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  • BREAKING: Anti-drug protest rock Tinubu’s arrival at Chatham House [Watch]

    BREAKING: Anti-drug protest rock Tinubu’s arrival at Chatham House [Watch]

    Ahead of the 2023 poll, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently in the United Kingdom with his entourage to speak on his ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ at Chatham House on Monday.

    TheNewsGuru reports that a heavy protest has been staged upon his arrival at Chatham House, tagged #HarassTinubuOutofLondon for his involvement in an alleged drug case in the United States.

    The APC flagbearer would be expounding on his plans for security, economy, and foreign policy at the UK’s elite foreign and policy think-tank institution.

    He is accompanied by the House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, Jigawa, and Kaduna States Governors, Abubakar Badaru, Nasir El-Rufai and the former Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi.

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  • Russian troops accused of raping Ukrainian women

    Russian troops accused of raping Ukrainian women

    Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has accused the Russian troops of sexually assaulting Ukrainian women.

    This was as the International Criminal Court (ICC) studies whether to prosecute alleged war crimes in Ukraine.

    However, the UN Human Rights Council on Friday overwhelmingly voted to launch a top-level investigation into violations committed following Russia’s invasion.

    Thirty-two members of the 47-seat council voted to establish the highest-level probe possible into alleged rights violations.

     

    They already started to rape our women

    Ukraine’s foreign minister told a briefing at Chatham House: “We have numerous cases of, unfortunately, when Russian soldiers rape women in the Ukrainian cities.”

     

    He backed a call for the creation of a special tribunal to punish Moscow’s aggression as Russia’s hostility escalates beyond bombing.

     

    Kuleba said international law “is the only tool of civilisation that is available to us to make sure that in the end, eventually, all those who made this war possible will be brought to justice”.

    He said: “We are fighting against the enemy who is much stronger than us. But the international law is on our side, and hopefully… it will make its own contribution to help us prevail.”

     

    Svetlana Zorina, 27, from the Russian-controlled city of Kherson, also accused the invading Russian forces of sexually assaulting women.

    Zorina said people living in the Black Sea port city can only “sit at home and take care of ourselves because we are scared. They already started to rape our women.

    “There was information from people that I personally know that a 17-year-old girl – it happened to her and then they killed her. We are terrified and scared but we are not going to give up.”

    Zorina said leaving the house had now become too “dangerous”.

    “They started to rape our women so now it’s very dangerous to go outside, especially when it’s dark. I heard about a few cases from people I know, unfortunately,” she added.

    It comes as human rights organizations last week warned sexual violence against Ukrainian women would likely increase as a result of the conflict.

    Freedom from Torture director, Steve Crawshaw, said: “We saw torture when Moscow was seeking to impose with dramatic force in Chechnya.

    “The pattern of torture became absolutely notorious. And rape was definitely part of that. Again and again in the context of conflict, we see torture used as a form of punishment and violation.

     

    “It is mindless violence with terrible consequences for those who suffer it. In the context of war, women are often targeted as a form of brutal dehumanising, with rape, including gang rape, routinely used as a weapon of war.”

    British PM, Gordon Brown, former judges and law experts have called for the creation of a special tribunal.

    In a statement, they said Putin’s “decision to launch attacks on Ukraine poses a grave challenge to the post-1945 international order”.

    They said: “He has sought to replace the rule of law and principles of self-determination for all peoples by the use of force.

    “The whole world needs to be made aware of the act of aggression he has instigated and the atrocities he has ordered.

    “We will leave no stone unturned in bringing to an end the terrible events we are now seeing, thereby ensuring that those who have unleashed such horrors are subject to personal accountability under the criminal law, so that justice can be done.”

    Ukraine has also brought a case against Russia before the International Court of Justice – the only court that can rule on conflicts between states.

  • Buhari never promised Nigerians not to receive treatment abroad – Presidency

    Buhari never promised Nigerians not to receive treatment abroad – Presidency

    The Presidency has refuted media reports that President Muhammadu Buhari promised Nigerians not to travel abroad for medical treatment.

    Speaking on behalf of the presidency, Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the said the comments are false and are “a new dimension in the plot to diminish the stature of President Muhammadu Buhari before millions of Nigerians who love and adore their president”.

    Recall that Buhari made the remark at Chatham House in London while speaking as a presidential candidate.

