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Two people have been killed after a police helicopter monitoring violent clashes between white supremacists and anti-fascists in Charlottesville, Virginia, crashed. In a message on Twitter, Donald Trump said: "Deepest condolences to the families and fellow officers of the Virginia State Police who died today. You're all among the best this nation produces." Fighting broke out between the two groups after far-right demonstrators gathered to protest against plans to remove a statue to Civil War Confederate general, Robert E Lee. Some were dressed in paramilitary uniforms and carried assault rifles, while others were had shields, helmets and gas masks. At least one person was killed when a car drove into a group of anti-fascist activists. Police said the pilot and a passenger had died in the police helicopter. Officials said the crash was linked to the protests, but it was not immediately clear whether this was simply because the helicopter had been monitoring events on the ...

Donald Trump's response to the violence which engulfed Charlottesville has come under fire from senior Republicans. The US president, who has been at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, gave what was seen as a muted response to the mayhem which unfolded after white supremacists descended on Virginia. One woman was killed when a car was driven into a group of counter-protestors and two Virginia State Police officers died when their helicopter crashed. Charlottesville far-right protest Mr Trump condemned the hate and bigotry "on many sides" rather than giving an unequivocal condemnation of the neo-nazis who organised the rally. Some critics of Mr Trump argue that his refusal to pin the blame on white supremacists are because he fears he could loose some of the voters who swept him into power. David Duke @DrDavidDuke I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists. https://t...

Kenyan minister denies police fired live bullets, says there were no real protests, just criminals. At least 24 people have been shot dead by police in violence during Kenya's disputed election, including many killed in protests in opposition strongholds after President Uhuru Kenyatta's victory late on Friday, according to Kenyan human rights observers. The Kenya Red Cross Society said it picked up 93 people injured by the violence. MSF Kenya, which has its own ambulances and involves figures not counted by the Red Cross, reported 54 people were treated at its clinics, raising the toll to at least 150 wounded. Police on Saturday fired live bullets and tear gas on protesters in volatile areas of Nairobi and other parts of the country, provoking anger from opposition supporters and condemnation from human rights activists. Kenya faced its third successive disputed election after the opposition National Super Alliance claimed its candidate, Raila Odinga, won but Kenyatta, the incu...

South Sudan's rebels on Saturday said they had wrested control of Pagak, their stronghold town near the country's border with Ethiopia, from government forces, a day after launching an offensive to drive them out. Formerly controlled by the rebels, the town was captured by South Sudan's military five days ago but heavy fighting erupted on Friday with rebels vowing to retake it. "We took control of Pagak...government forces are not in Pagak, we have pushed them out," rebel spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel told Reuters. Dickson Gatluak Jock, spokesman for South Sudan's Vice President, Taban Deng Gai, denied the military had lost Pagak but said they had lost three soldiers in the fighting while four were wounded. Gai is a former rebel but last year he defected to the government side and was handed the vice presidency job. His former rebel forces, who are now part of the government military, are the ones on the frontline in Pagak. "We clashed with them (rebels) yes...

Several senior members of Islamic State's central Asian affiliate were killed in a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. The attack on Thursday killed Abdul Rahman, identified by the U.S. military as the Kunar provincial emir for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan, according to a statement from the command in Kabul. "The death of Abdul Rahman deals yet another blow to the senior leadership of ISIS-K," said General John Nicholson, the senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Three other senior ISIS-K members were also among those killed in the strike in eastern Kunar province. Nicholson has vowed to defeat Islamic State militants in Afghanistan this year. The group's emir, Abu Sayed, was reported killed in a strike on his headquarters in Kunar in July, the third Islamic State emir in Afghanistan to be killed since July 2016. In April, Nicholson deployed a 21,600-pound (9,797 kg) "Massive Ordnance Air Blast" bomb against Islamic State po...

Operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad attached to Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, have arrested a 75-year-old man, Olayiwola Araba, for allegedly supplying guns to vigilante groups without license.   The other suspects identified are 45-year-old Olarewaju Kabir, 35-year-old Oladele Jacob and 40-year-old Jide Akinola,who were said to have been arrested at different locations in the state.   The operatives who effected the arrest were said to have recovered nine rifles, two pistols and live ammunitions.Confirming the arrest, Dolapo Badmos, a Superintendent of Police and zonal spokesperson, said the suspect was arrested for selling guns without license.   She said: "We are holding the seller and the buyers for illegal possession of firearms, because the seller has no document to show he has the approval of the police authority to sell guns to the public.   "We are going to conduct a discreet investigation into the business to identify the routes through which it come into th...

