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Africanews. The United States has issued a travel advisory to citizens in respect to Cameroon’s predominantly anglophone regions. The “Security Message” titled “Unrest in the Northwest and Southwest regions,” said there was the possibility of protests – some which could turn violent. The statement read in part: “The U.S. Embassy in Yaounde informs U.S. citizens that demonstrations, some violent, occurred in Bamenda, Buea, Limbe, and elsewhere in the Northwest and Southwest regions on September 22, 2017. “Further demonstrations are likely over the next two weeks. The U.S. Embassy has deferred all non-essential travel for U.S. Embassy personnel to these regions until October 3.” The Embassy said citizens were advised to adjust travel plans accordingly and continually review their security settings. Thousands of demonstrators from the English-speaking regions late last week took to the streets chanting songs of independence and requesting the unconditional release ...

Getty Images Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has reportedly warned President Donald Trump that no country should monopolise ownership of nuclear weapons after the US leader threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea last week. Mugabe said this on Monday following his arrival in Harare from New York where he attended the 72nd ordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Trump stunned UN watchers on Tuesday last week by threatening to “totally destroy” North Korea, describing its leader Kim Jong-Un as “Rocket Man”. But, according to the state-owned Herald newspaper, while addressing his Zanu-PF party supporters who gathered to welcome him back, Mugabe said maintained that all nations were equal before the international law and that “no country should be allowed to bully others on the basis of its military might”. Said Mugabe: “Each and every country has the power to rule itself, no matter how small… No country is too small. So we are just wa...

Pragma UK A group of 36 elderly Dutch tourists were robbed by men posing as police just hours after they landed at Johannesburg airport for a three-week holiday, South African authorities said Tuesday. The tourists boarded a bus to take them to their hotel on Sunday evening, but they were apparently followed by armed criminals monitoring the terminal. The bus was pulled off the road by a fake police car, and at least one robbers was wearing a police uniform. “The men allegedly demanded their possessions and one of the tourists was injured and taken to hospital,” police said in a statement. Most of the tourists were in their 70s, and several were assaulted during a 20-minute ordeal that at least one described as “hell”. HIGH CRIME   “Most of the passengers are 70-plus. People panicked and even got firearms aimed at them. In two cases’ the trigger was pulled but the gun didn’t fire,” South African media quoted one tourist as saying. The bus driver and the to...

The Niger State police command said on Tuesday that it had arrested two suspected killers of one Terna Cletus in the Tafa Local Government Area of the state. The suspects, Osita Chinemerem, a student of Dorben Polytechnic, and Maleh Lucky, were picked up by police operatives attached to the Tafa division. It was gathered that the operatives acted on the information that one Cletus, from Benue State State living in the Tafa LGA of Niger State was found dead with injuries on his neck. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Babalola Adewole, confirmed the arrest of the suspects, saying operatives recovered a cutlass believed to be the murder weapon, a T-shirt and one rubber toy pistol from the suspects. Adewole said, “The Niger State police command has declared war on crimes in the state; we urge the people to report any suspicious person to the nearest police station. “And for the criminals, they have no hiding place in the state because the law will catch up w...

File Photo Men of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested 31 suspected members of notorious kidnap and armed robbery gangs terrorising travellers along the Abuja–Minna and Abuja–Kaduna highways. The suspects, including six fake soldiers, were paraded by the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, on Tuesday at Dikko in Niger State. Moshood said the arrest followed the reinforcement of Operation Absolute Sanity on the Abuja-Minna Highway with more police personnel by the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris. He said the team was deployed to tackle the gang of kidnappers that escaped arrest on the Abuja–Kaduna Highway and relocated to some roads in Niger State. The police spokesman said five suspected kidnappers died in a gun battle with the police, while one Sergeant Shettima Abdulahi lost his life earlier on Tuesday when the team fell into an ambush by the suspects. He said: “The above mentioned suspects were arrested in their hideouts and camps w...

