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A newly installed pedestrian bridge has collapsed at Florida International University and police say there are several fatalities. Images of the buckled structure at the college in Miami were shared across social media on Thursday afternoon. The 950-ton span only went up on Saturday, CBS Miami reports. Local media report that an unknown number of people were trapped underneath the bridge, which was built over a motorway. Florida Highway Patrol Lt Alejandro Camacho told CBS News there were several fatalities and five to six vehicles crushed. Aerial footage shows first responders trying to get under the bridge to trapped cars.…

Atletico Madrid are through to the quarter-finals of the Europa League after a comfortable 5-1 victory over Lokomotiv Moscow in the second-leg tie. Two goals from Fernando Torres and one each for Angel Correa, Saul Niguez and Antoine Griezmann saw Atletico win 8-1 on aggregate. Maciej Rybus equalised after Correa had given Atletico an early lead, but Saul restored the lead for the visitors. Torres’ brace included a penalty before Griezmann’s chip finished things off. READ: Southampton appoint Mark Hughes as manager until end of season The only negative for Diego Simeone’s side was that left-back Filipe Luis went off…

An Abeokuta High Court on Thursday sentenced three men to death by hanging for armed robbery, conspiracy and rape while the fourth accused, Oguntolu Oludare got 10 years imprisonment for receiving stolen goods. Justice Olatokunbo Majekodumi sentenced Abdulrasak Moshood, Sakiru Osunmuyiwa and Azeez Olonade. Delivering judgment, Justice Majekodumi said the court was convinced beyond reasonable doubt the accused committed the offences. “Having found that the accused persons are guilty as charged, the first, second and third accused shall be hung by the neck until they are dead. May the Lord have mercy on you. “The fourth accused person, Oguntolu Oludare,…

An Oklahoma mother who married her daughter after the pair “hit it off” has been sentenced to two years in prison. Patricia Ann Spann, 45, pleaded guilty to the felony offence of incest and admitted wedding her biological daughter, Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 26. The mother lost custody of her children and reunited with her daughter in 2014. The two married in March 2016 after same-sex marriage became legal in the state. Investigators later discovered Patricia Ann Spann had previously wed her son. Her son, who was 18 years old at the time, annulled the marriage on incest charges in…

…Grants 50% Reduction On Commercial Charges, 25% For Owner-Occupier, Manufacturing Concerns …Gives Tax Credit For Payment Already Made, Introduces Installment Payment Plan Following extensive deliberations with stakeholders on the new rates payable by property owners under the Lagos State Land Use Charge (LUC) Law, the State Government on Thursday announced a major reduction in the rates and as well waived the penalty for late payments across board. The State’s Commissioner for Finance, Mr Akinyemi Ashade, who disclosed this while addressing a press briefing at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa on the outcome of dialogue with stakeholders, said the…

Finland has been ranked the happiest country in the world with Nigeria ranked the 91st happiest nation of the world, and fifth in Africa in the 2018 World Happiness Report. The survey was released on Wednesday by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) as part of the UN World Happiness Day- March 20. SDSN is part of the UN’s response to the outcome of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), and its mandate to work towards a post-2015 development agenda. The 2018 report assessed 156 countries happiness levels based on six factors – per capita gross domestic…

The Benue Government has directed its Ministry of Finance to appoint a registered auctioneer to auction livestock confiscated in violation of the state Anti-Open Grazing Law 2017. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Lawrence Onoja, disclosed this while briefing newsmen after the state Executive Council meeting on Thursday in Makurdi. Onoja said the livestock was confiscated from some cattle owners in the state who violated the subsisting law against open grazing. The commissioner said the government also gave the livestock owners up to March 19 to pay stipulated fines to the state Ministry of Agriculture to claim their animals. READ: Reno…

By Adefemiwa Oluwole I never saw this coming, that someday Reno Omokri will get into a competition with Nigerian comedians just to make a joke. But in his case, he is just down right boring. He wouldn’t get a grin from Nigerians speak less, a smile. Just when you thought Reno cannot hit a new low, he digs the ground and goes for it, there is no stopping him in the abyss. Asserting that President Buhari’s son, Yusuf, has more guards than Dapchi schoolgirls is lame, colourless and ludicrous. Have Reno Omokri ever heard of Google? I doubt it because…

Younger members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have said that the reconciliation effort of the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu must also be extended to them because they are equally aggrieved. The members who identified themselves as Younger Stakeholders of the APC stated this while addressing a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday. Speaking on behalf of other members, Dominic Alancha said the younger stakeholders have in the past few weeks met to look into several issues in the party particularly the crisis in the various state chapters, the proposed tenure elongation and the proposed…

Switzerland’s parliament rejected on Thursday a bid to amend the law handling ill-gotten bank profits seized by authorities that had aimed to return more than $100 million linked to scandal-hit sovereign fund 1MDB to the Malaysian people. Champions of the campaign had acknowledged they faced an uphill struggle to get the idea through parliament, whose lower house shot the plan down at the request of the government. Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis told lawmakers the measure was too broad and violated the separation of powers between the government and the courts. He said current law allowed repatriation of assets seized from…