Kenya’s umbrella organisation of plastic recyclers on Thursday said it planned to recycle 14,000 tonnes of plastic bottles by 2025 as it steps up efforts towards the management of plastic pollution. The Kenya PET Recycling Company (PETCO) is planning to spearhead the collection and recycling of 20 per cent of the plastic wastes by the […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, says he is convinced beyond any doubt that 2019 elections will be a victory walk for the PDP. Abubakar said this during the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Thursday in Abuja. He said that going by the momentum the party had gathered through its
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Following his arrest by the Nigeria Police Force, human rights activist and co-convener of ‘our mumu don do’ crusade, Prince Deji Adeyanju has been remanded in prison for protesting against the police Adeyanju was summarily arraigned alongside Daniel Abobama and Boma Williams at Karshi Magistrate Court, Federal Capital Territory yesterday, shortly after his arrest. The
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Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has told President Muhammadu Buhari that he is ready for a debate with him ahead of the 2019 elections. Abubakar told Buhari this on Thursday at the inauguration of the party’s presidential campaign council in Abuja. ICYMI: Muhammadu Buhari not afraid of debate, says Keyamo He
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A 17-year-old Nepali girl Bandana Nepal had danced for 126 consecutive hours to set the Guinness World Records on “Longest Dancing Marathon by an Individual”. Nepal started the solo dance from Nov. 23 to Nov. 28 to contest for the record, according to the event management officials. She performed in Nepali music in Kathmandu amid
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Luiz Pezao, governor of Rio de Janeiro, a municipality in Brazil, was on Thursday arrested over allegations that he took bribes as part of the sprawling “Car Wash” graft probe. Pezao was accused of receiving bribes when he was vice governor of the Brazilian city under Sergio Cabral, who is currently in prison after being
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A Karshi Magistrate Court, Abuja, has remanded an activist and Convener, Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju; Daniel Abobama and Boma Williams in Keffi prisons, Nasarawa State, for protesting against alleged partisanship by the police. The three accused persons had led a protest to the Force headquarters, Abuja, on Wednesday, against the police for sealing the Akwa
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A 56-year-old security guard, simply identified as Bello, has been arrested for allegedly serially raping his daughter in Lagos. Police spokesman, CSP Chike Oti, said Bello was in the employ of an old generation school prior to his arrest. According to Oti, Bello was reported by the school authorities that he had been having sexual
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Oby Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), has named Ganiyu Galadima as her running mate for the 2019 elections. She revealed this while speaking at Kwara Hotel, Ilorin, Kwara state on Wednesday, stating that he was the kind of grassroot politician she needs to lift 80 million people out
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President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the war against terrorism is “a must win,” and has ordered the military to eliminate Boko Haram threat. According to a State House press statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, President Buhari, who gave the order in Maiduguri,
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