File Photo The Cross River State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of three robbery suspects that attacked a new generation church along Goldie Street in the Calabar South axis of the metropolis. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa, said the three suspects were members of a six-man gang that had been terrorising the area lately. The commissioner said that the robbery suspects, identified as Offiong Effiong, Jeremiah Affiah and Christian Donatus, were arrested on a tip-off. He said, “The three suspects confessed to be members of a six-man robbery gang that have been terrorising residents of Calabar South for some time now. “When they were interrogated, the suspects led our detectives to one of their victims, the General Overseer of Trinity Villa International at 101 Goldie Street, Calabar, who they robbed at the weekend. “We recovered assorted phones, laptops and Ipads as well as an undisclosed amount of money, both in foreign and lo...

File Photo The Police at the Lion Building Division, Lagos Island, Lagos have arrested three suspected thieves who allegedly jumped into the High Court premises at Igbosere Road on Lagos Island at midnight with dangerous weapons to steal. The suspects, according to a Police source could not succeed in their plans before the Police stormed the scene to arrest them and took them to the station following a distress call to the Police by the securitymen attached to the Court. The suspects were arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court on a three-count charge of felony with attempt to commit felony at the High Court, Lagos. Police identified the accused persons as Ahmed Mohammed, 29; Musa Yusuf 22 and Sulaimaan Umar, 28, all from the Northern parts of Nigeria. Police Prosecutor, Sgt Chinedu Njoku informed the Court in charge No B/64/2017 that the accused persons committed the alleged offence on 22 September, 2017 at the High Court, Lagos Island, Lagos. Njoku ...

The Zamfara State Police Command on Wednesday intercepted two vehicles carrying arms in different parts of the state. The spokesman of the command, Muhammad Shehu, confirmed the development in Gusau. He told the News Agency of Nigeria that items recovered from the vehicles were three AK47 riffles, an automatic pistol, locally-made pistol, magazines and live ammunitions. According to him, other items recovered include N103, 435 cash, ATM card, three voters’ cards, military camouflage and a stamp of the Cattle Traders Association of Nigeria in the Bukuru Local Government Area of Plateau. Mr. Shehu said that the drivers of the two cars, a Honda Civic marked Sokoto State BDN358AA and another marked Kano State KMC 321AA, were arrested and were now assisting the police in investigations. The spokesman explained that a police patrol team arrested one of the suspects, a native of Birnin-Yero village in the Shinkafi Local Government Council of Sokoto State on September 25...

  Four suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested in Benin City, Edo State, by the Nigeria police and have been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes commission,EFCC. The EFCC in a statement issued on Tuesday gave the names of the suspects as Shiko Romeo, Bobby Edigiu, Henry Nisike and Emmanuel Ayo. The suspects, according to the EFCC, have reportedly confessed to their involvement in internet fraud using fake identification on Facebook. Their victims were mostly European and American women, the statement said. The EFCC said one of the suspects, Mr. Romeo, who claimed to be a student of the National Open University, NOUN, has revealed how he scammed the duo of K. Zamaripas and Susan of various sums of money by feigning to be in a romantic relationship using the name John Culfer in New Jersey, United States. The suspects would be charged to court at the end of the investigation, the EFCC said.

File Photo A Lagos High Court was stunned today as a 27-year-old detained housewife, Mrs Victoria Amodu, accused an Investigative police officer (IPO) at Special Anti Robbery Squad, Ikeja Division, of demanding sex before she could be released from custody. Victoria, who gave the testimony as a defence witness, told Justice Kudirat Jose of an Ikeja High Court that the IPO (name not mentioned) demanded that unless she had sex with him, she wouldn’t be allowed home on bail. However, the mother of four children, Victoria testified as a witness in a matter she is standing trial for alleged conspiracy and armed robbery.Victoria, who denied the allegation, is standing trial alongside one Hammed Isiaka on a six count charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and armed robbery.  One of the charges reads, “Hammed Isiaka and Victoria Amodu and others now at large on or about August 12, 2014 while armed with a pistol did rob one Elizabeth Moses of a cash sum of N35, 000...

