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Black Lives Matter, a movement which became a rallying cry following the killing of an unarmed black man by US police has been proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, a Norwegian MP said Saturday.
The movement which was founded in the United States in 2013 received a lot of backing in May after George Floyd died. A white policeman had knelt on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes ignoring Floyd’s appeal that he couldn’t breathe.
The incident fuelled protests in the United States, thereby spreading across the world.
Petter Eide, a socialist lawmaker who proposed BLM for the Peace Prize, told AFP: “This movement has become one of the strongest global movements for working with racial injustice,”
“They have also been spread to many many countries, building up… awareness on the importance of fighting racial injustice,” he said.
Tens of thousands of people, including MPs and ministers from all countries, former Nobel laureates and distinguished academics, can propose candidates for the various Nobel prizes. The deadline is on Sunday.
Several other names have been mooted for the Peace Prize including controversial Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange, former US President Donald Trump, media rights group RSF and a trio of Belarusian opposition leaders led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
The Nobel prizes will be announced at the start of October. This year’s prize went to the World Food Programme, the UN food agency.
A new Aide-de-Camp has been appointed for the President Muhammadu Buhari. According to State House sources, the new ADC, Lt-Col Y.M. Dodo, takes over from Col. M.L. Abubakar who has […]
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