NORTH KOREA FIRED SEVERAL BALLISTIC MISSILES INTO THE SEA. (PHOTO).

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 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...

FG, LABOUR SET 8-WEEK DEADLINE FOR CONLUSION ON SUBSIDY INTERVENTION.(PHOTO).


FG, LABOUR SET 8-WEEK DEADLINE FOR CONLUSION ON SUBSIDY INTERVENTION

 
The Federal Government has set up a steering committee to come up with a framework for delivering the expected intervention presented by the organised labour following the removal of petroleum subsidy.

The framework for is to be presented by August 14, 2023.

This was part of the resolution reached on Monday during a meeting between the federal government and representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) led by its president, Joe Ajaero, and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) led by Festus Osifo held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Speaking to newsmen after the meeting, The Special Adviser to the President on Communications, Special Duties and Strategy, Dele Alake said “We reconvened today. And then, both parties went through this list. And we ticked off the viable ones; those things are broken into three different categories; the immediate, those that are low-hanging fruit, then the medium term and the long term.

“There’s a steering committee that will be like a clearing house. Where are there other work groups set up comprising both parties, government and labor members, and these work groups will work together very, very harmoniously and efficiently to arrive at the final resolution of all those demands; what we call interventions,” Alake said.

 

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