Barely 72 hours after sea pirates attacked and killed three security personnel in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, another group of the pirates, operating in Brass Local Government Area have killed two persons. According to investigations, the sea pirates, along the Brass waterways, were said to have laid ambush at Okoroma community for the commercial boats conveying passengers to various communities in the area. An eyewitness account said the boat was close to the Obama flow station when the sea pirates emerged from a nearby creek and asked all the passengers to have their hands up and surrender all in their possessions. It was gathered that after dispossessing the passengers of their valuables, the pirates, while fleeing, began to shoot sporadically thereby killing two of the passengers instantly while others sustained various degrees of injuries. The eyewitness disclosed that the names of those killed as Pale, a male from Akipelia in...

Casey Pigge is shown in an undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. An investigative report by the Dayton Daily News has found that the strangulation of an inmate on an Ohio prison bus by Pigge, a twice convicted murderer, was preventable. After Casey Pigge was taken into custody last year for using a brick to kill his cellmate by repeatedly smashing his head, he made one thing clear to investigators. "Pigge denied any desire to be a serial killer, but could not promise that he wouldn't kill again," a prison social worker said after interviewing him. On Feb. 1, just two days after pleading guilty to beating cellmate Luther Wade to death, Pigge was placed in a prison transport van with several other inmates. As the bus headed south through Pickaway County in central Ohio, investigators say, Pigge used a chain meant to restrain him around the stomach to strangle inmate David Johnson. "I guess you never seen that on a bus before,...

IPOB members An Aba Magistrate Court has remanded 14 suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for arson and murder. The Police had arrested IPOB members after clashing with soldiers in the Southeast, where a police sergeant was also allegedly killed by members of the group. IPOB members were also alleged to have burnt down two mosques in Aba. The suspects were arraigned on an 8-count charge which includes the murder of ASP Cyril Nwosu,the burning of the Ariaria Police station and exhibit vehicles as well as theft of pump action rifle belonging to the Police. Prosecuting counsel, ASP Nnamdi Ogbonna, held that the court has jurisdiction to make an order on the matter and pleaded with the court to commence the trial. The presiding Magistrate, Ogbonna Adiele, directed the Police to submit the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), thereby adjourning the case to October 4, 2017, for report on compliance

TACOMA, Wash. -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a double murder suspect and gang member who has been on the run since the 2010 killings in Tacoma. Santiago Villalba Mederos, 26, was added this week to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The FBI says Mederos is wanted related to shootings that resulted in the death of a woman and the wounding of her brother, and a month later, the murder of a man. The News-Tribune reports that on the night of the first slaying, Feb. 7, 2010, Mederos and other members of his gang had stolen a van and were searching for members of a rival gang to target in retaliation for a shooting two days earlier. The victim, Camille Love, was an aspiring veterinary technician who was targeted because she and her brother were riding in a red car and her brother was wearing a red coat, the color of the rival gang, the paper reports. Her brother was shot and wounded. In the second slay...

A suspected cannibal couple made human meat pies and sold them to restaurants, a shocking trial in Russia has revealed. The police are investigating the confession of Natalia Baksheeva and husband Dmitry Baksheev that they killed and ate 30 or more victims. The couple lived in the grounds of a military academy run by the Russian Defence Ministry. Natalia is believed to have sold human meat to military trainees, including student pilots, attending the academy where she worked. According to reports, human remains were found in their fridge, freezer and elsewhere in their home. One victim was waitress Elena Vashrushev, 35, who lived near them. Neighbours say Natalia, a former nurse, made and sold pies to boost her income. Natalia at a point applied to work as a chef and offered to supply meat to a cafe in the city in 2010, according to Moskovsky Komsomolets. The Cafe owner, Vitaly Yakubenko, said, " She was very active, asked lots of questions but mainly about where we buy our meat a...

