Britain has begun the search for the next boss of its central bank ahead of Carneys departure in nine months time.

As you might have noticed, I do like it when women are in senior positions. I think women should be encouraged to apply for senior positions, she told a committee of senior parliamentary lawmakers.

It will be important to take the decision as to who is the right person to be the governor of the Bank of England, but I would encourage applications from female applicants, May who started her career at the Bank said.

Speaking separately, the Banks top oversight official said the next governor should be the best person for the job regardless of gender, but also said that a female governor would be an event of historical significance.

It will be a brilliant moment for this institution when we appoint our first woman governor and it will be a brilliant moment for the institution when we appoint our first BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) governor, Bradley Fried, chairman of the BoEs Court, told the Treasury Committee.

Carney, a Canadian, became the first foreign governor in the Banks three-century history when he took up his role on 1 July, 2013. He is due to step down on 31 January next year.

Many of the people expected to be front-runners to replace him are male, including former BoE deputy governor Andrew Bailey who is now chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, a markets regulator, and current top BoE officials such as deputy governor Ben Broadbent and chief economist Andy Haldane.

Source: NAN

Congratulations have poured in from around the world following the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussexs son.

The newborn was delivered at 05:26 BST on Monday, with Prince Harry saying the baby boy was absolutely to-die-for.

the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were delighted and looking forward to meeting him.

Meghans mother, Doria Ragland, was said to be overjoyed, while former US First Lady Michelle Obama said she and Barack were thrilled.

The baby, who has not been named yet, is seventh in line to the throne, behind the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and his children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis and Prince Harry.

Speaking after the birth, Harry said he planned to make an announcement in two days time so everyone can see the baby.

He said Meghan and the baby were doing incredibly well, adding that they were still thinking about names for the infant.

Arthur a traditional royal name that is among the middle names of the babys grandfather, the Prince of Wales, and his uncle the Duke of Cambridge is the favourite with many of the bookies, while Alexander and James are also popular.

Buckingham Palace said the baby weighed 7lbs 3oz (3.2kg), and that the duke was present for the birth.

In a statement the Palace said that the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were all delighted with the news.

It added that Meghans mother was overjoyed at the arrival of her first grandchild and was with her daughter at Frogmore Cottage the Sussexes home on the Windsor Estate.

Prime Minister Theresa May, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon were among the politicians to offer their congratulations to the royal couple on Twitter.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who married the couple in May last year, said: May God bless the new family with love, health and happiness.

Congratulations also came from celebrities and famous figures in the United States, where Meghan was born.

Patrick J Adams, who starred alongside Meghan in the US legal drama Suits, wrote on Twitter: Just heard that the world just got heavier by 7 pounds and 3 ounces. Much love to him and his incredible parents.

The baby is a dual citizen, having automatically acquired US citizenship, via Meghan, at birth.

from his home in Mexico, Meghans father, Thomas Markle, said he was proud his grandson was born into the British royal family and he was sure that he would grow up to serve the crown and the people of Britain with grace, dignity, and honour.

Meanwhile New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said a donation will be made to a group which prepares baby boxes for families in need, and 10 native trees will be planted in New Zealand in honour of the royal baby.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison also sent his huge congratulations to the couple.

Source: NAN

Australia is headed for a bad flu season after a surge in cases in summer and autumn.

Experts predict about 4000 people will die from complications due to influenza this year as the number of infections increase again following a quiet 2018.

There have already been 40,000 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza in 2019, almost three times the number recorded at the same time in recent years.

Experts from the Immunisation Coalition have urged people to get vaccinated now so they are protected during the winter flu peak.

What we are really concerned about is that these very large numbers dont continue on through winter, medical virologist Professor William Rawlinson said today.

He said the number of flu cases could end up being the highest since 2017, when a quarter of a million laboratory-confirmed cases were recorded.

The 2017 influenza season was the worst since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

Last year there were 58,570 confirmed influenza cases in Australia, although the laboratory numbers do not show the full extent of the flu because most people do not get tested.

Prof Rawlinson predicted about two million people will get the flu this year, as typically occurred in a busy influenza year.

Its likely this will be the highest number since 2017 although Id be very concerned that it may be higher because we havent seen so much in 2018.

Immunisation Coalition chairman Professor Robert Booy said there has been a sustained and rising summer and autumn surge that is continuing to increase.

The best explanation is that 2018 was so quiet that we have reduced community immunity, so there are more people who are vulnerable to catching infection and therefore transmitting infection, he said.

While the latest ABS statistics showed 1200 people died due to influenza in 2017, Prof Booy said modelling showed the actual number of deaths on average each season was about 3000 to 4000.

The Immunisation Coalition expects about 4000 deaths this year.

Im not saying were getting more deaths this year than any other year, Prof Booy said.

Weve got a very busy early season but its nothing like the peak that we had in 2017.

