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Two police officers are dead following what is believed to have been a murder suicide at the KwaDabeka police station, in Durban's Outer West, South Africa. Police sources said on Tuesday afternoon that an officer from Crime Intelligence had shot his girlfriend, Nontuthuko Mthembu, who was a policewoman and then turned the gun on himself. According to KwaDabela SAPS communications officer, Capt Mazwi Mbatha, the suspect, who was based at the Inanda Cluster, was in one of the offices with Mthembu at the KwaDabeka police station when they heard her screaming for help and asking for forgiveness. "We then heard about four gunshots and rushed into the office but unfortunately they were declared dead on scene," said Mbatha.

RussNeft Chairman of the Board of Directors Mikhail Gutseriev Sergei Savostyanov The 10 richest families in Russia each earned more than $2 billion in the past year to amass a collective fortune of $27 billion, Forbes Russia said in its latest ranking published Wednesday, with Russia's top three clans retaining their spots from last year. Oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev's family topped the list with $9.91 billion shared between five family members, including new business partners, Said Gutseriev and Bilan Uzhakhov, who are his son and nephew. Gutseriev's Safmar Group has in recent months purchased household goods store Eldorado and a majority stake in consumer electronics retailer M.video, with plans to merge the two chains. Arkady and Igor Rotenberg took the second spot in the Forbes ranking, boasting a $4.2 billion fortune that they share with their sons Igor and Roman. Last year, the publication estimated the Rotenberg brothers earned $2.8 billion. Forbes attributes their suc...

Pedestrians in Tokyo watch the news on a huge screen displaying a map of Japan and the Korean Peninsula following a North Korean missile test that passed over Japan on August 29. North  Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed he will launch more ballistic missiles into the Pacific Ocean a day after Pyongyang flew a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead over Japan, North Korea's official news agency says. Kim's latest threat came as the United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned the August 29 launch as "outrageous" and called on all countries to enforce sanctions against Pyongyang. The council's resolution, which was supported by China and Russia, also called for "a peaceful, diplomatic, and political solution" and did not threaten new sanctions on North Korea. The Korean Central News Agency said on August 30 Kim viewed the launch as a "meaningful prelude" to containing Guam, the U.S. Pacific island territory with a military base....

FILE. A suspected ritualist at Obadeyi area in Ijaiye A ritualist den was on Wednesday discovered in a tunnel at the challenge area of Mushin, Lagos, three weeks after a similar den was discovered in Ikeja. On 9 August, the police apprehended a suspected ritualist in a drainage channel at Ile-Zik, close to Ikeja, on the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway. Concise News reported that a similar hideout was also uncovered at Obadeyi Ajala, in Ijaiye area. One of the suspected ritualists in the den discovered in Mushin is said to have been set ablaze, while two others were rescued by the Police from being lynched. Daily Sun reports that the tunnel where they were found leads to a moribund company. Syringes believed to be used in injecting their victims with sedative drugs were discovered in the hideout.

The General Overseer of Royal God's Commandment Ministry aka "Obot Uboho" (Mount of Deliverance) located at Okon Edak street off Atamunu, Calabar South Local Government Area, was last Friday arrested by the police for allegedly killing an 18 months old baby boy for ritual. The pastor, a father of four had contracted a young man in the neighbourhood to supply him a child for a spiritual assignment for a fee. "One of the drug addicts who patronises one of the major drug den at Atamunu was contracted by the pastor to conduct the kidnap exercise so he can be paid for his normal dose of cocaine." reports Calabar Reporters. According to an eyewitness, on that fateful day, Tuesday, August 22, the parents of the baby realised that their child was missing. "Unfortunately for the kidnapper, the area vigilante uncovered his identity and was trailed and reported to the Nigerian Police who led the arrest. The kidnapper soon confessed to his crimes having been exposed to...

From left: Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen Abdularahman Dambazau; Director General, Bureau for Public Procurement, Mamman Ahmadu; Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu and Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu.   Photo: Callistus Ewelike/NAN/file A Nigerian Engineer Sunday Ojonimi Agada has invented an over-speed-alert device which he said would save Nigeria N1.2 trillion in capital flight yearly. Explaining the functionality of the device to the Minister of Science and Technology Ogbonnaya Onu, on Tuesday in abuja, Agada said Nigeria spent over N200 billion in importing speed limit devices. According to him, if his invention, Ikani-Engine Contactless speed limit alert (ECOSA), is launched, the huge amount would be saved. He said the device was 90 per cent completed and would be launched before the end of this year. He disclosed that the device was capable of drastically reducing road crashes in the country if adopted by the government. He also said the device...

