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  An OCS has been fired over a shooting incident in Kitui County. In Summary The officer would be arraigned in court this week to face charges of attempted murder. According to a report filed at Nguutani police station, the OCS had spent the better part of Sunday night drinking at Kata Kiu bar. A police station commander in Kitui County was Tuesday disarmed and locked up by his colleagues after he started shooting indiscriminately while drunk. Chief Inspector Simon Mugira, who is the Nguutani police station OCS, has also been relieved of his duties after the morning shooting drama that shocked local residents. Migwani OCPD Julius Muu confirmed the incident, saying the OCS had only served as the station commander for two weeks and it was not clear why he attempted to attack innocent people with his official firearm. CHARGES Mr Muu said the officer would be arraigned in court this week to face charges of attempted murder. “As for now he is...

Several months ago , the Starnes family — a mother and three teenage children — left their Wellington Park neighborhood in Southeast Washington . They wanted a better life somewhere else in the city , away from crime. Another son, 21 - year -old MyAnthony Starnes , had already left to live with his father in suburban Maryland . He had a job and attended college. But his younger brother, MyAngelo Starnes, 16, was apparently drawn back to his old apartment building at 2500 Pomeroy Road SE, where his friends still hung out. On Sunday, during a visit there, he was shot , struck several times in what police described as a gun battle . The Ballou High School student fell in an apartment entryway about 8 : 10 p. m . and died soon after at a hospital. "He had an impact on anybody and everything that was in his life , " said MyAnthony Starnes, who helped his single mom raise his brother when he was young. " I looked up to him . I' m his big brother, but in reality, he was my ...

Harriet and Isabelle Taylor appeared on ITV this morning unaware that the show had tracked the officer down Sister who have spent the past four months searching for the police officer who held their dying mum's hand after the Manchester bombing got an emotional surprise when they appeared on breakfast TV. Jane Tweddle-Taylor, 51, from Blackpool was at the Manchester Arena to pick up a friend's children from the Ariana Grande concert when the bomb was detonated. Tragically she did not survive, and her daughters Harriet, Lily and Isabelle have been searching for the police officer who helped her in her hour of need. This morning Harriet, 25, and Isabelle, 20, appeared on the Lorraine show on ITV to talk about their search – saying that the worst part of that terrible day was thinking their mum might have been alone when she died. Harriet said: "There are no words for how we feel. Our mum was a part of us, she was our strength, our laughter." After seeing reports of the ...

Tanzanian president John Magufuli delivers a speech during the swearing in ceremony in Dar es Salaam, on November 5, 2015. Mwanahalisi newspaper has been suspended for two years for insulting the president. NAIROBI An independent Tanzanian newspaper has been suspended for two years, a government spokesman said Tuesday, accusing the publication of sedition and endangering national security. The critical Mwanahalisi newspaper was shut after publishing a letter on Monday from a reader containing "insults" against President John Magufuli and his government, said spokesman Hassan Abbasi. Abbasi said the paper had received several warnings. The daily has been shuttered on several occasions in the past, for three months in 2008 and then three years between 2012 and 2015. PATRIOT The offending letter said that Magufuli "claims to be a patriot but questions the patriotism of anyone who opposes him. This is hypocritical." Mocking Magufu...

  A police vehicle takes away two men who were apprehended after they were found in a lodging with two Tanzanian schoolgirls at Nyabohanse trading centre in Kuria West, Migori County on September 19, 2017. In Summary The two men walked into the guest house in the company of the Tanzanian girls aged 15 and 16. Forty minutes later, police acting on tip-off arrested them. The suspects were taken to Isebania Police Station where they were locked up for interrogation. A secondary school teacher and a trader have been arrested in Migori County after they were found in a lodging with primary school girls from Tanzania. Police acting on a tip-off from members of the public picked up the two on Tuesday morning from a guest house at Nyabohanse trading centre in Kuria West Sub-County. The two men had walked into the guest house in the company of the Tanzanian girls aged 15 and 16, forty minutes before the police swung into action. The suspects were take...

