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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Announce First Netflix Series- Heart Of Invictus

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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Announce First Netflix Series- Heart Of Invictus

Prince Harry And Meghan Markle have announced their first Netflix series “Heart Of Invictus”, a docu-series that reveals “the human stories and resilient spirit behind the Invictus Games.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Tuesday, April 6, announced they have teamed up with Oscar-winning filmmakers Orlando Von Einsiedel and Joanna Natesegara to create Archewell’s first-ever Netflix series. Together, the group will tell the stories of the athletes competing in the 2022 Invictus Games, an international adaptive multi-sport event in which wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel and their associated veterans take part in nine sports on behalf of their country.

Prince Harry, in a statement, said, “Since the very first Invictus Games back in 2014, we knew that each competitor would contribute in their own exceptional way to a mosaic of resilience, determination, and resolve. This series will give communities around the world a window into the moving and uplifting stories of these competitors on their path to the Netherlands next year..”

“As Archewell Productions’ first series with Netflix, in partnership with the Invictus Games Foundation,” he continued, “I couldn’t be more excited for the journey ahead or prouder of the Invictus community for continuously inspiring global healing, human potential and continued service.”

Harry will appear in the show and will serve as executive producer on the series.

The first Invictus Games took place in September 2014 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, United Kingdom. The 2020 games were scheduled to be held in The Hague, Netherlands in May 2020, but were postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CJN Appeals To Judiciary Workers To Call Off Strike

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CJN Appeals To Judiciary Workers To Call Off Strike

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has called on members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria to call off their industrial action.

Muhammad made the appeal to the judiciary workers following a meeting on Tuesday with some national and local officials of the union for a few minutes in his chamber at the Supreme Court in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

The meeting was reportedly convened to explore solutions and ways to mitigate the impact of the ongoing strike on the nation’s judiciary sector.

He criticized the unintended implications of the strike were better imagined than seen as they have spiral effects, including on children and the federal judiciary.

At the end of the meeting, the CJN asked the JUSUN officials to sheath their swords while the process of making state governments obey the Executive Order 10.

Members of the union commenced a nationwide strike on Tuesday in protest against the refusal of the state governments to enforce financial autonomy in the judiciary.

The judiciary workers faulted the state authorities for their action which they said contravened the provisions of the 1999 Constitution.

President Buhari Appoints Usman Alkali Baba As Acting IGP

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President Buhari Appoints Usman Alkali Baba As Acting IGP

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of DIG Usman Alkali Baba as acting Inspector General of Police who immediately replaces Mohammed Abubakar Adamu.

Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi who disclosed this to State House correspondents said Baba’s appointment was carefully made, after the president considered issues of professionalism, competence, and numerous years of service.

The president had on the 4th of February, extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police for three months out of which the police boss spent two months and three days.

The president urged DIG Usman Alkali Baba to among other things ensure that policing reform policies are fully prioritized to engender peace across the country.

The newly appointed acting inspector general of police born on the 1st of March 1963 and hails from Yobe state, bags a Masters in public administration from the University of Maiduguri, Borno state in 1997 and a Bachelor of Arts from the Bayero Usman University, Kano in 1985.

As part of his policing vision, he aims to enhance police primacy in Nigeria through the provision of motivational and credible leadership,.

Nigeria Signs $1.5bn Deal For Rehabilitation Of PH Refinery

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Nigeria Signs $1.5bn Deal For Rehabilitation Of PH Refinery

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has signed an Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning contract with Tecnimont SpA, a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont.

In a statement, NNPC Group General Manager/Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, said the rehabilitation project had a completion timeline between 18 and 44 months under a three-phase arrangement.

He said the contract was awarded to the Milan-based Tecnimont SpA at a lump sum contract price of US$1.5 billion, inclusive of VAT and other statutory payments.

The signing comes few weeks after the Federal Executive Council approved the sum of $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of the 210,000 barrels per day capacity Port Harcourt Refinery in Alesa-Eleme, Rivers State.

Earlier, there had been a public outcry against the cost of the planned rehabilitation, which was described as over-inflated and the amount capable of building a brand new or modular refinery.

However, NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, said the PHRC rehabilitation project was a dream come true, noting that the project was in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to the Nigerian people to make the refineries work.

Kyari said the corporation embarked on a transparent tender process that could withstand any forensic audit, noting that NNPC was ready and open to answer any question pertaining to the project.

VP Osinbajo Visits Imo, Asks Nigerians To Reject Violent Groups

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VP Osinbajo Visits Imo, Asks Nigerians To Reject Violent Groups

Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has visited Imo state where he appealed to residents to reject violent groups following an armed attack on a police headquarters and a prison facility in the State.

Spokesperson Laolu Akande in a statement said the Vice President In his speech in Owerri, condemned the attacks as an assault on the way of life of the good people of the state,

The statement read, Nigerians must come together and reject the agents of anarchy seeking to cause chaos for their own selfish interests, especially as there are many more who are working tirelessly to build up the country’s system and to enhance it.

According to reports, the early Monday attack targeted the police headquarters in Owerri during which one police officer sustained gunshot injury.

The gunmen, using guns and dynamites, also attacked the Owerri correctional facility where over 1,800 inmates were freed. The police have blamed the attacks on the outlawed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) and its security arm, ESN.

Osinbajo was on a one-day visit to Owerri, Imo State, where he also commissioned a road project executed by the state government.

While in town, the VP also visited Imo State Police Headquarters and the Owerri Correctional Centre, both of which were attacked in the early hours of Monday.

