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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Deputy Inspector-General of Police Joshak Habila, on Friday said the students kidnapped by gunmen in Lagos would be rescued within few days. Habila gave the assurance during the closing of one month training for police anti-bomb squad in Lagos State. He said all other kidnap victims had been rescued before now, stressing that the students abduction, the second in same school, will not be different from others. “In the next few days, you will hear good news about the students. The security of people is not only by the police, but by all. We have put machinery in place to rescue them”, Habila assured. Six students of Senior Secondary School of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, in Epe, were kidnapped early Thursday. The kidnappers involved in Thursday’s operation according to police, were suspected to be members of a militant kidnap gang that had carried out several kidnappings, armed robbery and the killings of security agents in Lagos and Ogun state. The st...

http://ift.tt/2r9eqDx British Prime Minister, and leader of the Conservative party, Theresa May (R) reacts as she talks with a shopper during an election campaign walk about around Abingdon Market near Oxford, north-west of London, on May 15, 2017. Britain goes to the polls on June 8 to elect a new parliament in a general election. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Justin TALLIS British Prime Minister Theresa May was confronted by an angry voter over welfare cuts Monday as she made a rare public walkabout ahead of the June election. The woman, who gave her name as Cathy, said she had learning difficulties and challenged May over changes to state handouts for disabled people. “I can’t live on £100 (118 euros, $129) a month!” she said. May, who has been accused of avoiding the public in the campaign for the June 8 vote, tried repeatedly to answer Cathy but was interrupted. “The fat cats keep the money and us lot get nothing,” Cathy said in the Oxfordshire market town of Abingdon, west of...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Nigerian Army on Sunday inaugurated a semi-automated Abattoir at its Mami Market, Ashanti Barracks, Apapa in Lagos. Brig.-Gen. Erema Akerejola, the outgoing Commandant, Supply and Transport Unit, Apapa, who inaugurated the market, said that the project was with the collaboration of a private investor. According to Akerejola, the provision of a modern Abattoir at the barracks was his major achievement as the Unit’s Commandant. “Nothing can be compared to processing the meat we eat in a clean and hygienic environment. “I am humbled and honoured for this project to be undertaken and completed during my tenure in this unit. “I know that meat produced in this facility will enrich the citizenry and also compare very well with international best practices. “Beef consumers in and outside Lagos are assured of the health and safety of the meat they will be consuming,’’ he said. Mr Aminu Gwadabe, the General Manager of Ashanti Barracks Modern Abattoir Operators, s...

http://ift.tt/2pRXyOG Demonstrators hold Polish and EU flags during the “Freedom March” in the Polish capital Warsaw on May 6, 2017 organised by Poland's main liberal Civic Platform (PO) opposition party to protest against the rightwing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government over alleged rule of law violations. JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP Tens of thousands demonstrated in Warsaw against Poland’s government on Saturday, saying the rule of law was at stake after a slew of controversial reforms and appointments to public broadcasters. The protest — called by the country’s main liberal opposition party — came shortly after an opinion poll showed it pulling ahead of the rightwing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government for the first time. Since winning power in October 2015 elections the PiS has pushed through a string of changes that have led to mass protests at home and a threat of EU sanctions. Supporters of the liberal Civic Platform (PO) flooded into the sundrench...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Anti-corruption war:  Northern group writes Buhari, accuses him of bias   Caleb Ayansina ABUJA – A group of Northerners under the auspices of Arewa Peace Coalition has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of bias in the ongoing anti-corruption war. The group, in an open letter to the president titled: “A tale of two anti-corruption war” and signed by its National Cordinator, Abdulkadir Mohammed, in Abuja, said it was worried about the way the anti-corruption war is being fought by the Federal Government. Mohammed accused the federal government of double standard by referring the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. David Babachar Lawal, to an administrative panel for investigation. According to him, the suspended SGF should have been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as the federal government did to a personal physician of former president Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Fiberesima, who is being accus...