In Bauchi State, a 17-year-old housewife has said she attempted to kill her rival's two-week old baby because of the deep hatred she had for her husband and his first wife — the baby's mother, Punchng reports. Speaking in an interview with newsmen today, the suspect, Hindatu Abdullahi, said her father forced her into the marriage when she was just 15 years old. She said: "My husband, Abdullahi Ori, and I have been married for two years now and we have a child. He married me as his second wife. He used to love me dearly, but he suddenly started maltreating me. He would beat me, insult me and abuse me at the slightest provocation. I reported his maltreatment to my parents all the time, but they have never believed what I told them, since it was their idea for me to marry him. My father forced me to marry him, against my wish. I have been staying in my husband's house just because of my parents." Abdullahi, who sobbed while she spoke to newsmen said: "I have not...

A Divisional Police Officer in Rivers State (name withheld) has been arrested on the orders of the State Police Command for his alleged involvement in the escape of one Ifeanyi Dike, who killed an eight-year-old for alleged money ritual. A reliable police source disclosed that the DPO, who was arrested on Monday, was deeply involved in telephone calls between him and Johnbosco Okoroeze, a dismissed police sergeant, which indicated that there was a premeditated action by him to allow the suspected ritual killer to escape. It was gathered that while preparations were ongoing by both the father of the deceased, Dr. Ernest Nmezuwuba, and the suspect (Dike) to write their statements, several calls were received from the said DPO by Okoroeze. The top police source said, "We have enough evidence to believe that the DPO was working hand in hand with the ex-sergeant, who has been remanded in police custody. The DPO has been arrested. Even the father of the girl that was killed had said tha...

Part of Keney Park in Hartford is taped off and closed as police investigate the death of a man in his 20s who was found with several stab wounds Wednesday morning. Two park workers found the man's body around 10 a.m. near a bridge in a marshy area of the park, police said. The victim had been stabbed in the face and neck several times, according to police, and they believe the homicide happened overnight. "He's suffering from several puncture wounds to the face, neck and possibly more," Deputy Police Chief Brian Foley. Police said a man was stabbed several times in Keney Park. (Published Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017) Around half a dozen police cars responded to the scene, which is near the pond house, and they are hoping surveillance cameras will have caught something. This has been the 19th homicide of the year in Hartford.

Olori Wuraola, estranged wife of the Ooni of Ife, has confirmed that her marriage to the monarch, Adeyeye Ogunwusi 11, has crashed. The Olori has also reverted to her maiden name Zaynab Otiti Obanor. She disclosed this via an official statement on her official Instagram page @hhzynab on Wednesday. Her post partly read, "What I can confirm is that the Ooni and I are no more. I inhale love and exhale gratitude. "No matter how much time you've invested, no matter the use of media to silence & manipulate, no matter the circumstance, slander, embarrassment, threats and lies: Get out and seek immediate help! "My journey continues as a humanitarian aiding women and victims of domestic violence & abuse with the United Nations. The revelation has confirmed media reports in recent times that the Ooni marriage's to the Benin-born queen was having crisis. NAN recalls that the Ooni got married to his ex-Edo bride at an elaborate society traditional marriage held in Be...

The Kogi State Police Command on Wednesday arrested three notorious kidnappers terrorizing the state, particularly Okene axis. The suspects are Mohammed Abdulrazak 'm' 30year, Yusuf Abona Jafaru 'm' 27 years and Iliyasu Yusuf Nyamida 'm' 37 years. The State Commissioner of Police Wilson Inalegwu at a press briefing in Lokoja noted that the arrest is part of the command onslaught against criminal activities such armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism, cattle rustling and other violent crimes in the state, through proactive crime preventing strategies. Inalegwu said, "On the 30/08/2017 at about 9am, the Police Officers attached to OKENE Division on pin down duty stopped a Gulf Station Wagon, but the driver refused to stop, and was trying to escape but was given a hot chase by the operatives and eventually intercepted the car and arrested the three suspects at Okene Check point. Items recovered from the suspects according to the Police Commissioner include; One Ba...

