Osinbajo will speak on climate change at a university in the US.

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 On Saturday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will fly out of Abuja for Philadelphia, where he will give a Special Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). According to a statement from Osinbajo's spokesman, Laolu Akande, the vice president would also take part in an interactive session with academics and students organized by Wale Adebanwi, professor of Africana studies at UPenn. The University's Center for Africana Studies is presenting the vice president's speech on April 24 with a focus on Climate Change and a Just Transition. Osinbajo is now leading initiatives to establish the African Carbon Market as one of the pathways of a just and sustainable transition. He is a leading voice and ardent supporter of a Just Energy Transition for Africa and the developing world. One of the eight American private institutions known as the Ivy League, UPenn was first founded as a charitable institution in 1740. Benjamin Franklin, a future founding father of the United States an
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Why I'm not one among the attorneys supporting Tinubu's mandate - Keyamo

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  Minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo (SAN) has explained why his name is missing on the list of senior lawyers defending the victory of President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. 
Remember that the 50-person list of attorneys the All Progressives Congress (APC) released on Tuesday in support of Tinubu.

Wole Olanipekun, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, is in charge of the legal team. The legal legend will lead 49 additional attorneys in defending Tinubu's victory at the presidential election tribunal.

In order to ensure that Tinubu defeated his bitter rivals Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, who have contested his victory.

With 8, 794,726 votes, Tinubu, the APC's standard bearer, defeated Atiku and Obi to claim first place and second and third, respectively, in the presidential election that took place on February 25.

He received a Certificate of Return last Wednesday from Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Election Commission, INEC.

Keyamo, who also serves as the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, provided an explanation for his absence from the 50-man list in a post on his verified Twitter account on Tuesday. He claimed that the Nigerian Constitution forbade a serving minister from performing such duties.

Currently serving cabinet members cannot join the Election Petition team until after the May 29 handover deadline, he pointed out.

For those who inquired, a minister who is now in office is not permitted (by our Constitution) to be a member of any private legal team, though he or she may assist in the team's preparation. The current cabinet ministers who are SANs can therefore only formally join the Election Petition team after May 29. — Festus Keyamo, SAN (@fkeyamo)

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  1. AnonymousMarch 8, 2023 at 1:37 AM

    I just hope the court makes the right decision in regards to Tinubu who hired 50 attorneys against Peter Obi who hired 20s SANS to challenge Tinubu, INEC nd APC

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  2. AnonymousMarch 8, 2023 at 10:19 AM

    You better not be o

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