The  Police in Lagos have warned residents of the state against subjecting suspected criminals to jungle justice. Fatai Owoseni, the state police commissioner, in a statement on Friday warned that those found involved in the "unlawful and barbaric act" would be prosecuted.   "There is no justification for jungle justice on suspected persons," Mr. Owoseni said.   "It is barbaric and uncivilized. It is a manifestation of the erosion of our moral values and a disregard to sanctity of human lives. It violates the rule of law and dents the image of the State.   "Above all, it is a violation of the law, and all those arrested in connection with the aforementioned cases will be made to face the full wrath of the law."   At least three acts of jungle justice were recorded across Lagos in the past one week, with angry residents threatening to attack security agents who attempted to stop them.   On Tuesday, two alleged kidnappers were set ablaze at Ajala Bus St...

A UK-based Nigerian man, Jonathan Goodluck Oberia, teamed up with his female friend to stage a protest in front of the Abuja house in London to ask the presidency to disclose the health status of President Buhari who has been out of Nigeria for 92 days now. According to Jonathan, some staff of the Abuja house called the police to arrest him but the police officers on their arrival said the man did not commit any crime.

The baby, whose manhood was chopped off by his step mother in Niger State, Dauda Buhari, is dead. The Director General of Child's Right Agency, Mariam Kolo, disclosed that Buhari died in Wada village in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state, after a brief malaria illness. Speaking with Punch, on Wednesday, Kolo said Buhari had "slight malaria which made his temperature to rise and he died even after he had been administered his prescribed drugs." Kolo revealed that Buhari died at a time he was scheduled to undergo a genital transplant in the United Kingdom, UK. The DG said the sickness was not a relapse on his health, as he was doing extremely well after a series of corrective surgeries. Expressing sadness over the death of the baby who is now over a year old, Kolo said the case of the stepmother who is currently being remanded in the Old Minna Prison would be determined. Recall that Buhari's step mother, Bara'atu Rabiu, had on June 18, 2016, chopped off the ...

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has blasted ailing President, Muhammadu Buhari, and Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, for focusing too much on loot recovery, rather than fighting corruption itself. Recall, that the current administration, led by Buhari and Osinbajo, has recently set up a Committee on the Recovery of Looted Assets. Saraki while speaking in Abuja, on Tuesday, called on Buhari and his Vice, Osinbajo, to pay more attention to destroying corruption, than placing emphasis on the recovery of loot. He said: "You see, let us separate recovery, from the fight against corruption. We still believe that yes, recoveries are being done, but are we doing anything to actively stop corruption going on now.  The Presidency should focus more on fighting corruption, than loot recovery. "This recovery has gone out there. They are two separate issues. The focus I am seeing is recovery, but corruption is still there. That is the area that we are focusing on as a Senate. "Anybod...

Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba state. The Taraba state Police Command has confirmed the killing of four suspected kidnappers by a mob at Tella in Gassol Local Government area of the state. Spokesman of the command, David Misal, told newsmen that the fifth suspect, Salisu Zakari, who narrowly escaped the mob action, was arrested and detained in the command. He said the mob had forcefully removed the suspects from a vigilante group at Tella and hacked them to death. "They were arrested by a local vigilante group, but before being handed over to the police, a group of irate youths lynched them and threw their bodies into the river," the police spokesman said. "One of the suspects escaped and was later arrested in Jalingo. He is presently in our custody." Misal however said Zakari, in a confessional statement, claimed that the syndicate went to Tella for armed robbery not kidnapping, before they ran out of luck. Misal said the matter is under investigation, adding tha...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said it had so far, through painstaking investigations by its operatives, traced N47.2bn and $487.5m in cash and properties to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. These, the anti-graft agency said, were apart from "boxes of gold, silver and diamond jewellery, worth several million British pounds sterling," discovered during a search of Diezani's palatial residences in Abuja. The EFCC said it discovered several of Diezani's landed properties scattered all over Lagos and other parts of the country in the course of its investigations, adding that it was doubtful if the former minister declared her true assets as required of public officials. This was contained in an article entitled, "Diezani Alison-Madueke: What an appetite," jointly authored by two officers in the EFCC's Public Affairs Directorate, Tony Orilade and Aishah Gambari, and which was made available to The PUNCH. The...