The Igbo Community Association in Kano State has condemned the activities of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The community made its position known in a press conference held in Kano by its President-General, Ebenezer Chima. He said: "We want to state categorically here that we, the Igbo residing and doing business in Kano, dissociate ourselves from the activities of IPOB and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu. "We are strongly advocating peace and unity in the land." Chima called on all Igbos resident in the state to remain calm, promising nothing would happen to them. "The state government under the leadership of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and security agents have given the assurance of adequate security of our lives and property. "However, we join the South-East governors, the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and other notable Igbo leaders, to ask the Federal Government to address the issues of equality and even distribution of our common wea...

Spanner. Popular South African DJ Komza Nhleko has been reportedly arrested and charged after he viciously attacked his wife with a spanner. Nhleko brutally injured his wife in the eye, confining the woman to a hospital bed in the country. The victim's friend Thandeka Ndex Ndolvu, angered by the violence, shared a video clip of the said assault. Ndolvu said the DJ assaulted the victim for a long time in front of bouncers who just watched without doing anything. "First we were attacked at Slot Mile in front of five to six bouncers then followed all the way to the garage. My friend has been assaulted for the longest of time and has kept quiet because she thought that things would change or get better but this is what it got too…. She is now lying in a hospital bed," she said. The video sparked major outrage on social media at a time when reports of South African men murdering or assaulting their women proliferate the media.

Wanted billionaire businessman, Kola Aluko, who is an alleged ally of embattled former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has reportedly sold off some of his houses in America. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has written to the United States Government asking it to freeze the accounts where the proceeds of the sales are being held. Documents showed that between May 2016 and August 2017, Aluko had hurriedly sold the properties through an illegal procedure. The property sold include: a house at  755 Sarbonne Road, Los Angeles, California, 90077, USA  and a house at  952 North Alpine Drive, Beverly Hills, California  80210, the neighbourhood of notable Hollywood stars such as Sylvester Stallone and Steven Spielberg. Aluko may have also sold a house at  1948 Tollis Avenue, Santa Barbara, California, USA . The buildings are suspected to have been sold in an off-market transaction using a limited liability company. An off-market sale in real estate refers to a proper...

Iran's army chief warned Monday that his country would immediately lay waste to Israel's commercial capital of Tel Aviv should Israeli leaders make any mistakes. The threat came just a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to take the stage to deliver a U.N. General Assembly speech widely believed to center on Iran's growing influence in the Middle East. Israel's traditionally dismal relationships with other countries in the majority-Muslim region have shifted, with some Gulf Arab states reportedly moving away from a decades-long boycott established after Israel's founding in 1948 and the subsequent expulsion and exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Iran's Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, however, expressed Tehran's staunch opposition to Israel, which has joined the U.S. and Gulf Arab states in lobbying the international community to contain Iran's expanding sphere of influence with increasing urgency.  Mousavi warned ...

Ado-Ekiti – An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court on Tuesday ordered the remand of a 55-year-old man, Adeyanju Basiri in prison custody for allegedly sleeping with his daughter. The Police Prosecutor, Sgt Monica Ikebulo, told the court that the accused committed the offence on Sept. 11 at Irona Street, Ado-Ekiti. She said the accused and one herbalist now at large were arrested for attempting to use the 7-year-girl daughter of the defendant for money rituals. She said that the accused claimed he had slept with his daughter, name withheld, nine times. The prosecutor said the accused told the police he always use a white handkerchief given to him by the herbalist to clean his daughter's private part after having intercourse with her. She said the offence contravened Section 31(2) of the Child's Right Law. Ikebulo told the court that he had duplicated and sent the case file to the Departament of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice. The plea of the accused was not taken as his ...

