Why I followed Saraki’s wife to EFCC – Dino Melaye

SENATOR Dino Melaye,Friday, explained that he followed Toyin, wife of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, last Tuesday because he wanted to know the level of culpability in the allegation against her by her petitioners.

Melaye, who is the Chairman, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Media and Publicity, said he only went to the anti-graft office in his capacity as an independent investigator.

The lawmaker, who represents Kogi West Senatorial zone in the Senate, said in a press statement, in Abuja, that his explanation became necessary, following the barrage of attacks and criticisms he had so far received from his “brothers, sisters and fellow citizens” since Tuesday, when he was sighted accompanying Mrs Saraki to the headquarters of the commission in Abuja.

Reps’ crisis: Why I stayed on fighting – Gbajabiamila

The House of Representatives Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, has revealed how he was prevailed upon to continue with his aspiration to be part of principal officers in the 8th House of Representatives.

He said his insistence on throwing in the towel in the 49-day old face-off was rejected by higher authorities based on principle.

Gbajabiamila lost the Speakership position to Yakubu Dogara in an election conducted on the floor of the House but entered the race for the position of House Leader that was resisted by the Dogara group.

Barack Obama has failed Africa

Last Friday, the first Kenyan-American President of the United States returned to the country of his father’s birth. He arrived in Nairobi amid tight security (Kenya’s airspace was shut down). He was greeted by his half-sister Auma Obama as well as President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenyatta had been facing charges of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly stoking ethnic violence after Kenya’s 2007 presidential elections. 

The violence cost the lives of 1,200 people and displaced 600,000. But, the case against Kenyatta, son of Kenya’s founding father, was dropped in 2014, because the ICC could not bring a case against him—they accused his government of obstructing their investigation. This thorny issue had delayed Obama’s visit.

After O-YES, O-MEAL and others, Aregbesola has added ‘O-DEBT’ – Odumakin

The National Publicity Secretary of pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, on Thursday lambasted Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola for throwing the state into financial crisis.

The spokesman said the governor formulated all kinds of policies that were now affecting the state negatively.

He told Daily Independent that having launched O, REAP, O-YES, O-MEAL, Opon-Imo and other policies, Aregbesola had plunged the state into ‘O-DEBT’.

Four Indians abducted in Libya

Four Indian nationals, working as teachers in Libya, have been abducted, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Friday. According to the Spokesperson of the MEA, Vikas Swarup, the four Indians - two from Hyderabad and two from Karnataka - were abducted on July 29.

Giving details of the abductees, he said three are faculty members in the University of Sirte and one works at the university. "Two days ago, on July 29 at around 11 pm, our Mission in Tripoli came to know that four Indian nationals who were returning to India via Tripoli and Tunis, were detained at a checkpoint approximately 50 kms from Sirte," Mr.Swarup said.

Saraki And The 81 Votes Of Confidence

Bukola Saraki’s senate presidency received a boost on Tuesday when 81 of 108 senators endorsed his presidency. JONATHAN NDA-ISAIAH reports that despite the open show of support, the leadership crisis persists.

On July 28, the Senate gallery was filled to capacity. Legislative aides, journalists and sundry onlookers had come early to witness a rowdy session, as predicted.

The crowd expected drama. However, when Senators started arriving the chambers and began exchanging friendly banters , it was clear that the Senate would resume from its forced month-long recess on a peaceful note.

Apparently, the Senate President’s reconciliatory moves and fence-mending efforts were paying off.

After weeks of accusations and counter accusations, it was an anti climax on Tuesday when senators passed a vote of confidence on Senate President Bukola Saraki and the entire leadership as constituted.

Sex abuse payouts docked after victims commit crimes

Hundreds of sex abuse victims have had their compensation payments reduced after committing crime themselves, according to new figures.

A total of 12,665 people who suffered abuse as children or vulnerable adults had been awarded compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), an executive agency sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, since 2010.

But data obtained under Freedom of Information laws showed 438 had their government-funded payouts docked over the same period.

The broadcaster said that in the year to June 2015, half of the 27 people who had payments reduced had convictions for drink, drug, theft or property offences, while eight were prosecuted for violence.

#WeirdNews: Woman finds dinosaur in ultrasound scan

A woman found a dinosaur in her ultrasound scan, which turned out to just be a part of her insides.

