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http://ift.tt/2qZHtH6 A picture taken with a mobile photo on May 25, 2017 shows a policeman looking at the wreckage of a police vehicle following a road side bomb in Garissa, northeastern Kenya. Five police officers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in northeastern Kenya, a day after two separate IEDs killed eight officers, a regional security official said. / AFP PHOTO / STR / STRINGER / Kenya OUT Five police officers were killed Thursday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kenya in an attack claimed by Shabaab Islamists a day after eight police died in similar blasts. The officers had been deployed to the restive northeastern region to take part in an operation against the Somali-led militants after two separate roadside bombs on Wednesday. “The five police officers killed in the attack were headed to boost the ongoing operation in Liboi,” said North Eastern regional coordinator Mohamud Ali Saleh referring to a town on the border with Somalia. The K...

http://ift.tt/2pnijTz Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige. A mild drama and confusion ensued at the Eagle Square, Abuja, on Monday as workers disallowed the Acting Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mrs Biola Bawa, from standing in for the minister, Dr Chris Ngige. Ngige had declined to address the workers in his capacity as the minister and sent the permanent secretary because he (Ngige) represented President Muhhammadu Buhari at the occasion. But the workers chorused “no, no, no’’ to the move and thereafter continue to chant, “minimum wage, minimum wage.’’ The incident disrupted the May Day celebration for more than five minutes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as the workers surged toward the podium to protest the move, Ngige and top officials of the labour union had to step in to calm them. The crowd thereafter shouted “we don win, we don win’’ as the permanent secretary stepped down from the podium and walked ...