Today's Headlines: LG autonomy: Break your silence, commend Tinubu – Presidency tackles Peter Obi , Otti moves to avert indefinite strike, pledges to create new ministry
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The presidency has tackled the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi over his silence to the Supreme Court’s judgement granting financial autonomy to local governments.
President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, charged Obi to act like Atiku Abubakar by commenting on the epochal judgement and admitting that the president is making Nigeria great.
Posting on his X page, Onanuga said a good opposition should be able to commend its opponent.
He wrote: “Why is Peter Obi silent?
“More than 36 hours after the Supreme Court gave a landmark ruling, granting financial autonomy to Nigeria’s 774 local councils, Mr. Peter Obi, the defeated Labour Party candidate, has yet to utter a word on the epochal judgment.
“His silence confirms the belief that he is always quick to tweet unverified news about the Tinubu administration or our country.
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Following the threat by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and Trade Union Congress, TUC, to embark on indefinite strike from July 15, Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has commenced negotiations with leaders of organized labour in the state.
The negotiation, which started on Friday, is expected to continue on Saturday and is aimed at ensuring welfare of the workers in the state.
During the negotiations, the Governor promised that his administration would create a Ministry of Labour and Productivity which he said, will be headed by a person from the labour fold.
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The President of the Alumni Association of Girls Academy, located on Simpson Street in Lagos Island, Mrs Amudat Oshigunwa,
has urged the state government to help remove an electric pole within the school premises, which she described as a death trap.
Mrs Oshigunwa stated this, while speaking with journalists after a visit to the school by some members of the association on Thursday.
The alumni association president said further that while flooding has been a recurring decimal in the school, the electric pole is a new development that must be dealt with.
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Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, have conducted a raid on the residence of a suspected terrorist in the Gbeganu area, a suburb of Minna, Niger State capital.
The operation, which took place on Wednesday, resulted in the recovery of firearms and a substantial amount of cash, including dollar bills.
The suspect targeted in the operation was described as a storekeeper for a terrorist group.
The daytime raid caused fear among local residents, marking the third such operation in less than four years in the neighboring areas of Nkangbe and Gbeganu, both in the Bosso Local Government Area.
Though details about the specific firearms recovered were not disclosed, sources familiar with the operation reported that a significant amount of cash was seized.
Some residents recounted that the suspect was known locally as a tricycle rider before the raid exposed his alleged involvement in terrorist activities.