Mum-to-be Leanne Sullivan was shocked to see the prehistoric creature next to her unborn baby while undergoing her four-month scan, but didn’t notice the shape, which resembles a brontosaurus, until months later when her pal Jenny Mason pointed out the bizarre feature.

 “I really didn’t see at all until Jenny mentioned it – she pointed it out straight away.

“But once you have a proper look at it you can really see that it actually does look like a dinosaur.”

Rand falls on Fed delay

The rand weakened to a fresh 14-year low on Thursday after the Reserve Bank wrongly second-guessed the intentions of the Federal Reserve Bank to announce the start of monetary policy tightening in September.

The monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank hiked the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6 percent last week, partly in anticipation of an early interest rate increase by the Fed.

Now the Fed is expected to start raising in September.

Unfortunately by then, when the Reserve Bank moves in response, it will be off a higher base as a result of its miscalculation of the market.

The US expanded at a faster pace in the second quarter, with gross domestic product rising 2.3 percent, while the labour market also showed signs of improving.

Death Toll Rise To 23 In Truck Collision

Authorities have raised the death toll to 23 in a central Mexico town where a truck lost control and slammed into a religious procession.

A Public Safety Department official for the state of Zacatecas confirms the number of dead and says 35 were injured, some of them gravely.

The official was not authorized to be quoted by name and spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity.

How fifth columnists in Nigerian military leaked operational plans to Boko Haram – ex-Defence Chief

Alex Badeh, the immediate past commander of the Nigerian military, has revealed that the effectiveness of the fight against the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, was greatly hampered by fifth columnists within the military who leaked sensitive information and operational plans to the terrorist sect.

Mr. Badeh, whose hometown, Mubi, was briefly captured by Boko Haram in 2014, was speaking on Thursday during his valedictory ceremony from the Nigerian Armed Forces.

He said the activities of saboteurs within the military led to the unnecessary deaths of many soldiers and officers who unknowingly walked into ambushes laid by Boko Haram who had prior knowledge of troops movement.

Africa to Obama: Mind your own business

United States President Barack Obama is the most admired foreign leader in Africa because he has ancestral roots in our continent.

This is partly the reason his ill-informed and stereotypical admonitions of our leaders attracted cheers from a large section of our elite class.

But it is also because we African elites have internalised the ideology of our conquerors that presents us as inferior, inadequate, and incapable of self-government.

Doctored Vaseline turned us into idiots, says rape victim

A girl testifying in the trial of an alleged serial rapist said she thought he had rubbed muti on her and her friend to make them comply with his instructions.

"It was because he rubbed us with this stuff that turned us into idiots," the 17-year-old said quietly through an interpreter in the trial of Peter Dashboy Khoza in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court, sitting as the High Court in Johannesburg.

Khoza, who sat in the dock in shackles, has pleaded not guilty to 39 charges of kidnapping, 37 charges of rape, 37 charges of grievous bodily harm, 11 charges of sexual assault, 27 charges of attempted murder and five charges of theft.

One of his alleged victims, Amanda*, who now lives in Lesotho, testified that she was playing with five friends in Slovo, a settlement near Eldorado Park on May 6, 2012, when the man she identified in court as Khoza came up to them and asked where he could buy milk.

She was nearly 14 at the time. When he came back from the shop, he asked her and a friend, Belinda* to show him the place the shopkeeper had sent him to to get change. Instead he walked with them past trees and houses to a deserted area, she testified.

Ghana records decline in armed robbery, drug trafficking

Mr James Agalga, Deputy Minister of the Interior, on Wednesday said despite the fact that the Ministry met challenges this year; some significant gains have been made towards improving the security situation in the country.

He said there had been decline in cases of armed robberies, drug trafficking and abuse, chieftaincy, inter-ethnic and land conflicts, though these gains were still at unacceptable levels.

US agency to train Dangote Oil Refinery workers

The United States Trade and Development Agency has signed a $997,447 training grant with Dangote Oil Refining Company to develop critical human capacity resources necessary to successfully operate and maintain Dangote’s Greenfield petroleum refinery situated in Lagos.

The USTDA grant will fund a multi-year programme to train over 100 employees of the company on refinery fundamentals.

