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The head of the World Bank has warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause a global recession as the price of food, energy and fertiliser jump. David Malpass told a US business event on Wednesday that it is difficult to “see how we avoid a recession”. He also said a series of coronavirus lockdowns in China are adding to concerns about a slowdown. His comments are the latest warning over the rising risk that the world economy may be set to contract. “As we look at the global GDP… it’s hard right now to see how we avoid a…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said the current democracy in Nigeria is being threatened by the predominance of money politics. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this at a one-day colloquium on Emerging Issues that will Shape the 2023 General Elections in Nigeria organised by the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in collaboration with Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) on Wednesday in Abuja. Yakubu said that there were three critical challenges to be overcome in the conduct of the 2023 election namely insecurity, fake news and money politics. “My third area of concern is the…
The Lead Visioner, Lagos4Lagos Movement, Dr. Olajide Adediran (Jandor) on Wednesday clinched the PDP ticket for the 2023 governorship election in Lagos State. Declaring the result in Ikeja, the Chairman of the Lagos PDP Electoral Committee/Returning Officer, Mr. Emmanuel Ogidi, said that Adediran scored 679 votes to defeat his contender, Mr. David Vaughan who polled 20 votes. Ogidi, who noted that there were 775 ad hoc delegates for the primaries, said that 709 were accredited for the election. According to him, 10 votes were voided in the election. Ogidi said: “The total number of accredited voters is 709, and Olajide…
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Senator Abdulahi Adamu has said that all aspirants jostling to clinch the ticket of the party are aware that only one person will represent the party. Speaking on a Voice of America Hausa service programme, Adamu said it is God who decides all affairs. “It is God that decides who gets what. Once God makes up his mind and says this is who He wants. That is what we are praying for. We have 28 aspirants for the presidential ticket and everybody knows that all of them cannot get the ticket. “If…
More facts emerged on Wednesday over the death of the Obafemi Awolowo University student Timothy Adegoke at the Hilton Hotel, Ile Ife in November last year. The receptionist and one of the accused being tried over the alleged murder, Magdalene Chiefuna confessed under cross-examination in Osogbo that after the lifeless body of Timothy had been discovered, she and others were taken to the office of the owner of the hotel, Ramon Adedoyin by his son, Raheem Adedoyin and were forced to take an oath never to talk to anyone over what they saw. She was under examination by Femi Falana,…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the killing of a pregnant woman, Mrs. Harira Jubril and her children in Anambra State is not only callous but also brutal. Saying the killing is also demeaning, Osinbajo said the act is capable of creating ethnic conflict across the country. Speaking with journalists shortly after meeting All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates in Makurdi, Benue State in continuation of his nationwide consultations with party delegates and other stakeholders ahead of the APC presidential primaries, Osinbajo said, “What took place in Anambra with the killing of a woman and her children demeans us all. It…
The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party is holding two parallel primaries to select its governorship candidate. While Mr. Segun Sowunmi, a former spokesman for Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday, emerged governorship candidate at one of the primaries held at the NUJ Secretariat, Abeokuta, Mr. Jimi Lawal and Mr. Ladi Adebutu of another faction is holding its election at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. The chairman of the electoral committee, Mr. Abayomi Daniel announced Sowunmi the winner of the election after the votes were counted. Abayomi said Sowunmi contested against two other aspirants, Jimi Lawal and Ladi Adebutu who…
The Commissioner for Education in Lagos State, Mrs Folashade Adefisayo, says that the state government has put a stop to all forms of corporal punishment in its public schools. Adefisayo, represented by Mrs Adumasi Bosede, a Director in the Ministry, said this at the scientific conference of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Yaba in Lagos State on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the programme is: “Corporal Punishment in the Modern African Setting”, with the Sub-theme: Examining the Scientific Evidence behind Corporal Punishment” Adefisayo, also the special guest of honour…
Staff partied in Downing Street while the rest of the country was in lockdown with the approval of their bosses, according to Sue Gray’s report. The senior civil servant said many events “should not have been allowed” and the PM and his officials “must bear responsibility for this culture”. The report highlights excessive drinking, with staff being sick, and abuse of cleaning and security staff. Warnings about parties breaking Covid rules were ignored, the report says. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs he took “full responsibility for everything that took place on my watch”. He said he had been “humbled by…
Backbench Conservative MP Julian Sturdy says he believes it is “now in the public interest for the prime minister to resign”. In a statement on Twitter, he says the Sue Gray report shows Boris Johnson “has presided over a widespread culture of disregard for coronavirus regulations”. The MP for for York Outer, who was first elected in 2010, says now questions are being raised on whether or not the prime minister lied to Parliament over the events. He says, following the publication of the Gray report, he is “unable to give the PM the benefit of the doubt”. BBC