By Francesca Hangeior

A two-year-old child is in hospital after their twin accidentally shot them with a gun, police said.

Henry County Police rushed to a home in Hampton, Georgia, USA, around noon on Wednesday, March 12, to reports of a shot fired, according to Fox5.

A toddler, whose name and gender have not been released, was airlifted from the home at 200 Robin Hood Lane in the village just south of Atlanta.

First responders from the Henry County Fire Rescue Units treated the child at the scene before they were taken to the hospital.

Officials said they are now in a stable condition.

The home where the shooting happened has been cordoned off by police.

A resident in the area told Fox5 that officers were preventing local people from accessing part of the street as they investigate what happened.

Detectives said they believe the child’s twin sibling “gained possession of the firearm” and accidentally shot the weapon.

It’s unclear who owned the weapon or what type of gun it was. No one has been charged over the shooting

Images from the scene show investigators searching the one-story home, which has been cordoned off from the rest of the street with yellow tape.

It comes just three months after a California mother was shot de@d by her two-year-old son after the toddler found a loaded gun in her bedroom.

Jessinya Mina, 22, of northeast Fresno, was shot by her boy at her Butterfly Grove apartment while lying in bed just before 5:30pm on December 6, 2024.

*Says, Nigerians are frustrated

By Francesca Hangeior

The Trade Union Congress has backed a Lagos-based National Youth Service Corps member, Ushie Uguamaye, also known as Raye, who claimed to have received threats for criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

TUC President, Festus Osifo, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said that the corps member spoke out of frustration, advising the government not to go after her but to be tolerant of critics.

The TUC boss, however, advised critics to always criticise the government within the expected norm and with some level of decorum.

He said, “They (government) have to develop this resilience to understand that people are frustrated, people are hungry, people are tired. So, if they decide to vent, I strongly believe that the government should not personalise it and come after such individuals.

“Imagine a young lady carrying out her NYSC function, what does she really have to do to bring down government? So, it is about personal frustration that she has aired.

“So, I think that the government has to persevere much more, they have to be more tolerant, and they have to have this deep level of patience with Nigerians because people are passing through a lot as it stands today.”

Raye, a corps member serving in Lagos, recently made headlines after a video she posted criticising government policies went viral.

She later claimed to have faced threats, reportedly from NYSC officials, pressuring her to take down the video.

In the video posted on her TikTok account #talktoraye on Saturday, Raye voiced frustration over Nigeria’s deteriorating economic situation, lamenting that hard work no longer guarantees financial stability.

She criticised Tinubu’s leadership, calling him a “terrible leader,” and questioned the government’s commitment to easing citizens’ hardships.

However, the NYSC has yet to release an official statement regarding the issue.

*Says, they betrayed workers by accepting N70, 000

By Francesca Hangeior

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has slammed the new minimum wage of N70,000, saying it is not enough to cover workers’ basic needs.

The minimum wage was approved by President Bola Tinubu in 2024 after a lot of back and forth with labour leaders.

Obasanjo has now criticised labour leaders, saying they betrayed workers by prioritising personal interests over collective welfare.

“That is the situation in Nigeria in the third decade of the 21st century.

“The minimum wage does not even cover transportation costs for some workers, let alone food, housing, and family upkeep,” Obasanjo wrote in his newly released book, “Nigeria: Past and Future”.

Obasanjo continued: “Because of their political ambitions, most union leaders are ineffective compared to the founding fathers’ expectations.

“The workers thereby become victims of selfish leaders who use their positions to achieve political heights.

“Rather than negotiate in the interest of the workers, they do sabre-rattling and they are called into the room and money in large amounts is stuffed into their hands and they keep quiet.

“That has been the case since 2015. And, if anything, it is going from bad to worse.”