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Parliamentary Staff Put To Close Down National, State Assemblies
The association requested that state lead representatives ought to start quick execution of monetary independence for State Assemblies.
National Assembly in Abuja.
Members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) have declared their intentions to embark on a nationwide strike on Wednesday, October 25 2023, if their demands are not addressed by the expiration of a 21-day ultimatum it issued in September.
The association requested, in addition to other things, that state Governors ought to start prompt execution of monetary independence for State Assemblies in accordance with the 1999 Constitution.
A letter of notice kept in touch with the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum, Director of the Gathering of Speakers and the Branch of State Security Administrations, the specialists noticed that they had before given a 21-day strike notice and will hence no do same this time around.
The letter endorsed by PASAN National President, Mohammed Usman, "emphasize the Association's readiness to guide the individuals to set out on the proposed strike activity on the off chance that its requests are not respected".
‘Victory For Our Exploited Continent’, Tinubu Hails UK Court Verdict On P&ID Case
"Today's victory is not for Nigeria alone. It is a victory for our long
exploited continent," the President said.
President Bola Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, described as a victory for Africa, Nigeria’s win in the $11bn Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited arbitration award.
The President commended Justice Robin Knowles of the Commercial Courts of England and Wales for “prioritising the merits of the case above all other considerations”.
“This landmark judgment proves conclusively that nation states will no longer be held hostage by economic conspiracies between private firms and solitarily corrupt officials who conspire to extort and indebt the very nations they swear to defend and protect,” the President said in a statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale.
“Today’s victory is not for Nigeria alone. It is a victory for our long exploited continent and for the developing world at large, which has for too long been on the receiving end of unjust economic malpractice and overt exploitation.
“Nigeria is appreciative of the tremendous efforts of the defense team and acknowledges the role of the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Office of the Attorney-General in the process of defending Nigeria’s interest in this case,” the President stated.
With the judgement delivered on Monday, Nigeria succeeded in stopping the enforcement of the award which was initially in favour of P&ID.
According to the judge, the award against Nigeria by the company was obtained by fraud.
“In the circumstances and for the reasons I have sought to describe and explain, Nigeria succeeds on its challenge under section 68. I have not accepted all of Nigeria’s allegations. But the Awards were obtained by fraud and the Awards were and the way in which they were procured was contrary to public policy,” Justice Knowles ruled.
In January 2010, the P&ID signed a Gas Supply and Processing Agreement (GSPA) with Nigeria to develop a processing plant in Calabar, the Cross River State capital but the deal failed in August 2012 and the company sought a $5.96bn compensation from Nigeria with arbitration proceedings against the country at the London Court of International Arbitration.
In January 2017, the arbitration said Nigeria breached the contract and ordered the country to pay the company $6.6bn with interest starting from May 2013. Before the verdict, the interest fixed at seven percent ($1m daily) had accumulated to over $11bn.
Subsequently, Nigeria filed an appeal against the enforcement of the award and the court granted the relief sought by the country in September 2020. The Nigerian side argued that there was enough evidence that the contract and the arbitration award were procured by fraud.
The Nigerian side thereby urged the court to set the award aside, saying that some individuals in the case were being tried for money laundering and graft.
Israel-Hamas War: Nigeria Should Be Neutral, Says Prof Akinyemi
We should not take sides and we don’t need to take sides, said the former Minister of External Affairs.
Prof Bolaji Akinyemi
A Professor of Political Science, Bolaji Akinyemi, says Nigeria should not take sides in the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas.
“We should not take sides and we don’t need to take sides,” an octogenarian Akinyemi said in a live appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
Russia and Ukraine was yet to subside, Hamas militants from Gaza stormed across the border into Israel on October 7, launching a raid that killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians who were shot, mutilated or burnt to death on the first day, according to Israeli officials.
They also seized more than 200 hostages in the worst-ever attack in Israel’s history.
Israel has hit back with a relentless bombing campaign which has so far killed more than 4,600 Palestinians, mainly civilians, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Hours after the war commenced, the Nigerian Government called for de-escalation and ceasefire between both warring parties.
Speaking on Sunday, Prof Akinyemi, also a former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), said Nigeria should be neutral.
He said, “We should be neutral. I congratulate President Tinubu for the position he’s taken. We should be for peace, we should be calling for a ceasefire, we should be calling for humanitarian corridors that allow water, medicine, food to be going in.
“We should also be suggesting the way forward, ultimate way forward: 1948 United Nations Resolution creating two states – the Palestinian State and an Israeli State; those are the things that are key to a resolution of the conflict in that place.
“We should not take sides and we don’t need to take sides. And in any case, the problem in that place is so complex. There are no good guys and there are no bad guys. So, there is no need for us to be righteous in our position.”
