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The killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess is being treated as a terrorist incident by police. Sir David was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Friday. The Metropolitan Police said there was a potential link to Islamist extremism. A 25-year-old British man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder. Home Secretary Priti Patel paid tribute to Sir David as a “man of the people” who was “killed doing a job he loved”. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer laid flowers at the scene together on Saturday morning.…

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that killed 47 people and wounded scores more. In a statement posted late Friday on social media, the IS group said two of the group’s members shot and killed security guards manning the entrance of the Fatimiya mosque in Kandahar province. One detonated his explosives at the entrance of the mosque and the other inside. IS group’s news agency Amaq in a statement gave the names of the attackers as Anas al-Khurasani and Abu Ali al-Baluchi, both Afghan nationals. The attack came…

At least 12 persons have been confirmed dead after an attack by armed bandits on Sakajiki village in Kaura Namoda Emirate in Zamfara State. The incident was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer in Zamfara, Mohammed Shehu, on Friday. According to Shehu, the attack was carried out at about 9pm on Thursday. He added that the casualties recorded in the incident would have been more if not for the prompt response of the security operatives deployed to the area. An eyewitness revealed that the assailants stormed the community at night and operated for several hours without interruption. According to…

A long-time Nike executive in the US has revealed that he shot and killed a teenage boy in the streets of West Philadelphia 56 years ago. Larry Miller, chairman of the Jordan Brand, spoke about the 1965 murder in an interview with Sports Illustrated. “It was eating me up inside,” he said of his actions at age 16, when he was “a straight-up gangbanger”. Mr Miller served a jail sentence for the murder. He says he did not lie about it, but he did keep it secret. The admission comes ahead of the launch of his memoir next year. Mr…

The twin daughters of a monarch, Oba Adelodun, the Owalobo of Obbo Ayegunle in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara state have been reportedly abducted by gunmen on Thursday. Reports say that the twins were kidnapped along with three aides of the traditional ruler. The aides were identified as the monarch’s driver Kunle, his security aide Lawrence Abiodun, and his maid, Bukunmi Akanbi. The incident was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Okasanmi Ajayi, in a statement on Friday. Ajayi stated that the victims were travelling from Osi to Obbo Ayegunle before they were waylaid by…

The Federal Government and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the execution of the 11.12 billion-dollar Lagos-Calabar railway project. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, signed the agreement on behalf of the government, while the President of CCECC, Cao Baogang, signed for the company in Abuja on Friday. He said that the contract was awarded during President Goodluck Jonathan’s regime in the sum of 11.92 billion dollars but was negotiated downward. Amaechi said, “we were able to save 800 million dollars from the initial sum of the project which will be…

Marcus Rashford needs to “prioritise his football” if he is to meet the twin challenges of playing for club and country, says Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The 23-year-old forward has earned huge praise for his off-field work around food poverty among children. But Solskjaer said: “He is coming into the best age for a footballer and he’s got a challenge on his hands here at Manchester United – and has a challenge on his hands to play for England.” Rashford became an MBE in 2020 and this month received an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester. However,…

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa today, October 14, 2021 charged management staff of the Commission to ensure effective implementation of the recently unveiled 2021-2025 Strategic Plan of the agency in order to facilitate adequate tracking and measurement of the Commission activities and programmes. Bawa who spoke at the opening of a one-day training workshop on implementation of the EFCC Strategic Plan 2021-2025 organized by the Department of Planning, Research and Statistics of the Commission at Barcelona Hotel, Wuse 2 Abuja reminded the staff that despite the successes and milestones achieved by the…

To commemorate this year’s Eid-ul-Mawlid, the Federal Government of Nigeria has declared Tuesday, October 19, as a public holiday. Eid-ul-Mawlid is an Islamic celebration that marks the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. The announcement was made by the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who congratulated all Muslim faithful home and abroad. Aregbesola urged Nigerians to use the oppotunity to spread the spirit of love, patience and perseverance which are the virtues of the Holy Prophet, adding that doing so would guarantee peace and security in the country. The minister tasked Nigerians, especially muslims to shun all forms of…

A four-year-old girl was shot and killed by a police officer on October 14 in Buea, in southwestern Cameroon. She was hit by a bullet when the officer fired shots at a vehicle that failed to stop at a police checkpoint. Checkpoints are a common sight in the region, a hotspot of tension between anglophone separatists and French-speaking government forces. Protests erupted after the incident and the crowd beat the officer responsible to death. Videos shared on social networks show a crowd of people marching through the streets of Buea, chanting in anger and waving branches of leaves. At the…