Today's Headlines: Tinubu flies out to India Monday for G-20 Leaders' Summit; Road accident claims six in Osun – FRSC
Tinubu flies out to India Monday for G-20 Leaders’ Summit
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President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Monday to attend the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, India, on the special invitation of Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
A statement issued by Presidential spokesman, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, said on the sidelines of the Summit, the President would participate in and deliver keynote addresses at both the Nigeria-India Presidential Roundtable and the Nigeria-India Business Conference.
Road accident claims six in Osun – FRSC
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The Federal Road Safety Corps, Osun State Command, said six persons lost their lives in an accident that occurred on the Imesi-Ile highway in the state.
The Sector Commander, Henry Benamesia, said this in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, Mrs Agnes Ogungbemi, on Sunday in Osogbo.
Benamesia said two vehicles had a head-on collision on Saturday at about 9: 44 p.m. due to brake failure of one of them, resulting in the death of six persons.
He said that an articulated vehicle (Red DAF) without a number plate, collided with another blue commercial truck on Imesi -Ile hill with casualties due to speeding.
Tinubu leading foundation for Nigeria’s economic growth – Don
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The Provost, University of America, Nigeria, Professor Michael Ikupolati has said President Bola Tinubu is leading the foundation for the country’s economic growth.
Ikupolati also advised the president to not listen to unnecessary criticism but focus on goals that would birth a new Nigeria, while urging Nigerians to give the president the opportunity to settle so as to be able to find solutions to the challenges currently faced by the country.
He said this in Abuja Saturday night, at the Graduation/Convocation Ceremony of the University of America in Nigeria, held at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria.
Russian army has recruited 280,000 soldiers since January – Official
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Russia’s former president and Security Council chairman Dmitry Medvedev said Sunday that Moscow had recruited some 280,000 people into the army since the start of the year.
Russia has not announced another mobilisation, seen as an unpopular measure, but has led an active campaign to attract more men into the military as its Ukraine offensive drags into a 19th month.
“According to data from the Ministry of Defence, 280,000 people have joined the Russian army on contracts from January 1,” Medvedev said, according to the TASS news agency.
“Part of them were in the reserves, part of them volunteers and other categories,” he added, during a visit to the Far Eastern Russian island of Sakhalin.
In early August, Medvedev said the army had recruited around 230,000 people since the start of the year.
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