Bodies Stack Up In Focal Gaza As Israel Moves forward Strikes
In excess of 260 individuals kicked the bucket in 24 hours, as per the wellbeing service cost, which expressed 1,873 of those killed in the past fortnight were kids.
Rescuers search for victims or survivers under the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023 amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group.
Scores of people rushed to Deir el-Balah hospital to identify bodies on Sunday after Israel stepped up its air strikes on Gaza, as the territory’s Hamas rulers said 4,651 people have now been killed since the start of the war.
Specialists said Deir el-Balah in focal Gaza, had experienced generally one of the most extreme evenings of shelling since Israel began its siege because of Hamas' cross-line assaults on October 7.
In excess of 260 individuals passed on in 24 hours, as per the wellbeing service cost, which expressed 1,873 of those killed in the past fortnight were kids.
Israel started besieging the small area after Hamas aggressors raged over the boundary on October 7, killing something like 1,400 individuals, for the most part regular people, and abducting in excess of 200 in the deadliest assault in Israel's set of experiences.
At the emergency clinic funeral home in Deir el-Balah, bodies were wherever including that of Mohammad Judeh and his three-year-old girl Misk, who were put on similar table, their countenances revealed.
Judeh's cousin Wael Wafi said the young lady was embracing her dad when their bodies were pulled from the flotsam and jetsam.
"All the Judeh family, including my auntie, were killed in the assault," said Wafi.
"Two structures were obliterated and descended on them."
Some relatives had taken asylum in the structure in the wake of evading shelling in northern Gaza, he added.
"My cousin was resting in his home with his little girl in his arms. He was a man with no record, nothing to do with the opposition," said Wafi.
Demise in the south
One more lady in the funeral home almost fallen subsequent to lifting the sheets lying over bodies to find her little girl and different individuals from her loved ones.
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Their names — Layan, Hani and Joane — were composed on their legs. A relative later driven the distressed lady away.
In the southern town of Khan Yunis, one strike on the Rio bistro killed 13 individuals.
The bistro was on the ground floor of a structure lodging individuals who had escaped Israel's barrage of northern Gaza.
Israel has given day to day alerts for individuals to leave the north.
"I heard a blast and afterward I saw residue, flares and flotsam and jetsam flying. Once more, one moment later they struck," said Naji Shurrab, who lives inverse the bistro.
'Move south for wellbeing'
Israel said Saturday it was moving forward its strikes and has massed huge number of troops around Gaza for a broadly anticipated ground intrusion.
It says its day to day assaults have previously killed numerous pioneers and military leaders of the Palestinian Islamist bunch that has administered Gaza starting around 2007.
"From today, we are expanding the strikes and limiting the risk," an Israeli military representative said late Saturday. "We will expand the assaults and in this manner I approach Gaza City occupants to keep moving south for their security."
Israel has more than once encouraged Gaza's 1.1 million occupants of the north to push south forward of any ground activity.
As strikes pound the strip, the Hamas government additionally hit out at the absence of help, in spite of the appearance of 37 trucks on Saturday and Sunday. It said there were currently 1.4 million dislodged individuals inside the territory.
"The guide that showed up in Gaza isn't enough for one day. We approach the worldwide local area to constrain the Israeli government to get great many trucks," Hamas said in a proclamation.
At least around 55 Dead As Israel Moves forward Gaza Strikes
Israel has massed huge number of troops around Gaza for a generally anticipated ground intrusion.
Palestinians inspect the debris after an Israeli strike near an United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 21, 2023.
Overnight raids on the Gaza Strip killed at least 55 people, the Hamas government said on Sunday, after Israel announced it was stepping up strikes.
"In excess of 55 saints," the public authority press office said in an explanation on the most recent evening of besieging because of the Hamas assaults on Israel on October 7.
It added that in excess of 30 homes had been obliterated in the hours after an Israeli military representative said that strikes would be expanded.
The Hamas government expresses in excess of 4,300 individuals, for the most part regular folks, have been killed in Israeli assaults since the conflict began because of the most exceedingly terrible assaults endured by Israel with 1,400 dead, additionally principally regular citizens.
Israel has massed huge number of troops around Gaza for a generally anticipated ground intrusion. It says its everyday strikes have proactively killed numerous Hamas chiefs and military commandants.
"From today, we are expanding the strikes and limiting the risk," an Israeli military representative said late Saturday. "We will build the assaults and subsequently I approached Gaza City occupants to keep moving south for their security."
Israel has over and again encouraged the 1.1 million individuals in the north of Gaza to push south forward of any ground activity.
The Hamas government likewise hit out at the absence of help showing up, regardless of the appearance of 20 trucks an in the Palestinian area on Saturday. It said there were presently 1.4 million uprooted individuals in the territory.
"The guide that showed up in Gaza isn't enough for one day. We approach the global local area to constrain the Israeli government to acquire huge number of trucks," said the articulation.
