DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Regional Directors, distinguished delegates, dear colleagues and friends, On World Tuberculosis Day, we pay tribute to the millions who lose their lives to TB, and the millions who continue to struggle daily against this preventable and curable disease. We salute those health workers who give so much in their efforts to stop the spread of this disease, and to save the lives of those affected by it. Tuberculosis kills more than 1.5 million people each year and affects millions more, with enormous impacts on families and communities. Ending this debilitating disease remains a priority for WHO, and in recent years, we have made encouraging progress globally. More than 66 million people received access to TB services since the year 2000. This year, World Tuberculosis Day puts the spotlight on the urgent need to invest in the fight against TB to achieve the commitments made by global leaders.  This is especially critical i...

Daily Rendezvous (Reuters) Russian billionaire and owner of Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich arrives at a division of the High Court in central London October 31, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Winning/ Russian businessman Roman Abramovich transferred a company he controlled with tens of millions of dollars of investments to a director of English soccer club Chelsea on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, UK corporate filings showed. It was the second time Chelsea owner Abramovich moved assets to a close associate before Britain and the European Union imposed sanctions on him this month. After Britain was initially slower than the United States and the European Union in imposing sanctions following the Feb. 24 invasion, British lawmakers complained that the government was giving oligarchs time to move their assets out of the country before any curbs were annoyed. Abramovich did not respond to requests for comment left with Chelsea and his spokesperson. A British governme...

Daily Rendezvous A high powered delegation of the House of Representatives, led by the House Leader, Rt. Hon. Alhassan Ado- Doguwa, has arrived Bucharest in Romania, Thursday, to oversee the process of evacuation of Nigerians, mainly students, who have been caught up in the ensuing seven-day Ukraine-Russia, war, Rendezvous gathered. Following the resolution of the House at plenary, the Speaker of the House, Hon. Femi Hakeem Gbajabiamila  has mandated the House Leader, Ado-Doguwa and Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Yusuf Buba Yakub, Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, to proceed to the war-torn region to ensure that every Nigerian that desires to return home from the epicentre of the conflicts is given the support to do us. A motion in that regard had earlier been moved by Hon. Ahmed Mannir representing  Lere Federal Constituency of Kaduna State. The lawmakers,who departed the country Wednesday, after a careful  monitoring of the situation in Kiev, said the ministry o...