A wanted Boko Haram suspect, Idris Ibrahim Babawo, has been apprehended in Ondo state, Sahara Reporters learned on Tuesday. Ibrahim, aged 42, was apprehended at Isua Akoko in Akoko South East Local Government Area of Ondo state by some local vigilante group. The wanted Boko Haram suspect nicknamed "Idoko" is on believed to be number 156 on the lists of terrorists declared wanted by the Nigerian army. SaharaReporters learned that the suspected Boko Haram member was traveling from Bauchi state to Ibafo in Ogun state when he was nabbed in Ondo state. Akinwunmi Gideon, the Ondo state Commandant of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) who confirmed the arrest to our correspondent in Akure, said the suspect was traveling through Ondo state in the white bus when he was apprehended. Mr. Gideon said the wanted Boko Haram suspect was arrested by local residents in Isua Akoko after causing a scare and later handed over to the members of the vigilante group in the area. "After his a...

 The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to condemned killer Keith Tharpe, three and a half hours after he was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection. In a 6-3 decision, the court's justices were apparently concerned about claims that one of Tharpe's jurors was racist and sentenced Tharpe to death because he was African-American. Three justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — dissented.The high court will now decide whether to hear Tharpe's appeal, and, if it doesn't, the court said the stay of execution shall terminate automatically. But that will not happen tonight. Tharpe's lawyers were overjoyed with the decision. "We're gratified the court understands this case merits thoughtful consideration outside the press of an execution warrant," said Brian Kammer, one of Tharpe's attorneys. "We are extremely thankful that the court has seen fit to consider Mr. Tharpe's claim of juror racial bias in regula...

- Micheal Khateli, the photographer behind several of President Uhuru's viral photos has announced he is expecting a child - Micheal and his wife, Nakatetya, took to social media to unveil a series of precious baby bump photos - The shoot took place in the Amazon Forest in Brazil Just in case you have no inkling of who Micheal Khateli is, he is the photographer behind several viral photos of President Uhuru Kenyatta. 'One of the photos that went viral was when Uhuru was invited to open a Barclays golf tournament and was awarded with a KSh 70,000 three litre bottle of champagne. According to Khateli, he took the photo when Uhuru was informed that Formula One winners use the same champagne to celebrate when they won a race, That was the moment Uhuru's face lit up and memes were born at his expense. Khateli is the photographer who took this viral photo of President Uhuru receiving a 3 litre bottle of champagne. Photo: Micheal Khateli. Fast forward to Monday, September 25, Khat...

- The driver of a personal vehicle left Roysambu residents in shock when he dumped an unconscious woman from his car onto the road - The man returned to the scene when he noted passersby taking photos and videos of him, and pretended to be a concerned citizen - When the crowd begun becoming larger, he fled - Luckily, the registration number of the vehicle and the victim's plight were caught on camera Nairobi residents were left in shock on Tuesday evening, September 26, when a man was caught and exposed on social media for dumping an unconscious woman on the road in Roysambu estate located off Thika Road. According to a post by Mungai Gathogo on Facebook that has since gone viral, the driver of the vehicle, registration KCB 697T, pulled up in Roysambu and dumped the woman by the roadside. Gathogo, in his post, said he received the information that the driver took off after dumping the woman but had a 'change of heart' when he saw people taking photos of him on their cellpho...

Maj. Gen TC Ude (SE) Maj. Gen LC Ilo (SE) Maj. Gen IN Ijoma (SE) Maj. Gen O Ejimai (SE) Maj. Gen PAT Akem (SS) Maj. Gen ED Atewe (SS) Maj. Gen Letam Wiwa -Younger brother of murdered Environmental Rights activist and author, Ken Saro-Wiwa (SS) Maj. Gen FO Alli (SS) Maj. Gen Mobolaji Koleoso (SW) Maj. Gen SD Aliyu (MB) Maj. Gen MY Ibrahim Brig. Gen GO Agachi (SE) Brig. Gen Okonkwo (SE) Brig. Gen Ogidi (SS) Brig. Gen Koko Essien (SS) Brig. Gen PE Ekpeyong (SS) Brig. Gen Bright Fiboinumama (SS) Brig. Gen. M. Onoyiveta (SS) Brig. Gen IMD Lawson (SS) Brig. Gen Oyefesobi (SW) Brig. Gen AI Onibasa (SW) Brig. Gen Bashir Mormo (SS) Brig. Gen AH Sa'ad (SS)-Former ADC to late President Musa Yar'adua Brig. Gen MG Ali Brig. Gen LN Bello Brig. Gen D Abdusalam Col. CK Ukoha (SE) Col. OU Nwankwo (SE) Col. Nicholas Achinze -Dasuki's ADC (SE) Col. Tonye F Minimah –Younger brother of former Chief of Army Staff, LT. General Kenneth Minimah (SS) Col. FD Kayode (SW) Col. Ojogbane Adegbe –ADC to ...

