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A Russian air strike has killed around 40 Islamic State fighters, including four senior commanders, near the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, Russia's defence ministry said on Friday. The strike, carried out by Su-34 fighter-bombers and Su-35 fighters, came after an intelligence report on Sept. 5 showed that top Islamic State commanders were meeting at a secret underground command post in the vicinity of Deir al-Zor, the ministry said on its Facebook page. Among those killed was Abu Muhammad al-Shimali, who oversees foreign fighters at IS, it said. The defence ministry also said it had evidence that Gulmurod Khalimov, Islamic State's "minister of war", was present at the meeting in the bunker and had been fatally wounded in the strike and evacuated to the al-Muhasan area, 20 km (13 miles) southeast of Deir al-Zor. Khalimov, the U.S.-trained commander of Tajikistan's elite police force, defected to Islamic State in April 2015 and later posted a video address, vo...

Alex Badeh (Ole gbe,ole gba abi?) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested one of its drivers alongside other individuals for allegedly trying to steal from the residence of former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh in Abuja. The anti-graft agency disclosed this in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren. Uwujaren identified other members of the gang to include: a policeman, Aliyu Ismaila, Abubakar Jibrin, Abdulsalam Ado, Ibrahim Babangida, Reuben Dauda, Hassan Aliyu, Sani Yusuf and Murtala Mohammed. He revealed that the suspects were caught in the act of breaking into Badeh's property. Uwujaren said, "On August 30, 2016, operatives of the EFCC, as part of monitoring activities on the sealed property, had gone to the site to execute a search. "However, members of the syndicate took to their heels on sighting the operatives of the anti-graft agency. A carpenter, Yakubu Muhammad, who was hired by the syndicate, was left behind and was...

According to a report from iol.co.za , Robert Mugabe's sons, Robert Junior and Bellarmine Chatunga, have received a bill of R780 000 after their penthouse in Sandton was destroyed. It has been reported that Robert and Bellarmine were evicted from the penthouse after a violent fight left the place destroyed. It has been reported that a security guard sustained a broken leg during the fight that took place in July. The two reportedly destroyed the property and damaged the carpets. Reports have also emerged that Robert's sons receive around R513 000 a month as pocket money, and many residents of Zimbabwe are wondering where Robert Mugabe is getting the money from. It has been reported that Robert does not run a money-making business. It has been reported that the boys live in luxurious apartments, they travel in luxury cars and they also have a chef and a few bodyguards. There have been complaints from residents at the penthouse as the boys are usually up all night, partying with ...

Herdsmen. Photo credit:NAN About 15 people were reported to have been killed in an attack allegedly carried out by suspected fulani herdsmen in Ancha village of Maingo, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. According to an eyewitness report, the attack was carried out last night. It is suspected to be a reprisal, following an earlier dispute between the herdsmen and members of the community. More details to come …

Rihanna. Photo credit: Instagram Barbadian singer Rihanna engaged a few of her prominent friends in a candid question and answer segment as she covers Elle, USA. Rihanna also revealed that she'd love to go back to the 10 minutes before she lost her virginity. This was in response to Magician David Copperfield's question about the one place she'd love to go if he made her disappear or reappear anywhere in the world. RihRih. Source: Instagram. The hilarious singer said: "Ten minutes before I lost my virginity…and I'm holding you to that offer. LOL." See more excerpts of the interview below: When asked about the first time she wore lipstick: Rihanna. Source: Instagram. Lipstick always got me in trouble. Whether it was at home as a kid, or my early teenage years in my career, I always had the urge to wear it. So I broke all those rules. Now lipstick is like my lil secret weapon! Speaking on the craziest thing she's ever done for beauty: A corset! I'd do it...

Roman Catholic priest's vestment A Catholic priest, Rev.Fr Daniel Onukwubeuka Nwankwo,the parish priest of St Thomas Catholic Church, Onilekere in lagos Arch diocese was reportedly shot this morning in his parish. Just as the Catholic diocese of Orlu is still battling to come to terms with the fact that Rev.Fr Cyriacus Onunkwo was kidnapped and killed by some evil men on the 1st of September 2017, another sad news has hit the mother church. According to reports, some unknown gun men attacked him in the church early this morning after confessionals and apparently shot him in the abdomen. He however survived and is currently receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital. More details to come soon…. Please pray for Fr. Daniel Nwankwo and all the priests of God currently facing persecution.(May evil befall those carrying out this onslaught on catholics priests and Christianity in general)

Helen Tweedy's violent alcohol-fuelled behaviour to her husband started on their wedding night, when she smothered him with a duvet and forced him to sleep on the sofa A teacher subjected her husband to years of drunken torment... forcing him to set up a secret hidden camera to prove what he had to put up with. Helen Tweedy, 45, forced her husband Neal to suffer 12 years of physical abuse, including an assault on their wedding night in which she smothered him with a duvet and forced him to sleep on the sofa. For years, Mr Tweedy, also 45, believed that wife would change and failed to report the attacks to authorities. But he was eventually prompted to take action after the couple had a child and she continued with her abusive behaviour towards him. Unbeknown to his wife, he installed a hidden camera at the couple's £200,000 semi-detached home in Stretford. For a two-month period he filmed Mrs Tweedy slapping him and swearing at him. After three incidents, he feared the attacks ...