Troops Kill Thought IPOB Part, Capture Escaping Jos Jail Escapee In Enugu
At the point when requested by the soldiers to end and land from the bike, the suspect ran away to get away from capture.
The suspected escapee from Jos jailbreak, Chimezie Chukwu alias Biggi, is accused of drug peddling, gunrunning and armed robbery. Credit: Army
Troops of Sector 4 deployed at Forward Operational Base in Okigwe have killed a suspected member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Imo State.
The Acting Deputy Director of Armed force Public Relations, 82 Division, Lieutenant Colonel Jonah Unuakhalu, revealed this in an explanation gave on Saturday in Enugu on the functional forward leap of the Joint Team Activity UDO KA II.
At the point when requested by the soldiers to end and land from the bike, Unuakhalu said the suspect ran away to get away from capture.
"All endeavors to stop him demonstrated failed, compelling the soldiers to start shooting and kill the suspect," the assertion read.
"Things recuperated from him are two live adjusts of 7.62mm Exceptional, One ITEL Cell phone, one little pack containing charms, the amount of N2,300 just and One Qlink bike."
TROOPS OF Activity UDO KA II Capture ESCAPEE OF JOS Jail BREAK
Troops of Area 1 of the Joint Team South East Activity UDO KA II on Friday 20 October 2023 related to the Division of State Security Enugu State Order led a strike activity to… pic.twitter.com/AIvnjBjnUe
— Nigerian Armed force (@HQNigerianArmy) October 22, 2023
Essentially, troops of Area One of the Joint Team South East, code-named "Activity Udo Ka II" in a joint activity with the Division of State Administrations (DSS), captured an escapee from Jos escape during a strike in Enugu.
The escapee was secured during a strike on the safe-house of associated individuals with IPOB and ESN in Ugbakwa town in the Nkanu East Neighborhood Government Area of Enugu State.
"During the strike tasks, troops secured one Mr Chimezie Chukwu pseudonym Biggi, an escapee of Jos Jail Break known to be a medication seller, gunrunner and furthermore well versed in equipped burglary.
"Things recuperated from him included: six cell phones, three cell phone batteries, one Moniepoint POS and ATM card, two bunches of substances thought to just be marijuana and the amount of N107,280.
"The suspect and recuperated things are in the guardianship of the Branch of State Administrations (DSS) for additional examination," a representative of the 82 Division said.
Shettima Shows up In US For AfDB World Food Prizes Discussion
He will likewise hold high-stakes gatherings with producers, financial backers and top government authorities across certain conditions of the US.
Vice-President Kashim Shettima
Vice President Kashim Shettima has arrived in the United States of America to participate in the World Food Prize to be held in Iowa.
The occasion worked with by Norman E. Borlaug Worldwide Discourse will start on Tuesday, October 24, 2023.
This was uncovered in an explanation on Sunday by the Unique Partner to the President on Media and Correspondences (Office of the Vice President), Mr Stanley Nkwocha, saying the Vice President who is the Exceptional Visitor at the occasion will likewise convey the feature address.
He will likewise hold high-stakes gatherings with producers, financial backers and top government authorities across certain conditions of the US.
Shettima will utilize the stage to address the possibilities and enrichments of Nigeria's agrarian area, charm financial backers and push for responsibilities in accomplishing President Bola Tinubu's commands and projects for Nigeria's agro-food area.
Recognized African pioneers who in the past have utilized the occasion to material help for horticultural turn of events and food adequacy in Africa incorporate Late previous United Countries Secretary-General and AGRA organizer, Kofi Annan, previous President Olusegun Obasanjo, Presidents Felix Tshishiked and Joaquim Chissano, and AfDB President, Akinwunmi Adeshina among others.
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His Excellency, Vice President Kashim Shettima has shown up the US of America to take part in the AfDB World Food Prize-worked with Norman E. Borlaug Global Exchange scheduled for Iowa.
As the exceptional visitor, the Vice President is expected to convey the feature address at the occasion which starts on October 24th, 2023. In the schedule of the Vice President while in the US are high stake gatherings across certain conditions of the US with makers, financial backers and top government authorities.
On the Norman E. Borlaug Global Discourse, Vice President Shettima as expressed before, will join the late previous United Countries Secretary-General and AGRA organizer, Kofi Annan; World Food Prize Laureates; Ghana President, John Kufuor and AfDB President, Akinwunmi Adeshina; previous President Olusegun Obasanjo; Presidents Felix Tshishiked and Joaquim Chissano; Joyce Banda; Ameenah Gurib - Fakim and IFAD President, Kanayo Nwanze as recognized African pioneers who in the past have utilized the occasion to material help for horticultural turn of events and food adequacy in Africa.
The Vice President will utilize the stage to address the possibilities and gifts of Nigeria's farming area, charm financial backers and push for responsibilities in accomplishing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's orders and projects for Nigeria's agro-food area.
