Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni has disclosed that the twenty members of the gang that abducted six Lagos State Model College Students for more than two months died in gun battle with the police earlier on Friday, during the rescue operation in the creeks of Ondo State. He disclosed this at a news conference in Lagos. He also said one civilian volunteer died, while eight policemen and four other civilian volunteers sustained injuries. Owoseni said that a suspect, who attempted to swindle the parents of the students by asking that they should bring ransom to Abeokuta, was arrested. He…
Author: Kunle Atiba
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un disclosed that North Korea’s second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile shows that the country is capable of hitting the mainland U.S. Jong Un said he reacted to the launch with “great satisfaction.” The Hwasong-14 missile reached a maximum height of 2,314 miles and traveled 620 miles from the launch point before landing in waters near Japan on Friday. Analysts say the data suggests that a wide swath of the U.S., including Los Angeles and Chicago, is now within range of Pyongyang’s weapons. President Donald Trump said that the tests further isolate North Korea,…
United States President, Donald Trump has condemned the Republican and Democratic senators responsible and still openly expressed hope that the legacy legislation will self destruct. “3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!” Trump tweeted after the dramatic vote in the early hours of Friday. His unrelenting death wish for Obamacare contradicts expert views that cancelling the health law would have left 20 million Americans without health coverage. As AFP Reported, the legislative rebuke was just one of the woes of a Trump White House riven by…
In what seems to be a reprisal attacks from Russia on the United States, Russian government has angrily reacted to the sanctions imposed on it by the former Obama administration and another round of sanctions imposed by the US Congress. In a reaction, the Kremlin on Friday ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff in and said it was seizing two U.S. diplomatic properties. Moscow’s decision, which had echoes of the Cold War, was announced by the Foreign Ministry a day after the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved new sanctions on Russia. The bill now passes to President…
Shanghai Third Intermediate People’s Court on Friday, July 28, 2017 has sentenced eleven people, found guilty of faking and selling popular baby formula brands, to between 3 and 15 years in prison. The convicts were said to have been involved in producing and selling counterfeit baby formula imitating popular foreign and domestic brands. The court found five people, including Chen Mingjiang and Gu Chuansheng, guilty of manufacturing milk powder cans that copied the designs and logos of Beingmate and Abbott, filling them with cheap and inferior formula from other brands, and selling them in 2014 and 2015. Four others helped…
Nigeria’s Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has disclosed that the Federal Government will not be stampeded into abandoning plans to amend the Nigeria Broadcasting Code to ensure the production in Nigeria of ‘Nigerian content or local content’ programmes. The Minister stated this in Abuja on Friday when he received a delegation from the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOC), led by its Nigerian representative, Dr. Tunji Asaolu John. He said those who deliberately twisted his comments to allege that the Federal Government will ban the shooting of films and music videos abroad are being mischievous, and…
Indonesian Ombudsman office has unearthed evidence of human rights violations in the execution of a Nigerian drug convict, Humphrey Jefferson in 2016, an official said on Friday, July 28, 2017. Humphrey Jefferson was still seeking clemency from President Joko Widodo at the time of his execution, which meant he still had a chance of being pardoned, said Ninik Rahayu, an official of the ombudsman’s office who is overseeing the case. Jefferson, sentenced to death in 2004, had also sought a second judicial review of his case by the Supreme Court, but his request was denied by the Central Jakarta court…
The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amazon.com Inc, Jeff Bezos, has toppled fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates as the richest person in the world on Thursday, July 27, 2017. He profited in early trading from the e-commerce company’s meteoric stock rise to reach a fortune of 90.6 billion dollars, Forbes reported. Gates is worth $90.1billion. Amazon shares jumped 1.6 per cent at the start of trading on Thursday, boosting the net worth of Bezos – the company’s founder and largest shareholder – by 1.4 billion dollars,according to Forbes, which tracks the world’s wealthiest. Bloomberg however estimated Bezos wealth at…
Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials have disclosed that the coalition airstrikes have killed seven senior Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) propagandists and facilitators in Iraq and Syria. “The removal of these key ISIS leaders disrupts ISIS’s propaganda production, distribution, and the ability to fund ISIS’ terrorist activities,” the U.S. Department of State said. It said Abu Sulayman al-Iraqi, a senior ISIS propaganda official, was killed by a coalition airstrike near Mosul, Iraq, in early July. “Al-Iraqi provided strategic guidance and production oversight for ISIS propaganda that recruited, indoctrinated and directed terrorists around the world,” the…
The removal of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Decree from the 1999 Constitution has caused some uproars among the Nigerians most especially currently serving corps. The development came up in the recent Senate review and consideration of 33 Bills for passage. The bills are contained in the report of the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on the review of the 1999 Constitution. In their separate interviews with NAN in Abuja, while some welcome the development, others expressed concern on its consequences in the lives of youths and national development. Mrs Ene Ede, Gender Advisor, National Democratic Institute (NDI), said…