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Group insists Shell must clean up Niger Delta

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Group insists Shell must clean up Niger Delta

Against the backdrop of Shell Petroleum Development Company’s (SPDC) plan to divest from the country’s oil and gas sector, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has called on the Federal Government to halt the multi-national oil company’s attempt to run away from its mess without proper clean-up of the Niger Delta.

The foremost environmental group, in a statement made available to newsmen in Benin City, alleged that Shell’s plan to sell its land-based, shallow offshore oil fields and infrastructure in the Niger Delta region was a plot not to clean up the Niger Delta.

The statement signed by the director of programmes, Mike Karipo also called on the Nigerian government to protect local communities’ interest within the divestment process of oil and gas multinational companies operating in the region.

Karipo alleged that it was the characteristic nature of the firm, having almost drained the region dry of oil and gas resources and engaged in ecocide because of its reckless operations in the region now seeks to walk away with billions of dollars in its kitty.

You must indict corruption to promote good governance- Group tells FG.

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You must indict corruption to promote good governance- Group tells FG.

The Association of professional bodies of Nigeria (APBN), has called on the federal government to vehemently indict corruption and unethical practices in governance to help promote national development.

Speaking at the 10th APBN Summit held in Abuja, with the theme: “The critical role of professionals in governance and national development” the president of the association, Akin Oyegbola, said the presence of impunity has caused a drastic decay in the society and prevalence of corruption in various sector and profession.

He said the federal government must ensure proper execution of laws and policies  to help promote good governance and National development

In the same vein, the Lead Director of Centre for Social Justice, Eze Onyekpere, has called on the professional bodies to help promote good governance and national development by living up to the ethical standard of their various profession.

Nigeria hunts for CEO to lead its $2.5bn corporation

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Nigeria hunts for CEO to lead its $2.5bn corporation

Nigeria is on the hunt for a chief executive officer to lead its multimillion-dollar firm, Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria Limited (InfraCorp).

InfraCorp is a dedicated privately-managed infrastructure vehicle established and co-owned by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) jointly referred to as “the promoters” by appointed infrastructure asset managers.

The promoters have committed a seed capital of $2.5 billion, but there are also plans to raise up to $35 billion over time.

There is no gainsaying the role infrastructural development plays in enhancing economic growth, improving living standards, reducing poverty, and contributing to environmental sustainability.

However, Nigeria has struggled for decades to close the wide infrastructural gap which has been a major impediment to its economic growth.

A reduction in the country’s infrastructure gap will not only boost economic growth, but will also give the country a competitive advantage under the African Free Trade Continental Area (AfCFTA) agreement, according to experts insight.

But Africa’s most populous nation requires at least $3 trillion over 30 years to close its infrastructure deficit, Moody’s Investors Service said in a November report.

Last year, President Muhammadu Buhari cleared the way for the launch of the infrastructure company with the vice president Yemi Osinbajo, heading a committee charged with getting the company started, while central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele chaired InfraCorp

Sudan unanimously endorses bill on joining ICC

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Sudan unanimously endorses bill on joining ICC

Sudan’s transitional cabinet has unanimously approved a bill that would pave way for it to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok tweeted on Tuesday.The draft has been approved in preparation for a joint meeting between the governing Sovereign Council and the cabinet to pass it into law.

“Justice and accountability are the backbone of the new Sudan, which is committed to the rule of law that we all seek to build,” Mr Hamdok said.The development moves Sudan closer to handing over to the ICC suspects wanted for war crimes and genocide in the western Darfur region, including former president Omaral-Bashir.

In May, the ICC concluded a confirmation of charges hearing in the case of Ali Kushayb, who is accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur between 2003 and 2004.Since August 2019, Sudan has been led by a transitional civilian-led administration, which has vowed to deliver justice to victims of crimes committed in Darfur during Bashir’s rule Zimbabwe parks deny plan to export elephants

Kenya’s Korir, Uganda’s Chemutai win gold in heated races

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Kenya’s Korir, Uganda’s Chemutai win gold in heated races

Emmanuel Korir won gold and led a Kenyan one-two finish in the 800 meters at the Olympics.

Korir pushed his way past Australia’s Peter Bol on the last turn and surged home to win in 1 minute, 45.06 seconds. It was Kenya’s fourth straight victory in the 800 at the Olympics.

Teammate Ferguson Rotich took silver with a late kick to overtake Poland’s Patryk Dobek, who held on for bronze ahead of Bol.

