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2023 Tinubu’s Aspiration An Insult To Black Race – Atiku

2023: Tinubu’s Aspiration, An Insult To Black Race – Atiku

October 17, 2022 6:21 am

As campaigns for Nigeria’s next Presidential elections takes centre stage, the Media Office of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has asserted that the aspiration of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, was nothing but an assault on the integrity of the black race.

This was contained in a statement by Atiku’s Media Adviser, Mazi Paul Ibe, in Kaduna, on Sunday.

He said, “The very ambition of former governor Tinubu to aspire to become the Nigerian leader is a rude attack on the integrity of every black country and …

Return Africa’s Stolen Assets, Artefacts, Buhari Warns West

Return Africa’s Stolen Assets, Artefacts, Buhari Warns West

October 7, 2022 6:34 am

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has made a case for the return of stolen assets and artifacts stolen from Africa by the West.

The President made the demand in an article he wrote on Wednesday, saying the clamour for the repatriation of looted treasures is becoming irresistible.

According to the Nigerian leader, Nigerians were delighted by the news this summer that 72 artefacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, held by the Horniman Museum in London were returning home, 125 years after being plundered by British troops.

Read Also: Auction Of ‘Stolen’ Igbo Artifacts Goes Ahead In Paris

Meanwhile, Germany …

Synthetic Biology To Combat Climate Change In Africa

Synthetic Biology To Combat Climate Change In Africa

September 6, 2022 2:36 am

There is no doubt that climate change is a global issue but it seems to bite harder on Africa as 7 of the 10 countries that are most vulnerable to it are reported by African Development Bank to be in Africa. As if to cement the continent’s vulnerability, the United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that by 2050, the cost of tackling climate change across Africa could reach $50 billion. The effects of climate change will be felt in fields such as agriculture, tourism, energy generation, etc.

The question is, how is Africa working to increase her adaptive capacity in …

Addressing The High Mortality Rate During Childbirth In Africa

Addressing The High Mortality Rate During Childbirth In Africa

August 26, 2022 9:16 am

If we must effectively mitigate the high mortality rate during childbirth in Africa, we must educate men on the child birthing processes, highlighting their roles.

Many men think it is all about having pleasurable intercourse, fertilizing an egg/eggs and providing money for shopping/delivery.
A lot of them don’t know that it goes beyond that.

Page 43 of my book ‘I Am Not A Hebrew Woman All I Want Is Safe Delivery‘ did justice to ‘The Role of Men During Childbirth‘.
No matter how enlightened, empowered and self-aware a woman is, having/marrying a man who is ignorant …

How Religion Affects The High Maternal Mortality In Africa

How Religion Affects The High Maternal Mortality In Africa

August 19, 2022 10:05 am
The insensitivity of most religious leaders on the issues of pregnancy and childbirth has greatly contributed to the high maternal mortality in Africa as most pastors and religious leaders ignorantly pray for their pregnant members to deliver like the Hebrew women while praying against cesarean section.
Some women go far as to hide their delivery method and lie while dedicating their babies to the church.
This has contributed to the total rejection of c-sections as a medical intervention during childbirth thereby leading to high maternal and neonatal mortality.
Today, we shared some life stories and events that show how religion
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Crisis Looms As South Sudan Extends Transitional Govt By 2Yrs

Crisis Looms As South Sudan Extends Transitional Govt By 2 Yrs

August 5, 2022 2:40 am

A further crisis could be looming after South Sudan’s leaders on Thursday announced that the country’s post-war transitional government would remain in power two years beyond an agreed deadline, in a move foreign partners warned lacked legitimacy.

Accorording to Martin Elia Lomuro, the minister of cabinet affairs the decision was arrived at ‘to address the challenges that impede the implementation of the peace agreement’, following a 2018 deal to end a five-year civil war that left nearly 400,000 people dead.

‘Thus a new roadmap has been agreed,’ the minister submitted, speaking in the presence of President Salva Kiir and Vice …

Scientists Say Bacteria Might End Plastic Pollution In Water

Scientists Say Bacteria Might End Plastic Pollution In Water

July 30, 2022 6:37 am

With 40% of plastics manufactured in the world being convenience and single-use plastics, the world is close to a humongous plastic waste menace. In Africa, plastic waste management policies have been relatively unsuccessful considering the pushback from multi-million companies that deal in plastics. Currently, Africa produces nearly 6 million tonnes of plastic wastes and there are very few proper disposal structures in place.

According to a 2016 study, by the year 2050, there will be more plastics than fish in the ocean. Although we are still a few decades from hitting the menace, single-use plastics and plastic bags are still …

Loss of Indigenous Languages A Threat to Herbal Medicines

Loss of Indigenous Languages: A Threat to Herbal Medicines

July 16, 2022 4:32 am

One of the fondest memories of my maternal grandfather was watching him emerge from the nearby bush with herbs to treat a stomach upset or raging fever. He never attended a botany class but he was a revered medicine man whose herbal concoctions healed many ailments. He orally passed on a fraction of his vast knowledge to my aunty in Idoma– our indigenous language, as he did not speak English at all.

These days, my aunt attempts to pass down what is left of my Grandpa’s rich herbal knowledge, but we often interrupt her to inquire what certain herbs are …

Tunisia Grinds To A Standstill As Unions Oppose President

Tunisia Grinds To A Standstill As Unions Oppose President

June 17, 2022 5:51 am

Tunisia’s main trade union confederation on Thursday intensified pressure on a President already facing a string of crises as the country went to a standstill.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that in the North Flights were cancelled, public transport brought to a halt, and government offices were closed in a nationwide strike.

The powerful UGTT confederation had brought up to three million public sector workers to strike, halting work at 159 state agencies and public companies which were aimed at demanding concessions on salaries and threatened reforms.

The action appeared to be widely observed in the capital Tunis, where …

Somalia Gets $105m Support From U.S. Amid Worst Drought

Somalia Gets $105m Support From U.S. Amid Worst Drought

June 16, 2022 4:32 am

In an apparent response to the historic drought that has become a serious threat to millions of lives in the Horn of Africa, the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing at least $105 million in key humanitarian aid to bring immediate relief to the most vulnerable people. 

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the region is currently in the midst of a fourth consecutive failed rainy season with worsening drought conditions increasing the likelihood of famine for hundreds of thousands of people in the Horn of Africa.

A fifth rainy season is forecast …

Panic As Suspected Jihadists Kill At Least 50 In Burkina Faso

Panic As Suspected Jihadists Kill At Least 50 In Burkina Faso

June 14, 2022 5:27 am

No fewer than 50 civilians have been killed following attacks by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, government spokesman Lionel Bilgo said Monday, in one of the bloodiest clashes since a military coup in January.

‘The army has so far found 50 bodies’ after the village of Seytenga was attacked yesterday, Bilgo said, adding that the toll ‘may rise.’

‘Relatives (of the victims) have returned to Seytenga and may have taken bodies away,’ he told a press conference on Tuesday morning.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that Seytenga was the site of bloody fighting last week.

Eleven gendarmes were …

Science Sphere With Ehi Ogwiji

Science Sphere With Ehi Ogwiji

June 11, 2022 6:19 am
  • From Scientists To Superstars, Advancing Science Literacy In Africa

Every now and then, you will stumble on tweets, memes and posts about how much regret people feel when they recall that they solved binomials, simultaneous, quadratic, and other mathematical equations which they ignorantly assume have no practical application. A couple of years ago, I was one of them. I quibbled about how many of my Chemistry classes were a total waste of time.

In fact, it was one decade after I carried out my first titration under the supervision of my Chemistry teacher, that I discovered why there is so …

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