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Australia PM Albanese falls off stage during election campaign event

Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese on Thursday, appeared to fall off a stage during a campaign event for May’s national election.

The 62-year-old leader of the centre-left Labour Party was said to be posing for photos following his speech at the Mining and Energy Union Conference held in New South Wales, when he stepped back and lost his footing, drawing gasps from the audience.

He quickly got back on his feet and gestured to the crowd with two hands that he was fine.

Video footage from the event showed that he had tumbled off the stage, although he shrugged off the incident when asked about it during a radio interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“I stepped back one step. I didn’t fall off the stage … just one leg went down, but I was sweet,” he said.

Albanese is currently on the campaign trail for an election on May 3.

DAILY POST reports that the Labour Party is running neck-and-neck in opinion polls with the conservative Liberal-National opposition led by Peter Dutton.

Australia PM Albanese falls off stage during election campaign event

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You traveled to France while Nigerians suffer insecurity, hunger – Bode George knocks Tinubu

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George has accused President Bola Tinubu of travelling to France when Nigeria is experiencing series of insecurity crisis. George said it was shameful that while Nigerians don’t feel safe anymore, Tinubu’s administration was focused on trivial matters like recalling suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The
You traveled to France while Nigerians suffer insecurity, hunger – Bode George knocks Tinubu

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George has accused President Bola Tinubu of travelling to France when Nigeria is experiencing series of insecurity crisis.

George said it was shameful that while Nigerians don’t feel safe anymore, Tinubu’s administration was focused on trivial matters like recalling suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

The former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, disclosed this in a statement he signed, titled: ‘Whither Nigeria, my beloved country.’

He said, “Today, and with the series of crises, insecurity, hunger, joblessness and other vices in the country, President Bola Tinubu has taken off to Paris, France for reasons best known to him and his handlers.

“Nigerians don’t feel safe anymore in their fatherland, but the Federal Government, All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Senate are only interested in recalling Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. What a shame!

“Aside from the fact that history is a faithful record of the past, it is also a prophecy of what is coming. That is why Fela’s song is still apt, decades after. Today, I see what led to the collapse of the First and Second republics being repeated by the APC-led Federal Government.”

On Wednesday, President Tinubu jetted out of Nigeria to France.

Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga said the president is expected to “return to Nigeria in about a fortnight”.

You traveled to France while Nigerians suffer insecurity, hunger – Bode George knocks Tinubu

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Gov Abiodun boosts Ogun State’s Sports Festival preparations with N16.5m grant

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Ex-envoy Debo Adesina loses mom

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The family of a former Nigerian Ambassador to Togo and ex-Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspapers, Debo Adesina, has announced the death of their matriarch, Deaconess Esther Adesina. A statement sent to PUNCH Online on Thursday noted that she died peacefully on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in her 90s. The statement read, “Deaconess Esther Taiwo Ejide

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