Anna Gibson from Cincinnati has committed an act which many would deem monstrous as she drugged her ex-lover and tattooed her face all over him. Gibson left no skin of her victim, Andrew Whitmore, 44, untouched without the mask of her face. After the assault, the tattooed Whitmore woke up to a terrifying pain, drenched in his blood in his apartment. He later realised that he's been masked with his ex-girlfriend's face. Furious Andrew told reporters that "She even tattooed her face on my dick." Now he can't even use the convenience without seeing her face on his genitals. "She kept screaming, no one will ever want to sleep with you again. You are mine, mine!!!" he recalls. Andrew wears a total of 77 tattoos of Gibson all over him, according to Elliot Brown and Douglas Thompson of the Cincinnati Police Department. Brown said that they have never heard of such a case in all their years in the force. Surprisingly, Whitmore yielded to what his ex-girlfriend d...

On Saturday, August, 26, 2017, at about 9pm, following a sustained monitoring by IGP Special Tactical Squad attached to Niger State Police Command, two notorious ritualists were arrested in possession of the head of one Hassan Abubakar of Bakajeba Paiko L.G.A. The suspects Abdulrasheed Aminu, 22, of Lupa and Ismaila Mohammed, 27, of makera, both confessed that they cut off the head with the use of two sharpened knife and one other suspect, Ibrahim, is still at large. The father of the victim one, Abubakar Shuaib, said that his son was last seen on Saturday, taking a kettle of water from the house to give an unknown person waiting outside and since then he was nowhere to be found, until he heard that Police arrested suspects with human head and he identified the victim as his son. The case is under investigation

A Jehovah's Witness convention in Angola was attacked with toxic gas on Friday, causing over 400 people to faint. A local news source, Portal de Angola, reported on Saturday that three young men were detained after the attack. According to the report, some 7,000 worshippers were at a venue on the outskirts of Luanda for the weekend-long convention. Forty-three victims were rushed to the hospital, but no deaths have been reported. A witness, Abraham Kituxi, told Portal de Angola that his sister-in-law was one of the first to collapse. She told him that she had smelled something foul before passing out. Shortly thereafter, more people began collapsing, creating panic throughout the venue. Some witnesses called the police and firefighters, who assisted with evacuating the victims to Cazenga Municipal Hospital and Cajueiros Hospital. Police arrested three suspects, and four are believed to be on the run. They could not identify the toxic substance, but noted that it was in containers o...

Police investigation indicated that the convicts conspired and dishonestly went into the complainant's bedroom under construction to steal the electric wires. A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday, August 25, sentenced one Gambo Ibrahim, and Kabiru Sani, to one year imprisonment each for stealing electric wires worth about N1.1million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the convicts had pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of joint act and theft. The Judge, Mr Abubakar Sadiq , held that the convicts' confessional statements necessitated their convictions. He also said that the prosecutor had carried out a diligent prosecution of the case, adding that the allegations brought against the convicts were not disputed. "This is a summary trial, meaning that the convicts did not waste the time of the court as they have before the court admitted to the offences. "But being first offenders, the court is therefore moved to show mercy by allowing them option of...

Earlier, Kabir who earned his living as a businessman had explained to the court that his wife Funmilola was an unrepentant prostitute and a troublemaker. Mr Ademola Odunade, the President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Monday dissolved a two year-old marriage between one Kabir Bakare and his wife Funmilola over adultery. Odunade while dissolving the marriage said that the court had nothing more to do since both Kabir and Funmilola had agreed to the dissolution. He however, used the opportunity to advise married or intending couples to be faithful to their spouses in order to enjoy lasting union. "In the interest of peaceful coexistence, the union between Kabir and Funmilola has ceased to be henceforth. "Custody of the two year-old child produced by the union is awarded to the father since Funmilola herself had dumped the child for many months now. "Funmilola shall approach the court anytime she wants to see the child," the Arbitrator said. Earlier, Kabir w...

