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A Nigerian female soldier guns down senior commander at checkpoint At a roadblock in Yola, the state capital, a female soldier enforcing the curfew set by the Adamawa government assassinated a senior comrade. The curfew was ordered by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri when hoodlums broke into a government warehouse and looted many things, including palliatives intended to mitigate the effects of fuel subsidies. According to sources, the female soldier known only as Lance Corporal Nkiru shot a captain who sought to interfere in her dispute with civilians at the Fire Service Roundabout in the state capital. According to security sources, the female soldier insisted that automobiles returning home during curfew hours must turn around. Some of them identified themselves as necessary workers, but she stayed firm. "Some people stopped at the checkpoint explained that they were workers performing essential duties, but the female soldier insisted they return." A captain stepped forward to hel

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced that its planned nationwide protest slated for August 2 (today) would commence at 7:30 am across the federation’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). News reports that the planned protest expresses the labour union’s displeasure over what it described as the unfavorable policies of the President Bola Tinubu-led government, especially the removal of fuel subsidy. The NLC Head of Information, Comrade Benson Upah, told journalists that workers and civil society organisations would converge at the Unity Fountain Abuja to start the protest while the state chapters will equally commence protest at the same time. Upah disclosed that NLC’s affiliate unions, through their state branches, have mobilised their members and are already for the protest. He noted that appropriate security agencies have also been notified and are expected to provide security for Nigerians during the protest, adding that the eyes of the international commun

The Federal Government will meet with representatives of organized labor on Monday in an attempt to avert a nationwide strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress. The NLC, on the other hand, has advised citizens to stock their homes with food, medicines, and other necessities ahead of the start of its seven-day strike to protest the removal of fuel subsidies and the rising cost of living in the country. The warning was issued because the strike would cripple the country by severely restricting movement as commercial transport operators withdraw their services, forcing markets, schools, and healthcare facilities to close. Chris Onyeka, the NLC's Assistant General Secretary, stated in an interview with one of our reporters: According to News Agents, the NLC has given the government a seven-day ultimatum, with a nationwide strike set to begin on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. In a statement signed by its National President, Joe Ajaero, the labour movement accused the Tinubu-led Federal

  (President Bola Tinubu in office) A review into his administration plan for N8,000 monthly transfer to 12 million vulnerable Nigerians to cushion the effects of the subsidy removal has been ordered by Bola Tinubu.         In a letter was the review package read last Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives concerning the $800 million loan request of the previous Muhammadu Buhari administration for a social safety net programme. His Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, who is Dele Alake by name on Tuesday, noted that the N8,000 was not the only item in the relief package initiated by Tinubu. According to dele, Tinubu directed “ that the N8,000 conditional cash transfer programmed envisaged to bring succour to most vulnerable households be reviewed immediately”. Alake said the President promised to always put Nigerians at the heart of his policies. He added that “ this is in deference to the views expressed by Nigerians against it.” The President