China’s Census Could Point To A Looming Demographic Slide

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China’s Census Could Point To A Looming Demographic Slide

China’s census is expected to show a further decline in the percentage of young people in its fast-aging population.

Policymakers are under pressure to come up with family-planning incentives and arrest a falling birth rate, amidst high living costs and an aversion to having children among urban couples.

China is expected to release the results of its latest census, conducted in late 2020, in coming days.

The proportion of elderly people in the population is believed to have risen and Analysts say the world’s most populous country is at risk of entering an irreversible population slide if effective measures are not found.

The continuation of those trends will undermine China’s working-age population and weigh on productivity.

In 2010, the proportion of the population aged 14 or younger plunged to 16.60% from 22.89% in 2000, an effect of a decades-old one-child policy. Citizens aged 60 and older accounted for 13.26%, up from about 10%.

A shrinking pool of working adults will also test its ability to pay and care for an aging nation.

In 2016, China scrapped the one-child policy in the hope of boosting the number of babies. It also set a target to increase its population to about 1.42 billion by 2020, from 1.34 billion in 2010.

But the birth rate has continued to decline.

Taiwan Says Will Fight To The End If China Attacks

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Taiwan Says Will Fight To The End If China Attacks

Taiwan’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that the country will fight to the end if China attacks.

Speaking to reporters at his ministry, Joseph Wu said even the United States watching developments in this region, have clearly seen the danger of the possibility of China launching an attack.

Chinese-claimed Taiwan has complained of repeated military activities by Beijing in recent months, with China’s air force making almost daily forays in Taiwan’s Air Defence identification zone.

On Monday, China said an aircraft carrier group was exercising close to the island.

Wu said they were determined to improve their military capabilities and spend more on defence, adding they would defend themselves without any questions and would fight the war to the last if necessary.

Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said at a separate event they would run eight days of computer-aided war games this month of a Chinese attack on Taiwan.

This would form the first phase of Taiwan’s largest annual war games, the Han Kuang exercises while a second phase, including live fire drills, will happen in July.

Major General Liu Yu-Ping told reporters that the drills are designed based on the toughest enemy threats, simulating all possible scenarios on an enemy invasion on Taiwan.

Chile’s Pinera Enacts Constitution Election Postponement

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Chile’s Pinera Enacts Constitution Election Postponement

Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera has enacted a law to postpone by five weeks an election to choose a commission to rewrite the country’s dictatorship-era constitution.

The vote was to have taken place on Sunday, but Pinera proposed that it be delayed, and received the backing of parliament.

Signing the bill in Santiago Pinera said the reasons for the postponement was to tend to the health of citizens and secondly, taking care of the health of the country’s democracy.

Last October, Chileans voted overwhelmingly in favor of rewriting the constitution which was also one of the major demands when social unrest that lasted for months broke out in October 2019.

The election to decide the members of a Constituent Assembly who will rewrite the constitution — which has been in effect from 1973-to 1990, will now take place on May 15 or 16.

Campaigning would be suspended until April 28.

Reportedly, Chile’s intensive care units are running at 95 percent occupancy and has recorded new daily infections recently, regularly topping 8,000, despite a fast advancing vaccination campaign.

Astrazeneca Vaccine Trial In Children Halted As Blood Clot Link Investigated

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Astrazeneca Vaccine Trial In Children Halted As Blood Clot Link Investigated

The university, which helped develop the Astrazeneca Vaccine has acknowledged fears over a potential link to clots, saying it would await additional data from Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) before restarting the study.

In a statement it said that there were no safety concerns in the trial but said it is waiting for more information from Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

The MHRA is one of many bodies across the globe analysing real world data from the AstraZeneca rollout to see if there is a definitive link between the jab and a rare form of blood clot, after cases were initially reported in Norway and continental Europe.

The MHRA reported over the weekend that there had been 30 blood clotting cases, seven fatal, out of the 18 million doses administered in Britain.

It is the latest drama to hit AstraZeneca, which has been involved in controversy over its failure to deliver promised doses to the European Union, and over the jab’s efficacy and safety profile.

The European Medicines Agency said Tuesday it “has not yet reached a conclusion and the review is currently ongoing”.

Also, EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides later said that the agency was expected to make its decision late Wednesday, adding that she was in close contact with the EMA.

AU-Led Kinshasa Dam Talks Meet with Stalemate

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AU-Led Kinshasa Dam Talks Meet with Stalemate

The latest round of African Union-led talks to resolve the years-long dispute over a controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River has met with another stalemate.

Foreign and irrigation ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia met in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the current chair of the African Union.

The talks sought to find an agreed-on approach to resume negotiations on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam but the four days of meetings concluded without a breakthrough.

Ethiopia rejected a Sudanese proposal, backed by Egypt, to include international mediators in the talks, while Egypt’s top diplomat said they would again take the dispute to the U.N. Security Council.

Spokesperson of Egypt’s Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Hafez, said Addis Ababa rejected expanding the mediation umbrella to include the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations along with the AU.

Sudan’s Irrigation Ministry also criticized Ethiopia, saying its announced plan to add 13.5 billion cubic meters of water to the dam’s reservoir this year is a real threat which cannot be accepted.

In a brief statement posted on Facebook, Ethiopia’s foreign minister Demeke Mekonnen said his country appreciated AU efforts to resume the process to reach a win-win outcome and invited Egypt and Sudan to follow suit.

Sudan wants Ethiopia to coordinate and share data on the dam’s operation to avoid flooding and protect its own power-generating dams on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile River.

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