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The deadly flash floods in northern Nepal have severely disrupted employment and livelihoods, with wider impacts beyond communities that were directly affected, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a preliminary assessment released on Thursday. Source link

When Carl Wazen, Katlego Maphai, Lungisa Matshoba and Bradley Wattrus decided to start Yoco together around 2013, they did not have a polished business plan or a grand vision for building a payments company. They only had a problem they could not ignore. “We were all at this stage of our lives where we wanted to do something that had more meaning,” Wazen, Yoco’s chief business officer and co-founder, recalled. Wazen and Maphai met while working at the telecommunications consulting firm Delta Partners. Maphai and Matshoba had known each other since childhood and university, while Wattrus had worked with Maphai…

A former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev Samson Ayokunle, on Friday urged President Bola Tinubu to urgently take decisive action to address the hunger, insecurity, and inflation currently bedevilling the country. Ayokunle gave the advice while speaking with journalists on the sidelines of the 10th anniversary of the Oritamefa Baptist Model School Cambridge A’Level College, held at Yemetu in the Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State. He lamented that it was becoming increasingly difficult for Nigerians to survive economically, calling on the President to implement policies that directly alleviate public suffering. The cleric stated that…

By Dipo Olowookere The vice-presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the 2027 general elections, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has promised to step down as the running mate of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to campaign for President Bola Tinubu if the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol, falls to N600 per litre. He made this pledge during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday night. The former Governor of Rivers State said Mr Tinubu, who seeks a second term in office under the ruling government of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which…

File image. A software bug that delayed the US certification of Boeing’s 737 MAX 10 aircraft does not pose a safety concern, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Friday after an investigation. The glitch was found in a cockpit software update to the plane model and can cause an automated navigation feature to fail when planes shift their approach to landing. “Following a thorough review, a panel of FAA safety experts on Friday determined a software issue in certain Boeing 737 MAX flight computers is not a safety concern,” the US regulatory agency said in a statement. The FAA’s review…

By Henry Ojelu, Assistant Judicial Editor In this interview, former Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, President, Dr Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, examines the state of Nigeria’s judiciary, 66 years after independence. He discusses public confidence in the courts, conflicting judgments, judicial appointments, funding, executive influence and the reforms needed to strengthen justice delivery. He also calls for greater autonomy for the NBA and a constitutional approach to the relationship between religion and the state. Read Also: NIGERIA @ 66: Focus On Judiciary – Disgraceful conflicting judgements that taint courts reputation 66 years after independence, how would you assess the Nigerian judiciary, today,…

Lionel Messi’s No. 10 is one of the most famous shirt numbers in football, but Argentina can’t retire it permanently after his international career. The Argentine Football Association has wanted to honour Messi by taking the number out of circulation. But FIFA’s rules for major international tournaments are the problem. For competitions like the World Cup, FIFA requires teams to assign squad numbers from 1 to 26 when they have a 26-player squad. That means Argentina cannot simply leave No. 10 empty while giving the other players the remaining numbers. FIFA’s own 2026 World Cup regulations confirm that numbers 1…

What you need to knowMs. Pike was denied clemency and, one hour before her execution, a court halted it then lifted the stayShe was twice injected with lethal drugs and survivedCalls are growing for authorities to commute Ms. Pike’s death sentence“The prolonged suffering – physical and mental – arising from multiple failed execution attempts is abhorrent and cruel,” Volker Türk said in a statement. The UN rights chief pointed to unresolved questions surrounding Ms. Pike’s fair trial, saying they raised additional concerns about proceeding with another execution attempt.The statement comes amid what the UN office described as an increase in…

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Two persons were confirmed dead by the police on Friday in Osogbo, Osun State, in clashes involving suspected members of rival cult groups. The incident reportedly occurred at a lounge in Owoeba, a community in Osogbo, located along the Osogbo/Ilesa Road, where the deceased were attacked by some yet-to-be-identified assailants around 5pm. In the pictures obtained by The PUNCH, one of the deceased had an open wound on his head, as he lay lifeless in a pool of blood. A resident of Owoeba, who craved anonymity for security reasons, told our correspondent on the phone, “We heard gunshots and noise…