The above pictures you see, are currently going rounds on Facebook.. An unidentified man is reported to have consumed a Malaria Drug, called: "Grutha fort"… …and then he reacted badly to the drug.. Though, some folks are arguing that it's a Steven Johnson syndrome, while others are saying the drugs probably contained sulfur. But here's what we know.. According to Okereke Grace Amarachi , he Took the Malaria Drug, and reacted really bad to it! We don't have much details yet, but we'd bring you more, as it unfolds.

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has revealed that kidnapper Evans will be charged to court soon. According to Idris, the delay in Evans' prosecution is due to police investigations to track down his accomplices within and outside the country. Idris who spoke at a seminar recently said, "Evans will be charged to court very soon. This is a man who has over the years been involved in kidnapping, collecting money in millions of dollars and harassing Nigerians from different parts of the country. "What we are doing now is to ensure that we conduct thorough investigations so that anybody involved will be brought to book. "It seems kidnapping is becoming attractive to the youth. The more we arrest, the more they come up. But I believe that with special courts, this will be addressed." He said plans were underway to recruit more policemen to effectively pursue the principle of community policing. "We need the cooperation of the public. There is no w...

The Islamic State ISIS terror group has continued in its reign of terror after publicly cutting off the hand of a man accused of stealing in Deir Ezzor area of Syria. The young man was paraded before a baying crowd including children before he was executed and also treated by the terrorist group.

Durban – Born Rebecca Zodwa Libram, Zodwa Wabantu, who is on a partying spree around Africa,has caused yet another stir on the internet after she posted the photos above online.

Jamaica's Usain Bolt has dominated sprinting since taking double individual gold at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, going on to win a further six Olympic golds and also picking up 11 world titles./AFP Athletics legend Usain Bolt could only finish third in his final individual race as Justin Gatlin won the 100m men's final at the IAAF World Championship in London on Saturday.

From left: Gov. Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger and Gov. Abdul'aziz Yari of Zamfara.  Photo: Hogan-Bassey/NAN/file The Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), Minna, says it has recorded 66 cases of sexual abuse against children and teenagers in Niger state, in the last six months. Dr. Ekaete Umoh, its Medical Officer, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Minna that the victims were boys and girls aged between 12 and 15. The officer said, however, that families of victims had often hindered the prosecution of offenders. "Families of victims have often stood in the path of prosecution officials. In some cases, they refuse to appear. When they choose to appear, they withhold information that is crucial to nailing the perpetrators," she said. According to Umoh, many parents or guardians of victims usually prefer to settle out of court, instead of allowing justice to take its full course. Anal sex She said that the cases involved the rape of young girls and forceful ana...

A traditional ruler in Ekiti State and the Olukere of Ikere Ekiti, Oba Ganiyu Obasoyin, has commended the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, for promoting Yoruba culture in and outside Nigeria. Obasoyin said Oba Ogunwusi has done the Yoruba nation proud with his recent visits to the United Kingdom in attempts to promote its tradition and culture with the intention to take the race to the global reckoning as a richly endowed entity. The Olukere also pleaded with his rival monarch and Ogoga of Ikere Ekiti, Oba Adejimi Adu, to give peace a chance by stopping inciting the public against him that he was not a recognised monarch contrary to the history of the town. The monarch lauded the state council of traditional rulers for setting up a committee to probe his status as a monarch in the history of his town, rather than a chief priest being arrogated to him by his rival, saying the prompt presentation of the council's report would fast-track the presentation of staff of office to...

wanda's incumbent president and now president-elect, Paul Kagame at one of his campaign grounds. The United States has frowned at the way the Rwanda Presidential Election was conducted on Friday, saying that the poll was characterised by "irregularities". This was made known in a statement issued on Saturday by the U.S. Department of State, Heather Nauert. Rwanda's incumbent president, Paul Kagame won a third term in office in the election, garnering about 98 percent of votes cast. Nauert said in the statement that U.S. is "disturbed by irregularities observed during voting and reiterated long-standing concerns over the integrity of the vote-tabulation process. He said, "we remain concerned by the lack of transparency in determining the eligibility of prospective candidates. "We hope the new electoral law to be debated in the next session of Parliament will clarify that process well before the 2018 parliamentary elections." He said the U.S. has, ho...