Jerusalem – The U.S. Army has inaugurated its first military base in Israel,which sends a message of readiness to Iran in the region, local media reported on Tuesday. The base's opening comes as Israel faces a slew of regional threats, especially from its Iran, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said. The Israeli military said the new base is located inside an existing Israel Air Force base in the southern region. The American military base houses dozens of U.S. soldiers operating radar device alongside Israeli soldiers as U.S. radar has been operational on site for a decade, using American civilians to operate it. 

The Federal Government of Nigeria, Tuesday, threw its weight on the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and the categorisation of IPOB as a terrorist organisation by both the south-east governors and the Nigerian army, respectively, saying the activities of the group are similar to those of other terrorist groups. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared on a live TV programme "Good Morning Nigeria" on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA). According to him, the federal government equally knows the foreign countries supporting and funding the activities of IPOB in Nigeria and has kick-started steps at blocking IPOB's funding. Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,Nnamdi Kanu & The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed Alhaji Lai Mohammed also said that IPOb has written to those foreign countries, lying to them that Nigeria is a country where Muslims persecut...

The Zimbabwean government is set to enact a law barring the sale of alcohol during some days of the week, some hours of the day and to expectant women, in a bid to curb abuse of the beverage. The National Alcohol Policy is said to be the brainchild of former Zimbabwe health minister Timothy Stamps, now serving as health adviser in the office of the president and cabinet. The new law will also target motor vehicle drivers, who will face arrest if found driving with blood alcohol concentration levels going beyond 0,08 per 100ml. Retailers found selling the drink to expectant women will also be arrested. The policy also proposes that any alcohol advertisements should be done further than 100 metres from a road intersection, school, clinic, hospital, church and old people's homes. Critics of the proposed regulations have however taken issue with its impact on profitability for retailers. They say it would force many of them out of business in a country where unemployment is a big probl...

Senator Dino Melaye The Independent National Electroral Commision (INEC) yesterday issued a fresh timetable for the recall of the senator representing Kogi West senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye. The process is now to start from October 3rd with the issuance of notice of recall and end on October 14 with the conduct of verification in all poling units in the Kogi West district. INEC had earlier set date for the commencement of the recall process as requested by some electorate from Kogi West constituency but the Federal High Court in Abuja granted an injunction temporarily stopping the process. In a statement signed by the Secretary of the commission, Mrs. Augusta C. Ogakwu , the commission said: "Further to the statement by the independent national electoral commission issued on September 12, 2017, the commission today issued an amended timetable and schedule activities pursuant to the petition for the recall of senator Dino Melaye. In fixing the t...

Zeinab as-Sayyid Mahfouz. Source: al-Arabiya. A man has been arrested by the Egyptian police after he allegedly admitted to beating his 85-year-old mother to death because his wife complained about her. Zeinab as-Sayyid Mahfouz died at a hospital in Alexandria on September 15 after what many speculated to be domestic violence. After reports of him beating his aged mother to death circulated online, social media users in Egypt demanded that he be brought to justice. It was learnt that Zeinab's daughter-in-law had complained to her son about her after which he brutally beat her up to please his wife. He then proceeded to a restaurant with his wife, leaving his battered and wounded mother in the house to bleed. Neighbours who noticed blood draining out of the house, broke into the house to find the woman lying unconscious with bruises on her face. They immediately rushed her to the hospital where she eventually died. There were reports that the son and wife tried to flee the city when...

The Police in Osun State has paraded some suspected culprits for printing fake currency and duping unsuspecting members of the public. The syndicate were paraded, yesterday, by the Commissioner of Police at the police headquarters in Osogbo.