    Buhari’s exact words at the time : “What is the difference between me and those who elected us to represent them, absolutely nothing. Why should Nigerian president not fly with other Nigerian public? Why do I need to embark on a foreign trip as a president with a huge crowd with public funds? Why do I need to go for a medical trip abroad if we cannot make our hospital (sic) functional?”

    However, Adesina said Buhari’s words was twisted by critics.

    He added: “First, it was a pernicious twisting and misinterpretation of the words of the president by mischievous elements, perhaps they can earn him opprobrium and infamy When they see that the gambit is not achieving the desired results, they have now gone into utter fabrication of apocryphal statements, which they purvey through the social media,” he said.

    “Fortunately, the Chatham House lecture of 2015 is in the public domain. The concoction by haters and agents of disunity is not part of the text of the lecture at all.

    “The morbid minds that created the falsehood simply want to de-market and demean the president, having seen that defeating him in a free and fair electoral contest is a tall order.

    “Therefore, they desire to instigate the electorate against him by creating statements that never existed, and attributing such to him.”

    The presidential spokesman, however, added that the “dubious” people will not succeed, as Buhari’s reputation “has been built over time, and sustained for decades.”

    “That is why he is widely acclaimed for integrity, transparency, honour, and accountability, both home and abroad. Negative minds can never erode or corrode this,” he said.

  • 2019: Atiku to deliver lecture at Chatham House Wednesday

    Former Vice President and presidential hopeful, Atiku Abubakar is scheduled to deliver a lecture in London Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 25 in furtherance to the pursuit of his presidential ambition.

    The keynote speech entitled “The Importance of Strengthening State Economic Management Systems” will lay bare novel and real prescriptions that when implemented will help Nigerian states come out from their economic quagmire and ultimately gets Nigeria working again.

    The Chatham keynote speech is one in a series of engagements by the PDP presidential hopeful to showcase the possibilities that exist in Nigeria and how to unlock its huge potentials to the good of all Nigerians.

    According to a statement from his media office, Atiku Abubakar will also deliver another major keynote speech at the Invest Africa and British Council for Africa ‘Annual Debate’. The former Vice President will be speaking alongside Dr Liam Fox, International Trade Secretary of the United Kingdom Government, on the subject of “Building new trade partnerships in Africa”

    These engagements are a follow-up to Atiku Abubakar’s meeting in June of 2017 with Liam Fox and Prime Minister Theresa May where they discussed the UK’s plan for increased trade with Nigeria post-Brexit.

    The PDP presidential hopeful will also be the guest of honour at a lunch on Nigerian inward investment to be hosted by Lord Anthony St John (former UK Minister for Africa) and be a guest speaker at Round Table of key UK business leaders keen in investing in Nigeria at the Institute of Directors, Pall Mall.

    The visit to the UK by Atiku Abubakar, one of Nigeria’s most successful business leaders and foremost advocates for restructuring and free trade, is a continuation of his life-long commitment to find real solutions to help rescue Nigeria from its current economic crisis and set it on the path of economic growth and prosperity.

  • Mimiko to Speak at Chatham House Event on Health

    Olusegun Mimiko, the immediate past Governor of Ondo State, will this Friday speak at the Chatham House Conference in London on “Primary Health Care Policy, Universal Health Coverage and Health
    Security in Nigeria: Optimising Global Opportunities and Partnership for Success.”

    Mimiko, whose tenure as governor of Ondo State witnessed massive reduction in infant and maternal mortality through the ‘Abiye Safe Motherhood’ programme, is to speak on “Improving Access to Health Services for All’ from his Ondo experience.

    It will be recalled that the former governor has since the expiration of his second term been involved in sharing his experience with major players in Universal Health Care at local and international fora.

    He has had speaking engagements at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS in Washington, the Chatham House, London and the Scientific Conference of the Association of Feto-Maternal Specialists of Nigeria, AFEMSON, in Lagos among many others.

    Mimiko will be joining high-level policymakers and government officials from Nigeria and global health partners and stakeholders from across the globe at the one-day event organized by the Chatham House Public Health Africa Policy Forum in conjunction with the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria and FPH UK.

    Apart from speaking at the event, Mimiko will also be on hand to “discuss the current policy landscape and offer viable solutions and also build collaborative partnerships in order to harness successful improvements in the Nigerian healthcare sector,” with other invited participants.