He urged people to get vaccinated to protect themselves as well as more vulnerable people such as those with impaired immunity, chronic medical conditions, indigenous Australians, young children and the elderly.

Source: NAN

Beginning from today (Tuesday) containers and oil tankers would start moving goods from Lagos ports through the newly acquired Railway wagons to the north.

The goods would move to the dry port in Kaduna in the North.

The transport minister Rotimi Amaechi had ordered some wagons for the Lagos-Ibadan railway for the purpose.

This measure was designed to ease traffic and gridlocks caused by heavy duty vehicles from Lagos and roads.

The move to curb the perennial traffic jam in Apapa axis, the Nigeria Railway Corporation resolved to deploy the eighteen newly imported wagons for haulage from Apapa sea port.

The Managing Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, Engineer Fidet Okhiria, disclosed that the newly acquired 18 wagons are to boost the inland container dry port business by moving cargos from Apapa sea port to dry ports in Kaduna and other states.

The NRC has the capacity to evacuate 20 footer and 40 footer containers from Apapa port to, Ijoko and Abeokuta, both in Ogun state and Omi-Adio railway depots, in Oyo state, for onward transfer by parked trucks.

The trucks would evacuate the containers by road to their various destinations which most often is either the inland dry port in Kaduna or Kano.

Source: NAN

The police in Abuja have charged Senator Ademola Adeleke with certificate forgery.He was charged this morning at an Abuja magistrates court.

Adeleke is also the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, in the election held last September.

An election tribunal validated his election in a split ruling in March. An Appeal court will shortly pronounce its verdict on who was the real winner between him and Governor Gboyega Oyetola, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

The allegation of certificate forgery had dogged the senator in the run-up to the election in the state, leading to his arrest before the poll.

President Muhammadu Buhari waded into the case and ordered the police to release him.

Recently, Justice Othman Musa of the FCT High Court declared the Secondary School Certificate presented by Adeleke to INEC as fake.

A suit is pending in the high court seeking the declaration of his senatorial seat vacant.

Adeleke has appealed the judgment.

Details soon

Source: NAN

A group of indigenous Gbagi people of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),Abuja, on Tuesday disrupted traffic on the Umar Musa Yardua Way to protest against the Federal Government.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protesters blocked the highway for about an hour causing gridlock.

Some air travellers who were rushing to catch their flights at the airport were frustrated by the development.

Although, the protesters had opened the road before NAN arrived the spot but one of the protesters, Fred Ekeng, said that the protest was to drive home their demand for recognition as indigenous people.

Ekeng said the protest was to tell government that the people should be given their proper place in the territory.

According to him, the people are saying no to ceaseless taking over of their land.

We came here to express our displeasure with the way the government and the military are ceasing our lands without compensation and treating us like second class citizens in our own land.

We are saying that henceforth, the position of the Minister of FCT should be held by an indigene instead of an outsider.

We also want the government to treat us with respect because they keep taking over our lands and pushing us into the interiors without proper compensation, he said.

Source: NAN

By Patricia Amogu

American media personality, Kimberly Noel Kardashian West, has helped to secure the release of 17 prisoners in the U.S.

She has in the past 90 days helped to secure release of 19 prisoners, who were being detained for lesser crimes.

The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that a few months ago, Kardashian hinted that she was deep into her new found love for criminal justice when she helped foot the rent bills for a man who was recently released from jail.

According to reports, the reality TV star and mother of three has been spending a lot of money to help secure the release of inmates, who have been doing time.

Defense counsel to Kardashian, Brittany Barnett, in partnership with MiAngel Cody of The Decarceration Collective. has worked closely with her to make this a reality.

The lawyers had gotten all the legal documentation to get the inmates to have fresh start to life while Kardashian had been footing the bills.

Meanwhile, it has been reported that Kim has been getting all the inmates free while trying to keep it away from the media.

Kardashian is reportedly paying five years rent for Mathew Charles, a man released from jail.

It is reported that Kardashian read about his plight and took it upon herself to help him secure accommodation.

Mathew Charles, who had served 20 of his 35-year sentence for a non-violent drug and weapons charges was the first to be released under new prison reform laws.

Kim is said to have reached out to Charles and his friend privately on March 10 and generously offered to pay his rent and to help him find a stable place to live.

Charles was recently released from jail after serving 25 years and would be living in a rent free house for the next five years courtesy of Kardashian.

However, it is no news that Kardashian has a special interest in prison reforms in the U.S.

Her interest in making the reforms made her pay a visit to the President of the U.S., Donald Trump, back in 2018.

Source: NAN

President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Abuja Sunday after spending 10 days on a private visit to the United Kingdom.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the presidential aircraft conveying the president from London landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja at about 6.33 p.m.

Those at the airport to welcome the president include his Chief of Staff, Malam Abba Kyari, some ministers, including the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Malam Muhammed Bello and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.

