Tinubu congratulates UK Labour leader, Starmer on poll victory
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President Bola Tinubu on Friday congratulated Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, on the victory of his party in the United Kingdom general election.
Starmer emerged winner of the UK general election and is set to become the next prime minister of the country.
Rishi Sunak, the outgoing Conservative Prime Minister who has already conceded defeat, said he will step down as leader of the Conservative Party before tendering his resignation letter to the King.
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Kogi: Stop intimidating INEC, Judiciary, CSOs tell politicians
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A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations(CSOs) has called on politicians to exercise restraints in their criticism, intimidation and harassment of the country’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The coalition, during a peaceful protest led by the Convener, Dr. Wisdom Ohalete at the headquarters of the INEC in Abuja on Thursday, also expressed worry over the orgy of “needless harassment” of the judiciary by political actors, noting that it undermined the sanctity of the nation’s electoral system and the independence of the judiciary.
The coalition staged the protest in response to one led by a group which called itself Concerned Kogi Citizens Forum where it told the National Assembly that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) of the INEC was the problem of the country and that professors were being used to rig election and should stop being appointed as Returning Officers.
Lagos police rescue pregnant teenager from committing suicide
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LAGOS—A 19-year-old pregnant girl, who was on the verge of committing suicide has been rescued by police officers attached to Ikorodu Area Command, Lagos.
The girl, said to be eight months pregnant, called one of her bosom friends, lamenting that she was fed up with life after the boy that impregnated her abandoned her.
Worse still, she was said to have expressed worries that the woman she was working for as a Point of Sale, POS, operator in Ikorodu area was threatening to arrest her after she was duped of N100,000 by a customer.
We’ve arrested 4,000 criminals in 6 months —Lagos CP Adegoke
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LAGOS—Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Fayoade Adegoke, has disclosed that the command has arrested no fewer than 4,000 suspected criminals, who have been prosecuted in court and sent to prison, while the foreigners among them were handed over the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS.
The arrests and prosecution, it was gathered, followed an alarming influx of foreigners with questional characters into Lagos State.
These individuals, mostly from neighbouring countries, reportedly sneaked into Nigeria and found their way to Lagos without proper documentation, making it difficult for authorities to track their activities.