RADIO BULLETIN NO: 04 FOR 13H00

HERE IS TODAY’S BULLETIN FOR 13H00
MONDAY, 01 JUNE 2026
NAMIBIA PRESS AGENCY

1 (LAGOS, 01 JUN, AFP) - The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) called an open-ended strike from today in the state of Oyo, in protest at the kidnapping in mid-May of dozens of children and their teachers.

On 15 May, gunmen who Nigeria's army accused of being Boko Haram jihadists, abducted pupils and staff from three schools in the southwestern state of Oyo.

Seven teachers were kidnapped along with between 25 and 39 children aged two to 16, officials said, with the search still ongoing to find them.

The NUT urged primary and secondary school teachers in Oyo State "to withdraw our services from schools" from Monday "till further notice".

The union said the strike was in protest "against the continued detention of our colleagues and learners by the abductors without any clear sign of their timeous rescue and safe release".

The situation, it said, has "created fear and hopelessness in teachers, discouraged parents from sending their children to schools and caused panics and tensions across all communities in the state".
AFP

2 (THE HAGUE, 01 JUN, AFP) - An international court today rejected a claim by Rwanda for Britain to pay more than £100 million ($135 million) it said London still owed from a scrapped deal to deport migrants.

Judges from the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague ruled that Britain was not liable for two years of outstanding costs from the scheme that was shelved in 2024.

In 2022, former UK prime minister Boris Johnson sealed a deal with Kigali to send to Rwanda migrants arriving in Britain via "dangerous or illegal journeys" in small boats or lorries.

But the scheme hit legal and political obstacles from the start, with the UK Supreme Court eventually ruling it illegal.

During the two years before the scheme was scrapped, only four people actually went to Rwanda, all voluntarily, according to the current UK government.

According to the UK government website, about £290 million has already been paid to Rwanda, but Kigali argued in its pre-hearing submissions to the PCA that two annual payments of £50m were still outstanding.
AFP

3 (TEHRAN, 01 JUN, AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry said today that a ceasefire in Lebanon remains a key condition for any deal with the United States to end the Middle East war.

"We insist that a ceasefire in Lebanon is an essential condition for any deal aimed at ending the war," foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said at a weekly press briefing, as Israel expands its offensive in Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to push deeper into Lebanon, and the UN Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting today after Israel's military took control of the medieval Beaufort castle.

Baqaei said Iran "will take all measures to support Lebanon and the resistance against the Zionist regime's illegal aggression".

Similarly, Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said the US naval blockade on Iran's ports since 13 April and the escalation in Lebanon were "clear evidence of US non-compliance with the ceasefire".
AFP

4 (PARIS, 01 JUN, AFP) - Repression of workers' rights has deepened around the globe, with even "stable" countries like France and the United States now seeing eroded labour protections, the world's largest trade union organisation said today.

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) said 72 per cent of 151 countries surveyed denied workers access to justice, with authorities in about 50 per cent of countries arresting or detaining workers last year.

It found that the right to strike was violated in 87 per cent of countries, the same level as in the previous two years, with the right to collective bargaining restricted in 80 per cent.

The United States in particular was placed on the ITUC watch list with a rating of four for "systemic violations of rights", while France's rating fell to three from two, despite the country's historically robust union presence.

Argentina and Panama were added to its 10 worst countries for workers' rights, joining Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, Myanmar, Nigeria, Tunisia and Turkey.
AFP

5 (PARIS, 01 JUN, AFP) - France said today that a suspected Russian oil tanker had been detained in the Atlantic over the weekend, in the latest such seizure aimed at combatting Moscow's sanctions-busting "shadow fleet."

The Tagor was detained yesterday morning in international waters with the help of Britain and other partners, said President Emmanuel Macron.

According to French authorities, the tanker was on its way from Murmansk in northwestern Russia when it was seized.

The ship was falsely flying a Cameroonian flag and was heading toward Limbe, a seaside city in the west of the African country, said a spokesperson for the maritime prefecture.
AFP