As the August 15 Osun governorship election draws near the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Resident Electoral Commissioner for Osun State, Mrs Oluwatoyin Babalola has assured that Commission would offer full cooperation to media practitioners. Mrs Babalola also assured that the August 15 governorship election in the state will be credible, free, inclusive and transparent. The Osun INEC REC gave this assurance during a courtesy visit by the Osun Online Publishers Association, OOPA, to the INEC State Office, in Osogbo on Monday While restating that the media is a critical stakeholder in election, INEC and the society, she said, "If there is no media the society can not be informed. And when it comes to election matters, there is misinformation and disinformation and the media is needed to correct these anomalies." She also assured that she will work with the media community to ensure a credible, free, fair, inclusive and transparent governorship election. IN...
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is increasingly clashing with state institutions, including the police, the domestic spy agency, state prosecutors and even the Supreme Court, NYT reports.
Against that backdrop, he pressed ahead yesterday with efforts to replace a senior intelligence chief, Ronen Bar, who had helped to instigate an investigation of the prime minister’s aides. Netanyahu’s nomination of Eli Sharvit, a former Navy commander, to replace Bar as head of the Shin Bet, the domestic security agency, tests a Supreme Court order that suspended Bar’s dismissal until April 8.
All the while, Netanyahu continues to oversee Israel’s longest-ever war. The Israeli military issued a sweeping evacuation order for the southern Gaza Strip, signaling that it could resume intensive assaults there.
Early this today, the Israeli military said it had conducted a strike on the southern outskirts of Beirut, the second attack near Lebanon’s capital in less than a week.

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