Obi Hails EFCC Chairman, Urges Fight Against Corruption
News Source: Punch Newspapers
The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has hailed the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, regarding the alarm he raised on the extensive looting of Nigeria’s treasury and assets by public officials.
In a statement on Monday via X, Obi expressed his support for prioritising the fight against grand corruption.
He said, “I have consistently advocated for prioritising the tackling of grand corruption, which has ravaged our economy and impoverished our citizens.”
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Strike Not Imminent–ASUU
News Source: Daily Trust
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that a strike is not imminent if the Federal Government implements the agreements reached in the next two weeks.
Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, President of ASUU, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday (NAN).
ASUU had threatened to embark on strike over the non-implementation of agreements reached with the federal government.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman on June 26 invited the union for a meeting to deliberate on the lingering issues affecting universities and to avert the planned strike.
Russian Missiles Kill 31 In Ukraine, Gut Kyiv Children’s Hospital
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Russia struck cities across Ukraine on Monday with a missile barrage that killed 31 people and heavily damaged a Kyiv children’s hospital in an assault condemned as a ruthless attack on civilians.
Dozens of volunteers, doctors and rescue workers were digging through debris of a part of Okhmatdyt paediatric hospital in a desperate search for survivors after the rare day-time bombardment, AFP journalists on the scene saw.
The first responders ran for cover when sirens and a explosion sounded after the initial strikes — a repeat attack that left four dead at a maternity hospital in a separate district of Kyiv, emergency services said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces fired more than 40 missiles toward at least five major civilian hub, mainly in the south and east of the country, as well as the capital.
Zelensky arrived in Poland as news of the strikes broke to sign a security deal with Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, where the leaders held of minute of silence for the victims.
Gunmen kill 3 vigilantes, teenager in Imo
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Unidentified gunmen, Sunday evening, killed three vigilantes and a teenager in Umuaka, Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State.
A source in the community said the vigilantes were on a patrol in a bus in the community when the gunmen attacked them at Afor Umuaka.
According to the source, the attackers laid an ambush and opened fire on the security men.
A stray bullet was said to have hit the teenager who died on the spot.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Henry Okoye, who confirmed the incident, said a tactical squad had been deployed to append the attackers.
“The Commissioner of Police Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma, has strongly condemned the attack and gruesome murder of the vigilante Personnel of the Umuaka Autonomous Community by gunmen on Sunday evening, 7/07/2024.