Author: David Great

Hooded attackers stabbed a Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) supporter ahead of the French club’s Champions League match at AC Milan, Italian police said Tuesday. The unnamed French man was “seriously injured by two stab wounds in the leg” in Milan on Monday night and taken to hospital, police said in a statement. The Corriere della Sera newspaper said the man was 34 years old and his life was not in danger. Witnesses told police the clash happened between around 50 Milan fans and PSG fans who were in the Navigli area of the northern Italian city. Video images on social media…

Over 14 people, primarily children, were murdered and 19 others were injured after bandits attacked the Maulud Celebration Ground in Katsina State’s Rugar Kusa Community, Musawa Local Government Area. The bandits took at least 20 residents to an unknown place during the raid, which looks to be retaliation and lasted more than an hour. Residents reported that when the bandits arrived on Sunday night from the southern section of the celebration area, they began firing intermittently with sophisticated weapons to intimidate the residents. Six people were slain in the Rugar Kusa community, two in Gidan Malamai, and six in Yar…

A combative Donald Trump clashed repeatedly with the judge on Monday as he took the stand in the New York civil fraud case threatening to cripple his real estate empire. One year out from an election he hopes will return him to the White House, Trump became the first former US president to testify as a defendant in a court case in more than a century. During his testimony, the 77-year-old business mogul accused Judge Arthur Engoron of issuing “fraudulent” rulings, and denounced New York state attorney general Letitia James, who brought the case against him, as a “political hack.”…

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has announced that workers and pensioners in the state will get N25,000 and N15,000 monthly cash awards for the next six months. He did, however, emphasise that the workers and the people of the state would have to collaborate with the state government to build the state’s economy in the long run, as he believes that if the state’s economy is prosperous, everyone would be affected. During a solidarity rally, the governor addressed workers at the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan. He stated that, while his government would like to focus on legacy projects that…

Fire gutted a section of the Canadian High Commission in the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on Monday. According to reports, two people were killed and several more were injured in the tragedy. As of press time, the cause of the fire was unknown, but thick, dark smokes were seen spiralling into the skies from the tall, white diplomatic building located on the diplomatic drive in the FCT’s Central Business District, just a short distance from the Federal Ministry of Defence and the High Commissions of the United States, the United Kingdom and Ghana. Canada announces three-year immigration plan for…

The Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT patrol team has arrested eight stowaways onboard a container vessel Natal. In a statement released by ,the Base Information Officer of the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT Sub-Lieutenant HA Collins, the eight individual were planning to leave Nigeria onboard a container vessel NATAL heading to Abidjan. “In a remarkable display of sustained maritime security, the Nigerian Navy Ship BEECROFT’s patrol team has stalled plans of some individuals from embarking on an illegal voyage, onboard a container vessel NATAL heading to Abidjan. “At approximately 0840 hours on Friday 3rd November 2023 the patrol team, acting on reliable intelligence…

Guinea’s ruling junta has purged 60 soldiers and prison officers from the security services after a jailbreak that saw armed commandos pluck ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara from prison and left nine dead, officials said Monday. Heavily armed men burst into the prison in the capital Conakry early Saturday, taking Camara and three other former senior officials who are on trial alongside him over a 2009 massacre during his presidency. Nine people died in the raid, according to a provisional toll. It remains unclear if the group had escaped or been taken against their will as their lawyers have stated. The…

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate for 2023, stated on Monday that his ambition for a new Nigeria does not cease with the Supreme Court’s judgement on October 26, 2023. Peter Obi remarked at a news conference in Abuja roughly two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) electoral win on February 25, 2023. Peter Obi, who criticised the Supreme Court’s decision, acknowledged that the legal struggle over the previous election was over. The former governor of Anambra State, speaking to his fans known as ‘Obidients,’ remarked that a destination…

The South African government said on Monday it would recall all its diplomats from Israel to “signal” its concern over the situation in Gaza. Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, a minister in the president’s office, told a press briefing that all diplomatic staff in Tel Aviv would be asked back to Pretoria for consultations, without providing further details. “We are… extremely concerned at the continued killing of children and innocent civilians in the Palestinian territories and we believe the nature of response by Israel has become one of collective punishment,” Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told a later press conference. “We felt it important…

Boko Haram militants have killed ten farmers in Borno State. Some of the farmers were slaughtered at Kwashabe, a rice plantation in the Zabarmari area of Jere Local Government Area, where over forty farmers were killed three years earlier, while others were killed in Kakut village in Mafa Local Government Area. According to one of the farmers in Zabarmari, the issue started on Friday when three farmers were abducted and a ransom of N600,000 was demanded for each of the three kidnapped people. In order to extract more money than the N120,000 paid for the three people, the Boko Haram…