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AUKAR, Lebanon — A gunman who attacked the U.S. embassy near Beirut was shot and captured by Lebanese soldiers after a Wednesday morning shootout that injured an embassy security guard, the military and embassy officials said. The attack took place as tensions simmered in the tiny Mediterranean country, where months of fighting between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops has displaced …

The opposition obituaries had been written. According to most polls, India’s election was a foregone conclusion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing, Hindu-nationalist alliance was expected to secure a supermajority – and with it the power to enact radical change unopposed. To Modi’s critics and opponents, India was on the fast track to becoming a de-facto one-party state. But as Trump’s victory of …

• Experts seek enforcement of EIA in projects, green areas, public spaces• ‘Farmers displacement poses food sovereignty risk’• Experts urge revival of irrigation facilities, breeding for drought resistance• We have remediated 46 sites in Ogoni, says HYPREP• UN urges countries to restore degraded ecosystems, land The high temperatures, non-implementation of the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) reports, and audit of the pollution in the Niger …

The Joint National Association of Persons with disabilities (JONAPWD), Edo State chapter has decried the low level awareness and implementation of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disability Prohibition Law, two years after it was signed into law by the state government. At a media parley organised in Benin City, with support by the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (ROLAC) to …

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, directed the minister of finance and coordinating for the economy, Wale Edun, to come up with the cost implications of an affordable, sustainable, and realistic new minimum wage and present the figures within two days. He gave the order at a meeting with the government negotiation team led by the secretary to government of the …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has alerted that People are using the Ovia River to bring arms to and engage in all sorts of nefarious activities in Edo State. “We will need more surveillance in that axis and need your support,” Obaseki told Nigeria’s Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Hasan Bala Abubakar on Tuesday. The Governor spoke while …

…120,458 so far registered The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the ongoing Continuous Voter Registration exercise in Edo and Delta State from Wednesday, June 5 to Sunday, June 9. In a statement signed by the National Commissioner and a chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, the Commission said that about 120,458 …

…Lauds NLC, TUC for suspending strike The Senate on Tuesday promised to fast track its consideration and passage of a new Minimum Wage Bill for the country. This is even as the Red Chamber commended the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress for suspending its indefinite strike for one week. Senate President Godswill Akpabio made these remarks  during plenary in Abuja. …

The decision comes after the government promised to increase the national minimum wage to 60,000 naira ($40, £32) a month. This falls below the $330 that unions have been demanding, but is double the current monthly wage which the union rejected. The strike began on Monday and led to the shutdown of the country’s power grid, leaving millions without electricity. …

“For the first time in American history a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency,” Biden said. President Joe Biden’s decision to call out his predecessor Donald Trump as a “convicted felon” for the first time represents a significant hardening of his rhetoric against his Republican general election foe. Biden’s escalation at an off-camera fundraiser …