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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...