bet on it lyrics The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas has expressed the desire of the 10th House to work with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) towards ending human trafficking and other transborder crimes. Abbas, who said the House is ready to create enabling laws for NAPTIP to be more efficient, lamented the fate of Nigerians being trafficked to other countries. The speaker l, who stated this while receiving the management of NAPTIP on a courtesy call at his office on Thursday, congratulated the new Director-General, Binta Adamu Bello, on her appointment three months ago. He described her performance since she assumed leadership of the agency as “wonderful” and “commendable.” The speaker advised NAPTIP to collaborate with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), religious and traditional leaders as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). Speaker Abbas also urged NAPTIP to collaborate with the House Committee on Human Rights and other relevant committees. Earlier, the DG of NAPTIP noted that the visit was part of the engagements with political leaders. She also stated that “trafficking in person in Nigeria is not just a menace but a crisis.” Mrs. Bello said Nigeria has become a learning spot for sister countries, as countries are now coming to understudy NAPTIP on tackling human trafficking. The NAPTIP DG listed some “basic but fundamental challenges” of the agencies to include infrastructure such as shelters, offices and rehabilitation centres, and funding. While decrying that the budget of NAPTIP was “Very low,” Bello also complained about the inadequacy of the agency’s enabling Act.

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Kolkata: The waiting time at several crossings is likely to decrease further by three to ten seconds, thanks to an ongoing Kolkata Traffic Police survey that relies on ground reports and not just technology to identify traffic volume for each hour of the day. The fresh changes were introduced based on suggestions from OCs who studied ground conditions, in addition to the statistical data collected from the crossings by the planning department. "Besides the technical inputs, we have incorporated local inputs," said a senior officer. These changes have been implemented by making adjustments on multiple fronts, such as altering left turn timings and holding up or slowing down non-pressure flanks, which are the most significant of them. Among the visible changes will be at the Ballygunge ITI crossing , Ballygunge Tram Depot crossing, Beckbagan and the MG Road-College Street crossing. To align each localised signal with the centralised signalling system, police are not altering the overall traffic cycle timings allotted for each crossing. Instead, they are adjusting the timings of only one or two specific flanks to address local issues. The police have also decided to segregate primary and secondary crossings on important stretches and assign signal timings to them based on the track volume. A study on vehicle count in each direction of the crossings, especially at the secondary ones, is being conducted. While such an experiment was already successful on CR Avenue, police will now try to ensure that crossings without high cross traffic, where most vehicles take left turns, do not hold up vehicles on the thoroughfare. "While it is understandable that we need to give enough time for cross traffic at, say, the MG Road-CR Avenue or JL Nehru-APC Road, the same might not be true for Elgin Road-Sarat Bose Road, Roy Bahadur Road-DH Road or Alipore Road-Judges Court Road, where further changes are still possible," said an officer. According to the plan, as evident on CR Avenue, traffic on primary roads will have to stop longer at all important crossings where cross traffic is high. However, where cross traffic is less during non-peak hours, the up and down straight-moving traffic on these primary roads will always get preference. As part of this realignment, police have already reduced signal timings on south-bound movement to allow more time for east-bound vehicles at the important Ballygunge Phanri crossing. Similar changes have been made at the Tagore Park crossing on EM Bypass, AJC Bose Road-JL Nehru Road crossing and Cathedral Road-AJC Bose Road crossing after 10 pm.

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Pet passports for dogs, cats and ferrets to travel within UK ‘an outrage’The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas has expressed the desire of the 10th House to work with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) towards ending human trafficking and other transborder crimes. Abbas, who said the House is ready to create enabling laws for NAPTIP to be more efficient, lamented the fate of Nigerians being trafficked to other countries. The speaker l, who stated this while receiving the management of NAPTIP on a courtesy call at his office on Thursday, congratulated the new Director-General, Binta Adamu Bello, on her appointment three months ago. He described her performance since she assumed leadership of the agency as “wonderful” and “commendable.” The speaker advised NAPTIP to collaborate with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), religious and traditional leaders as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). Speaker Abbas also urged NAPTIP to collaborate with the House Committee on Human Rights and other relevant committees. Earlier, the DG of NAPTIP noted that the visit was part of the engagements with political leaders. She also stated that “trafficking in person in Nigeria is not just a menace but a crisis.” Mrs. Bello said Nigeria has become a learning spot for sister countries, as countries are now coming to understudy NAPTIP on tackling human trafficking. The NAPTIP DG listed some “basic but fundamental challenges” of the agencies to include infrastructure such as shelters, offices and rehabilitation centres, and funding. While decrying that the budget of NAPTIP was “Very low,” Bello also complained about the inadequacy of the agency’s enabling Act.