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said during the signing of the grant in Lagos on Thursday that the partnership would facilitate the provision of goods and services required for a training programme in connection with the refinery project.

Microsoft unit fires 85% of Nigerian workers

Microsoft on Thursday sacked 34 (85 per cent) of the 40 employees in the Nigerian office of its phone division.

The sacking came 24 hours after the company’s latest Windows 10 was made available in Nigeria and 189 other countries.

Although, Windows 10 is now available as a free upgrade for Windows 7 and 8.1 operating systems or with new personal computers and tablets, industry experts said it would leave about 15 million Nigerian payments cards prone to hacking.

PDP officials blew N12bn in nine months

Angry workers of the Peoples Democratic Party have accused the members of the National Working Committee of the party of squandering N12bn in nine months.

Out of the total sum, the workers said N11bn was realised from the sale of nomination forms while N1bn was got from the sale of delegates forms.

They alleged that the money was squandered shortly after the sale of the forms commenced on October 27, 2014 till date.

Jennifer Lopez Thanks Kim Kardashian for the Kind Words

Jennifer Lopez dresses up in a full suit despite the heat while filming her new show Shades of Blue on Wednesday afternoon (July 29) in Maspeth, Queens, N.Y.

The 46-year-old actress was joined on set by her co-star Ray Liotta.

“You’re so cute!! Thank you for the love!! 💋” J.Lo recently tweeted at Kim Kardashian for complimenting her toned body.

Kim‘s original tweet read, “Damn!!!!! How hot does @jlo look!!!!! She will forever be my idol!!!! #BodyGoals 😍👅💦.”

2 caught offloading drugs from truck

Two people were arrested while they were offloading drugs from a truck in Bellville in Cape Town.

Western Cape police said on Thursday that the two suspects - aged between 30 and 40 - were arrested on the N1 in a garage near Kraaifontein in Cape Town.

"According to the information, the khat came from Kenya via Johannesburg to Cape Town," police spokesperson Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said.

"Khat is also known as mirra, and the estimated street value... is R223 000."

The suspects were expected to appear in the Kuils River Magistrate's Court on charges of drug possession.

Army engineers clear notorious camps; more terrorists killed, civilians rescued

As part of efforts to rid Nigeria of Boko Haram terrorists, troops of 21 Brigade and personnel of Nigerian Army Engineers on Wednesday cleared a notorious terrorists camp at Chuogori and Shantumari areas of Borno State, the spokesperson for the army, Sani Usman, has said.

In a statement Thursday, Mr. Sani, a colonel, said during the offensive operations, the fleeing terrorists left underground silos.

Mr. Sani added, “In addition, troops of 151 Task Force Battalion conducted operations on Kashingeri, Wale and Kushingari Boko Haram terrorists camps today.

Teacher Bags 7 Years Jail Term For Raping Minor

An Ado-Ekiti High Court on Thursday sentenced a 35-year-old class teacher, Kareem Akinyemi to seven years imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old girl.
Presiding Judge Olayemi Abodunde, said the prosecution has proved that the teacher sexually abused the minor.
“I am convinced that the prosecution has proved that the accused sexually abused and exploited the child.

“Teachers are supposed to be destiny helpers and shapers not destroyers,” she said.
“I am of the view that the accused is guilty of sexually abusing and exploiting the nine-year-old girl.
“He is accordingly convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
“This would send a strong message across board that sexual offence against the child is not permitted,” Abodunde said.

Four nabbed on rape, murder charges

Cape Town - Four suspects are to appear in the Khayelitsha Magistrate’s Court on charges of rape and murder.

Police spokesperson Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said the suspects, aged between 19 and 22, were arrested on Tuesday and were due to appear in court soon.

According to Rwexana, the suspects face charges relating to the murder and rape of a 20-year-old female on 18 July near Kwezi Park in Khayelitsha.

Police management thanked all roleplayers, particularly members of the community, for assisting police in the investigations.

Ambode welcomes Walmart, seeks firm’s support on job creation

Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has assured a delegation of Walmart Incorporated that the state is ready to give necessary support to assist the firm in establishing its presence in the state.

The delegation of the firm, a leading global brand in retail supermarket, was led by the President and Chief Executive Officer of Walmart Europe, Middle East, Africa and Canada, Shelley Broade, on Thursday.

