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By Halimah Olamide A group sympathetic to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party Mr. Peter Obi, has accused the Department of State Security of preempting the judgement of the presidential election tribunal which is set to rule on Wednesday. The group, Peter Obi Grassroots Mobilization said in a statement on Tuesday that the DSS’s alarm is politically motivated. The organization said it is aware of the ruling coming up on Wednesday adding that the alarm being raised by the security service is to prevent Nigerians from demanding justice from the tribunal. The group said it has credible information indicating…
By Halimah Olamide Many offices have been shut down on different parts of Nigeria on Tuesday as the two day warning strike called by the Nigerian Labour Congress commenced. Port workers in Lagos, some transport workers and some government offices closed shops on Tuesday in obedience to the call by the NLC. Though a section of workers under the Trade Union Congress has dissociated itself from the strike, the strike has taken its toll on some sectors of the economy. TUC had said it would not join the strike saying it’s more disposed to dialogue than fighting the government. A…
US First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday evening and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House says. The 72-year-old, who is vaccinated and has received boosters, will stay at home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where she and President Joe Biden spent part of the weekend. The president tested negative for the virus after her diagnosis. He then travelled back to Washington DC on his own on Monday night. Mr Biden, 80, “will test at a regular cadence this week and monitor for symptoms”, a spokeswoman said. His wife’s positive test comes ahead of a busy week…
In a highly personal interview, Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska has told the BBC of the emotional impact the war has had on her family. “This may be a bit selfish, but I need my husband, not a historical figure, by my side,” she said. She also spoke of the family missing spending time together. “But we stay strong, we have strength both emotionally and physically. And I am sure we will handle it together,” she added. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Olena Zelenska spent months in hiding in secret locations with her children. She described her emotional…
KAMPALA, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Ugandan police have arrested another five people and discovered five more explosives around the capital Kampala in a bombing plot linked to an Islamist rebel group, the force said. Based in the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) pledges allegiance to the militant movement Islamic State and has for years hit civilians and military targets in both Congo and Uganda. Ugandan authorities detained a first suspect with a bomb in a bag outside a packed church on Sunday, triggering a manhunt that led to a further five arrests and the retrieval of five…
Organisers have given the go-ahead for large numbers of revellers to leave the Burning Man festival in Nevada after wet conditions eased. They said people could begin leaving the desert site at noon (19:00 GMT) but suggested delaying until Tuesday to prevent congestion. Heavy rain had created a mud bath. Of some 72,000 people stranded, 62,000 were still there at noon. Organisers also said a man’s death on Friday was unrelated to the weather. Emergency services were called to help the man, said to be about 40 years old, but he could not be resuscitated, they said. The local sheriff’s…
There is tension in the Mile 2 area of Lagos Tuesday morning after one person was killed. NPO Reports gathered that some task force men had visited the area for a yet to be determined reason. However resistance by some hoodlums was said to have compelled the task force men to open fire to disperse the hoodlums. In the process one person was reportedly gunned down. The incident has led to many to stay indoors while the streets are deserted. A social media user Douye Ken who shared a video of the crisis showed a scene where fire was raging.…
By Temitope Ajayi Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State, perennial international statesman and oracle of diplomacy profiled six world leaders, now of blessed memories, in his most recent book, “Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy’. These long departed leaders were the architects of the post-war evolution of their respective societies. The leaders: Konrad Adenauer (Germany), Charles de Gaulle (France), Richard Nixon (United States), Anwar Sadat (Egypt), Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore) and Margaret Thatcher (Britain) reshaped and redefined their national purposes, having inherited a postwar world that was in turmoil and full of uncertainties. They opened up new frontiers,…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, today commences a two-day warning strike calling out its members nationwide to shun work. This follows IT’s decision to shun a meeting with the Federal Government over increasing hardship and suffering across the country caused by the removal of fuel subsidy. This was just as the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong, yesterday warned that the strike will worsen the plights of ordinary Nigerians and urged NLC to shelve the action. The NLC had on Friday, given notice of a two-day warning strike to protest the excruciating mass suffering and impoverishment experienced around the…
The Lagos State House of Assembly, on Monday inaugurated an ad-hoc committee to investigate the case of a 12-year-old boy, Adebola Akin-Bright, whose small intestine allegedly got missing during his treatment. The Speaker, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, inaugurated the committee at a plenary on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that on Friday, the mother of the boy, Abiodun Deborah, had cried out over the disappearance of her child’s small intestine during his treatment at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). Obasa said the ad-hoc committee would be set up to investigate the issue and report back to…