The Federal Government and Governors of states in the South-west have reached the agreement to draw up a legal framework for the Western Security Network code-named: Amotekun.
Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, disclosed this to state house correspondents at the end of a meeting Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo had with the six governors from the region on Thursday.
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Akeredolu said the legal framework will help resolve all “burning issues” surrounding the security network.
Asked if the governors failed to draw up the legal framework for the outfit before the launch …
Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa, Secretary to the state government and state NLC Chairman, Mr Hussaini Hamisu, reached the agreement according to a joint statement signed in Katsina.
NAN reports that both officials said that the implementation of the new minimum wage and consequential adjustments of salaries would commence January, 2020.
According to them, the increase represents the
Somerset have agreed personal terms with South Africa’s Vernon Philander, the club announced Saturday after the Proteas paceman had already confirmed he would be playing for the English county.
Somerset, runners-up in last season’s first-class County Championship, will now look to complete the paperwork on a deal that would see the 34-year-old Philander heading to Taunton as a Kolpak player following South Africa’s home Test series with England.
“Somerset County Cricket Club are today able to officially confirm that we have agreed personal terms with Vernon Philander for him to become a Somerset player in 2020,” the county said in …
Chileans are to vote on whether they want a new constitution in a referendum in April next year, representatives of the conservative government coalition and the opposition said.
The text of a new constitution is then to be put to the voters in another plebiscite.
“We want a peaceful and constructive way out of the crisis,’’ Senate President Jaime Quintana asserted.
“We will for the first time have a 100 per cent democratic constitution.’’
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin in Sochi, have agreed to put Nigeria-Russia relations on a fast track, and pursue the completion of partially completed and abandoned projects initiated by both countries.
This is even as President Buhari has requested for the return of Russia, on a government-to-government relationship for the completion and commissioning of the abandoned Ajaokuta Steel Rolling Mill, to which President Putin accepted.
According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the agreements were reached at a bilateral meeting held on sidelines of ongoing …
EU countries have agreed to “intensify” Brexit talks with the UK over the next few days. The development comes after a meeting in Brussels between Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, described by both sides as “constructive”.
But UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was “a way to go” before a deal could be reached. The UK is due to leave the EU at 23:00 GMT on 31 October. A European leaders’ summit next week is seen as the last chance to agree a deal before that deadline.
Mr Johnson put forward revised proposals for …
Sudan’s protest leaders and army rulers agreed Saturday to establish a joint civilian-military ruling council, a major breakthrough in talks between the two sides over demonstrators’ demands for a handover to civilian rule.
The agreement on the highly disputed issue came as thousands of protesters remain encamped outside the military headquarters since the army ousted longtime leader Omar al-Bashir on April 11, demanding that the army rulers step down.
World’s richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife, MacKenzie, have agreed the biggest divorce settlement in history, leaving him with 75 percent of their stock in the tech giant and giving her nearly $36 billion in shares.
MacKenzie Bezos said she would give all of her stake in The Washington Post and the space exploration firm Blue Origin to her ex-husband — the world’s richest man — as well as voting control of her remaining Amazon stock.
Jeff Bezos, 55, and MacKenzie, 48, a novelist, married in 1993 and have four children. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in their
