DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous  The candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for the Gombi/Hong federal constituency, in Adamawa state, Hyellagiziya Naiwa Fakuta says, she is in a pole position to defeat both the candidates of the All Progressives Congress and that of the PDP, in the 2023 elections for the house of representatives.  Fakuta said Nigerians are fade-up with the generation of recycled and failed politicians who so far have delivered nothing to Nigerians but suffering, betrayal, and disappointments after over two decades. Fakuta said Nigeria has spent over twenty years in a political wilderness and Nigerians mostly women and youths are tired of the incompetence and lack of development in the country. Fakuta made this known in a chat with newsmen in Yola, Adamawa State. The outspoken politicians said, Nigerians are tired of stories, it is time for action and electorates are ready to topple the regime of unproductive politicians along with their political par...

Daily Rendezvous Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, has dumped hia deputy, Crowther Seth, and picked the Vice Chancellor of Adamawa state University, Prof. Kaletapwa Farauta as his Running Mate in the 2023 governorship elections in Adamawa. Rendezvous gathered that the choice of Prof. Kaletapwa as running-mate is in furtherance of Gov. Fintiri's policy to further gender inclusiveness and parity within the party's hirarchy. The move has also been considered as a smart and strategic move that would silence the opposition party in the state who are still grappling with the reality of the emergence of Sen. Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani as the flagbearer of the party. The gubernatorial running mate is currently the Vice Chancellor, Adamawa State University, Mubi.

Daily Rendezvous  Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has constituted a  3 Member Interim Management Committee to overhaul the Adamawa State Post Primary Schools Management Board in line with the education policy of the administration.  Hajiya Ladi Banu a retired Permanent Secretary is to chair the Committee with Mr Joab Sama and Kennedy Dauda as Members.  Governor Fintiri notes that the development had become imperative with the growing need to strengthen secondary education in the State to meet the desires of the Government towards repositioning the education sector generally.  While congratulating the Members, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri who directed that the Committee's assignment takes immediate effect urged them to ensure the overhaul and re-organisation of the Board for effective service delivery.

Daily Rendezvous The Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kabir Ibrahim Masari, has informed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that he lost all his school certificates. A sworn affidavit for the loss of some original documents submitted to the electoral commission by Mr Masari showed that the APC vice presidential candidate had misplaced vital documents including C of O of one plot KT 17522 in Katsina state, his Grade II certificate from Katsina Teachers College and his primary school certificate. “That sometimes in January 2021, while on transit within Wuse Area, FCT-Abuja, I discovered that my original Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of Plot, No KT 17522, GRA Katsina, Katsina State; Certificate of Kaduna State Development Centre from 1994 – 1995; Grade II Certificate from Katsina Teachers’ College (KTC) from 1978 – 1983 and First Leaving School Certificate issued by Masari Primary, Katsina State, from 1972 – 1978, got lo...

Daily Rendezvous  A civil society group,  International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, has raised the alarm that the life of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is gravely in danger as the group alleges that some Islamic Jihadist group have initiated a plot to assassinate Peter Obi. The group made this known is press statement, signed by the group's leaders and made available to Newsmen, over the weekend.  The statement reads in part, "The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) is strongly and unmistakably raising alarm and alerting the world especially the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General and Presidents of the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council; the Papacy and the Governments of United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Japan, South Korea, India, Brazil, the European Union and its key Member-States as well as key local and international human rights ...

Daily Rendezvous  A new, open, transparent sublicence agreement between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) on behalf of C-TAP, and South African pharmaceutical company Biotech Africa will accelerate the manufacture and sale of a COVID-19 serological antibody technology around the world. The World Health Organization welcomes the sublicence agreement, the first of its kind to be signed under the auspices of the WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) initiative. C-TAP was set up in 2020 to facilitate the timely, equitable and affordable access to COVID-19 health products. The new agreement builds on a licensing agreement announced by WHO and MPP last year with Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC). The non-exclusive sublicence allows Biotech to manufacture and commercialize CSIC’s COVID-19 serological test worldwide. “The most effective way to get – and keep – ahead of COVID-19 is to keep testing,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General....

Daily Rendezvous  Outbreak at a glance Since 1 January 2022, cases of monkeypox have been reported to WHO from 42 Member States across five WHO regions (the Regions of the Americas, Africa, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Pacific). As of 15 June, a total of 2103 laboratory confirmed cases and one probable case, including one death, have been reported to WHO. The outbreak of monkeypox continues to primarily affect men who have sex with men who have reported recent sex with new or multiple partners. While epidemiological investigations are ongoing, most reported cases in the recent outbreak have presented through sexual health or other health services in primary or secondary health care facilities, with a history of travel primarily to countries in Europe, and North America or other countries rather than to countries where the virus was not historically known to be present, and increasingly, recent travel locally or no travel at all. Confirmation of one case of...