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LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to back the anti-automation stance of some 45,000 union dockworkers on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts, whose labor talks are at an impasse over that polarizing issue. The ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) employer group are facing a Jan. 15 deadline to finalize talks, which stalled over cargo-handling automation. That deadline comes just five days before Trump's inauguration. The ILA says automation kills jobs while employers say it is necessary to keep U.S. ports competitive in a rapidly changing global economy. "The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen," Trump said of automation projects in a post on Truth Social. That message followed a meeting with Harold Daggett, who leads the International Longshoremen's Association union that represents the port workers, Trump said. The two sides agreed to end a three-day strike on Oct. 3 after the union won a 62% wage hike over six years with significant involvement by the White House and other officials from President Joe Biden's administration. Employers, which include the U.S. operations of Switzerland's Mediterranean Shipping Company, Denmark's Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) , opens new tab and China's COSCO Shipping (2603.TW) , opens new tab , have been booking record profits in part due to access to U.S. markets, Trump said on Thursday. "I'd rather these foreign companies spend it on the great men and women on our docks, than machinery, which is expensive, and which will constantly have to be replaced," Trump said of the industry's profit. "It's clear President-elect Trump, USMX, and the ILA all share the goal of protecting and adding good-paying American jobs at our ports," USMX said in a statement. "We need modern technology that is proven to improve worker safety, boost port efficiency, increase port capacity, and strengthen our supply chains," the employers said, adding that dockworkers make more money when seaports move more goods. Sign up here. Reporting by Eric Beech in Washington and Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Editing by Jasper Ward and Bill Berkrot Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. , opens new tab Thomson Reuters Lisa Baertlein covers the movement of goods around the world, with emphasis on ocean transport and last-mile delivery. In her free time, you'll find her sailing, painting or exploring state and national parks.A stroke changed a teacher’s life. How a new electrical device is helping her moveThe condemnation came as the House of Lords debated regulations paving the way for a scheme which would require animal lovers on the British mainland to have documentation in order to visit Northern Ireland. Critics view the move as further evidence of Northern Ireland still having to follow EU rules post-Brexit and being treated differently from the rest of the UK – a major source of contention to the unionist community. The paperwork, which will be free to apply for, includes a declaration that the owner will not travel onwards to Ireland or another EU country with their pet or assistance dog. Animals will have to be microchipped and have their own individual pet travel document, which will be valid for its lifetime. Northern Ireland residents returning after a stay in Great Britain with their pet or assistance dog will not need a travel document. The scheme is being introduced under the Windsor Framework, a revised deal for Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements aimed at tackling issues caused by the protocol. Raising her concerns in Parliament, Baroness Hoey, a Northern Irish Brexit supporter and former Labour MP, said: “These regulations are in effect about a new aspect of the Irish Sea border that has not had expression until this point because of the grace periods.” She added: “The experience of visiting Northern Ireland with your pet dog or cat, or even a ferret, will be made to feel like a visit to a foreign country. Lady Hoey went on: “This could spell the end of holiday trips for pet owners from GB to NI and then on to the Republic, when they want to explore both Northern Ireland and the Republic. “If they have a pet passport, they will have renounced their right to go to the Republic. That makes the border more of an obstruction than having border control posts on it, because at least in that eventuality, you could still cross over it.” Rejecting claims it was a result of the UK leaving the EU, she said: “The reality is that this is happening precisely because Northern Ireland has not got Brexit. “As we say repeatedly, it is still subject to EU rules and the EU could change the rules overnight.” Former DUP deputy leader Lord Dodds of Duncairn said: “Every one of the statutory instruments that come forward under the Windsor Framework must be properly debated, because these laws are being brought forward to implement what a foreign jurisdiction has decided should be the law of the United Kingdom. “In the 21st century, we should not accept colonial rule. We abolished it elsewhere. We believe it should not be tolerated for one second. People should have the democratic right to decide their laws for themselves, in their interests.” He added: “The ridiculous part about this debate is that we are having to debate European laws regulating the movement of pet animals owned by British citizens between one part of the United Kingdom and another. That is an outrage.” Lord Dodds went on: “As I said, there will be hundreds, thousands more of these regulations, in all areas, affecting the daily lives of people in Northern Ireland. They all add up to a grievous assault on Northern Ireland’s constitutional position.” But former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick said: “I support the Windsor Framework because it is a necessary legal device to deal with the complexities that were presented to us in Ireland, north and south, on the issue of Brexit. “We need a pragmatic solution rather than choosing to have political contests and duels simply for the sake of them.” Introducing the regulations, environment minister Baroness Hayman of Ulloch said: “This scheme will simplify the requirements associated with moving pet dogs, cats and ferrets from Great Britain to Northern Ireland significantly. “It replaces single-use animal health certificates with a free-of-charge lifelong travel document and removes the need for costly pet health treatments. “Pet owners who travel frequently with their pets, or those who rely on the services of an assistance dog to travel independently, will benefit substantially from this change in approach.” However, she acknowledged the concerns raised by peers and promised to continue engagement with them.

Pet passports for dogs, cats and ferrets to travel within UK ‘an outrage’