Suspected child killer and ritualist, Ifeanyi Dike who recently escaped from police custody in Port Harcourt has been rearrested in Jos, Plateu state.  Dike escaped from the State CID in Port Harcourt shortly after his arrest. A report monitored on Nigeria Info FM, Port Harcourt said Dike was nabbed last night in Jos by security operatives and that police in Port Harcourt are on their way to extradite him to Rivers State. Dike who is a student of the University of Port Harcourt, was arrested in August for raping and killing an 8-year-old girl, Victoria Chikamso in Port Harcourt. More facts will be made available as they unfold.

A Jos High Court has remanded three men – Tasiu Mohammed, 21, Saidu Mohammed, 19, and Umar Shehu, 23 – in Jos prison, over the alleged murder of their `guest'. The suspects, all of Bukuru, in Jos, who are facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, robbery, theft and culpable homicide, were also alleged to have stolen their victim's money after killing him. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Justice Rifkatu Sha ordered the remand after the prosecutor, Mr J. I. Mantu, prayed the court for time to enable the ministry of justice take over the matter from the police. Mantu, of the Plateau Ministry of Justice, told the court that he had been instructed by the Attorney General (AG) of the State, to take over the matter, relying on section 211 of the 1999 constitution, which gave power to the AG to institute criminal proceedings in any court. Sha, after listening to his plea, ordered the remand of the accused persons and adjourned the matter to May 23, for definite hearing, ...

  Freedom To Remove The Mask   A daily devotion for September 8th   From your friends at  RayStedman.org     Read: 2 Corinthians 3:12-18       Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:17-18).       The apostle reminds the Corinthians immediately that the Lord is in their hearts, in their human spirits. Their hope of freedom comes from that great fact, for the one who is within them is God Himself. Paul identifies Him:  the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Freedom is being out in the open, having boldness, having nothing to hide. Those who are free are those who do not have any reputation to defend, no image to hide behind, nothing to preserve about themselves. They can be themselves. Everywhere today people are...

Matthew Phelps. Raleigh Police A North Carolina man was told he could face the death penalty on Tuesday for the murder of his wife after he told a 911 dispatcher he may have killed her after drinking too much cold medicine. "I had a dream and then I turn on the lights and she's dead on the floor," suspect Matthew Phelps, 28, said during a nearly seven-minute 911 call early Friday morning. "I have blood all over me and there's a bloody knife on the bed. And I think I did it," he said in the call, which was released by the Raleigh Police Department. Phelps went on to tell the dispatcher between sobs that his wife, Lauren Ashley-Nicole Phelps, 29, was not breathing. He then said that he had taken too much Coricidin, a cold medication targeted at people with high blood pressure. "I took, I took more medicine than I should have," he said. "I took Coricidin ... because I know it can make you feel good, so a lot of times I can't sleep at night so...

- Ex-Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto has apparently cut ties with NASA and joined Jubilee party - Ruto was seen with DP Ruto in Kericho ahead of his unveiling at Kapkatet stadium - They warmly welcomed President Uhuru Kenyatta who also shook his hand warmly - This comes days after Ruto denied he had left NASA and said he is in NASA to stay Ex-Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto has apparently dumped the National Super Alliance (NASA) and joined the Jubilee party ahead of the October 17 repeat polls. On Friday, September 8, Ruto was at Kaptatet stadium in Kericho with Deputy President William Ruto as they waited for President Uhuru Kenyatta to touch down ahead of a planned rally.Th e former NASA principal was seen all smiles with the deputy president amid claims he had ditched the opposition for Jubilee. Isaac Ruto meets Uhuru Kenyatta in Litein ahead of Jubilee rally in Kericho Photo: Twitter/Uhuru Kenyatta Uhuru was also seen warmly shaking Ruto's hand, an indication he was welcoming him to Jubil...

