Kidnapped Ogun varsity students freed

By Ernest Nwokolo, Abeokuta The two kidnapped female students of the Ayetoro Campus of the Onabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State have regained freedom. They got their freedom last night, few hours after Governor Dapo Abiodun directed security agencies to ensure the rescue of the two students unhurt. He also ordered the arrest of their…

Algerian students reject the announcement of early elections

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday issued a decree setting June 12 for early legislative elections, after dissolving parliament last month. Thousands demonstrated in Algiers on Friday, rejecting the early legislative elections announced the day before, as weekly rallies by the resurgent Hirak pro-democracy movement gain momentum. “To safeguard itself, the system says: legislative (elections),” one…