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Philippine police killed 32 people in “shock and awe” raids aimed at scaring drug traffickers, authorities said Wednesday, after President Rodrigo Duterte admitted to setbacks in his controversial crime war. Duterte has waged an unprecedented crackdown on drugs during his 14 months in power that has seen police and suspected vigilantes kill thousands of people, leading to warnings by rights groups that he may be overseeing a crime against humanity. In one of the deadliest operations of the war, police reported killing 32 people in a series of raids Monday on suspected drug traffickers across Bulacan province, which neighbours the…

Justice Abdulaziz Anka of a Lagos Federal High Court on Wednesday ordered that the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans against the Nigeria Police Force will proceed. Anka gave the ruling while dismissing the objections of counsel to the Nigeria Police Force, Emmanuel Eze, during proceedings in Evans’ N300m suit. The judge agreed with Counsel to Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje that service on the first and second respondents in the case had been properly effected. Read Also ASUU strike may end in two days The first and second respondents in the suit are…

The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, yesterday assured Nigerians that the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), may end in two days. In an interview with The Guardian, the Minister stated that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has a policy of engaging unions, including ASUU. Read Also APGA picks Obiano for Anambra governorship race “I hope and believe that this would be a one or two days strike. We have a policy of engaging the unions, including ASUU and I think now we are very serious. “This is the first time in two…

Concern shifted on Wednesday to the estimated 600 people still missing and thousands made homeless in Sierra Leone by deadly floods in the capital, as aid groups scrambled to coordinate a response. The United Nations said Tuesday it was evaluating humanitarian needs in Sierra Leone, while the first Israeli aid packages were sent and Britain pledged its support. With morgues overwhelmed with bodies, burials began on Tuesday for some of the bodies too mutilated to identify. President Ernest Bai Koroma fought back tears on Tuesday as he visited the devastated hilltop community of Regent, saying the scale of the challenge…

A 10-man Nigeria Air Force (NAF) General Court Martial, which tried Air Craftsman Kalu Bernard over the alleged killing of his girl friend and colleague, Solape Oladipupo, has sentenced him to death by hanging. Jealous Bernard, 21, had shot and killed Solape when he allegedly caught her in the arms of another man at the Air Force Base, Makurdi on March 12, 2017. Military sources indicated that Bernard, after shooting his double-dating girlfriend, was overpowered by the lover while trying to shoot him. Flight Lt. M. A. Umoh, Judge Advocate of the court, in a 70-page narration of the case…

The Police in Borno said 16 persons were killed and 82 others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Konduga Local Government Area of the state. The commissioner, Mr Damian Chukwu, confirmed the attack in a Short Message Service (SMS) sent to newsmen on Wednesday in Maiduguri. Chukwu said that the inicident occurred at a market at about 5: 30 p.m. when three suicide bombers hit the market. Dozens of people were killed in a separate suicide bomb attacks on Tuesday in Konduga local government area of Borno. Read Also Mudslide Disaster: 400 corpses in Freetown morgue He said the…

Some 400 corpses have been taken to a mortuary in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown after a desperate search and rescue operation resumed on Tuesday following Monday’s devastating mudslide. Over 600 people are thought to be missing, believed to be trapped under the mudslide in Regent, a suburb of Freetown where the tragedy struck as heavy torrential rains pounded the city on Sunday and Monday. Over 150 people had died including whole families in the moment a hill in Regent caved in after several hours of heavy rain, leaving over 3,000 more homeless. A local journalist told the African Press Agency…

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has picked Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra as its candidate for the governorship poll slated for Nov. 18. Obiano scored 1,070 “yes” votes to emerge the candidate in the race he contested unopposed in Awka. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that accreditation and voting by delegates from the 326 wards in the 21 local governments commenced at 11.30 a.m. and ended at 3:45 p.m. Obiano was presented the certificate of return at 5:55 p.m. Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, Chairman of the congress, who announced the result, said that a total of 1,092 delegates…

Egypt has resolved to invest on a $255 million electric train project that will run to the country’s planned new administrative capital. The train which will also be funded by China, according to officials, will save millions of dollars in fuel subsidies and reduce traffic. The railway will connect the Cairo suburb of Al-Salam City with the new metropolis east of Cairo. The project is set to start within two to three months, the head of the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT), Mr. Tarek Gamal Al-Din, has said. The project will be financed through a loan from China to be…

No fewer than two youths were reportedly shot dead by some miscreants, popularly known as ‘Area boys’ from Okepopo area on Lagos Island in different attacks against their opponents. Also, six other persons who were shot but escaped death, were at different hospitals on the Island after the attack by Okepopo boys, who invaded some streets, looking for their opponents. Residents and traders on the Island were said to be living in fear as the notorious boys were said to always attack unexpectedly, looting goods and shooting sporadically at people seen around or believed to be trying to obstruct them.…