Ambode said the presence of the Walmart brand in Lagos would go a long way not only to create jobs for the teeming youths, but also boost the economy of the state.

Absence of governing council stalls selection exercise for new UI VC

The selection exercise for a new Vice Chancellor for the University of Ibadan that would succeed Prof Isaac Adewole has been put on hold for now.

The reason for the suspension Daily Sun learnt is due to the absence of a Governing Council for the nation’s premier university.

The selection process to pick a new helmsman for the university was kick-started by the Chief Wole Olanipekun-led governing council in which 13 Professors applied for the plum job.

U.S. to deliver eight F-16 aircraft to Egypt

The United States will deliver eight F-16 Block 52 aircraft to Egypt within the next two days, the U.S. embassy in Cairo said in a statement on Thursday, July 30, part of a military package that had been unfrozen earlier this year, according to

The statement said Washington would deliver four more F-16s to Egypt this autumn.

Despite U.S. lawmakers' concerns that Egypt is lagging on democratic reforms, Egypt remains one of Washington's closest security allies in the region.

Expose Killers of Bola Ige, Dele Giwa, others, Reps tell Buhari

The House of Representatives has urged the Buhari administration to reopen investigations into unresolved cases of high profile political and extra judicial killings in Nigeria.

The essence of the charge to the Federal Government, the House resolved, is to bring the culprits to justice.

In a motion titled, Need To Undertake Further Investigations Into Cases Of Extra Judicial Killings And Other High Profile Murders, raised by Kingsley Chinda, he noted that the extra judicial killings were allegedly being carried out by men of the Nigerian Police Force, and personnel of some other security agencies and unknown gunmen.

Dogara, Gbajabiamila factions merge

The two factions of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the House of Representatives – one, loyal to the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, the other, the majority leader, Femi Gbajabiamila — have formally resolved their differences, with Mr. Dogara promising “best” of legislative business going forward.

On Wednesday night, Messrs Dogara and Gbajabiamila formally collapsed their factions into “one united” APC House Caucus during a closed door meeting at the National Assembly.

The meeting, which formalised the new alliance, was the inaugural gathering of the whole 213-member APC caucus since the National Assembly was inaugurated June 9.

Shell to cut 6,500 jobs

Royal Dutch Shell says it will axe 6,500 jobs this year and step up spending cuts, to deal with an extended period of lower oil prices.

Besides, the company announced on Thursday in London the sale of a 33 per cent stake in the Showa Shell refinery in Japan to Idemitsu, for about $1.4 billion.

The Anglo-Dutch company also said it was planning more asset disposals, bringing total asset sales between 2014 and 2018 to $50 billion.

KIM JONG-UN IS THREATENING TO KILL EVERYBODY IN AMERICA (AGAIN)

Oh dear (Leader).

Just when you thought you’d heard the last rant by North Korean despot Kim Jong-un, comes another bout of anti-US warmongering.

Taking aim at his old enemy Barack Obama, he used the anniversary of the Korean War to send an unsettling threat to destroy the US and warn he would “leave no American alive.”

According to The Mirror, he said: “Gone forever is the era when the United States blackmailed us with nukes; now the United States is no longer a source of threat and fear for us and we are the very source of fear for it."

Naked man, 81, arrested for 'having sex with bush in his own back garden'

Russell Road, where Wallace Berg was spotted allegedly having sex with a bush in his back garden


A pensioner has been arrested for allegedly having SEX with a BUSH - in his own back garden.

The unsuspecting 81-year-old was caught in the act by a neighbour whose home overlooked the back garden.

He claims that he said the octogenarian acting oddly in the garden while naked so he grabbed his video camera.

He claims to have shot images of the man then “humping” a bush while in the buff.

Local reports in Stratford, Connecticut, said the neighbour then raised the alarm.

Couple picking mushrooms gunned down by drug lord after stumbling on marijuana patch

Three men have been arrested after a couple picking mushrooms in Russia's Ryazan region stumbled upon a marijuana crop and were gunned down. A woman alerted officers that her parents had gone missing after leaving to pick mushrooms in the woods, police said in a statement reported by the Moscow Times.

Police launched a search for the pair, and found the man's dead body with gunshot injuries. The woman was found nearby alive with severe gunshot wounds, and was taken to hospital.

