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Mandy Park As part of activities at the ongoing United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 28, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa(CAPPA) has released a documentary on the impact of climate change on frontline communities. Titled “Climate Change: Africa’s Cooked and Sinking Communities”, the documentary highlights the threatening impacts of climate change in Taita Taveta County, Kenya; Kambele, Cameroun; and Ayetoro, Ondo state, Nigeria.A statement signed byRobert Egbe, Media and Communication Officer, CAPPA, noted thatthe documentary exposes the impact of mining and oil extraction in those communities,…

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Mandy Park Awoye community in Ondo State and the Makoko community in Lagos State have pleaded with government to come to their rescue by speedily addressing life threatening concerns in their communities rather than neglecting them. While the Awoye community is lamenting over the unending raging fire on Ororo-1 oil facility in the past three and half years, the Makoko community is facing eviction threat from ancestral home from the Lagos state government. Awoye community, an Ondo coastal community approximately 145 kilometres from Akure, said they are at the brink…

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Mandy Park The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called on the Federal Government to extend the planned probe of tax waivers, grants and other insidious benefits unduly awarded to corporations by past governments, to include the Export Expansion Grant (EEG) awarded to tobacco companies. The EEG scheme is a post-shipment incentive introduced by the Federal Government to encourage indigenous exporters to expand their export volume and value in the global market. The group made the call in a statement signed by Zikora Ibeh, CAPPA’s Policy and Research…

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Yesterday, Monday, November 27th, 2023, the Federal Executive Council in Abuja gave approval for the loan from the African Development Bank to Abia State. This loan is in the sum of One Hundred and Fifteen Million Dollars ( $115 Million). One Hundred Million Dollars out of this is from the Africa Development Bank while Fifteen Million Dollars is coming from the Canadian Development Bank. By the current exchange rate, this is 115 Billion Naira in the kitty of the Abia State Government. The approval by the Federal Executive Council is…

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By Ukoha Njoku Ukoha The report, “Nigerian Governor Abandons Multi-billion Naira Government House, Runs Govt from Country Home”, published on the platform of Premium Times, is an indictment on the past PDP administrations in Abia State. A bunch of people making brouhaha out of Q3 Budget Expenses does not have a record of what they spent on the new Government House by their successive governments and administrations. The ‘repented’ apostles and messengers of transparency, do not have any evidence of competitive bidding for the completion and substandard furnishing of the…

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Mandy Park Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has pledged his administration’s readiness to partner with multilateral organisations, so as to reconstruct and rehabilitate 248.46 kilometers of roads in the State. Governor Otti gave the assurance on Wednesday when he received a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Finance, led by Dr. Oyebola Akande, an Assistant Director in the ministry, which was on a working visit to the State to ascertain the state’s readiness to take part in the project. The project is expected to be executed under the Abia…

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By Godwin Adindu I love the wisdom of our ancestors. May their souls rest in perfect peace. They were great sages, thinkers and philosophers but, regrettably, their insights and wisdom were not documented like the West did to Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and the rest. There is this saying that our ancestors passed down to us: that the big talk is but for eight days. Unfortunately, the Abia big talk about expenditure on food, entertainment, honorarium et al did not last up to eight days. It boomed and fizzled away within…

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Mandy Park Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, in Lagos has fixed hearing for December 6, 2023 in a suit filed by a non-governmental organisation, Centre Against Injustice And Domestic Violence, praying the court for an order of mandamus to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (ICPC) to investigate the Managing, Director of Rural Electrification Agency and his cohort over alleged misappropriated funds at the Agency. Gbolahan Agoro. The court fixed the date after hearing lawyer to the applicant, The…

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Mandy Park Former Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning, Dr Philips Nto has condoled with the families of the recent accident victims at Ogbor Hill Aba. This is as he pledged to donate his one month salary to assist in the treatment of the survivors. The multiple accidents that occurred when a container fell from a trailer on some vehicles and tricycles claimed an unspecified number of lives. Dr Philips Nto, is currently a lecturer at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Umuahia. The immediate past Provost of Abia State…

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