UAE: The Emirati tribes reiterate loyalty to Rulers and state

A number of leading Emirati tribes held a series of meetings in Abu Dhabi in the past two weeks includint today thursday aimed at reiterating their covenant and loyalty to the state and the leaders of the UAE.The meetings were a spontaneous reaction by the tribes to demonstrate support and respect to President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Rulers of the Emirates following irresponsible comments by Ahmad Mansour Al Shehi and two other political activists meant to offend the symbol of the states, according to the heads of the tribes.
Al Za'ab tribe, one of leading UAE tribes held a rally on Thursday and Friday last week at the Abu Dhabi Intercontinental Hotel in the presence of a large number of leading figures in the tribe led by Ahmad Jumaa Al Za'abi, Deputy Minister of Presidential Affairs and one of the elders of the tribe Al Za'ab, and hundreds of the members of the tribe.
"This assembly is a spontaneous popular  response to the calls lately to renew allegiance to the wise leadership of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice-President and Prime Minister, Members of the Supreme Council and Rulers of the Emirates and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. The meetings rejected any form of prejudice to the principles and national unity," Al Za'abi told reporters.

"The tribal meetings held recently are not strange or new to the traditions of the UAE. Tribes in the country spare no national occasion for renewing their loyalty to the wise leadership of the country. I am confident to say that these tribal gatherings are spontaneous expressions and a demand by the tribal members themselves and no authority whatsoever have called or motivated such meetings. It is a popular gathering and spontaneous decision to declare loyalty to the leadership and to the country's symbols and reject any offence to them," Al Za'abi added.
He did not confirm or deny the news referring to the tribe's intention to file a court case against the activists Ahmad Al Shehi and his companions.
The main purpose of these tribal gatherings is to show loyalty to the UAE leadership and to refuse any offence to our leaders, as for filing a court case, this is left to a collective decision and actions of all the tribe he said.

Today in History in all nations - June 16

                                  JUNE 16

June 16,2013 In Lagos,Nigeria,Former President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men and mother of former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, died. She died in her home in Ikeja, Lagos. She was 96 years.
 
      Jun 16, Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
    (6/16/98)

       Jun 16, Hugo the Great, duke of France, died.
    (6/16/02)



June 16,2013;There was panic in some parts of Lagos State following claims that a commercial bus and a private car plunged into the lagoon after being involved in an accident. The news made some commuters and motorists abandon the Third Mainland Bridge while there was stampede on the bridge as those plying it at the time of incident scampered for safety. People made distress calls to relatives, media organisations, law enforcement agencies and emergency bodies as the news spread for hours until the intervention of relevant agencies restored normalcy.
 
      Jun 16, Pope Innocent III died. In 2003 John C. Moore authored “Pope Innocent III."
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_III)

      Jun 16, Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, was beheaded.
    (6/16/02)

     Jun 16, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.
    (6/16/98)

     Jun 16, Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, was tortured & executed in Moscow.
    ( 6/16/02)

      John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, English military strategist, died. In 2008 Richard Holmes authored “Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius."

      Jun 16, Spain, in support of the US, declared war on England.
    (6/16/02)

        Jun 16, Vice-Admiral Hardy sailed out of Isle of Wight against the Spanish fleet.
    (6/16/02)

       Jun 16, Holland forbade orange clothes.
    (6/16/02)
  
         Jun 16, A French attack at the crossroads called Quatre Bras badly mauled Anglo-Dutch army under Wellington, but failed to rout it or to take the crossroads. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had marched into Belgium to find himself confronted by two allied armies, which he tried to split apart. Although similarly battered at Ligny that day, the Prussian army also retired intact. Both armies would face Napoleon again two days later at Waterloo. 

      Jun 16, Denmark Vessy led a slave rebellion in South Carolina. [see Jul 2]
    ( 6/16/02)

    Jun 16, Lucie (Ruthy) Blackburn (30), a fugitive slave, escaped from jail in Detroit and made her way to Canada. The next day a riot erupted, “The Blackburn Riots," as her husband, Thornton Blackburn (21), was escorted for return to slavery. Thornton escaped to Canada to join his wife. The first extradition case between the US and Canada over the issue of fugitive slaves soon followed. Canada ruled it could not extradite people to a jurisdiction that imposed harsher penalties then they would have received for the same offense in Canada and the Blackburns remained in Ontario.

  Jun 16, America's 1st roller coaster began operating at Coney Island, NYC. It hit a top speed of 6 mph.
    (6/16/02)

 Jun 16, Ford Motor Co. was incorporated.
    (6/16/98)

1903        Jun 16, Pepsi Cola company formed. [see 1902]
    ( 6/16/02)

1903        Jun 16, Roald Amundsen (31) departed Christiana (later Oslo), Norway, aboard Gjøa with a crew of 6 to search for the Northwest Passage. They reached California in the fall of 1905.
  
  Jun 16, France accepted a German proposal for a security pact.
    (6/16/98)

1932   Jun 16, President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis were renominated at the Republican national convention in Chicago.
    (6/16/02)

1932        Jun 16, The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen government in Germany. Germany forbade SA/SS street brawls.
   
