NORTH KOREA FIRED SEVERAL BALLISTIC MISSILES INTO THE SEA. (PHOTO).
North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined drills, which the North views as an invasion rehearsal. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected from the North’s Hwanghae province but gave no further details such as how far they flew. Earlier Monday, the South Korean and U.S. militaries began their annual joint military exercises, which are scheduled to last 11 days. The Freedom Shield command post exercise began after the South Korean and U.S. militaries paused live-fire training while Seoul investigates how two of its fighter jets mistakenly bombed a civilian area during a warm-up drill last week. The drills' start drew the condemnation of nuclear-armed North Korea, which issued a government statement calling the exercises a “dangerous provocative act...
The Ogun State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure,Arch Olamilekan Adebite has presented keys of Twenty four units of two bedroom flats to families whose houses paved way for the construction of modern shopping malls at Omida,Abeokuta South West Local Council Development Area {LCDA} of the State.Speaking during the presentation of the keys,the Commissioner represented by the Director of Highways {Major Contact} Engr Lateef Oladimeji Yussuf,said the presentation was done in fulfilment of the promise made by the Governor that the families whose houses were pulled down for the construction would be allocated new ones.''History is being made here today.When Government was about to construct these modern shopping malls,Governor Amosun promised that the families whose houses would be giving way would be allocated new ones.Here we are,the Governor has made good his promise by what is happening here today'',he said.Arch. Adegbite enjoined the beneficiaries to make good use of the flats,adding that the gesture was a testimony to the fact that people's welfare remained the topmost priority of government.Responding on behalf of other beneficiaries ,Mr Kayode Adesina,thanked the Governor for fulfilling his promise,adding that critic of the Government should have a rethink considering the outstanding achievements of the present administration.He promised that the beneficiaries would make the best use of the flats allocated to them.
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