Kenya has claimed this title at every Olympics since Beijing 2008.

World-record holder David Rudisha won the last two Olympic gold medals in the 800 but he didn’t make Kenya’s team this year because of long-term injury problems. Clayton Murphy of the United States, the bronze medalist in 2016, finished last.

Meanwhile, Peruth Chemutai of Uganda made her move on the last lap and pulled away for the win in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase final at the Tokyo Games.

Chemutai set a new national record with her time of 9 minutes, 1.45 seconds. American Courtney Frerichs took off from the pack with around 2 1/2 laps to go. She was chased down by Chemutai but held on down the stretch for silver. Hyvin Kiyeng of Kenya was third.

Emma Coburn of the United States was disqualified for what was listed as a lane infringement after finishing behind the field. She earned bronze at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

The 22-year-old Chemutai finished fifth at the 2019 world championships in Doha.

Frerichs was a silver medalist at the 2017 world championships in London.

Former SA President Jacob Zuma to be allowed out of prison for trial

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Former SA President Jacob Zuma to be allowed out of prison for trial

Former South African President Jacob Zuma will be allowed out of the prison to appear in person before the commission of inquiry on state capture.

Zuma is expected to appear before a Pietermaritzburg court next week Tuesday.

In a court order dated 4 August, Koen said the hearing will be conducted “in open court at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg”.

Zuma’s lawyers have been adamant fighting for him to appear in court claiming it was a violation to virtually appear for the hearing.

“To do so would be unconstitutional and illegal, irrespective of the situation in a particular case, a particular date or the particular circumstance which may or may not prevail on 9 August 2021,” his lawyer said in a short two-page submission to the court.

The judge later turned the earlier ruling that the inquiry could be done virtually since no evidence was to be presented.

South Sudan’s VP Machar deposed by party: rival leaders

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South Sudan’s VP Machar deposed by party: rival leaders

Machar, a pivotal figure in South Sudan’s bloody road to independence and subsequent civil war, was deposed following a three-day gathering of senior SPLM/A-IO leaders in the country’s far north, the party’s military wing said.

Its chief of staff, First Lieutenant General Simon Gatwech Dual, was declared interim leader of the opposition movement that governs the troubled country in a shaky alliance with former enemies.

It is unclear what the putsch means for Machar, a wily leader who survived years of bush warfare, close attempts on his life and stretches in exile.

The military wing said Machar had “completely failed” to show leadership and greatly weakened the party’s position in the post-war coalition government formed between the warring sides in early 2020.

Machar had engaged in a years-long “policy of divide and rule” and favoured nepotism over unity or advancing their cause, according to a statement signed by the SPLM/A-IO military leadership and dated August 3.

Today In History – August 4 – Child Labor Laws Established In Belgium

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Today In History – August 4 – Child Labor Laws Established In Belgium

1181 Supernova SN 1181 in the constellation Cassiopeia observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers, lasting until August 6

1265 Battle of Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort the younger

1347 English troops conquer Fort Calais

1351 Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English

1558 1st printing of Zohar (Jewish Kabbalah)

1578 Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed

1598 London’s head office of Hanze closed

1636 Johan Mauritius appointed governor of Dutch Brazil

1666 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique and St Christopher; thousands die

1666 Sea battle between Netherlands and England

1693 Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pérignon’s invention of Champagne

1704 War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar

1730 Crown prince Frederick of Prussia escapes to England

1735 Jury acquits John Zenger (NY Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of NY (victory for Freedom of press)

1753 George Washington becomes a master mason

1772 English poet and artist William Blake aged 14 is first apprenticed to engraver James Basire in London

1777 Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes his riding school with performances in London, precursor of the circus

1789 French Revolution: The National Constituent Assembly meets and issues the first decrees that abolish centuries of feudalism in France

1790 United States Revenue Cutter Service is established to serve as an armed customs enforcement service (becoming the US Coast Guard in 1915)

1791 The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars

1821 1st edition of American magazine “The Saturday Evening Post”

1821 Russian Antarctic expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen returns to Kronshtadt after becoming the 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica

1824 Battle of Kos is fought between Turks and Greeks

1830 Plans for city of Chicago laid out

1845 Emigrant ship Cataraqui wrecks in Bass Strait with the loss of 400 lives, only nine survive,

1854 The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships

1855 John Bartlett publishes “Familiar Quotations”

1862 US government collects its 1st income tax

1864 Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas

1870 British Red Cross Society forms

1873 Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, US 7th Cavalry, under

Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the 1st time with the Sioux near the Tongue

River. 1 man killed on each side.

