The United Nations (UN) says it is in talks with Afghanistan leaders on the reversal of the university education ban for women in the country. In December 2022, the Taliban government banned females in the country from attending university. Ziaullah Hashmi, the spokesperson for the ministry of higher education, had asked public and private universities to implement the ban without […]
Ceremony To Mark 6th Anniversary Of Murders Of Six Muslim Men At Quebec City Mosque
A ceremony will be held Sunday evening to mark the sixth anniversary of Quebec City’s deadly mosque shooting and will take place inside the prayer room where the rampage took place. It’s the first time the annual event will play out in the exact location where a lone gunman murdered six Muslim men in the Quebec City Islamic cultural centre […]
WHO To Decide If COVID-19 Is Still A Global Gealth Emergency
High-ranking members of the World Health Organization (WHO) are meeting Friday to decide whether it’s time to end the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, three years after it was first declared. In all likelihood, it will continue as the virus continues mutating, spreading, and infecting across the world. Wednesday marked the third anniversary of the first confirmed COVID-19 case […]
Canadian Prime Minister, Ontario Premier, Members Of Parliament, Ooni Of Ife, Others To Grace The Drum Festival In Canada
The Drum Online Media Incorporation (www.thedrumonline.net), an international media organization duly registered and operational in Canada has unveiled the activities to herald the maiden edition of The Drum Festival (Ayan-Agalu Festival) slated to hold Friday July 28th, 2023 at Fuzion Banquet Hall, Britannia Rd E, Mississauga. Ontario. Canada. The media company which was specifically established in 2015 in Nigeria with […]
Paris Agreement’ For Nature Imperative At Cop15, Architects of Climate Deal Say
The architects of the Paris agreement have urged world leaders to reach an ambitious sister deal for nature at the Cop15 biodiversity conference this December while warning that limiting global heating to 1.5C is impossible without protecting and restoring ecosystems. On biodiversity day at the Cop27 climate conference in Egypt, Christiana Figueres, Laurence Tubiana, Laurent Fabius and Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who helped design the […]
Canada Supporting Developing Countries To Adapt To Climate Change At COP27
As the costs of climate change increase, so does the need for countries to be prepared, which is why Canada is taking action on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction both at home and abroad. Today on Adaptation and Agriculture Day at COP27, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, highlighted Canada’s efforts to address the effects of climate change […]
Canada to host UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)
December 7 – 19, 2022 in Montreal, Canada, governments from around the world will come together to agree on a new set of goals to guide global action through 2030 to halt and reverse nature loss. Nature is critical to meeting Sustainable Development Goals and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. Adoption of a bold global biodiversity framework that addresses the key drivers of nature […]