the country's independence, national electoral commission always spoke to nigerian election observer manju out in an in joke who, who said he went on to share with us some of the issues in the elections. and the voters hopes for fair and transparent poles have not come true in some regions of the country. ah, there we ask additional so we are people we are forced to watch for a particular pulling unit. so you got some pulling in. you'd see, see the police clearly does understand we are making of the level political talks, you know, and in some cases in some areas you see some of this, but it's coil is colluding with the, with the security personnel available in discipline is like the police and thereby, the system that if you want to voting this article up is a most votes for the political party. and if you know what to for the political party, you walked out of the police. this is very sad. regret that just kind of to him still happens in our election in nigeria. sadly there is also told shut down. no results came to that point out at around 11 the end. and this is sad because we'll see o

the president manju micron has defended his plan to raise the retirement age as essential john hall reports and pass for a 2nd time this month. french workers and unions took to the streets across the country in their hundreds of thousands against planned pension reforms, and public sector strikes tor, into the economy, affecting the energy grid, transport, education, and health services. they were minus scuffles between some protesters and police, and tension is likely to grow with more days of protests like this. ahead. as the government tries to raise the pension age from 62 to 64, and to increase the period of compulsory workplace contributions to compensate for a population that is living longer, it was unfair and unnecessary unfair because it's actually asking, waiting the much effort on the poorest because they're the ones they're gonna have to work more. and then they're the ones with the, for this life expectancy and this history because adjusted that the government is claiming it's justifying the basics reform on it. only temporary. and you could just talk to a french 1000000000 o

the opposition parties are trying to stop this bill going through the president in macro and other manju out. he can, if he wants to just put it 3 by a decrease. so what happens if you don't have the power to stop that? did we had the power, the st. i'm sure a large pot of people in france on against this low. so we have to go on and to convince people to do, to go on on demonstrations that we don't, that we don't agree and the power of the streets can be, can be stronger. i mean, you are talking about other countries, some people watching from other countries where the pension age is older, might say, well, hang on 62 to 64, it's only 2 years. why is it such a big deal for the french when so many other countries just have to suck up and do it 2 years. 2 years at 62 can be a lot when you are 20 years old. you don't think about it, but when you were 40 years or you or you died, 2 years can be, can be in an infinity, can be very, very long. so it's not, you can, you cannot, you cannot sing about 2 years like no do. mom, he's very, that's very about them. i mean, is it something about the f