THE GOVERNOR LEFT WITH SENATOR SANI TO THE RIGHT The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai over the death of late Musa Yar'Adua. Sani gave the call while reacting to claims by El-Rufai saying the late Yar'Adua died because he opposed him, El-Rufai. El-Rufai had claimed that while Yar'Adua fought him and ended up in the grave, the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan was voted out of power for doing same. The Governor gave the warning while warning political opponents not to fight him.But in a post on his Facebook, Sani wrote: "With new facts emerging about Yar'adua's death, President Buhari should open a new investigation into what actually happened to the late President. "The hitherto belief was that his death was as a result of a natural, terminal illness, recent revelations has proved otherwise. "We must clear this fog of history; What kille...

Hili Sobol (right)in court, and her murdered twin sister, Shiri (left). Tel Aviv teen, boyfriend charged for fatally stabbing twin sister 'over 130 times' Murder of Tel Aviv woman by twin sister, boyfriend was premeditated, police say Tel Aviv teen retracts confession, says she didn't kill twin sister An Israeli woman was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison in the murder of her twin sister. Shiri Sobol was convicted of soliciting the murder of her twin sister Hili Sobol in February. The murderer, Shiri's boyfriend David Eran, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Tel Aviv District Court. Eran was also ordered to pay 258,000 shekels ($73,200) in compensation to the mother of the two women. The sentences were part of a plea bargain agreement reached with Eran and Sobol. Hili and Shiri, 18-years-old at the time of the murder – as was Eran, fought often, eventually causing an "intense hatred" in Shiri toward Hili, states the original indictment filed ...

Fighting between the military and police backed by intelligence forces killed nine people in the Somali capital on Saturday, police said. "It seems they mistook the Somali national army for (clan) militias. The death toll is nine people including a civilian," Major Abdullahi Hussein, a police officer, told Reuters. He said the fighting occurred because police were wrongly informed that there were armed militias in the area. "Accidents happen," he said. Somalia has been riven by civil war since 1991, when clan-based warlords overthrew a dictator then turned against each other. The weak U.N.-backed government is now battling an Islamist insurgency, but many members of its security forces are badly trained and coordination is poor. "Last night security forces (the police and intelligence) besieged us and then opened fire. We defended ourselves and chased the so-called security forces after hours of fighting today. We lost two soldiers and a wife of my colleague,...

In an alleged ecstasy to impress their paymaster, a team of police operatives, on Sunday, shot dead one Elvis Ovie and injured another, Onome Eko, during a party in Warri, Delta State. Operatives, three of whom are now in police detention, were said to have been in a shooting spree to impress an alleged internet fraudster popularly called 'yahoo yahoo boys' for whom they were providing security. It was gathered that the gun-wielding cops were led by one Insp. Imana Samuel, a Sergeant and a corporal from the Warri Area Command. The vehicle reportedly used to hurriedly convey late Ovie and injured Eko to a hospital, it was gathered, also brushed off another unidentified victim who is now on admission in an undisclosed location. The killer-cops were later arrested by policemen attached to Warri 'B' Division headed by Mr Anietie Eyoh, the Divisional Police Officer, and is set for arraignment today. But a reliable source informed journalists that the cops were on illegal dut...

PHOTO The mugshots of Paul Maris (left) and Adrian Attwater, who are currently in custody. Two men found guilty of the rape of Lynette Daley, whose bloodied body was found on a remote beach, have long criminal histories featuring multiple police assaults, court documents have revealed. Ms Daley, 33, bled to death on an Australia Day camping trip at Iluka in 2011 after violent sexual intercourse with Adrian Attwater, 42, and Paul Maris, 47. A fortnight ago a NSW Supreme Court jury took just half an hour to find Attwater guilty of manslaughter, Maris guilty of burning a blood-soaked mattress to hide evidence, and both men guilty of aggravated sexual assault. Today Justice Elizabeth Fullerton released the NSW criminal histories of both men ahead of sentencing proceedings in November. Assaulting police just one of the crimes The documents list a range of crimes going back to when Attwater was a child and Maris was a teenager. Maris' violent history consists of: Six serious assault char...

