After the political frenzy of 2023 – with the elections and transition period – 2024 was expected to have less of politics and more of governance. However, it still managed to bring its share of politicking. From the off-season elections in Edo and Ondo states to the Supreme Court judgement on local government autonomy, 2024 … Read more
The Damascus med-school dropout has also had somewhat of a sartorial makeover in recent years, swapping the Osama bin Laden-look for a neatly trimmed beard and green fatigues à la Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, or corporate blazers and chinos. “A person in their twenties will have a different personality than someone in their thirties or … Read more
On Friday, Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State inaugurated the Parakin-Obalufe road in Ile-Ife as part of his urban renewal programme in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Ebenezer Fashogbon, an Ile-Ife indigene, funded the 0.25-kilometre road project. Speaking during the inauguration in Ile-Ife, Adeleke reiterated his administration’s commitment to … Read more
The draft rules, which would build on the 2022 WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, are intended to create an element of fairness currently missing in the global fishing sector. They should allow developing countries that have small fishing industries — and that provide only minor capacity-enhancing subsidies to their fishers, if any — to grow … Read more
“Fifty years of scientific research indicate that reducing … emissions would help us avoid dangerous climate change while also bringing multiple additional benefits for the people and the planet. SRM technologies, by contrast, address the symptoms but not the source of the climate problem,” the scientists write. The EU should reevaluate its positions on SRM … Read more
The coalition means that the four parties, and the ethnic minority representatives, will together hold a majority in parliament and will be able to push for a prime minister from among their ranks. There will still be further talks about what the parliamentary coalition’s governance aims will be, and who will be prime minister, though … Read more
Wann kommt die Vertrauensfrage und damit die Neuwahlen? Der Kanzler zeigt sich kompromissbereit und gleichzeitig angriffslustig. Gordon Repinski analysiert, wie sich Scholz wieder in der “Phase der Autosuggestion” befindet und bespricht mit Chef-Korrespondent Rasmus Buchsteiner, wie es mit Regierung und Bundestag weitergeht. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview ist der Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer der Unions-Bundestagsfraktion zu Gast. Er erklärt, welche … Read more
Meta executive and former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently said Britain had “wasted a huge amount of time.” | Nhac Nguyen/AFP via Getty Images But California’s experience had other lessons for Britain, too. In vetoing the bill, Newsom took aim at its narrow focus on frontier systems, arguing that it ignored the context … Read more
Key points Integrated care systems (ICSs) play an instrumental role in tackling the issues facing the health and care system today while building for tomorrow. This report examines progress made by local systems over the past year. Leaders of integrated care boards (ICBs) and integrated care partnerships (ICPs) reflect on their ambition for the future, … Read more
This was the main decision G7 leaders made at their summit. And to enable it, the EU was to adopt a law prolonging the freezing of sovereign Russian assets until Moscow had paid for its war against Ukraine in full. This would guarantee the frozen assets would continue to be available to produce the interest … Read more
