Chairman of the sixth Governing Council of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun state, Air Commodore Emmanuel Jekada (retd.), has set up a committee that would ensure that all courses awaiting accreditation in the institution get accredited.
Jekada spoke shortly after the inauguration of the Governing Council in the premises of the polytechnic.
A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Sola Lawal, further said Jekada in his remarks, assured members of the academic staff union that all disagreements between them and the management would be resolved.
Attackers opened fire at a vehicle on Tuesday morning carrying General Katumba Wamala, Uganda’s former army commander, killing his daughter and driver in Kisaasi, a suburb of the capital, Kampala.
Speaking from, his hospital bed in a video tweeted by government-owned broadcaster, UBC, Wamala who sustained injuries in both his shoulders, said he survived and that God had given him a second chance.
Wamala served as the commander of Uganda’s land forces from 2005 to 2013, overseeing the country’s deployment of troops to Somalia in 2007. He was elevated to Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) in 2013 and is currently the east African country’s minister for transport.
Images circulating on social media showed Wamala with his mouth open, in apparent distress beside the car and his shirt bloodied. Social media images also showed bullet holes in a car window and spent cartridges on the ground.
In a statement, the army said Katumba was attacked by two gunmen riding on motorcycles.
There have been several unresolved murders targeting senior security officials, a legislator, a prosecutor and Muslim clerics in recent years in Uganda.
The gun attacks prompted President Yoweri Museveni to order the installation of surveillance cameras in the capital and in major towns across the country.
Critics however say the cameras are used by security officials to track the opposition and dissenters.
After an unverified Twitter account called out Tesla for the increasing prices of their cars while taking away some features, CEO Elon Musk blamed supply chain pressures across the auto industry, particularly for raw materials
The tweet read “I really don’t like the direction @tesla is going raising prices of vehicles but removing features like lumbar for the Model Y..” to which the billionaire replied “Prices increasing due to major supply chain price pressure industry-wide. Raw materials especially,”
During an earnings conference call in April, Musk said Tesla had experienced “some of the most difficult supply chain challenges,” citing a chip shortage. Later on in May,Tesla increased its Model 3 and Model Y prices, the automaker’s fifth incremental price increase for its vehicles in just a few months.
In response to the removal of lumbar support on the passenger side in the Model Y, Musk said, “Moving lumbar was removed only in front passenger seat of 3/Y. He said that Logs showed almost no usage making it wiser to have it removed and save cost of production.
Scuffles have broken out during a meeting of the African Union parliament, as a week-long debate over the election of their new president which saw lawmakers seen rushing to the floor and shouting at officials to express their discontent.
In scenes of mayhem broadcasted on South Africa’s national broadcaster SABC, members of Parliament wrestled over a white ballot box located at the front of the room that was meant to hold the votes for the election of the Pan-African Parliament President.
Two women first fought over the box, trying to rip it out of each other’s hands. Then, an enraged male lawmaker ripped off his suit jacket and aimed a kick in the direction of female member Pemmy Majodina of South Africa.
The unidentified lawmaker said he was not trying to kick Majodina but rather trying to kick a cellphone out of the hand of another lawmaker recording the chaos on his phone.
As the mayhem unfolded, other lawmakers shouted into their microphones that there were “armed men in the room” and called repeatedly for police and security.
They claimed that they were being threatened by a group of South Africans with guns but Majodina said there were no guns in the room.
The election had already been postponed last Thursday when a staff member working at the venue near Johannesburg tested positive for the coronavirus.
But that meeting last week also first revealed the tensions when South African lawmaker Julius Malema was heard threatening Malian lawmaker Ali Kone in the midst of the sitting.
The Senate in Nigeria has approved the upgrade of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State to a university of technology.
The Senate resolution was sequel to the submission of the report by the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, led by Senator representing Katsina North, Ahmad Babba-Kaita.
A Bill for an Act to Provide for the Establishment of Federal University of Technology, Ilaro and for Other Matters Connected Therewith” was sponsored by Senator representing Lagos West, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola.
Presenting the Committee report, Senator Sadiq Umar Sulaiman who stood in for Senator Kaita justified the upgrade of the federal polytechnic to university status, as he noted that there is need to expand opportunities for advance education in technology.
He further noted that the upgrade of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro to a university of technology will be of tremendous benefits for host communities, provide employment as well as educational development to quickly increase avenue for degree awards in technological fields for teeming Nigerian youths.
The bill is now set for concurrence of the House of Representatives and eventual assent by the president.
Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region held its first parliamentary election for 16 years on Monday, in what politicians there describe as evidence of its comparative stability.
The region, which broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has not gained widespread international recognition for its independence, has been largely peaceful while the rest of Somalia has suffered three decades of civil war.
“Vote in peace,” President Musi Bihi said in televised remarks after casting his ballot. Opposition leader Abdirahmaan Mohamed Abdulahi echoed the sentiment: “I urge the Somaliland people to vote in peace and calmly.”
Three major parties have put forward 246 candidates for 82 seats. More than one million out of roughly four million residents have registered to vote, the National Electoral Commission said.
The parliamentary election had been delayed for a decade by a dispute among the three major parties over the composition of the electoral commission, which was finally resolved.
Although the parliamentary vote had been delayed, presidential elections have been held, most recently in 2017 when Bihi was elected. The next presidential election is scheduled for next year.
Somaliland received a major international vote of confidence this month when Dubai’s DP World announced plans, in partnership with landlocked Ethiopia, to develop Somaliland’s Berbera port. The project is expected to bring in up to $1 billion in investment over the next decade.
