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COVID-19 has posed barriers faced by 1bn people with disabilities – UN chief
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres on Friday said COVID-19 had laid bare the persistent barriers and inequalities faced by the world’s one billion persons with disabilities. Guterres, in his message to mark the International Day of…
Omicron: Travel ban on Southern African countries, form of stigmatisation – AU
Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, says the travel ban on southern African countries, due to COVID-19 Omicron variant, is a form of stigmatisation against Africa. Mahamat said this while reacting to the travel…
UN deputy chief berates 0.6 % vaccination in low-income countries
UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed has expressed worry that more than 80% of the world’s vaccines have gone to G20 countries while low-income countries, most of them in Africa, have received just 0.6% of all vaccine.
Speaking at…
African leaders seek further synergy with China for shared prosperity
Senegalese President, Macky Sall has called on African leaders to work more closely with china in order to achieve shared prosperity for the well-being of the African and Chinese peoples. President Sall made the remarks at the opening…
Omicron could have originated from HIV patients – German expert
The surprising number of mutations in the Omicron Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant could signal that it originated in a patient with HIV or another immunodeficiency, a top German immunology expert said.
Carsten Watzl, secretary general of…
WTO postpones conference due to COVID-19
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has postponed a major conference that was to be held next week in Geneva after Governments around the world imposed travel restrictions due to a new and particularly transmissible variant of COVID-19.…
ECOWAS deploys virtual court, set procedures for case filing, hearing, and judgment
The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, has deployed complete virtual procedure of handling cases without physical presence of parties, following the advent of the COVID-19 Pandemic and attendant safety protocol.
The new process…
ECOWAS Appeal Court may solve problems of disregard by member states – Falana
Legal luminary, Femi Falana, has advocated the setting up of an appellate division of the ECOWAS Court as a solution for flagrant disregard to court rulings by member states.
Falana gave the suggestion while presenting a paper at the…
Projects worth $91.1bn signed at 4th world manufacturing convention
A total of 703 projects, with investments of 582.18 billion yuan (91.1 billion U.S. dollars), was inked at the fourth World Manufacturing Convention held in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province.
According to the organising committee, the…
The Nigerian Consulate has taken custody of looted artifacts from a museum in the United States
Three Benin and Ife artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York have been taken into custody by the Nigerian Consulate-General in New York.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Prof. Abba Tijjani,…