A Melbourne court has released confronting CCTV of an asylum seeker from Myanmar setting fire to a bank at Springvale, in Melbourne's south-east, in an "act of retribution" for being kept waiting to make a withdrawal. Security vision from inside the Commonwealth Bank branch shows Nur Islam, 22, pouring petrol on the ground between the ATMs inside the front entrance and the middle of the service area. He then ignites it with a cigarette lighter as customers try to flee. Islam can be seen running to the back of the bank engulfed in flames. Islam, who was on a bridging visa, appeared emotionless as the vision was played at the start of his short committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court. Prosecutor Gavin Silbert QC told the hearing the fire caused the bank to fill with smoke, creating panic and confusion. "This created a large ball of flames preventing customers and staff from leaving the bank from the only exit point," he said. "In the ensuing...

AMINA YUGUDA A journalist from north-eastern Nigeria has won the third BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Amina Yuguda is a news presenter on local network Gotel Television, where she has reported on high-profile news stories, including the Boko Haram insurgency. She will start a three-month placement at the BBC in London in September. The award was created to honour Komla Dumor, a presenter for BBC World News, who died suddenly aged 41 in 2014. Ms Yuguda said her win was a "huge honour. I was overwhelmed with joy. Storytellers have always had an important role in Africa... this is what defines us. Today journalists are taking on that responsibility."  She impressed the panel with her story-telling and her ability to convey complex ideas in a way that resonates with a wide audience.

A Nigerian man was stabbed to death by his friend, over an unknown amount of money in Ruaka, Kiambu county. The middle aged man was stabbed several times in the chest. Residents who responded to screams rushed to the scene and apprehended the culprit, who is also a Nigerian, and started beating him, before he was saved by police. He was taken to the Karuri police station, as police launch investigations. The deceased's body was taken to the city mortuary. Neighbors described the two men as secretive and reserved.

-Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has dared Moses Kuria and Jubilee to put Raila under house arrest like Kuria had threatened - Kuria who was speaking in Nairobi's Mwiki area said that Jubilee is ready to put Raila under house arrest should he try to stop the coming election - Raila, in the past few weeks has been calling for drastic changes in the IEBC saying the current commission cannot hold a credible election - Similarly, Raila's father was put under house arrest during the height of opposition politics in Kenya in the 1960's Embakasi East MP, Babu Owino has warned Moses Kuria against carrying out the threat of putting Raila under house arrest. Kuria has said that Raila will be put under house arrest should he prevent the country from constructing the scheduled repeat presidential election. In a post that was posted on social media, Kuria insisted that Raila would suffer the same fate his father did. RAILA ODINGA WITH BABU OWINO Raila's father, Jaramogi Odinga was put u...

An artisan, Samarola Musa, has allegedly beaten his apprentice, Ademola Adeshina (pictured above), to death for his refusal to stop dating a lady in the Lugbe area of Abuja, Punchng reports. Musa, who is facing a homicide charge at a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Gwagwalada, Abuja, is believed to have had a homosexual relationship with the 24-year-old man. It was learnt that an autopsy indicated that Ademola died as a result of the beating he received from Musa. The report also showed that the furniture maker had sodomised his apprentice before his death in May 2017. Musa, 42, in his statement to the police, said he slapped the deceased after he caught him having sex with the lady, identified simply as Precious, in his workshop, claiming that Ademola died of malaria a week after the incident. But Ademola's father, Okuneye, faulted Musa's claims, stressing that the son died from the beatings he received from the former bouncer, who he described as a huge man. He told Pun...

THEME: THE GROUND IS NOT FOR YOU Memorise: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Proverbs 24:16 Read: Luke 22:31-34 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. 22:33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. 22:34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me. Message: It's a fact of life that we are all susceptible to making mistakes. However, when we make mistakes, we must have the strength of character to admit our mistakes and also to resolve never to repeat them again (Proverb 28:13). A child learning to walk will stand up, take a step or two and fall down again. You will observe however that in spite of these falls, he o...