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Air Force Chief Gen. Lee Young-su took full responsibility

A preliminary report released on Monday revealed that three crucial errors contributed to an accidental bombing in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province, during a joint training exercise between South Korea and the U.S. military. Last Thursday, two KF-16 fighter jets mistakenly dropped bombs on a civilian area, injuring over 30 people and damaging more than 100 properties.

The report highlighted that the incident was mainly caused by human error, combined with insufficient oversight. The pilots failed to double-check the coordinates, which were incorrectly entered during the planning stage. This was the first missed opportunity. During pre-flight checks, the lead pilot failed to notice discrepancies between the flight path and the target’s terrain, marking the second missed opportunity. The third error occurred when the lead pilot proceeded to drop the bombs, despite noticing inconsistencies, while the second pilot, focused on maintaining formation, followed suit.

Air Force Chief Gen. Lee Young-su took full responsibility for the incident and vowed to overhaul training procedures. He emphasized that flaws in operational procedures, as well as failure by commanding officers to oversee the flight readiness properly, contributed to the mishap. Consequently, live-fire drills will remain suspended until corrective measures are fully implemented.

3 Missed Opportunities Leads to Accidental Airstrike by KF-16 Jets in South Korea Air Force Chief Gen. Lee Young-su took full responsibility A preliminary report released on Monday revealed that three crucial errors contributed to an accidental bombing in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Provi…

The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, on Wednesday presented a proposed 2025 budget of N1.054 trillion to the State House of Assembly.

The state government disclosed this via its X page, referring to it as the “Budget of Hope and Prosperity.”

The budget is divided into recurrent expenditure (N453.56 billion) and capital expenditure (N600.98 billion).

Budget Breakdown
According to the state government, N120.1 billion is allocated for personnel costs, N37.49 billion for consolidated revenue costs, N76.07 billion for public debt charges, and N219.86 billion for overhead costs.

The governor highlighted some of the major capital projects for 2025, including renovating hospitals, revitalizing 80 primary health centers, and extending the redline, blueline, and purpleline metro rail lines.
He added that the budget will fund the construction of key infrastructure such as roads, fire stations, and the Ogun Lodge Government House in Abuja.
The statement partly reads: “The funding sources are projected as follows:

N120.97 billion from the State Internal Revenue Service
N193.85 billion from Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs)
N228.06 billion from federal statutory allocations (including VAT)
N472.66 billion from capital receipts (loans, grants, etc.)
“Sectoral allocations include:

Education: N117.83 billion (17%)
Health: N134.54 billion (13%)
Infrastructure: N284.46 billion (27%)
Social Protection: N39.84 billion (4%)”
Governor Abiodun told the lawmakers that completing ongoing projects, generating revenue, and creating jobs align with Ogun State’s development strategies and national plans.

He added that the 2024 budget performance demonstrated strong fiscal reliability, with 79% of revenue and 56% of expenditure targets achieved as of September 2024.

What You Should Know
The 2025 budget for Ogun State is higher than the one for this year.

Dapo Abiodun had submitted a budget proposal of N703.028 billion for 2024 to the State House of Assembly for approval.

Termed the “Budget of Sustained Growth and Development,” Abiodun outlined that the total budget comprises N415.66 billion for capital expenditure and N287.37 billion for recurrent expenditure.

Additionally, the budget allocated N95.05 billion for personnel costs, N105.88 billion for overhead expenses, and N59.09 billion for public debt charges.

He stated that the revenue composition includes the Ogun State Internal Revenue Service (OGIRS), with an estimate of N100.81 billion, and other Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), estimated at N139.73 billion, totaling N240.54 billion.

He underscored that in 2024, the state government would continue prioritizing the completion of ongoing projects, those with revenue potential, and initiatives contributing to employment generation.

Gov. Dapo’s 1Tr Budget to Ogun State HoA; 120B to Personnel… The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, on Wednesday presented a proposed 2025 budget of N1.054 trillion to the State House of Assembly.The state government disclosed this via its X page, referri…

Donald Trump claimed his presidential election campaign had raised a record amount of money since his historic criminal conviction on Thursday, in a rambling, nearly 40-minute press conference on Friday morning that criticized everyone from the judge to the current president, Joe Biden.

In a speech peppered with falsehoods and conspiracy theories that threatened bad things to come, Trump, who had declined to testify in his own defense, said: “This is a case where, if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” before changing the subject to immigration.

“These are bad people. These are, in many cases, I believe, sick people. When you look at our country, what’s happening, where millions and millions of people are flowing in from all parts of the world, not just South America, from Africa, from Asia, from the Middle East, and they’re coming in from jails and prisons, and they’re coming in from mental institutions and insane asylums.”

Trump’s legal team embarked on a counteroffensive almost immediately after Trump became the first ex-US president and presidential candidate to be convicted of a felony.

With the 2024 presidential election campaign propelled deep into uncharted territory, Todd Blanche, Trump’s attorney, went on national television to make a spirited though measured defense of his client, vowing to lodge an appeal against Thursday’s judgment.

The jury in a Manhattan courtroom found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying documents related to hush money paid to an adult film actor, Stormy Daniels, shortly before the 2016 presidential poll.

Appearing on NBC, Blanche insisted Trump’s defense had not been given “a fair shake” during the trial but predicted that they would be vindicated on appeal.

We’re going to appeal and we’re going to win on appeal,” Blanche told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie. “That’s the goal. The goal is … to appeal quickly and hopefully be vindicated quickly.”

He said the legal team had been unsurprised by the guilty verdict, adding: “We didn’t think we were going to get a fair shake in Manhattan. There’s a lot of evidence that should have gotten in that didn’t come in.”

The Trump campaign team, meanwhile, tweeted that it had raised $34.8m since the verdict, which would be a single-day record for it.

Trump now faces the prospect of rewriting the record books further if he gets sent to jail when the judge, Juan Merchan, holds a sentencing hearing on 11 July, four days before the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, where Trump is scheduled to be officially anointed as the party’s presidential nominee.

Some analysts predict that the prospect of a custodial sentence has risen because of Trump’s repeated breaking of gag orders during the six-week trial and his condemnation of Merchant as “corrupt and conflicted” after Thursday’s verdict.

But Blanche played down that possibility, pointing to Trump’s advanced age and his previous lack of a criminal record.

“Under the guidelines and the rules of the court … President Trump would not face a day in prison,” he said. “Putting aside the fact he was president of the United States, the conduct that we’re talking about, he is 78, 79 years old [Trump is 77]. He’s a grandfather, a husband, a father. He should not go to prison.”

The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, who led the case against Trump and was also attacked by the former president, has yet to announce if he will request a prison sentence.

With Republicans reacting in unison to the verdict with fury, speculation was rife about how the fallout might affect the presidential contest between Trump and Joe Biden, with polls showing a close race which the GOP presumptive nominee narrowly leads in several key battleground states.

Writing in Politico, John Harris predicted that the newly minted image of Trump as a convicted felon among a segment of swing voters could give Biden a vital edge come November.

“Trump’s only path to victory is a coalition that includes many Republicans and independents who find him deplorable but think a second Biden term would be even more so,” he wrote. “That is why – even as the full consequences likely will emerge slowly – this week was easily the worst so far this year for Trump and the best for Biden … It does mean that many voters who don’t much like Biden received an emphatic, unambiguous reminder of why they don’t like Trump.”

D.Trump: Pres. Campaign realized $3m plus while still on crime charges Donald Trump claimed his presidential election campaign had raised a record amount of money since his historic criminal conviction on Thursday, in a rambling, nearly 40-minute press conference on F…