enemy. neil: just seems john, you re the national security expert tone deaf to me. it would be like on 9-11, which goes full circle here, people were reported on the new york city election that was delayed in that day s news when in fact the terror war had started on the united states. it s not only the elephant in the room, it s the mammoth. the president chooses to ignore it. what is the strategy here? in a vacuum, cynicism and fears fester. they re festering now. looking at certain social media where it s out of control. people want to know with you see what is going on, the bedlam and how panicking it s getting and dicey for americans and their interests and their friends in afghanistan. nothing. not a word. zilch. not to mention, neil, the
Views: Visits 8 By Harris Emanuel, Uyo Former staffers of Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday took to the street to vent their anger over the non-payment of their severance benefits running into millions of naira To this end, they handed a two-week ultimatum to BPE and PTAD to pay their monies, otherwise, they would take legal action against the two federal agencies. Convener of the protest, Hope Ufot Wilfred said the BPE had carried out a verification exercise for disengaged workers of the company in 2012 which did capture every staff. He said that ALSCON had a total number of 1,805, but expressed dismay that names of 562 of them were omitted from the company’s nominal roll, which prompted the federal government to direct PTAD to conduct another staff verification exercise in 2019 as a precondition for the payment of severance benefits.
Former ALSCON staff threaten BPE, PTAD with lawsuit over unpaid severance benefits
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By Harris Emanuel, Uyo
Former staffers of Aluminum Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday took to the street to vent their anger over the non-payment of their severance benefits running into millions of naira
To this end, they handed a two-week ultimatum to BPE and PTAD to pay their monies, otherwise, they would take legal action against the two federal agencies.
Convener of the protest, Hope Ufot Wilfred said the BPE had carried out a verification exercise for disengaged workers of the company in 2012 which did capture every staff.
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On Conflicts of Interest #113, Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter cover the ceasefire deal reached between the Israeli government and armed groups in Gaza. The agreement has held over several days and appears to have brought the eruption of violence to an end. All said and done, at least 248 Palestinians and 12 Israelis were killed throughout 11 days of fighting, which flattened residential areas across Gaza and saw thousands of rockets fired into Israeli cities. Under tight blockade, Gaza now returns to its status as the world’s largest open-air prison as Tel Aviv continues to expand Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank.
By Omon-Julius Onabu
Nigerian military campaign against insurgency, kidnapping, banditry and other threats to national security is set to get an unprecedented boost from media partnership with authorities of the 774 local government area councils in the country and other strategic stakeholders.
THISDAY gathered that this will unfold through a two-day National Security Summit for all the chairmen and secretaries to the local government councils next month, which is at the instance of Newswatch International Multimedia and Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
The initiative, which is aimed at rousing the grassroots populace to the challenge of helping the armed forces in the fight against insurgency and all forms of terrorism, is in collaboration with key stakeholders including the Association of Chairmen of Local Governments in Nigeria (ALGON), the federal ministry of information and the Nigerian Media as well as authorities of the armed forces “as they deploy kinetic operation t