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A couple from Utah, United States, was on Friday attacked by three Kenyan men with one wielding a machete during a fitness tour along a rough road in Nairobi. According to a video posted on their social media account, the two, Lauren and Bryant Swenson, did not have enough time to react after they came across a matatu parked along that road. In a report by US media, the two had taken the rough road as a shortcut to bypass a highway snarl up in one of the city’s major roads While the four occupants of the vehicle approached the parked Public Service Vehicle (PSV), it slowly started moving revealing the three armed men. The three then started running towards their vehicle. Two Kenyans who were on the passengers' back seats, seeing how serious the situation was, then directed the driver to keep moving. They suspected that the PSV had been robbed as well. According to Bryant Swenson’s father, Bryant Swenson Senior, his son did not have any choice at the time but to try and driv...

Update:: Currently rocking the Senate house Tuesday morning is the protest by the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) to agitate for the payment of salaries and allowances owed it members. Report shows the protest is taking place at the lobby of the Senate amid heavy security. The protesting staffers bear banners with the inscription: ‘enough is enough. ‘the Clerk to the National Assembly has suddenly become stupendous’. The protesters were also singing: “Sani Omolori, juju de fail’, ‘Ole’ (Sani Omolori, charms fail, you are a thief) as they moved round the balcony to the chambers. Sani Omolori is the Clerk to the National Assembly.

Update:: In a video making rounds on social media, Small Doctor and his crew were all told to lay down on the floor as the police arrested them. The incident which happened at the popular Oshodi expressway saw men of the Nigeria Police Force trying to disarm the singer. Also in the video, you can see an obviously shocked and injured Small Doctor surrendering to the fully armed police officers. The police on Monday in Lagos said they had arrested a popular musician, Adekunle Temitope, a.k.a Small Doctor, and three others for alleged unlawful possession of fireman. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, CP Imohimin Edgal, told newsmen that the suspects were arrested after threatening to shoot policemen controlling the traffic at the ever-busy Oshodi area of Lagos. Edgal said that he was disappointed with the musician’s conduct because he had a case with the State CID, Panti for shooting a gun at his Agege show where he injured four persons. “You would have thought the incident w...

Update:: The Spokesman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Imo state, Mr. Jones Onwuasoanya has resigned from his position. In a letter, Onwuasoanya described the APC as a ‘cult’ and not a political party adding that the national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole is a destroyer of the party. The statement read: “The Chairman left no one in doubt that he was not, from the onset, prepared for the task of serving the interest of members of the Party and upholding the provisions of its constitution, but to institute a most dangerous brand of feudalistic idealism and corrupted form of communism, where the whims of a few override the interest of the majority.” “After a careful and sober review of events within our political Party, especially, in the last two months, I have come to the conscientious conclusion that our party, which before now was touted as the beacon of integrity, democracy and fairness, has dangerously veered off from its own Constitution, philosophie...

Update:: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said lecturers and institutions of higher learning administrators have a hand in what has become of the the country's education system today. Osinbajo said these key stakeholders have all along been ignored when blames are apportioned for the decay in the academic system. He explained that when lecturers and adminstrators pay a particular attention to the "basic things such as the admission process, commitment to students wellbeing, quality teaching and research, as well as not condoning unethical and criminal behaviour within the institutions" the state of the country's education will improve. The Prof. who spoke at the opening event of the 13th Regional Conference of Higher Education Research and Policy Network (HERPNET), held in Ibadan, said “Perhaps the discussion here today may start with everyone accepting the fact that the responsibility of killing corruption from our institutions rest on us. “Many times, we pass ...

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Update:: President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged that his government will not rest until the remaining Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in April 2014 are safely released. Mr. Buhari renewed his commitment Monday in Katowice, Poland, at a bilateral meeting with Swiss President, Alain Berset, on the margins of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP24. The president, according to a press statement signed by Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president, (media and publicity), had spent the whole day at the International Conference Centre, Katowice, where he delivered his national address at the opening of the 12-day meeting of COP24, met with several world leaders and visited the impressive Nigerian pavilion at the climate summit. During his meeting with the Swiss President, the Nigerian leader thanked the Swiss Confederation for its efforts and important role as intermediaries to secure the release of some Chibok girls and assured him that the issue of the r...

Update:: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Nigeria and Federation of Russia have signed a treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. The Ministry’s Spokesperson George Edokpa said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja. The ministry explained that the Treaty was negotiated in 2009 to enhance collaboration and cooperation between the two countries in the administration of criminal justice and signed in Moscow, Russia on Nov. 27, 2018. ”The Treaty was signed on behalf of Nigeria by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, while Russian Acting Minister of Justice, Mr Oleg Plokhoy, signed on behalf of his country. ”The Treaty on Legal Assistance in Criminal Matter is aimed at providing the necessary mechanism for cooperation in the fight against crime and criminal related matters. ”These include terrorism, as well as to counter every form of support to terrorism,” it stated. The ministry explained that...

Update:: The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Adekunle Temitope, popularly known as Small Doctor, for unlawful possession of firearms and for allegedly threatening to shoot a police officer. Edgal Imohimi, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, revealed this to the press on Monday while parading the musician along with three other persons. Small Doctor was arrested on allegations that he threatened a Police officer who was on traffic duty along Oshodi, Lagos. “It was alleged that some unknown men, four of them, in an unregistered green SUV had brought out a gun and threatened a policeman that if he does not leave the road, they will shoot him,” Imohimi said. “Believing that they were armed robbers, I sent out my men and fortunately, with the DPO in charge of Shogunle division, they were able to intercept them and the men were arrested and were brought down to the headquarters for interrogation. “It was then discovered that one of them is the same Adekunle Temitope, a.k.a. ‘Sm...

Four held for robbing victim of N3m, burning him in car trunk A building that served as a bar along the Upper Sokponba road, Benin City, Edo State, has been set ablaze by a mob over the death of an artisan simply identified as Elvis.Elvis had been engaged to do some work at the bar when he was electrocuted. According to eyewitnesses, Elvis climbed the ceiling to fix something when somebody switched on the generating set and he was electrocuted. He was pronounced dead at the hospital where he was rushed to.A relative of the deceased who pleaded anonymity said the building was set ablaze because youths in the area suspected the death was not ordinary. Edo State police spokesman, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, could not be reached for comments. Meanwhile, the police in Osun State have arrested four members of a robbery gang that robbed and later killed one Lagos businessman, Victor Akinbile, 48, by setting him ablaze while locked in his car.The Osun Commissioner of Police, Fimihan Adeoye, disclose...