The Abia State House of Assembly has passed into law H. A.B 61: ” The Abia State Female Persons Right of Inheritance of Property Bill, 2022″ sponsored by the Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Engr Chinedum Enyinnaya.
The Law Provides for the Right of a Female Person to Own and Inherit Property.
The bill became an Abia State working document 16th day of November, 2022.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defense technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine’s snow-blanketed war-time capital for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The air-defense package, which Britain valued at 50 million pounds ($60 million), comes as Russia has been pounding Ukraine’s power grid and other key infrastructure from the air, causing widespread blackouts for millions of Ukrainians amid frigid weather.
The package includes radar and other technology to counter Iran-supplied exploding drones that Russia has used against Ukrainian targets. It comes on top of a delivery of more than 1,000 anti-air missiles that Britain announced earlier this month.
The U.K. has been one of the staunchest Western supporters of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion, giving Kyiv 2.3 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) in military aid. Zelenskyy described the two countries as “the strongest of allies.”
President Joe Biden ’s granddaughter Naomi Biden and Peter Neal were married Saturday in just the 19th wedding in the history of the White House, exchanging vows on the South Lawn in unseasonably cold temperatures in front of scores of family and friends.
The bride, who wore a long-sleeved, high-neck gown with a very long veil, and groom exchanged “I do’s” during a nippy late-morning ceremony in bright sunshine but with temperatures in the low 40s.
The 250 guests sat in white folding chairs and some wore scarves with their coats.
The newlyweds, who were dressed by American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, posed for photos afterward on the balcony, with the bride’s long veil flowing over the railing.
The south side of the White House, facing the lawn and Washington Monument in the distance, was decorated with wreaths and garland bearing white flowers.
The bride walked along an aisle that led from the Diplomatic Reception Room to an altar made up of shrubs and white flowers.
Naomi Biden’s father, Hunter Biden, sat in the front row on one side of the aisle, holding his toddler son, Beau.
It is the first White House wedding with a president’s granddaughter as the bride, and the first one ever on the South Lawn.
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Kibira National Park is a national park which is located in the northwestern part of the Republic of Burundi.
Covering an area of 400 square kilometers (154 square miles), it lies atop the mountains that are making the Congo-Nile Divide, and it is contiguous with the Nyungew National Park in Rwanda.
Kibira park is a majestic primeval rainy forest with sacred hunting reserve for the kings of Burundi, today it is instituted as a protected area and it is habitat to some 98 mammal species, a dozen of primates (numerous families of chimpanzees, baboons, tailed monkeys, black colobus), but also some 200 species of bird life.
More than three-quarters of the water in the country’s largest dam, comes from this forest, which makes it really important for the whole area to be very well protected.
Thus the park, situated as it is on the Congo-Nile ridge, plays a fundamental role in regulating the hydro-logical system and protecting against soil erosion.
Although it has not been visited since the war, this park became long ago a tourist attraction very appreciated by visitors.
Before Burundi’s independence, the Belgians recognized the importance the National Park had, and helped conserve it.
Since 1962, since gaining their independence, there is much pressure on parts of the forest as a result of falling trees and cutting bamboo, fire and poaching etc.
To access the park, you pass through huge tea plantations of Teza and Rwegura, what constitute already charming attractions.
It is one of the most important historic parks within Burundi, and with hope, the park will continue to survive and won’t face the problems it happen from time to time.
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Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner talks to the media outside Hall of Justice in the capital Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, on March 18, 2016.
Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner can be extradited from his homeland of Trinidad to the United States to face corruption charges, a London court said on Thursday.
Warner’s lawyers argued that his extradition was unlawful but London’s Privy Council, the highest court of appeal for many Commonwealth countries, unanimously dismissed his appeal.
Suspicion and rumours have surrounded the 2010 votes by FIFA’s executive to hand the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 edition to Qatar.
In 2020 a U.S. Department of Justice indictment said bribes were paid to soccer officials to secure their votes for hosting rights.
The DOJ alleged that then FIFA vice-president Warner was paid $5 million through various shell companies to vote for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup.
His role as president of CONCACAF, which organises soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean, gave him enormous influence as a powerbroker for former FIFA chief Sepp Blatter.
A former member of the FIFA Executive Committee and former CONCACAF president Warner was suspended by FIFA in 2011 and in 2015, charged with wire fraud, racketeering and money-laundering by the U.S.
FIFA banned him from all soccer-related activity for life in 2015. The 79-year-old has always denied any wrongdoing.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino will stand unopposed for a third term as head of world football’s governing body next year, Fifa confirmed on Thursday.
A brief statement from Fifa said that Infantino would be the only candidate when the election takes place at the 73rd Fifa Congress in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 16.
“No other candidature has been submitted,” the statement said.
It was also gathered that he has recieved 200 letters of support from 209 eligible national federations that will vote. FIFA has 211 federations, but two are suspended.
Infantino’s third term follows in the line of previous Fifa presidents – Joao Havelange was in charge from 1974 to 1998 and Infantino’s predecessor Sepp Blatter held office from 1998 to 2015.
Infantino was elected in 2016 promising to “restore Fifa’s image” after the federation was plagued by scandal in the final years of Blatter’s time in charge.
The German Football Federation (DFB) said on Wednesday it would not support Infantino’s re-election.
DFB president Bernd Neuendorf said he had hoped Infantino would show “deeper consideration for human rights and more commitment to humanitarian issues”.
Neuendorf has been a strong supporter of calls from rights groups for Fifa to set up a compensation fund for migrant workers who build the World Cup stadiums.
Infantino can point to the growth in Fifa’s turnover during his time in charge – the governing body is forecasting turnover of US$7 billion (S$9.61 billion) for the four-year cycle till 2022.
But many of his proposals for the reform of club football, including a plan to expand the Club World Cup to 24 teams, have received a lukewarm reception.
Senegal forward Sadio Mane has been ruled out of the World Cup in Qatar in a crushing blow to his team’s chances after officials confirmed on Thursday he would need surgery on a leg injury sustained in the run-up to the tournament.
Mane had been a doubt for the west African side after injuring his right fibula playing for German club Bayern Munich.
“Unfortunately, today’s (Thursday) MRI shows us that the recovery is not as favourable as we hoped and we unfortunately resolve to declare Sadio’s withdrawal from the World Cup,” Senegal team doctor Manuel Afonso told reporters.
The forward has been crucial to the recent success of Senegal, who are regarded as Africa’s best hope at the World Cup.
His absence will be a blow to their chances of advancing out of Group A, where they face the Netherlands on Monday before playing host nation Qatar and Ecuador.
Mane has been the team’s talisman, scoring the winning penalty at the Africa Cup of Nations final in Cameroon in February and six weeks later securing World Cup qualification. On both occasion they edged out Egypt on post-match penalties.
Mane, 30, has twice been named African Footballer of the Year.
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