By Ayomide Otitoju World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis have approved a Political Declaration with ambitious new targets for the next five years to advance the global efforts towards ending the TB epidemic. The targets include reaching 90% of people with TB prevention and care services, using a WHO-recommended…
DAKAR (Reuters) – Guinea’s military leader Mamady Doumbouya told the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday that the Western model of democracy does not work for Africa, as evidenced by a recent wave of coups.Doumbouya took power in a coup in 2021, which was one of eight in West and Central Africa in the last three…
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said something convincing when he met with leaders of Congress on Thursday.Before the meeting, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy brushed off a question about committing for more funding for Ukraine’s defense against Russia.“Is Zelenskyy elected to Congress? Is he our president?” McCarthy asked. “I have questions for him. Where’s the accountability…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that Israel is “at the cusp” of a historic breakthrough leading to a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia.He struck an optimistic tone throughout his roughly 25-minute address, displaying contrasting maps showing Israel’s isolation at the time of its creation in 1948 and the…
Hundreds of Nigerians rallied in Lagos Thursday to demand an investigation into last week’s death of an upcoming singer, whose sudden demise has fired up the country’s Afrobeats world.MohBad, whose real name was Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, a singer and rapper who wrote hits such as “Feel Good”, died mysteriously last Tuesday aged 27. The cause of…
Calling for a reform of the Security Council, the President of Kenya, William Samoei Ruto, called the institution “dysfunctional, undemocratic non-inclusive un-representative”.Addressing the General Assembly o Thursday during the High-level week, Ruto said, “If any confirmation was ever needed that the United Nations Security Council is dysfunctional, undemocratic non inclusive, un representative and therefore incapable…
The three-member panel, in its judgment delivered on Friday, unanimously held that the petitioner failed in its petition because it lacked merit. Justice Sunday Olorundahunsi, reading the judgment, dismissed all three grounds canvassed by the petitioner and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda. On March 20, the INEC Returning Officer in the state,…
President Bola Tinubu is celebrating his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, at 63rd, describing her as “my partner in every venture”. In a personal letter addressed to Senator Remi, the Nigerian leader praised his wife for standing by him despite the “uncertainty of dangerous, but principled stands against tyranny”. “Happy 63rd birthday to the love of my…
Bozize, 76, who was in exile in Chad until March when he moved to Guinea Bissau, heads an alliance of rebel groups called the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), formed in December 2020. the ex-president, who seized power in the CAR in 2003 but was toppled a decade later, was sentenced on Thursday, according…
