TRIAL BEGINS OF CENTRAL AFRICAN EX-PRESIDENT BOZIZE OVER WAR CRIMES. (PHOTO).

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 Trial begins of Central African ex-president Bozize over war crimes A UN-backed court in the the Central African Republic will on Tuesday begin the trial in absentia of former president Francois Bozize, over crimes against humanity committed between 2009 and 2013. The alleged crimes committed by members of Bozize's security forces include murder, enforced disappearance, torture and rape. Bozize, 79, who seized power in a 2003 coup before being overthrown 10 years later by rebels, has been living in exile in Guinea-Bissau since March 2023. But three of his former senior military officers, Eugene Barret Ngaikosset, Vianney Semndiro and Firmin Junior Danboy, are all in pre-trial detention in the Central African Republic. Crimes against humanity The case will be heard by the Special Criminal Court (SCC), a hybrid jurisdiction located in the capital Bangui with Central African and foreign judges. In February 2024, the SCC issued an international arrest warrant for the former president ...

HARDSHIP: 1,500 PENSIONERS DIE, OTHERS PLAN PROTEST. (PHOTO)


 Hardship: 1,500 Pensioners Die, Others Plan Protest


No fewer than 1,500 members of Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) have lost their lives to the current hardship and high cost of living that have enveloped the country in the last few months.


This is as members of the union who are still alive vowed to protest naked in the streets of the Federal Capital Territory if they were not included in the recently constituted 37-man committee on minimum wage negotiation.


The president of the NUP, Comrade Godwin Abumisi, who disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja, wondered why they would be excluded from a critical committee like minimum wage committee.


The union also revealed that some of their members in some states collected as low as N450 monthly as pension, adding that they buried one of their members who died because of hunger last week.


He said, “We have casualties every day. The casualties arising from the maltreatment of pensioners in Nigeria have now gone to 1,500. Last week, we travelled to Enugu to bury one of our members. We know that he perished out of hunger. How can a pensioner in Enugu receive as low as N450?”


“I am going to lead Nigerian pensioners naked in the streets.”

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