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22/06/2024

WEDDING GLAMOUR

Today, there was a happy moment between the family of Kieribo and Chief Lawal at a glamorous gathering where the two great families came together to celebrate this union. Friends from different states of the country also attended the gathering among others.

Pride Esther and groom Olusegun have decided to tie the knot at a lavish wedding in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Guess also expressed his happiness by hugging those present and wishing the newlywed couple long life and prosperity.

22/06/2024

US tells Israel it will support Israel in a conflict with Hezbollah

Senior US officials told Israeli officials that in the event of war in the North with Hezbollah, the US was ready to provide Israel with all the support it needed, according to a CNN report.

According to the report, the promise was conveyed to Israel at a meeting held by Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Council head Tzachi Hanegbi in Washington this week.

22/06/2024

Kuwait urges its citizens in Lebanon to leave the country amid increasing tensions

The Kuwaiti Foreign Affairs Ministry has called on its citizens who are currently in Lebanon to leave the country due to fears of escalation and the transition to full-scale war between the Hezbollah terrorist organization and Israel.

22/06/2024

Anti-tank missiles directly hit two houses in Metulla

Anti-tank missiles directly hit two houses in Metulla on Saturday, Walla reported. Fires have broken out in the houses and their yards.

22/06/2024

Militia kills at least 23 people in eastern Congo village attacks

A militia killed at least 23 people in attacks on several villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province in recent days, local authorities said on Saturday.

The Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) group, one of many armed groups operating in the conflict-ridden east, carried out the killings in Djugu territory on Thursday and Friday.

"Most of the victims were killed with machetes, but those who tried to flee were shot. In all these villages, people's belongings were taken, houses were burnt down," said Vital Tungulo, president of Djugu's Nyali-Kilo community.

The motive for the attacks was not clear but militia violence in Congo is linked to long-running competition for influence and the region's rich mineral resources.

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29/10/2023

Tinubu meets German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz in A*o Rock;

President Bola Tinubu on Sunday met with the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The German leader began his two-day visit to Nigeria on Sunday and will hold talks with government officials and players in the private sector during his stay in Africa’s biggest economy.

On his arrival, Olaf Scholz was received by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on behalf of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, alongside another top Nigerian government official.

The two-day visit by the German Chancellor between the 29th and 30th of October is aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between Germany and Nigeria.

Scholz will proceed to Lagos where he will open a Nigeria-German Business Conference organised by the Nigerian-German Chamber of Commerce.

While in Lagos, he will interface with representatives of Nigerian Civil Society as well as with Nigerian start-up entrepreneurs.

Along with the delegation, Chancellor Scholz will take part in a tour of the city of Lagos to gain insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by a megacity such as Lagos.

29/10/2023

Israeli troops push into Gaza as war enters ‘second stage’:

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says his country’s war with Hamas has entered its ‘second stage’ as Israeli troops and armoured vehicles push into Gaza in an expansion of ground operations.

29/10/2023

UNIFIL says peacekeeper injured on Lebanese-Israeli border:

United Nations peacekeeping force UNIFIL said on Sunday that one of its members was injured after shells hit the mission's base near the village of Houla on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday.

The Israeli army and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon have been exchanging fire on a daily basis since the start of the Gaza conflict three weeks ago.

UNIFIL said on Saturday that its headquarters near the Lebanese coastal town of Naqoura was also damaged by a shell that landed inside the base.

22/10/2023

Hamas caught firing rockets from next to UN facilities, schools - IDF

Hamas has placed its rocket launchers next to schools, UN facilities, mosques, and kindergartens, with the IDF publishing aerial footage showing the proximity of the launchers to civilian facilities on Sunday.
"Since the beginning of the war, the terrorist organization Hamas has been firing rockets from the Gaza Strip while cynically exploiting the uninvolved population and civilian sites such as kindergartens, schools, and mosques, and launching into the territory of the State of Israel with the clear intention of harming the citizens of the country," said the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

22/10/2023

14 aid trucks have entered Gaza from Egypt

IN CAIRO, Fourteen humanitarian aid trucks have entered Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing.

Humanitarian aid to Gaza has been a major source of controversy since the war between Israel and Hamas began two weeks ago.

22/10/2023

Pope, Biden discuss Israel-Hamas conflict, other wars - Vatican

Pope Francis and US President Joe Biden discussed the Israel-Hamas conflict and other wars in a telephone conversation on Sunday, the Vatican said.

The conversation lasted about 20 minutes and "focused on conflict situations in the world and the need to identify paths to peace," the Vatican said.

Israel is preparing for a ground assault on Gaza, two weeks after a Hamas attack in Israel that killed 1,400 people.

