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MEXICO ELECTS CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM AS ITS FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IN LANDSLIDE VICTORY
Claudia Sheinbaum has won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph. Sheinbaum, a leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according…
FULL LIST: ASUU, TCN, BANKS, 28 OTHERS JOIN NLC NATIONWIDE STRIKE
Some unions have shut their workplaces to comply with the directive of the two labour unions to embark on an indefinite nationwide strike. On Friday, the organised labour announced that they will be commencing a nationwide indefinite strike due to the refusal of the Federal Government to increase the proposed minimum wage from N60,000. According…
TWO IN CUSTODY AFTER ROOKIE POLICE OFFICER AND BYSTANDER SHOT DEAD AT ARIZONA RESERVATION
Two people are in police custody after a shooting left a rookie police officer and a bystander dead during a dance at the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona, early Saturday, authorities said. The FBI is investigating how Officer Joshua Briese, who was still undergoing field training, was shot and killed. The bureau confirmed Sunday…
KANO HISBAH ARRESTS TIKTOKER OVER ‘INAPPROPRIATE REMARKS’ ABOUT QURAN
G-Fresh al-Amin, a popular TikToker, has been arrested by operatives of the Hisbah Command in Kano state. Daily Trust reports that Aliyu Usman, chairman and officer in charge of operation ‘Kai da Badala’ surveillance, confirmed the arrest on Sunday. Usman said G-Fresh was arrested around 1 pm at his residence in the Badawa area of the…
ONGOING 2024 WASSCE TO CONTINUE DESPITE LABOUR STRIKE
The ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will continue despite the labour strike. T.A.Y Lawson, the Ekiti branch controller of the West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC), confirmed this in a letter to school heads. Sources also confirm to TheCable that all branch controllers of the council issued similar notices on ongoing SSCE in…
TRUMP JOINS TIKTOK YEARS AFTER TRYING TO BAN THE APP
Former President Donald Trump announced Saturday night that he joined TikTok, even as many in his party criticize the popular app and call for its China-based parent company to divest. Trump’s first post on the platform was a 13-second video, which appeared to be filmed at the UFC event in New Jersey he attended on Saturday. In the…
MAN FOUND OF MURDER OF PARTNER IN LONDON A DAY AFTER BREAKUP
A man who stabbed his partner 17 times after she said she wanted to end their relationship has been found guilty of murder. Leon Murray, 35, of no fixed address, murdered Keisha Christodoulou, 32, on 1 November 2022 a day after she said their relationship was over. Murray had travelled to their flat in Deptford,…
NO GAZA CEASEFIRE UNTIL ISREAL WAR AIMS ACHIEVED – NETANYAHU
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted there will be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are destroyed and all hostages are released. His statement comes after US President Joe Biden announced Israel had proposed a three-stage plan to Hamas aimed at reaching a permanent ceasefire. A senior Hamas politician…
MINIMUM WAGE: NLC, TUC BEGIN INDEFINITE STRIKE MONDAY
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) yesterday declared an indefinite strike effective Monday, June 2 after the latest negotiation with the federal government on the new minimum wage and the recent hike of electricity tariff ended in a deadlock.Organised labour rejected the N60,000 which government and the private sector said…
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BEGINS NATIONWIDE CONVERSION OF MASS TRANSIT BUSES
The Federal Government has announced the commencement of the Nationwide Mass Transit Conversion Programme which entails the conversion of diesel and petrol-powered mass transit buses to run on Compressed Natural Gas. Abuja, Lagos, Kwara and Rivers states have been picked as locations for the first phase of the mass transit buses’ conversion programme before it…