A man jailed after brutal iron bar attack on man selling car

A thug who arranged for a brutal iron bar attack on a man selling a car in High Wycombe has been jailed for 16 years.

In 2013, a 32-year-old man who was selling a car from an address in Spearing Road was attacked and left fighting for his life with serious head injuries.

After a long investigation, Abdul Khan, 31, from Reading, pleaded guilty for causing Section 18 - grievous bodily harm with intent, after arranging for the attack.

Prison worker tells investigators her relationship with two inmates included sex acts and naked photos

A prison worker who got "caught up in the fantasy" of a prison escape has told investigators her relationship with the two inmates included sex acts and naked photos.

Joyce Mitchell, an instructor in the tailor shop at the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to helping inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escape in June.

In documents, Mitchell said once when she was alone with Matt he grabbed her and kissed her.

She admitted performing a sex act with him and fondling him. She took naked photos of herself for Sweat.

Diego Costa could have joined Liverpool before Jose Mourinho stepped in

Diego Costa was in fantastic form for Chelsea last season as his 20 league goals fired the Blues to the Premier League title, however it could have been Liverpool who reaped the rewards of the Spain international's tenacity.

Costa moved to Stamford Bridge from Atletico Madrid last summer after the club met the £32 million buy-out clause in his contract, but it has been revealed Liverpool were the first club to meet the clause.

No Nation Can Beat Terror In Isolation - Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night said that Nigeria and neighbouring countries must stand together to defeat the terrorists group, Boko Haram in the sub-region.

He made the remark at a state dinner in Yaounde, during his two-day working visit to Cameroon.

Buhari said that countries in the sub-region cannot afford to falter in their resolve to get rid of the evils of terrorists.

Nigeria: Four Killed, 15,500 Displaced in Delta Oil Spill

The representative of Odidi community in Delta State, Mr Anthony Richard, has said that about four persons were killed while 15,500 residents of the community were displaced in July oil spill that ravaged the community.

Mr Richard disclosed this when the South South Zonal Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Mr Benjamin Oghenah presented relief materials worth millions of naira to the affected communities.

He said people died as a result of "obnoxious gas released into the atmosphere due to the spillage", adding that the spill also ignited fire which destroyed houses, farm land and fish ponds.

Boko Haram slits throats of 10 fishermen near Lake Chad

Boko Haram Islamists slit the throats of 10 fishermen in villages near Baga, on the shores of the Lake Chad in northeastern Nigeria, a leading fisherman and a resident said Thursday.

“On Monday around 4 pm (1500 GMT), Boko Haram attacked three villages on the shores of Lake Chad where they slaughtered 10 people, all of them fishermen,” Abubakar Gamandi, head of the fishermen’s union in Borno State.

The account was confirmed by a local fisherman, Buhari Dan-Malam.

School worker charged with sex offence involving a pupil

A SCHOOL worker has being accused of committing a sex offence involving a pupil.

Matthew Settle, aged 26, of Sunnybank Road, Unsworth, worked as a special support assistant at Castlebrook High School in Unsworth and was suspended when a police investigation began in mid June. He has since resigned from the role.

Last week, Settle was charged with inciting a 13-year-old boy to engage in sexual activity and, in doing so, abusing a position of trust.

Drug dealer caught hiding crack cocaine in second pair of trousers in Portsmouth

Tijan Sarr, 21 of Leyburn Road, Edmonton, London, who pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply

Dealer admitted possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply

21-year-old was hiding drugs in second pair of trousers he was wearing and in a jumper

He wrote a letter to the judge apologising for his actions

Taxi driver appears in court charged with attempting to meet underage girl for sex

Teesside Law Courts in Middlesbrough

Nawaz Zadar has been charged with attempting to arrange a meeting :: The 23-year-old is remanded in custody
A Middlesbrough taxi driver has appeared in court charged with attempting to arrange a meeting with an underage girl for sex.

Tom Cruise will return as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible 6

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation has only just hit cinemas and plans are already going ahead for the next movie.

Leading star Tom Cruise has told The Daily Show that he will be back as Ethan Hunt for a sixth instalment of the franchise.

"We're starting to work on it now. We'll probably start shooting it next summer," he explained to host Jon Stewart.