The rest of Somalia is due to hold indirect polls within 60 days, with clan representatives choosing legislators who in turn will choose a president.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday that the southwest monsoon will arrive in Kerala on June 3 with heavy rainfall expected on June 2-3rd.
The IMD said the southwesterly winds would strengthen gradually from June 1 resulting in rainfall over Kerala. The IMD asserted that there will be no heatwave in the country due to cyclone Tauktae and Yaas which recently hit the country.
Parts of Uttar Pradesh received light rains and thundershowers in the last 24 hours as the IMD said India’s national capital is likely to receive thunderstorms over the next three days.
The IMD informed that Delhi had received a mean maximum temperature of 37 degrees Celsius in May which is the lowest for the month in 13 years with no heatwave reported.
IMD had earlier predicted that the country will receive average rainfall this year. Amid the expectation of a normal monsoon, CEA K Subramanian said that food grains production is projected to be at record level this fiscal.
India’s capital city also received 144.8 mm rain this month which was the highest since 2008.
Last year the country had received average rainfall for the second consecutive year.
According to the private forecasting agency Skymet, India’s monsoon rains is expected to be 103 per cent of the long-term average in 2021.
Colombian authorities are investigating 10 police officers who allowed civilians to shoot at demonstrators in Cali, according to a high-ranking official on Monday.
The Andean country has seen more than a month of protests against the social and economic policies of the government of President Ivan Duque. The demonstrations were sparked by a now-withdrawn proposed tax reform.
Since the tax reform was withdrawn, protesters’ demands have expanded to include a basic income, opportunities for young people and an end to police violence, including the dissolution of the feared anti-riot unit ESMAD.
Colombia’s third-largest city Cali, which has become an epicenter for protests, once more saw bloodshed on Friday with civilians and even an off-duty agent of the attorney general’s office shooting at demonstrators, the attorney general said.
General Jorge Luis Vargas, director of Colombia’s national police, said An investigation has been launched to identify those who broke the law in Cali.
He added that information concerning officers who may have broken the law or not performed their duties has been sent to the military justice unit.
Over the weekend Cali Mayor Jorge Ivan Ospina reported more than a dozen violent deaths took place in the city on Friday and reported armed men shooting at demonstrators in the presence of the police.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Sunday called for those responsible for the violence in Cali to be held accountable.
She added it was essential that all those reportedly involved in causing injury or death, including state officials, are subject to prompt, effective, independent, investigations and those responsible are held accountable.
Adamawa is a state in northeastern Nigeria, whose capital and largest city is Yola. In 1991, when Taraba State was carved out from Gongola State, the geographical entity Gongola State was renamed Adamawa State, with four administrative divisions: Michika, Ganye, Mubi and Numan.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar inaugurated the Total Junction fly-over bridge in Jimeta, Yola, which is also said to be the first of its kind in the North East region of Nigeria.
Speaking at the inauguration on Saturday in Yola, Abubakar described the project as a great achievement.
According to him, traffic will now follow better, accidents will reduce drastically and it will add color and beauty to the capital city.
He said that the execution and inauguration of the project would serve as a lesson to the next generation of leaders for accountable leadership in the state and country at large.
In his remarks, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State said the inauguration was part of the activities to celebrate his two years anniversary in office as the executive governor of Adamawa.
“Today’s event, which is the commissioning of the first overhead bridge in Yola, and perhaps, the entire Northeast is the climax of the first phase of our series of commissioning.
“We have spent the past two weeks in this mood from the commissioning of urban roads in Numan, Michika, Hong, Yola-South, Yola-North to the connection of Toungo to the National Grid, it has been celebrations all through.
“The people of Adamawa have every reason to celebrate not only the presence of physical structures, but they can also see and touch as partly evidenced by what we are commissioning today.
“But more importantly, by the reinvention of trust and confidence in politicians and the fact that beyond rhetorics, campaign promises can be translated into realities,” he said.
Fintiri said that the overhead bridge and approach road expansion comprised the bridge and expansion of the approach roads to the eight-lane dual carriage from Maidoki Roundabout to the Bishop street junction.
According to him, this is one project with a short history but interesting story whereby its projected duration of 12 months was completed within nine months.
The United Nations says at least 55 people were killed overnight in two attacks on villages in eastern Congo, in worst night of violence the area has seen in at least four years.
In a statement, the U.N. office for humanitarian affairs said the army and a local civil rights group blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist armed group, for raiding the village of Tchabi and a camp for displaced people near Boga, another village.
Both are close to the border of Uganda. Houses were burned and civilians abducted,
Albert Basegu, the head of a civil rights group in Boga, told Newsmen that he had been alerted to the attack by the sound of cries at a neighbour`s house.
The Kivu Security Tracker (KST), which has mapped unrest in restive eastern Congo since June 2017, said on Twitter the wife of a local chief was among the dead. It did not attribute blame for the killings.
The ADF is believed to have killed more than 850 people in 2020, according to the United Nations, in a spate of reprisal attacks on civilians after the army began operations against it the year before.
In March the United States labelled the ADF a foreign terrorist organisation. The group has in the past proclaimed allegiance to Islamic State, although the United Nations says evidence linking it to other Islamist militant networks is scant.
President Felix Tshisekedi declared a state of siege in Congo`s North Kivu and Ituri provinces on May 1 in an attempt to curb increasing attacks by militant groups.
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