SLIDESHOW: The Weekend in Pictures

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Over the weekend, President Tinubu was endorsed as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States. This took place at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government, in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau.

Back in Nigeria, The Federal Government, reopened the Eko Bridge in Lagos State. This was coming 15 months after it was closed for repairs.

Still in Lagos, a four-month-old baby was among at least 14 persons who died on Sunday morning here in Lagos, in an auto accident along Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

Away from Lagos, Mmesoma Ejikeme , 19-yeard old candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has admitted that she manipulated her results using her phone to inflate her score to 362.

This was contained in the report of the Committe On Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma JAMB Score, set up by the Anambra state government.

In Plateau State, Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Mangu Local Government Area (LGA) of the State following recent attacks.

Mr Mutfwang gave the directive on Sunday folowing reports that fresh attacks were reportedly unleashed on some communities in Mangu LGA on Saturday night, resulting in the loss of nine lives, properties, as well as many persons displaced.

In the war against drugs, the NDLEA has confirmed that it arrested a suspect in the Ajah area of Lagos conveying 89 jumbo bags of skunk with a total weight of 3,842kg in his truck.

Away from Nigeria, Latvia's long-serving foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics became the first openly gay head of state of a European Union nation.

Finally, Spanish rescuers are currently searching for a boat, carrying at least 200 African migrants.

The boat left the coastal town in southern Senegal, Kafountine but went missing more than a week ago.

 

 


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