Gunman at Trump rally confirmed dead
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Two people have died after a gunman opened fired at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania – with the former president also suffering a bullet wound to his ear.
The US Secret Service confirmed that a suspected gunman fired “multiple shots” toward the stage from what they described as an “elevated position outside of the rally venue”.
The gunman had been “neutralised” by US Secret Service personnel and confirmed dead. The agency also confirmed a spectator had been killed and two others critically injured.
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US Election: Elon Musk endorses Donald Trump
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Billionaire businessman, Elon Musk has endorsed former US President and Republican Party candidate, Donald Trump, for the upcoming election.
Musk openly declared his support for Trump on Saturday night while reacting to reports of a shooting at the former President’s rally in Pennsylvania.
Video appeared to show blood on Trump’s ear as he was rushed off-stage by security staff.
The shooting resulted in the deaths of the shooter and one audience member, according to the Associated Press.
Renard, two others shortlisted for Super Eagles
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ScoreNigeria can exclusively report today that the NFF technical committee has recommended Herve Renard and two other foreign coaches to be considered to lead the Super Eagles.
The NFF executive committee will now decide on who will be the next coach of the Super Eagles.
The immediate task of the new coach will be the 2025 AFCON qualifiers, which get underway in September, before the resumption of the 2026 World Cup in March 2025.
LG financial autonomy not quite the solution
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The entire country, including governors swearing under their breath, is unabashedly euphoric about last Thursday’s Supreme Court judgement granting financial autonomy to the local governments. Some have gleefully touted this legal victory as the early beginnings of restructuring. Unfortunately, nearly everyone is mistaken, not excluding the Supreme Court. Insisting that a ‘literal and narrow interpretation’ of Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution would amount to ‘injustice’ to the local governments, and preferring instead a ‘purposive and teleological interpretation’ in order to enable the federal government use ‘discretion’ in paying the allocations of the LGs, the Supreme Court all but rewrote the constitution. In the end, last Thursday, the Supreme Court was happy, the governors winced but also grinned lest they be regarded as sore and pampered losers, and the public, giddy with delight, shouted hosanna. It is not in every high-profile case that everyone strains to be happy; but this time, the excitement and satisfaction were nearly unanimous. Nigerians at the receiving end of bad governance were painfully aware of the excesses of the states in their dealings with the LGs. They can now heave a sigh of relief that at last the judicial knight in shining armour had come to the rescue of starved and beleaguered LGs.
Thursday’s judgement brought to an ecstatic and probably cathartic end the suit filed by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, in May praying the Supreme Court to order the direct allocation of funds from the federation account to the local governments, and another order prohibiting the dissolution of local governments by governors or appointment of caretaker committees. The AGF knew that without litigating the distortions in local government funding and administration, the states, which had remained obdurate on the subject and continued to flout the constitution, would remain unyielding. If the issue of paying allocations to the LGs through the states and their national and state legislatures was a little ambiguous, the issue of caretaker committees was not by one jot ambiguous. Over 20 states deliberately flouted the constitution on the issue of LG caretaker committees. Now the federal government has unalterable legal backing to withhold allocations to any such unelected local government. No Nigerian, and not the constitution itself, doubts the justness of the Supreme Court decision in its interpretation of Section 7 of the 1999 Constitution. But while the states cannot appeal to any higher court on the issue of how to pay the LGs, for the sake of the integrity of the constitution the National Assembly should quickly amend Section 162 to save the blushes of the Supreme Court, national lawmakers, and bewildered Nigerians discomfited by how expansively the Court stretched its interpretations.