1879 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Aeterni Patris

1881 122°F (50°C), Seville, Spain (European record)

1886 Colombia adopts constitution

1892 Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam and the Rhine

1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother are murdered with an axe in Fall

River, Massachusetts; Borden is later arrested, tried and acquitted

1897 Henry A Rucker appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia

1900 An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese, Russian, British, French and American troops,

sets off from Tientsin for Peking, China, to put down Boxer rebellion

1902 The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens

1903 Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope Pius X, known as the ‘pope of the poor and humble’

1903 Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X

1907 Tour de France: Lucien Petit-Breton of France beats countryman Gustave Garrigou to win first of 2

Tour victories

1910 MLB pitching duel; Philadelphia A’s Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 0-0 tie in 16

innings

1914 WWI: German army shoots Belgian priests and burns down village of Battice

1914 German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast

1914 WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany

1914 WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of

war

1914 WWI: Field Marshal Lord Kitchener becomes British Minister of War after British declaration of war

on Germany

1914 US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI

1916 Denmark and the United States sign a treaty whereby the Danish West Indies, including the Virgin

Islands, are to be ceded to the US in 1917 for $25 million

1916 The Turks attack the British line at Romani in the northern Sinai (WWI)

1917 Pravda calls for the killing of all capitalists, priests and officers

1918 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish

superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann

1919 Rodin Museum opens in Paris in The hôtel Biron containing works left to the state by the sculptor

Auguste Rodin

1919 Hungarian communist leader Béla Kun flees to Vienna after the Hungarian Soviet Republic is

overthrown by the Romanian Army

1922 Lizzie Murphy becomes the first female to play against MLB players in a charity exhibition; all-stars

from New England and AL v Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park

1925 1st Dutch Colijn government forms

1925 US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation

1929 Jones Beach in NY opens

1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium

1934 Giants outfielder Mel Ott becomes first player in MLB history to score 6 runs in a game as New

York beats Phillies, 21-4

1934 II British Empire Games open at London’s White City Stadium

1936 Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece

Regularisation of Property, Documentation Reviewed Upward By Lagos State

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Regularisation of Property, Documentation Reviewed Upward By Lagos State

Lagos State government has surreptitiously increased fees charged for property/land regularisation and other documentation from 25 per cent of the fair market value of such property to over 100 per cent in some cases.

The National President of the Nigerian Institute of Building, Bldr. Kunle Awobodu has appealed to the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to be more considerate in the imposition of these charges/fees/rates so as not to stifle the real estate market.

“The Lagos State government is trying to increase their internally generated revenue (IGR). They should understand that the post-COVID economy is in quagmire, not buoyant. So, this is not the time to double taxes or charges, I mean not the time to increase those fees astronomically.

This, he said was because people were just trying to recover from losses created by COVID-19 and #EndSars protests. There is property glut right now, because of weak purchasing power of most people.”

He said not many people are developing buildings right now and that the few that are doing so should be encouraged. “The astronomical increase of these charges will affect the real estate market adversely.

“So, we appeal to the governor to allow the economy to stabilise and the charges should be minimal. We understand that the government needs a strong IGR to provide social amenities, but they should be guided by the poor economy,” he said.

There is demand for the buildings being constructed but people cannot purchase them for lack of funds and developers would be unable to pay back loans to lenders if they are unable to sell, he said.

Meanwhile, there is no uproar yet unlike when it increased the Land Use Charge, because it targets a small group of people who must do the mandatory property regularisation/documentation, according to investors, who said they purchased land in Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki and elsewhere that they needed to document.

Human Rights Organisation Article Ranks N. Korea Lowest In Freedom Of Expression

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Human Rights Organisation Article Ranks N. Korea Lowest In Freedom Of Expression

North Korea has ranked the lowest in the world when it comes to freedom of expression.

In a recent study by British-based human rights organization Article 19, North Korea was the lowest out of 160 countries, and was the only country to get zero points out of one hundred.

Syria, Turkmenistan and Eritrea each got one point, followed by China with two points.

North Korea has been in the report’s lowest category, classed as “in crisis”, for eleven straight years.
34 countries, including Russia and Vietnam, fell into the bottom group.

Meanwhile, South Korea scored 83 points, and was classed as “Open” the highest possible category.

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