PDP crisis is a family matter – Atiku

Babangida (left) welcoming Atiku in Minna. Atiku, others meet with IBB in Minna By Usman Mohammed   Former Vice President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has assured that the lingering crisis within the party will be resolved, describing it as a family matter. He also assured that the party […]

COP27: Do not geoengineer our oceans –FishNet Alliance

HOMEF bOSS, Nnimmo Bassey (file photo)   ‘FishNet Aliance has said that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Conference of Parties (COP) have successively failed in their supposed main aim of “preventing dangerous human interference with the climate system.’ It also acussed them of providing a platform for the consolidation […]

COP27: African climate activists deliver solution documents to delegates

Climate change activists at the event.   ‘While the frontline communities report reinforces the fact that Africa is not immune to climate impacts despite contributing the least to climate change, the assessment report identifies barriers to a just energy transition in Africa and makes recommendations on how to address them’   By Valentine Amanze   […]

Why I saved money as governor, by Obi

Peter Obi (file photo) ‘I saved N48,629,473,469 in local currency some of which we  tied to specific projects like  payment of two years salary of civil servants’   By Valentine Amanze   The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, has restated that he saved a lot of money for Anambra State during his […]

Military didn’t invade ESN camp in Ohafia – IPOB

IPOB flag (file photo) ‘We have said it before now that ESN operatives do not have any camp in Amangwu Ohafia LGA. All the criminal camps that Nigeria Army has claimed to have invaded are not ESN camps’   By Valentine Amanze   The Mazi Nnamdi Kanu-led Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said that […]

Fossil fuel lobbyists flood crucial COP climate talks

Philip Jakpor file photo)   More fossil fuel lobbyists than representatives of the 10 nations most impacted by the climate crisis registered to attend COP27. As at November 10, 2022 at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, no fewer than 636 fossil fuel lobbyists had been registered to the COP27 climate talks, affiliated with some of the world’s […]