Others were the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Muhammed Adamu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu and other presidential aides.

Buhari had on April 25 proceeded to the UK on a private visit after he inaugurated some projects executed by the Borno Government.

After landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Buhari took a chopper to the Aso Villa.

Sunday Aghaeze, the President’s photographer captures the homecoming.

Welcome home Mr. President.

Source: NAN

The scholarship is part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project: The African Diaspora and Pentecostalism in Australia: New Perspectives on Materiality, Media and Religion.

This project investigates the new African Diaspora in Australia and its embrace of Pentecostalism, particularly after arrival. The African community in Australia has often been associated with poor settlement outcomes, and has also been on the receiving end of a racialised moral panic. The project aims: to understand the range of challenges African-Australian communities faces; to determine why so many of their members join Pentecostal churches; to investigate how Pentecostal churches support these communities translocal and transnational mobility and sense of belonging, and; to contribute to policy efforts to improve outcomes for African new arrivals in Australia.

Within this larger project, the PhD candidates will conduct ethnographic research with Pentecostal churches in Australia, and with African Diasporas in the country. Both projects will investigate questions such as: how do Pentecostal churches support/hinder processes of settlement and integration? How do some Pentecostal megachurches generate transnational religious fields ones which may harness resources from branches elsewhere in the world? And what impact does all of this have on Australian cities post-secular social landscapes?

There are two scholarships in this project. One of the PhD candidates will be based in Sydney, at the Religion and Society Research Centre, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, and the other inPerth, at the School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia.

Eligibility Criteria:

We welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds: anthropology, sociology, religious studies, African studies, Migration studies or a related field. In particular, the project is suitable for candidates with strong interests in the intersections of migration and religion.

The successful applicant should:

• hold qualifications and experience equal to one of the following (i) an Australian First Class Bachelor (Honours) degree, (ii) coursework Masters with at least 25% research component, (iii) Research Masters degree, or (iv) equivalent overseas qualifications.
• be enthusiastic and highly motivated to undertake further study at an advanced level.

Applications from students of African heritage are especially welcomed.

International applicants must demonstrate English language proficiency.(opens in new window)

Benefits.

• Domestic candidates will receive a tax-free stipend of $30,000 per annum for up to 3 years to support living costs, supported by the Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset.
• International candidates will receive a tax-free stipend of $30,000 per annum for up to 3 years to support living costs. Those with a strong track record will be eligible for a tuition fee waiver and Overseas Student Health Cover (single policy).(opens in new window)
• Support for training, conference attendance, fieldwork and additional research costs as approved by the School.

Method of Application

Contact Professor Cristina Rocha ([email protected]) to discuss your eligibility, the project requirements and your intention to apply.

2. Review the research scholarships frequently asked questions.(opens in new window)

3. Submit an online application for admission.(opens in new window)

4. Complete the project scholarship application form (PDF, 89.74 KB).(opens in new window)

5. Compile your CV, contact information for two referees, and a one-page proposal stating how your research interests align with the project aims.

6. Submit your scholarship application form and any supporting documentation to the Graduate Research School as follows:

• Use the email subject line:Application_2019_072_SSAP
• Submit to [email protected]
• All attached documents must be submitted as PDF.
• In the body of your email, include your full name, your student ID (if you are a current or previous Western Sydney University student) and the full title of the scholarship.

Applicants who do not submit an online application for admission will not be considered.

Incomplete applications or applications that do not conform to the above requirements will not be considered.

Please contact the Graduate Research School via email at [email protected]for more information.

*Applications close at 11.59pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST).

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Scholarship Application Deadline:30 June 2019

Source: Scholarships And Aid

TheUniversit Paris-Saclay France is offering scholarship opportunities to Interested applicants who are looking at acquiring a degree program at the Institution.

This scholarshipaims to promote access for international students to its Masters programmes, delivered by its member institutions, and to make it easier for highly-qualified international students to join the University, especially for those wishing to develop an academic project through research up to the doctoral level.

Eligible Countries:International

Course Level:Masters

Value Of Scholarships:

• The amount of the Universit Paris-Saclay scholarship is 10,000 per year. It is paid by Universit Paris-Saclay for the duration of the academic year, and for a period of 10 consecutive months (September to June).
• A maximum of 1,000 for travel and visa expenses can also be awarded depending on the candidates country of origin.
• Laureates will receive their scholarship as well as travel expenses only upon arrival in France and once they have enrolled in the programme to which they were admitted.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Applicants must be Newly arrived international students, aged 30 and less during the course of the selection year.
• Applicants must beStudents of foreign nationality living on the French soil for less than a year, previously or currently enrolled in a training course or internship that does not lead to certification.
• Applicants must have completed their Bachelors degree program

Method of Application:Check Official Website {Link found below}

Visit The Scholarship Webpage For More Information

Scholarship Application Deadline:13th May 2019

Source: Scholarships And Aid