The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday $4.5 billion in clean energy investments in Africa during a landmark climate summit hosted by Kenya that is aimed at attracting funding for efforts to combat global warming. “We will deploy $4.5 billion… to jumpstart a pipeline of bankable clean energy projects in this very important continent,” said Sultan […]
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), yesterday, sealed a deal to accelerate access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. The post AU, IRENA push for sustainable, modern energy in Africa appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
By Chinyere Anyanwu The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, has called on Nigerians to embrace agriculture, stating that it provides a lasting solution to fuel subsidy removal. Eno made the call at the weekend during the September edition of the monthly Covenant Service at the Government House Banquet Hall, Uyo. He urged Nigerians to […]
President Bola Tinubu has been advised to lead the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in identifying and fighting the root causes of coup d’état in Africa, instead of threatening war after collapse of democracy in member-states. The post Cleric tasks Tinubu on root causes of coups in Africa appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News […]
Tribune Online ITUC-Africa gives ECOWAS peaceful resolution roadmap to Niger’s governance crisis The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has listed diplomatic engagement, collaborative approach and strict adherence to democratic values as the best methodology leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) must utilise in its quest to […]
By Sunday Ani In the last two and a half years, the continent of Africa has witnessed a resurgence of military coups cutting across the west and central African sub-regions. At the last count, no fewer than seven African countries, including Chad, Sudan, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and most recently Gabon, had fallen into […]
We have gone this road before. The news could not have been any uglier for democracy in Africa than what happened in Gabon , last Wednesday. Coming barely a month after the military in Republic of Niger carried out a putsch, and sacked President Mohammed Bazoum , the coup in Gabon must have rattled […]
The Anti-Sexual Harassment Advocacy Cluster, has expressed worry over the unabating conduct of some lecturers, who sexually harass female students for marks. The group, therefore, urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to assent to the Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Institutions (prohibition) bill to end several cases of sexual harassment of under-graduates in tertiary institutions by lecturers. […]
•To ease admission into higher institutions The emergence of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) digital certificate access and confirmation platform has given a remarkable respite to stakeholders in the entire value chain of result verification, confirmation and as well created ease of processing student’s admission into tertiary institutions anywhere in the world in record […]
On Wednesday, August 30, 2023, Gabon, whose presidential envoy was in Abuja two weeks ago on a solidarity visit to President Bola Tinubu, the ECOWAS Chairman, over the Niger coup debacle, became the latest bride of coupists on the African continent. During the visit, President Tinubu said the special message of support and solidarity from […]