Year: 2022

Mandy Park Mbaise People’s Congress will on December 10 hold its annual Professionals Get Together, and reception for its Deputy National President, Dr Ken Opara, the Executive Director of Fidelity Bank of Nigeria and President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN). In a statement made available to Nigerianewsmark the event, which will also feature Distinguished Achievement Awards for deserving Mbaise sons and daughters, will be held by 12 noon at Golden Tulip, Mafoluku, Lagos. Chairman of the occasion is the Head of Finance and Strategy at Oando…

…Expose Fossil fuel enablers behind sponsorship Omocho Kalu Verifiable gains were not made in checkmating industry distraction and delay of the climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, climate justice groups that attended the meeting have said. While Corporate Accountability insists that industry lobbyists dominated the list of sponsors of the negotiations, Friends of the Earth International, in a press briefing on November 18, said the most important demand of developing countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis such as loss and damage was still in limbo. Meena Raman…

Mandy Park Against the backdrop of inadequacies facing climate change challenge, Friends of the Earth International (FoEi) has in it’s verdict scored the climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt as low on progress even with more talk by the United States and other rich countries. The federation, in a press briefing on November 18 as the talks drew to a close decried the lack of progress in the Loss and Damage Finance discussion and the crucial climate pledge of $100bn by rich countries that is yet to be met.…

…says Soludo unrefined pro-establishment acolyte …rude, arrogant, shameless By Mandy Park Former Presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP) in the 2015 elections, Engineer Martins Onovo, has reminded Nigerians on the justification of the verdict of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, ( D.G, WTO) on Anambra State governor, Chukwuma Soludo, that he lacks character and is treacherous. Onovo was responding to the latest attack by Soludo on Labour party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi that he cannot win the 2023 presidential race. Soludo has received lots of bashing from Nigerians…

Mandy Park Socially-relevant and need-meeting non-profit organisation, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has donated relief materials worth millions of naira to victims of the destructive flood, that wreaked havoc in many states in Nigeria, recently. This is as HOMEF Director Dr Nnimmo Bassey tasked government at all levels to always be proactive with safety measures. Some of the items already distributed to the six impacted states – Bayelsa, Benue, Delta, Edo, Kogi and Rivers – include bags of beans, rice, garri, onions, tubers of yams, cartons of noodles, palm…