Caitlyn Jenner's 'I Am Cait' Debuts With 2.7 Million Viewers

Caitlyn Jenner looks ultra chic in black while arriving for dinner at Beso with some friends on Wednesday evening (July 29) in Los Angeles.

The 65-year-old former Olympian’s new E! docu-series I Am Cait debuted to solid numbers a few days earlier.

According to the New York Times, the show brought in 2.7 million viewers, including about 1.5 million in the 18-49 demo.

Zayn Malik pledges to reveal 'real me' after record deal

Former One Direction star Zayn Malik said he will reveal the "real me" to fans, as he tweeted a picture showing him signing a new record contract.

The singer, who quit the boyband earlier this year saying he wanted to be a "normal 22-year-old", is pictured smiling whilst signing documents in front of RCA Records's logo.

Jennifer Lopez is back as she films Shades Of Blue with co-star Ray Liotta after celebrating 46th birthday [Photos]

She rocked a very racy see-through number during her birthday celebration over the weekend.

And it was definitely back to reality for Jennifer Lopez as she rocked a much different outfit during her latest outing.

Back to work: The 46th year old Jennifer Lopez was spotted on the Queens, New York set of her upcoming series Shades Of Blue on Wednesday

Beyonce Starring In ‘The Wiz’ On NBC!

Ring the alarm! Beyonce is reportedly in talks to join NBC’s production of ‘The Wiz.’ Who would she be starring as? Find out!

We just became that much more excited to tune into NBC’s production of The Wiz. Beyoncé, 33, is reportedly in talks to star in the song-and-dance adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. Find out all the details, including who she would star as and who else she would be joining!

Beyonce runs the world, and she might be running The Wiz, too! The “Flawless” singer has reportedly been offered the role of Glinda the Good Witch in the production. If this is the case, it would be a dream come true! 

NASS crises: Finally, after the storm, comes calm

For more than 50 days after its inauguration, the eighth National Assembly had been under conflagration over leadership tussle. However, last Tuesday, the crisis came to an end with each arm of legislature agreeing to sheath the sword for greater interest of the nation.

The National Assembly which has been in crises over leadership tussle finally last Tuesday resolved all differences and gets ready for legislative business for which it was in place to conduct.

How Saraki stemmed Senate crisis

US cop charged with murder after deadly traffic-stop

Cincinnati - A University of Cincinnati police officer who shot a motorist during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate has been indicted on murder charges and a prosecutor said on Wednesday that the officer "purposely killed him”.

Prosecutor Joe Deters announced the grand jury indictment at a news conference to discuss developments in the investigation into the July 19 shooting of 43-year-old motorist Samuel DuBose by Officer Ray Tensing.

DuBose's death comes amid months of national scrutiny of police dealings with African-Americans, especially those killed by officers. DuBose was black. Tensing is white. Authorities haven't indicated whether race was a part of the investigation.

Authorities have said Tensing spotted a car driven by DuBose and missing the front license plate, which is required by Ohio law. They say Tensing stopped the car and a struggle ensued after DuBose refused to provide a driver's license and get out of the car.

Tensing has said he was dragged by the car and forced to shoot at DuBose. He fired one shot, striking DuBose in the head.

Two women held in war on terror

Police and intelligence operatives in Nairobi and Dadaab have arrested two suspected female al Shabaab recruiters.

They are implicated with taking young women to Somalia.

Shamsa Shariff Mohamed and Saada Bilal were arrested early this month following investigations on the network of recruiters who have been luring young Kenyan women to marry al Shabaab fighters in Somalia.

Ex-lawmaker’s disappearance worries family members

Family members of a former legislator, Kolawole Olonade, have expressed shock over his disappearance, couple of months ago.

They are worried that the legislator, who represented Ward 4 in the legislature of Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State, between 2004 and 2007 under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, may have gone into hiding following political manoeuvering and dispute.

Conflict is an integral part of any political environment –Tinubu

A national Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ahmed Bola Tinubu had days before the end of the National Assembly crisis paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa where he reflected on the crisis.

How would you react to the leadership crisis in the National Assembly?

That is an area where I am very very cautious of my position and my utterances; I still want to keep my side of interpretation and analysis to myself to be able to achieve a resolution of the matter as quickly as possible.