- President Buhari is attending the Joint ECOWAS/ECCAS Summit to deliberate on common security threats to countries in West and Central Africa, with a view to forging concerted strategies in tackling terrorism, trans-border crimes & other forms of violent extremism.
The President will also participate in a meeting on a Single Currency for ECOWAS with the deadline of 2020.
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- Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged all stakeholders to stay committed and work together to achieve the SDGs, as failure to achieve them will have grave implications for many generations.
Osinbajo said achieving the SDGs would mark a quantum socio-economic leap for Nigeria.
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- Three Nigerian students have won gold for proper documentation of processes on engineering note at the 2018 World Adolescent Robotic Competition in China.
The students – Tawakalitu Giwa, Oluwaseun Omotayo and Ayomide Adetunji also won the “Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli’ Award for Courageous Achievement at the event organised by the China Association of Science and Technology.
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- UN Secretary General, Anthonio Guterres has called on stakeholders to work together to bring human traffickers to justice, support victims and protect children in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Guterres, in his message to mark the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, said human traffickers profit from people’s hope and despair, prey on the vulnerable and rob them of their fundamental rights.
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- Zimbabweans have gone to the polls in the country’s first election since the removal of former President Robert Mugabe who announced he would vote for the opposition after he emerged from eight months of obscurity since the military ousted him in a bloodless coup.
The election pits 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time Mugabe ally, against 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, a lawyer and pastor vying to become Zimbabwe’s youngest president.