations […]
OSUN ELECTIONS: IGE HAS SPOKEN FROM THE GRAVE, SAYS SOYINKA
Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka has in a very short statement said the result of the Osun State gubernatorial election has demonstrated the anger of Chief Bola Ige from the grave. According to Nobel laureate, the result was a verdict against those who support some individuals who have been fingered as having hands in the […]
Finalists for 2022 prize for Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies announced
Babcock University, the Isaac Delano Foundation, and Pan-African University Press have announced the 2022 Finalists for the Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies. The prize was instituted to reward outstanding works in Yoruba Studies in honour of Isaac Delano, a frontline Yoruba writer, and thinker. Two finalists have been chosen in two categories. The […]
Buhari meets Service Chiefs
President Muhammadu Buhari is about now holding an emergency meeting with service chiefs, heads of other security agencies and some Ministers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting is coming after renewed terrorist activities. On Tuesday night terrorists attacked the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kuje, in Abuja. The same day the presidential convoy was arrested […]
