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Stop ‘vandalising’ Earth, help the planet thrive, UN chief urges
As nearly 40 per cent of land across the planet is degraded with more acres lost every second, governments, businesses and communities must galvanise action to reverse the damage and protect Earth, the United Nations (UN) chief said in a strong message for the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, marked yearly on June 17. “Every second, around four football fields of healthy land are degraded. The security, prosperity and health of billions of people rely on thriving lands supporting lives, livelihoods and ecosystems, but we’re vandalising the Earth that sustains us,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Desertification, land
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Police fault Sani, insist no #EndSARS protester in detention
The police high command has categorically denied the claim by Shehu Sani that some young people have been in detention since the 2020 #EndSARS protests. Sani made the claim at the 2024 Democracy Day Dinner on June 12, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. #EndSARS was a decentralised social movement and series of mass protests against police brutality, majorly by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Nigeria. The protesters called for the disbandment of the police outfit. But the protests ended when soldiers opened fire on and killed flag-wielding youths at Lekki Tollgate. The protests originated from a Twitter campaign
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CSO unveils AI tool to tackle hate speech, fake news ahead of Edo, Ondo polls
Ahead of Edo and Ondo states governorship elections, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Kimpact Development Initiative (KDI), has unveiled an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to tackle electoral misinformation and hate speech. The AI platform, known as Naija Elections, would also assist voters during the governorship elections and subsequent elections across the country in terms of proper information. Speaking at the unveiling of the tool developed by KDI with the support of the United Kingdom (UK) Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in Abuja, KDI Executive Director, Bukola Idowu, lamented that citizens in Nigeria have been faced with the challenge of
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Father’s Day: Tinubu lauds fathers’ sacrifice, resilience in shaping nation’s future
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated fathers, including all paternal figures, who have contributed to shaping the destiny of the nation through their sacrifice, forbearance, provision, protection, presence, and guidance of the young ones to the noble and true path. He said that society would be in better stead with fathers who rise to the great demand of responsibility, guiding the children through the vagaries of existence and preparing them for the future, as well as bequeathing to them pristine values that money or material comfort cannot provide, but only by personal example of discipline, integrity, service, respect, love and allegiance
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Cholera outbreak: Provide water, UNICEF urges Lagos
• Says country prone to disruption in health, education system • Advises on impact, prevention of cholera outbreak The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that disease outbreaks in Nigeria will continue to hinder the progress of the country in achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to the Chief of UNICEF Lagos Field Office, Celine Lafoucrier, SDG 3, which focuses on ensuring healthy lives and well-being for all, might be derailed owing to the diversion of lean resources to combat outbreaks. Lafoucrier, who spoke while responding to the cholera outbreak in Lagos State that has claimed 15
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Sanusi snubs police ban, leads durbar in Kano
• Kano accuses police of undermining govt • CP expresses satisfaction over peaceful conduct at Eid As the Emirship tussle in Kano continues, the reinstated emir and the deposed one led the Eid-el-Kabir prayers in separate prayer grounds in the state yesterday. While Emir Muhammad Sanusi II led the prayers inside the Kofar Mata Juma’at Mosque alongside Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and other government officials due to rain, Emir Aminu Ado Bayero prayed at the Nasarawa mini-palace mosque. After the prayer, Emir Sanusi II proceeded to Gidan Shettima Palace at Kofar Kwaru where he conducted a mini durbar in defiance
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ILO tasks journalists on fight against child labour
International Labour Organisation (ILO), through its Action Against Child Labour in Agriculture in West Africa (ACLAWA), has urged journalists to be actively involved in the fight against child labour. During a three-day workshop organised for media professionals in Akure, Ondo State, ILO stressed the need for journalists to use their skills in investigative reporting to unearth child labour issues within the state and beyond. The Director, ILO Country Office for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Liaison Office, Vanessa Phala, at the training, urged the media to fulfil its social responsibility to the
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Police, PSC disagree over recruited 10,000 constables
•HURIWA tackles IGP on under-policing The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Police Service Commission (PSC) are on a collision course over the outcome of the 2022 recruitment exercise of constables. While the force rejected the entire process for alleged irregularities and sharp practices, the PSC, on the other hand, insisted that police authorities were crying wolf where none existed, adding that the exercise was rigorous, as candidates were made to go undertake aptitude test, medical examination and Computer Based Test (CBT). It added that a solid board, made up of senior police officers, officials of the PSC, the Police
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Tinubu observes Sallah in Lagos, urges charity, sacrifice
President Bola Tinubu has called on Nigerians to care for their neighbours more and extend charity to all in the spirit of Eid-el-Kabir. Speaking to newsmen, yesterday, after joining Muslim faithful to observe Eid prayers at the Dodan Barracks in Ikoyi, Lagos, the President said some sacrifice would be required to move the nation forward. He said: “We have been told by the Chief Imam how we can follow the path of sacrifice required of a good citizen. Citizenship comes with responsibilities. As citizens, what do we need to do to be committed members of our society? Yes, that is sacrifice, loving your
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Eid-el-Kabir: Sultan, CAN task Nigerians on sacrifice, urge leaders to stop hardship
As Muslims all over the world celebrate Eid-el-Kabir, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged Nigerians to embrace the values of sacrifice, obedience, and faith in their daily lives. The Christian body also urged them to set aside their differences and heed the call for unity and peace for a better Nigeria. This was as the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar, called on leaders to intensify efforts in finding solutions to the economic and security challenges facing the country. In a massage, yesterday, in Abuja, the CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, called on all Nigerians to embrace peace, love, forgiveness and pray
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