The former chief intelligence officer was arrested by troops in June along Buni Yadi in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State. The ex Boko Haram commander, Abdulkadir Abubakar has revealed that the sect's leader, Abubakar Shekau has left Sambisa forest, and is now hiding in Mandara Mountain. This is coming three days to the end of the order » given to the army by ,Maj. Gen Tukur Buratai to capture- dead or alive- Abubakar Shekau. The former chief intelligence officer was arrested by troops in June along Buni Yadi in Gujba local government area of Yobe State, NAN reports. Abubakar also promised to help the military capture Shekau and also broker peace between the sect's two factions and the Federal Government. He said "I am cooperating with the military and I am ready to provide information on the whereabouts of Shekau. Shekau has left his enclave in Sambisa and moved deep into Mandara Mountain. I know the area where he is hiding and willing to provide a guide to the mi...

Fort Worth officers wounded a man Saturday night after he came out of a house with a gun and fired at them, police said. The officers had responded about 9:15 p.m. to a domestic disturbance at the home in the 900 block of East Shaw Street near Berry Street in South Fort Worth. The man, whose name was not released, was in the backyard arguing as police arrived. When he approached with a gun, the officers ordered him repeatedly to drop it. When he refused, the officers opened fire, police said. The man was alert and talking while he was being taken to a hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound to his lower torso. Police said they had been dispatched to the home twice earlier in the evening. Police said charges are pending against the man, and the officers will be placed on routine administrative leave while an internal investigation is conducted.

Police officers The Ondo State Police Command says it had arrested three suspects in connection with the alleged kidnapping and killing of two female students of the Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo state. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Femi Joseph, revealed that one of the suspects was arrested on Friday after participating in a robbery operation in Ondo town, while the other accomplices were arrested on Saturday. Victims It was gathered that the two students, Oladepo Blessing and Oluwasemilore Mary, had earlier been declared missing, while their whereabouts was unknown. According to the PPRO, the suspects are John Adenikiri, also known as Emir; Fisayo Fasanu, aka Abore; and a herbalist, Alfa Abdurafiu. Joseph also explained that Adenikiri and Fasanu confessed that they sold the mutilated bodies of the victims to Abdurafiu, who used them for rituals. Arrest The police spokesman noted that Adenikiri and Fasanu were arrested in Ondo town while Abdurafu was arrested in ...

A religious leader in India, has been sentenced to a 10-year jail term for rape.The man Ram Rahim, was sentenced to jail for raping two of his followers, a lawyer who spoke with AFP said. "Ram Rahim has been sentenced to 10 years in jail," defence lawyer Utsav Singh Bains said after the sentence was pronounced at a makeshift court in the northern state of Haryana.

According to several media reports, Miss Olivia Uchechi Ihionu lost her life at Adoration Ministry Uke on 15 August 2017. The deceased was the first daughter of her parents. She got engaged last Christmas and wass preparing to be married this Christmas. According to an eyewitness, she went to urinate in a nearby gutter after arriving the prayer ground and suddenly went missing. Due to heavy rainfall that day, she apparently drowned. It was later discovered that she fell into gutter, her lifeless body was found in the neighbouring village the following day.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a civil society organisation, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to instruct the military to immediately end any monitoring of Nigerians on the social media. SERAP, in a statement yesterday by its deputy director, Timothy Adewale, also called on the president to ensure that military operations comply with the constitution and the country's obligations under international human rights law. Instead of authorising the monitoring of Nigerians' communication on the social media, SERAP called on the president to develop proactive and holistic policies that ensure technology is used to increase both freedom and security of Nigerians and ensure that everyone benefits from digital technology and not criminalised and penalised for using it. SERAP also asked Buhari to focus on promoting open, transparent and democratic dialogue, and protecting those at risk of being attacked for their opinions, instead of monitoring or clampi...

There are critical differences between the Cuban Missile Crisis and the current situation on the Korean Peninsula. Cuban crisis was handled largely in private save for the naval "embargo", but the North Korean crisis has been handled mostly in public, writes Klass [AP] It has become popular to describe the current situation on the Korean Peninsula as a "slow motion Cuban Missile Crisis". The temptation to do so is understandable since there are significant similarities between the two. For instance, both occurred because the militarily weaker power made a strategic move to even the balance. In 1962, the Soviets tried to sneak missiles into range of the United States to offset their lack of reliable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). Today, North Korea is undertaking an accelerated ICBM and associated nuclear warhead programme to deter the overwhelming conventional and nuclear superiority of the US. Yet, there are critical differences that make the North Kor...

