BRITISH Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, faced heavy criticism on Tuesday for describing the arrival of asylum seekers as an invasion, with lawmakers across the political spectrum warning of the risk of using inflammatory language. Her comments came a day after a man used fire bombs to attack an immigration processing centre in the port town of Dover. Braverman, who is fighting to save her job after she admitted breaching security rules, told parliament on Monday that she was working to stop the “invasion on our southern coast” in reference to the arrival of migrants in small boats across the English…
Author: admin
Read More
A REPORT by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has predicted a gloomy labour market fundamentals across the globe due to the conflict in Ukraine and other overlapping economic and political crises threatening labour market recovery. Contained in the latest (10th) edition of ‘ILO Monitor on the World of Work’, the report said the outlook for global labour markets has worsened in recent months and on current trends job vacancies will decline and global employment growth will deteriorate significantly in the final quarter of 2022. The report also finds that worsening labour market conditions are affecting both employment creation and the…
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, on Monday disowned a version of the manifesto of the party currently in circulation. Obi in his official twitter handle, @PeterObi, on Monday morning said an earlier draft of the manifesto being reviewed may have “made its way into the public space.” Obi asked the public to disregard what is being circulated until he personally releases “the approved and final draft” of the party’s manifesto. The tweet reads: “We have not formally released our Manifesto. I will do so personally. It seems an earlier draft copy under review has made its…
By Vera E. Abah THE Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) has expressed strong support for protesting Lagos commercial bus drivers under the auspices of the Joint Drivers Welfare Association (JDWAN). JDWAN staged a scheduled protest in Lagos Monday (October 31, 2022) over allegations of extortion and attacks by motor park thugs popularly known as “Agberos”. CDWR in a statement dated October 30, 2022, called on the general public to support JDWAN’s protest. “For many years now commercial bus drivers and other road transport workers in Lagos and across the country have come under constant and daily attack, harassment…
ADIGUN Agbaje is as good as they come. A Professor of Political Science and former Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan (UI), he bestrides multiple worlds. Even as a veteran journalist, when he speaks on the media, I listen. It is not just because after earning first class degree in Political Science from UI he went on to take a Master’s degree in Mass Communications with distinction from the University of Lagos. It is more because he was so good as a practising journalist that we young reporters in the Guardian Newspapers were told to emulate him. Then, he was…
By Amos Aar BENUE State Traditional Council has approved the inclusion of women in traditional leadership positions. Ter Makurdi, His Royal Highness, Chief Vincent Aule, made this known Thursday at a one-day stakeholders validation meeting on the proposed Widowhood Protection Bill and the proposed amendment to “a Law to Make Provisions for the Establishment of Benue State Council of Chiefs and Traditional Councils in the State and for Purposes Connected Therewith, 2016” to include women in the traditional council of Chiefs in the state. The event was organised by Eunice Spring of Life Foundation in collaboration with Office of the…
RUSSIA’s invasion of Ukraine has plunged Europe into an era of insecurity, Germany said on Friday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted a “dangerous” decade ahead. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is from a wing of Germany’s Social Democrats that long argued for closer economic ties to Moscow, said the Feb.24 invasion had ruptured those hopes. “When we look at the Russia of today, there is no room for old dreams,” Steinmeier said, referring to former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev’s dream of a “common European home”. “It has also plunged us in Germany into another time, into an…
By Amos Aar THE Chairman, Benue State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Vincent Nyinongu, has called on the Benue State Planning Commission (BSPC) to be briefing journalists on quarterly basis about budget implementation in the state. Nyinongu made the call Thursday when he participated as a special guest at the 2022 public consultation town hall meeting/citizens’ engagement for the preparation of 2023 budget held in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. He said the quarterly briefing of journalists will enable them to know how funds earmarked for projects are utilised so that they will inform the public accordingly. He…
ASUU members executed and sustained an amazing strike for eight months, most of that time without their wages being paid. The NLC organised a wonderful set of solidarity marches and rallies in all the state capitals at the end of the month of July, 2022, but unfortunately, this was not enough for victory. ASUU members have now returned to work based on a court order and the intervention of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Sadly, the Union members have little more to show for their amazing months of a struggle than further promises from the Federal Government.…
RISHI Sunak, 42, walked into 10 Downing Street, London, this Tuesday, October 25, 2022 as the youngest Prime Minister of ancient Britain. He is the third occupant of that residence within 51 days. But perhaps the most said about his rise, is not his capability or ability, education or competence, vision or ideas. Rather, that he is the first man of colour to take up residence in that famous address. This is quite a slippery road to take. Perhaps it is meant that Sunak is not, at least originally, an Englishman. It is said he is Indian, of Asian origins.…