Earlier in the day, Francis told crowds in St Peter's Square he was deeply saddened by the "grave situation in Gaza," where an Anglican hospital and a Greek Orthodox church had been bombed.

"Brothers, stop," Pope Francis said.

Biden, who is a Catholic, said on Saturday that he was talking to the Israelis when asked if he was encouraging them to delay an invasion of Gaza.

Hamas said it took about 200 hostages during the incursion into communities and military bases in southern Israel.

The pope has several times called for the release of hostages.

01/07/2023

Israel to approve construction of new town in Galilee region.

IN JERUSALEM, Construction Minister Goldknopf announced that on Sunday he plans to bring forward a bill for the establishment of a new town, to be named Ramat Arbel.
The construction of a new town in the Lower Galilee, to be called Ramat Arbel, is expected to be approved by the government on Sunday, Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf announced on Thursday.

Goldknopf toured the Galilee on Thursday as part of his policy to strengthen the Jewish presence and settlement in the area. To further these goals, Goldknopf announced that on Sunday he plans to bring forward a bill proposal for the first establishment of a new town in years, which will be named Ramat Arbel.

"Beyond increasing supply and lowering housing prices, this has important news for strengthening Jewish settlement in the Galilee," Goldknopf stated.

The plan is a cooperation of Goldknopf's ministry with the ministries of Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, Immigration and Absorption Minister Ofir Sofer and the Settlement and National Missions Minister Orit Struck. In the first stage, the initial planning of the settlement will be financed with millions of shekels.

Multiple ministries cooperated to advance the plan
"We promised, and we keep. In the election campaign and also in the coalition agreements, we promised to establish a new settlement in the Galilee - 'Ramat Arbel' and now it is coming to fruition," Wasserlauf said. "On Sunday, together with Housing Minister Goldknopf, we will submit the establishment of the Ramat Arbel settlement to the government's decision."

Ramat Arbel is planned to be a community settlement, where about 500 families, some of them recent immigrants, will be able to live.

Goldknopf received an overview of the site and the general area designated for the establishment of the new settlement and talked with people from the settlement nucleus, which is already in place, about the strategic importance of the new town.

Minister Ofir Sofer added: "As a resident of the Galilee and as someone who accompanied the road to the establishment of the settlement in Ramat Arbel, I am happy to take part in the decision to plan and establish the settlement. This step will strengthen the Galilee and the settlement will be geared towards absorbing immigrant families."

29/06/2023

German rail union agrees to postpone strikes with third-party mediation

"After the failure of the negotiations, we declared that we would not oppose such a procedure - and now we are keeping our word," EVG chief negotiation Kristian Loroch announced on Thursday.

Nevertheless, he said, the union will forge ahead with a ballot to decide whether to hold prolonged rail strikes in the coming weeks.

"Our voting members at Deutsche Bahn AG will therefore vote on the outcome of the conciliation and thus also on the possibility of indefinite industrial action," EVG said in a statement. "If the result is not convincing, indefinite strikes will be the consequence."

According to the EVG, however, it does not intend to carry out any further warning strikes until the start of the conciliation process.

The arbitration process is the latest twist in an embittered pay dispute between the rail operator and Germany's largest rail union.

On Wednesday, Deutsche Bahn had launched its bid for external mediation in order to avoid strikes that were expected to be held on Tuesday.

A day earlier, Bild had reported that a decision on future warning strikes would be taken by Thursday afternoon.

Failed talks

Last week, EVG had declared that months of pay negotiations between the two sides had failed and had announced plans to ballot its 110,000 members on the possibility of prolonged strikes.

The strike ballot is likely to take four to five weeks, it said. But officials stressed that warning strikes were still possible during this time.

Nevertheless, in recent media interviews the union had expressed its willingness for arbitration in the collective bargaining dispute.

"If the employer approaches us with a demand for arbitration, we can decide quickly," EVG leader Martin Burkert told Bayerischer Rundfunk last week.

Such a mediation led to a breakthrough in public sector pay negotiations between services union Verdi and the local authorities back in May.

EVG has been calling for a 12 percent pay rise or at least €650 extra per month for its members over 12 months - at which time pay negotiations would be reopened.

This has been a key issue for the union after the union signed a long contract back in 2020 that prevented them from responding the steep rise in the cost of living.

Meanwhile, Deutsche Bahn has countered with a staggered 12 percent increase for lower earners, 10 percent for middle earners and eight percent for top earners - but with a duration of 27 months.

Current discussions go far beyond the issue of pay, however, with working conditions and working hours also up for negotiation.

Shortly before EVG branded the talks "a failure", the two sides had drawn up a 140-page document that was set to be used as a future collective agreement.