- Nnamdi Kanu says anyone who tries to arrest him will not leave Biafra land alive - He said this while speaking at The Boys Technical College (BTC) in Aba, Abia state - The IPOB leader also claimed that the struggle for Biafra began at Christ the King Catholic Cathedral Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra on Sunday, August 27, insisted that there will not be election in Abia state unless a referendum which his group has been clamouring, is conducted. Kanu while speaking at Boys Technical College (BTC) in Aba, Abia state, said that the agitation for Biafra is a "message from heaven." The IPOB leader who is aware that the federal government has commenced process to have him rearrested said that anyone who tries to arrest him will not leave Biafra land alive, the Cable reports. "Where we are, is Biafra Land. Aba is the spiritual capital of Biafra land. We started in Aba in 2015 at CKC (Christ the King Catholic Cathedral),"  Kanu said. "That day...

The controversial OurMumuDonDo Protest group led by the popular Nigerian entertainer, Charles Oputa, has stormed EFCC offices to demand that Diezani be repatriated. Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, and his #OurMumuDonDo protesters on Monday stormed the offices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja to demand the repatriation of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Diezani, who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan, has been the subject of several graft probes. Already, the courts in Nigeria had ordered the forfeiture of some properties, linked to the former ministers and believed to have been acquired with stolen wealth, to the federal government. Details later…

A Nigerian man has set the perfect example in Qatar after he returned the whopping sum of N150 Million wrongly paid into his account.   Michael Asemota returned the whopping sum of money A Nigerian man living in Qatar has returned about QR1.5 million ($411,127.99/N150 million) mistakenly paid into his account, according to Qatar Tribune. The man, Michael Asemota, had opened an account with a cheque of QR150,200 with an undisclosed commercial bank, where he is the sole signatory of the account. As he got back home, he received an alert showing that a QR1,502,000 had been credited into his account by mistake instead of QR150,200. Asemota went back to the bank and returned the money. Speaking to Qatar Tribune, Asemota said,"After opening the account with the bank, I checked my balance to make withdrawals for a supply job and found the huge sum. I was amazed and decided to contact the bank. He said,"I went to see the manager to report the error of QR1,502,000 deposited into my ac...

If you are not A beer binge by two airmen ended tragically in Kwekwe last week when one of them went berserk and murdered his colleague for allegedly stealing a six-pack of Golden Pilsener. Kelvin Nhete, an Air Force of Zimbabwe officer based at Air Defence Regiment in Redcliff, fatally assaulted his colleague, Phillip Muhenyeri, whom he accused of stealing the six-pack, while they were drinking at a night club in Old Mbizo. Nhete (29) appeared before Kwekwe resident magistrate Mr Philemon Livard charged with murder. He was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody to September 9. He was advised to apply to the High Court for bail consideration. The prosecutor Ms Chipo Hungwe told the court that on August 18 and at Old Mbizo Shopping Centre, Kwekwe, Nhete assaulted Muhenyeri with a blunt object and left him lying on the ground. "Muhenyeri sustained head injuries and bruises on the chest, face and head," she said. "He was ferried to Kwekwe General Hospital where he d...

The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari against his plans to re-arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, over his violation of his bail conditions, stating that the re-arrest of the IPOB leader would "set Nigeria in flames." The IYC, under the leadership of Eric Omare, also criticized the presidency for its poor handling of the quit notice given to Igbos in the North by Arewa youths. The group claimed things would have taken an entirely different twist if the threat had emanated from another tribe. "It is the height of nepotism and sectionalism for the Buhari administration to treat the Arewa youth leaders who committed a serious offense bordering on a threat to national security with kid gloves while the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is being threatened with arrest and several Niger Delta activists are languishing in detention," the IYC said. The IYC urged President Buhari to rel...

Nyesom Wike, Rivers state governor, says he is ready to risk his life to prevent the All Progressives Congress (APC) from winning the governorship election in 2019. Speaking at a thanksgiving service in honour of George Sekibo, the sacked senator who represented Rivers east in the national assembly, Wike charged his supporters to be ready to fight. He also accused the federal government of destroying key national institutions through their "poor governance model". He said APC had made the police and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to "metamorphose into rigging machines that threaten the peace of the country". "Instead of bringing change as they promised, things are getting worse. They have introduced extreme fraud in the country, especially denying the people their mandate," the governor said. "2019, they will not succeed. As far as we are concerned, we have no senator in Rivers east. The man going there has no capacity to represe...