A new opposition party has expressed dismay at the ‘Mugabe holiday’ to be celebrated next week saying it is not worthy celebrating.
The Robert Mugabe National Youth Day will be celebrated on Wednesday 21 February a few months after the former president Robert Mugabe was pressured to resign through the intervention of the military under ‘Operation Restore Legacy’.
Speaking to this publication, Zimbabwe Democratic Change(ZDC) vice president Beston Mbewe said their party will not be hoodwinked into believing that the day is about celebrating the youths when in fact it is about hero-worshipping the former ‘dictator’.
The Lutheran Development Service (LDS) in Liberia has concluded a workshop on its next five-year strategic plan of action.
The 5-year strategic plan workshop was aimed at reviewing its past activities, challenges and successes.
The strategic planning workshop looked at partnership and networking, enhanced improvement and growth.
Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) has announced plans to launch a tool entitled “UDEME”, it is leading-edge initiative that focuses on Nigeria’s public procurement and budget implementation practices.
This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja and signed by its Programme Director, Mr. Femi. The statement says that the web platform, UDEME is scheduled to be launched on the 20th of this month. at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Conference Centre, Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory. According to the statement, the Nigerian media landscape is awash with news of astonishing waste in budget resources for special and zonal intervention projects which had in the past obviously profited little to the grassroots communities they are meant to serve.
Paulcy Iwuala a humanitarian, an indigene of Ehime Mbano in Imo State, southeast Nigeria in this interview with our correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna speaks on his Non-Profit Organisation, Genius Eyes International Foundation For The Hopeless. The primary focus of the NGO is to give hope to the downtrodden in the society who have suffered neglect and have nobody to cater for their basic needs such as health care. Through this foundation Mr. Iwuala has saved many lives and still doing a lot.
Mr. Iwuala also spoke on governance in Imo State, his home state and the country at large. He emphasised the need for the youths to wake up from their slumber and begin to take a stand on issues that affect them.
Digital rights group, the Paradigm Initiative (PI), has vowed to challenge the Nigerian Government’s attempt to curtail free speech in the social media in a law court. This is contained in a statement made available to journalists, PI condemned the recent order issued by the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, to security agencies to “tackle the propagation of hate speeches via the social media, particularly by some prominent Nigerians.”
