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By Akanimo Sampson Oyo State Government in South Western Nigeria has taken on the Attorney-General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, claiming that the decision of the minister on the local government crisis rocking the state is partisan. Malami’s counterpart in the state, Oyelowo Oyewo, a law professor, is insisting most of the minister’s actions in the affairs of Nigeria are partisan and not based on the Constitution, pointing out that many All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled states are operating caretaker committees and dissolved elected local government leadership, “yet policemen have not been sent to enforce anybody’s rights as…

By Akanimo Sampson A civic group, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), has begun to mobilise local people in Liberia and empowering them to resist a wave of land grabs in some parts of the country allegedly led by elites and concessioners. The group said Protecting Communities and Forests against a Surge in Land-grabs in Bomi, a project which is taking off in Tubmanburg, is a follow-up to its 2019 report on the situation in the county. That report found that the officials, with help from tribal chiefs and elders, possibly converted more than 9,000 acres of land in the Senjeh, Klay…

By: Israel Umoh Nigeria appears to be one huge-joke community where corrupt practices are rampant. Nigerians are the players and foreigners are the collaborators. A public office holder who swears by the Bible or Koran is undeterred in defrauding the system. A roadside trader or Keke operator can abet the practice provided this puts food on his table. In fact, the ghost left by the British colonial masters in handing over inflated population figures and skewed political structure to Nigerian operators is still haunting the hitherto united entity coupled with the fact that the operators who are naively accessory to…

By Akanimo Sampson Hundreds of native families in Kiryandongo, Uganda are being violently and forcefully evicted off their land by Great Season Company, owned by South Sudan nationals, Witness Radio Organisation says. According to the radio, the eviction is being backed by the Kiryandongo District Police. Witness Radio Organisation, witnessradio.org is a non-partisan and not-for-profit registered network of investigative and human rights reporters/writers using media leaning approaches with the main focus to promote economic, social and cultural rights and development in Uganda. Started in 2016 by a team of senior human rights and investigative journalists, the organisation uses Information Communication…

By Akanimo Sampson In partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is offering technical support to governments, to enable people to travel in a healthy manner and help enact public health measures with minimum impact on society and the economy as concerns mount about the number of reported infections from coronavirus and its spread to at least 20 countries. According to WHO, coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus…

The United States government, Sunday, attributed inadequate sharing of public-safety and terrorism-related information necessary for the protection of the national security and public safety of the US as the reason for the visa restrictions on Nigeria and five other West African countries. Other countries affected by the new visa regime are Eritrea, Myanmar, Tanzania, Sudan, and Kyrgyzstan. In the new arrangement announced on January 31, the US suspended the issuance of immigrant visas to Nigerian passport holders with effect from February 21. In a full report of the visa restrictions entitled: “Proclamation on improving enhanced vetting capabilities and process” posted…

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye led members of the church to protest against the spate of insecurity in Nigeria. Straightnews learned that the protest was triggered days after Boko Haram executed the Chairman of CAN in Michika local government area, Adamawa State, Pastor Lawan Andimi, who was abducted by the insurgents on January 3 and gruesomely murdered despite being offered a N50 million ransom. This is as a seminarian Michael Nnadi abducted on January 8 in Kaduna by unknown gunmen was killed a few days ago. In a video shared on Twitter,…

At least, 20 people were trampled to death in a stampede at a church service during a rush for pastor’s miracle oil in Tanzania, Reuters reported. Reports said hundreds of people attended the prayer service in an open ground stadium on Saturday evening led by a popular preacher in the town of Moshi, near Mount Kilimanjaro. The stampede occurred when Pastor Boniface Mwamposa, who heads the Arise and Shine Ministry and calls himself “The Apostle,” reportedly poured “holy oil” on the ground, prompting the crowd to surge forward in the hopes of touching it. The rush to be anointed by…

By Akanimo Sampson Nigeria and other African countries are featuring prominently in two new work programmes that include innovative ventures to expand marine protected areas and engage indigenous peoples for biodiversity protection and for climate change resilience-building efforts in the least Developed Countries (LDCs). The two programmes is to gulp more than $600 million. Representatives of the Global Environment Facility’s 183 country members that met in Washington DC, approved the set of five programmes and 48 projects, including four multi-trust fund projects, to be implemented in 87 developing and LDCs. The $588.5 million in GEF Trust Fund financing approved by…

By Akanimo Sampson International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called for a whole-of-supply-chain approach to address child labour in global supply chains during his opening statement to the conference. Director-General of the ILO, Guy Ryder, said that efforts against child labour in global supply chains will be inadequate if they do not extend beyond immediate suppliers and include those involved in the extraction and production of raw materials. Ryder also urged governments to address the root causes of child labour in global supply chains, such as poverty, informality and insufficient access to education. “Today, 152 million children are still in child labour.…