Former minister of Petroleum. Diezani-Alison-Madueke. Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says the funds allegedly stolen by the former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, surpasses that of former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha. Magu further said only 15 percent of Diezani's loot have been recovered by the anti-graft agency. He told reporters that the agency was already making moves to facilitate the extradition of the former minister and to recover the rest, which will take some time. "We are working on the process of Diezani's extradition. But we have to allow the UK government because we are collaborating," "There is the National Crime Agency and the Crown Prosecution Service in London, and our colleagues, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in America. We had cause to meet in London for about a week. We are working not only on the Diezani case, but the Diezani case...

Official says Lieutenant General Khoantle Motsomotso was shot by soldiers who had recently been fired.  Lesotho's army commander has been shot dead by rival military officers, according to the officials in the small southern African country. Defence Minister Sentje Lebona confirmed the death of Lieutenant General Khoantle Motsomotso on Tuesday morning, The Associated Press news agency reported. He was shot at his home by a group of soldiers who had recently been fired, said Ramanka Mokaloba, a defence official, according to DPA news agency. "They attempted to forcefully enter his office. There was a shoot-out between the two... and the commander's bodyguards," another military official who declined to be named told AFP news agency. At least one soldier was also killed during the attack and another injured. Prime Minister Thomas Thabane confirmed the deaths at a press conference on Tuesday, describing them as "a serious setback to vigorous efforts to restore peace...

Four persons including an Abu Dhabi-based Rita Chinenye Ani and her elder sister, Ngozi Stella Nnamani Ani were today arraigned before a Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja for engaging in human trafficking. The others charged by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, are Ozigi Abdulkarim and Princewill James. The four defendants (two males and two females) were arraigned before the court presided over by Justice Yusuf Halilu by NAPTIP represented by the Chief Legal Officer, Mr. Aondona Orti. The quartet were slammed with a 10-count charge bordering on trafficking on human beings contrary to Sections 13, 14, 18 and 26(b) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015. The NAPTIP legal team was led by Mr Aondona Orti, Chief Legal Officer. It will be recalled that the suspects were arrested recently by operatives of NAPTIP in two operations in Gwarimpa, Abuja and Ibadan, the Oyo Sta...

A federal court in California dealt a new blow Thursday to the Trump administration's travel ban, ruling that some refugees must be allowed into the country. Trump's travel ban order It is the latest twist of the legal wrangling touched off by President Donald Trump's ban, first announced in January with little notice and widely criticized as discriminatory against Muslims. Trump says it is needed to keep out terrorists. In the new ruling, the US Ninth Circuit of Appeals, based in San Francisco, upheld a ruling by a court in Hawaii, a decision against which the administration had appealed. The new decision states that the ban must exclude "refugees who have a formal assurance from an agency within the United States that the agency will provide or ensure the provision of reception and placement services to that refugee." It could pave the way for the entry of some 24,000 refugees whose asylum requests had already been approved. And as the US Supreme Court had ruled...

A 40-year-old man, Stephen Akpata, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend, Onyinye Faustina Eze, to death at the Kpansia suburb of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Briefing newsmen at the headquarters of the Bayelsa Police Command in Yenagoa, the state Police Commissioner, Asuquo Amba, said the suspect, who fled to Gbana last month after committing the crime, was apprehended two weeks later in Lagos by security operatives on his trail. According to the Police Commissioner, the suspect confessed to the Police that he made love to the deceased for an hour and shortly after he saw a message on her phone and suspected her of infidelity. He became angry, an argument ensued and he stabbed her on the neck and on the shoulder. Amba said: "On August 16, at 2p.m., Moses Awo reported at Ekeki Police Division that one Onyinye Faustina Eze, 33, a colleague, did not report to work as expected. "He took someone along and went to her house located behind Fido Water Compa...

The police in Anambra State have arrested 28 suspects over cases of kidnapping, armed robbery, cultism and other related vices in the state. The suspects, Ebeje Nnamdi, a deserter from 20 mechanized Battalion, Taraba State and another, were arrested at various locations of the state. Nnamdi is suspected to be the trainer of Biafra Security Service. He was arrested alongside three others for their alleged involvement in armed robbery in Iyi Oji area of Anambra on Wednesday. Parading the suspects on Thursday at the police headquarters in Amawbia, the state Commissioner of police, Garba Umar, said one of the suspects, Chukwudi Nwabundo, invaded the house of one Peter Chukwuemeka of Isiokwe village, Aguleri and abducted one John Ifediora of Umuganagu village to Iyi Oji shrine where he was subjected to torture. He said the suspects confessed to the crime and would be charged to court accordingly. Umar listed exhibits recovered from them to include 336 rounds of 7.62 x 39mm AK 47 live ammuni...

