Nigeria, World leaders to adopt new 17 Sustainable Development Goals
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will lead to the transformation of the world, especially in the fight against global poverty, will be adopted by 193 Member States of the United Nations, at...
View ArticleWorld leaders adopt UN goals to end poverty in 15 years
World leaders on Friday pledged to end extreme poverty within 15 years, adopting an ambitious set of UN goals to be backed up by trillions of dollars in development spending. Pope Francis welcomed the...
View ArticleBuhari tasks world leaders on hunger, disease by 2030
By Funmi Ajumobi , reporting from United States President Muhammadu Buhari has reaffirmed his administration’s total commitment to the enthronement of a fully transparent and accountable public revenue...
View ArticlePop stars, world leaders rally to end poverty
Some of the biggest names in music and politics from Beyonce to European prime ministers rallied Saturday in a concert aimed at mobilizing action to eradicate extreme poverty. Before thousands of...
View ArticleBusiness leaders pledge $6million worth of investments to boost gender equality
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Unilever, yesterday at a United Nations event in New York made commitment worth millions of dollars to promote gender equality . Commitments made at the Business...
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70th UNGA: World leaders agree to close the gender equality gaps
By Funmi Ajumobi reporting from UN Headquarters, New York Eighty world leaders have made concrete commitments and firm pledges to overcome gender equality gaps at a historic event co-hosted by UN Women...
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Prevent young people from turning to terror, Buhari tells World leaders
By Funmi Ajumobi reporting from UNGA70, New York President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday told World leaders to find a way to prevent young people from turning to terror. At the Global Leaders’ Summit on...
View ArticleAfrican leaders target agric business as AGRF opens
… discuses youth and women role in agric By Jimoh Babatunde Lusaka, Zambia – More than 500 leaders from over 40 countries are expected to attend the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), which opens...
View ArticleWorld leaders confident of Buhari’s good governance, corruption-free Nigeria...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s zeal for good governance, corruption-free Nigeria and robust economic networks are paying off since the president was...
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World leaders confident of Buhari’s good governance, corruption-free Nigeria...
says Nigeria, not doing badly at 55 Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s zeal for good governance, corruption-free Nigeria and robust economic networks are...
View ArticleHuman rights and rule of law crucial to global order – World leaders advocate
Global leaders at the 2015 Annual Conference of the International Bar Association have urged legal professionals all over the world to unite and work positively towards the promotion of the rule of...
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Fulani Invasion: Yoruba leaders threaten secession
By Ola Ajayi & Henry Umoru Ibadan—FOLLOWING alleged incessant and unprovoked attacks and invasion of their farmlands by some Fulani herdsmen, notable Yoruba leaders held an emergency summit in...
View ArticleAwosika lauds LBS, foresees impact on future business leaders
Lagos Business School is best placed to equip the next generation of Nigeria’s business leaders with the sound knowledge to succeed, FBN Holdings Chairperson, Ibukun Awosika, has said. Awosika, an...
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Biafra group write world leaders over leader’s arrest
The group championing the secession of Biafra from Nigeria, Indigenous People of Biafra Worldwide, which owns Radio Biafra on Sunday, wrote an open letter to world leaders over the plight of its...
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We need godly leaders to overcome our challenges – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said Nigeria needs leaders with integrity, transparent character, faithfulness and other godly attributes to overcome her current challenges. Buhari Speaking at...
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Igbo angry with Buhari over appointments, arrest of MASSOB leaders
By Emeka MamahENUGU – Apparently reacting to the latest arrest of MASSOB leaders in the country, Igbo leaders yesterday said that the 1999 Constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and “expression,...
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Igbo angry with Buhari over appointments, arrest of MASSOB leaders
By Emeka MamahENUGU – Apparently reacting to the latest arrest of MASSOB leaders in the country, Igbo leaders yesterday said that the 1999 Constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and “expression,...
View ArticleAn appeal to religious leaders
IN what appears as a sharp departure from the common trend, a ministerial nominee, Mr Adebayo Shittu, while being screened at the Senate, took time to lecture Nigerians on the need to eschew mere...
View ArticleBoko Haram: IDPs accuse leaders of selling donated gifts
By Emmanuel Elebeke Some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the New Kuchingworo IDP camp, Abuja Sunday accused their leaders of selling some of the items donated to them by well meaning Nigerians...
View ArticleRwanda’s Kagame accuses Burundi leaders of ‘massacres’
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused Burundi’s leaders of carrying out “massacres” on their people in his most critical speech yet of the crisis in the troubled neighbouring state. “People die...
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