 1933        Jun 16, The 2nd US Glass-Steagall Act, actually the Bank Act of 1933, banned banks from underwriting stocks. It separated regular banks from investment banks. It was the 2nd act of the same name. Mr. Glass agreed to attach Mr. Steagall’s pet amendment, which authorized bank deposit insurance for the first time. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act) 

1933    Jun 16, The US Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, which established the Public Works Administration (PWA) and the National Recovery Administration. A $.25-per-hour standard wage was set as part of the Act. However, in 1935 the US Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Act unconstitutional, and the minimum wage was abolished. In July a code of the NRA instituted a 35 hour week for blue-collar workers and a 40-hour week for office employees. Minimum wages were also instituted, ranging from 12 ½ cents an hour for needlework employees in Puerto Rico to 70 cents an hour for wrecking and salvage workers in NYC. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt had employers sign a “President’s Reemployment Agreement" covering 16.3 million employees. The employers who signed on agreed to limit work weeks to 40 hours, to pay a minimum wage of $12-$15 per week (at least 30 cents/hour) and to not hire children under 16.

 Jun 16, US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) became effective. The initial deposit insurance level was set at $2,500.
    (www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/1000-200.html)

 Jun 16, President Roosevelt's New Deal legislation was passed by the House of Representatives.
    ( 6/16/01)

1941 Jun 16, The new Washington National Airport opened southwest of DC. In 1945, Congress passed a law that established the airport was legally within Virginia but under the jurisdiction of the federal government. In 1998 it was renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Washington_National_Airport)

1942  Jun 16, The SS Port Nicholson was headed for New York with 71 tons of platinum valued at about $53 million when it was sunk off Maine in an attack that left six people dead. The platinum was a payment from the Soviet Union to the US for war supplies.
    (2/2/12)(www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item_10244.html)

1943 Jun 16, Comedian Charles Chaplin married his fourth wife, 18-year-old Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, in Carpenteria, Calif.
   6/16/98)

 1954        Jun 16, In San Francisco the 13-foot neon schooner atop the new Hamm’s Brewery building at 1550 Bryant St. was turned on. Brewing at the facility ended in 1974.
    (4/10/12)

1955        Jun 16, The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Selective Service until 1959.
    (6/16/98)
1955     Jun 16, Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Domingo Peron. The ban was lifted eight years later.
    (6/16/98)

1957   Jun 16, There was a French offensive in Algeria.
    (6/16/02)

1958  Jun 16, The US Supreme Court, in Kent v. Dulles, ruled that artist Rockwell Kent could not be denied a passport because of his communist affiliations.
    (6/16/08)
1958  Jun 16, Imre Nagy (b.1896), former Hungarian premier (1956) and symbol of the 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, was hanged by the Communist government of Janos Kadar.
    (www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/nagy/)(Econ, 10/21/06, p.95)

1959   Jun 16, George Reeves , American film and TV actor, died. Suicide was the predominant presumed cause of death. Reeves starred as Superman on TV from 1952-1958. In 1976 Gary Grossman authored “Superman: Serial to Cereal." The 1996 book “Hollywood Kryptonite," by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, discusses the doubts by friends and relatives and the forensic evidence as to whether suicide was even physically possible.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reeves)

1960  Jun 16, The Alfred Hitchcock movie “Psycho" opened in New York.
    (AP, 6/16/00)


Culled from the internet

Donald Trump Calls for Increased Surveillance at Mosques

                                          
Donald Trump has reiterated his call for bans on Muslim immigration and called for increased surveillance of Muslim communities, including at mosques. He spoke at a news conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

 Donald Trump: "We have to stop, on a temporary basis at least, but we have to stop people from pouring into our country. We have to stop it, until we find out what the hell is going on. ... And we have to go, and we have to maybe check, respectfully, the mosques, and we have to check other places."
 A new CBS News poll finds the majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s response to the mass shooting in Orlando. During Trump’s speech in Atlanta, members of the press corps symbolically saved seats for the Washington Post reporters who had been banned by Trump from covering his events. Trump has also banned BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, The Des Moines Register, the Union Leader, Univision and Fusion.

Culled from the Internet

Nigerian Senate passes bill compelling patronage of made-in-Nigeria products

                         
The senate has passed into law the Public Procurement Act 20‎07 (amendment) bill 2016, which seeks to promote local content.
The bill makes it mandatory for government agencies to patronise made-in-Nigeria goods.
It is one of the priority bills of the eighth senate.
Speaking after the consideration of a report on the bill, Senate President Bukola Saraki emphasised that priority must be given to local goods.
 ”In stimulating our economy, we all have a role to play to ensure that the executive complies especially in the area of giving first priority to locally-produced goods,” he said.
“This has helped many countries to develop when they had issues of downturn in their economy. I believe that having over N3trn available to stimulate local production going on now.
“One of the things that we have done today is also trying to shorten the process of awarding contracts; this will go a long way in helping budget implementation.
“It would go a long way in ensuring that most of the funds are available as quickly as possible and jobs are actually completed. I want to commend my colleagues for passing this bill‎.”