A mentally unstable woman has given birth to a bouncing baby boy in Sapele, Delta state, Sapele Oghenek reports. The lady was said to have been assisted by a roasted plantain seller who noticed that she was in labor. The Good Samaritan however noticed that the placenta refused to come out, prompting her to call for help. A doctor, Ugochuckwu, later arrived the scene and assisted her in delivering the baby safely, before being taken to the hospital, as her family were located. The baby has since been named Excel.

Kidnappers struck again in Rivers State on Thursday, waylaying an 18-seater bus and abducting the 19 occupants of the vehicle, including the driver. It was gathered that the incident happened on Isiokpo-Elele Road in the Ikwerre Local Government Area, about 30 kilometres from Agip Junction in Port Harcourt, where the bus branded, Rivers Mass Transit Company, took off. Sources explained that the kidnappers, who were 10 in number and heavily armed, blocked the road and forced the bus to stop as soon as it (bus) approached them. Thursday's abduction would be the third time in one month that passengers would be waylaid on the road by hoodlums. It was also learnt that the victims, who were on their way to Owerri, the Imo State capital, were marched into the bush by their captors at about 8.30am. A driver plying the route, Mr. Martins Aluziwe, said his bus was earlier attacked by the hoodlums, adding that he and the driver, whose bus was intercepted, loaded passengers into their vehicles...

- Seven suspected thugs have been gunned down along the Sagana-Makutano road - According to reports on social media seen by TUKO.co.ke , the seven were armed and belong to the dreaded Gaza Gang members - The gang which operates in Kayole, Nairobi is known for its notoriety and has been in police badbooks for years - They were gunned down by DCI officers who were trailing them Seven members of the outlawed Gaza gang that is mainly based in Nairobi's Kayole area have been gunned down. The 7 were killed on Tuesday, September 5, along Sagana Makutano road at Rukanga near Makutano in Kirinyaga county. Their deaths came a week after their gang leader, Mwanii Sparta was buried, having been gunned down by anti-crime police in Juja, Kiambu county, a week earlier in August 2017. The lates Claire Adi Vybz and Mwanii Sparta. Photos: Courtesy. Mwanii, a criminal sought for months by police after the death of his wife, Claire Adi Vybz- posthumously nicknamed the hottest thug in Kenya, was gunned...

- Photos have emerged of a gang of female thugs who are reportedly terrorising Nairobi residents - The gang reportedly operates from Kinoo kikuyu, uthiru, Ruiru, Kahawa and Zimmerman estates - The dreaded anti-crime officer Hessy Wa Dandora known for laying criminals to waste tried to talk to the thugs but they were arrogant Kenyans have been put on high alert following the emergence of yet another pretty female gangstas who has been giving Nairobi residents sleepless nights. The public, especially those living in Nairobi areas such as Zimmerman, Ruiru, Kahawa West and Githurai 44 have been urged to be on the look out for one pretty lady identified as Brihar Wairimu alias Mishy Njoroge who is the leader of a new group of female thugs which has been terrorizing Nairobi residents for sometime now. The caution was served by the dreaded anti-crime officer Hessy Wa Dandora through a popular Facebook group dubbed Kayole Crime Free. Brihar Wairimu alias Mishy Njoroge who is the leader of a ne...

Commonwealth Games swimmer raped a woman who was "passed" on by a fellow athlete from the Team GB Olympic team, a court heard on Thursday. Otto Putland, 23, is accused of getting into bed with the 19-year-old student after she had consensual sex with his best friend Ieuan Lloyd . The student said she slept with Mr Lloyd, who swam for Britain in both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic games, after bumping into him at a nightclub. But she claimed he then "abandoned" her and welcomed his friend Putland into the bedroom, before switching off the bedroom light and closing the door behind him. She refused sex, telling Putland she would not be "passed around", Cardiff Crown Court heard. In a statement read out in court, the girl said: "Otto and Ieuan were both having a conversation outside the room with the door open. "Otto came in and started taking his shoes off. So I text my friend for help because I thought something might happen. "I told him...

Former MP Harvey Proctor has said he will sue the Metropolitan Police over their handling of the investigation into historical child sex abuse allegations against him. Mr Proctor told ITV News he had been "mentally and physically destroyed" by the claims that he was part of a Westminster paedophile ring. He said he planned to sue for loss of earnings and his home, and criticised the police for failing to respond to his lawyers' petition for compensation. Harvey Proctor said he planned to sue for loss of earnings and his home, and criticised the police for failing to respond to his lawyers' petition for compensation. It comes after Northumbria Police said they had passed a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to decide if charges of perverting the course of justice and fraud will be brought against Mr Proctor's accuser, known as "Nick". "These are difficult matters and I wouldn't want to negotiate on television what my lawyers are trying t...