- Embakasi East MP Babu Owino has been arraigned in court for the offence of making utterances that caused a breach of peace - Speaking in Dagoretti during a rally, Owino had made utterances that were taken to be demeaning to the presidency - His speech which had gone viral saw a section of Kiambu and Thika road coming to a stop in protests that Owino had insulted President Uhuru Kenyatta - His charge sheet, however, shows that the MP has been charged with offensive conduct contrary to section 94 (1) of the penal code Embakasi East MP Babu Owino was arraigned in court on Tuesday, September 26, after spending  a night at the Pangani Police Station following his controversial remarks  during a political rally in Nairobi. Owino was charged with two counts of subversion and uttering abusive words against President Kenyatta. The first time MP was charged with offensive conduct contrary to Section 94 (1) of the Penal Code. Babu Owino has not been charged for insulting Uhuru and his mum Babu ...

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 11, Agboola Oshodi-Glover, has vowed that the five gunmen who shot sporadically at the palace of the Olubadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji would be brought to justice. The incident occurred on Monday during the installation of Baales (village heads). The Police boss, who is in charge of Oyo, Osun and Ondo states, added that security will be beefed up around the palace. Oshodi-Glover said this on Tuesday while playing a courtesy visit on the Olubadan in the company of the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude and other top police officers in the state. He regretted that the police had no hint of the attack as that would have enabled it stop it from happening. "Definitely, security will be beefed up around the palace and more importantly, those miscreants who did that will be fished out and will be taken to court for proper justice to take its cause. "I don't know any news behind the news on this matter. But...

The "Mr. Model Tabasco 2017" male beauty contest was supposed to bring together the most handsome men in the Mexican state of Tabasco, but the modeling agency behind the event recently announced its cancellation, after failing to find candidates that met their beauty requirements. In order to be accepted as contestants for the Mr. Model Tabasco pageant, candidates needed to have a height of at least 1,78 m, be between 17 and 27 years old, have a "harmonious face and body", have a college degree or an education equivalent to their age, speak English, have a valid passport, and not be a stripper. Apparently, these requirements proved to be a big problem, as just a few days before the contest, organizers had only selected 6 candidates. Those didn't really meet the agency's beauty standards either, so they ultimately decided to cancel the whole event.

– She was the former fattest woman in the world. – She has died from heart disease and kidney dysfunction. -She planned to speak in a school when she got back from the hospital. Statements from Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi have revealed that the former fattest woman in the world, Eman Abdul Atti, has died as a result of Kidney dysfunction and heart disease. It should be noted that doctors blamed her big weight on a thyroid condition that she had and she was not able to leave her house for 25 years before she was taken to the hospital for treatment. The 37-year-old woman who at a point weighed about 1,100lbs arrived the UAE in May after she received care from a team of twenty doctors from the hospital. Before her death, she had also received medical treatment in India where she underwent surgery and was able to lose about 600lbs. Her sister, Saimma Selim said in July that the deceased had planned to reduce her weight to 15 stone. Originally, she had a gastric band fitted in India, but ...

It''s baby season for the Kardashian clan as Khloe Kardashian is pregnant with Tristan Thompson's baby. The reality star, 33, is said to be 'four months along' with the 26-year-old basketball player's second child.  Multiple sources have confirmed the happy news to UsWeekly, People and TMZ. Khloe's reported pregnancy makes her the third member of the Kardashian-Jenner family to be expecting a child. Younger sister Kylie Jenner, 20, is said to be expecting rapper Travis Scott's baby. Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian, 36, and rapper husband Kanye West, 40, are said to be expecting a baby girl via surrogate in January