The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, has expressed her profound sadness at the devastation caused by Cyclone Kenneth which has ravaged Mozambique today. She said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by Cyclone Kenneth in Mozambique, the strongest cyclone yet to have hit the country. “Its occurrence so soon after Cyclone Idai last […]
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Zimbabwe has applied to rejoin the Commonwealth, the group said Monday, marking a major step in the country’s international re-engagement after Robert Mugabe was ousted last year. Mugabe angrily pulled Zimbabwe out of the bloc of former British colonies in 2003 after its membership was suspended over violent and graft-ridden elections the previous year. The […]
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Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, has said Commonwealth assisted Nigeria in recovering of about three billion dollars within one year. Scotland said this on Tuesday in Abuja when she visited the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama. She did not give specifics on when the money was recovered, from whom and how. The Secretary General said the […]
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Prince Charles was on Friday approved as the successor to Queen Elizabeth as head of the Commonwealth at a meeting of the group’s heads of government in Windsor. There had been calls for the role to be rotated around the 53 member-states, most of which are former British territories, but in recent days the queen, […]
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Oluwatobiloba Amusan has made history by becoming the first Nigerian to win a sprint hurdles title at the Commonwealth Games. Amusan achieved the feat on Friday at the Carrara stadium in Gold Coast, Australia. The reigning American Collegiate 100m hurdles queen ran 12.68 seconds to win the race. She is now Nigeria’s first gold medallist […]
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Ndidi Nwosu has won Nigeria’s third gold medal of the Commonwealth Games. The gold medal was Nigeria’s third in the para power lifting event. Nwosu lifted 120kg to claim the first position in the women’s heavyweight category. England’s Louis Sudgen won silver with a lift of 89.2Kg while Kenya’s Joyce Njuguna claimed the bronze medal with […]
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The indefinite suspension of transfer allegiance by the International Association of Athletics Federations has stopped British-born Nigerian high jumper Mike Edwards from representing the country at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. The IAAF in February 2017 froze all new transfer of allegiance until the IAAF committee on athletes transfer could come up with a […]
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Ibrahim Magu, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has emerged the vice chairman of the Heads of Anti-corruption Agencies in Commonwealth Africa. The appointment was announced in statement by Wilson Uwajuren, EFCC spokeman on Thursday. The delegates issued a communiqué, after the end of their 7th regional conference in Malawi, in […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday July 23, 2016, the GTBank Common Wealth Team, comprised of players from Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada, emerged victorious against England team to win one of Polo’s most iconic trophies.The Commonwealth Team being sponsored by Guaranty Trust Bank plc, defeated the England Team 12 – 11 in what was an amazing […]
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