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Trump Impeachment: Evidence of Misconduct ‘Overwhelming’ – House Report

The evidence for impeaching President Donald Trump for misconduct in office and obstruction is “overwhelming,” the final report on the House investigation into the US leader said Tuesday. The 300-page report, meant as the basis for articles of impeachment, accused Trump of endangering national security and of an unparalleled effort to...... more

Jesus arrested for walking on water in US

Jesus has been arrested after walking on water in Philadelphia’s Love; Park, USA. A street performer Michael Grant or ‘Philly Jesus’ is a local celebrity in Philadelphia’s parks. His favorite pastime is walking on water in the park’s fountains, and occasionally baptizing people. And although police is convinced that Jesus violates...... more

Three jailed over Algeria Concert Stampede deaths

An Algerian court has handed three people prison sentences for “negligence” over a deadly stampede at an August concert, a judicial source told AFP Thursday. Five people aged between 13 and 22 were killed and more than 80 injured on August 22 when fans thronged an entrance of a stadium in...... more

White House on a lockdown as plane violates airspace restriction

The White House and its office buildings were briefly evacuated amid concerns about a small aircraft in the area. Officials say the plane violated airspace rules in the restricted area on Tuesday. The evacuations were ordered as a precaution and lasted about half an hour. The U.S. Secret Service says personnel...... more

U.S. government charges Air Peace founder, Allen Onyema with $20 million fraud

Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman and CEO of Air Peace has been indicted over an alleged bank fraud and money laundering scheme. The Airline owner was accused of moving more than $20 million from Nigeria through United States bank accounts in a scheme involving false documents based on the purchase...... more

Ugandan woman marries three husbands at once

…’Mummy’ determines sex roster —One of Aguti’s three husbands A Ugandan woman, Ann Grace Aguti, 36, from the Ngora district of the country has been trending on social media, over her decision to marry three men, Richard Alich, John Peter Oluka and Michael Enyaku at the same time. All the men...... more

Gunmen kill one Nigerian, injure two in South Africa

The Nigerian community in South Africa has again been thrown into mourning after gunmen killed one of its members and left two injured. Mr Odefa Ikele, the National Spokesperson of Nigerian Union South Africa, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos. Ikele said the incident that led to...... more

Boy, 18 stabs Nigerian woman to death at Canada mental home

A terrible blow has been dealt the Nigerian community in Canada, with the brutal death of Deborah Onwu, 47, a Nigerian youth social worker in Calgary, caused by an attack by an 18-year-old inmate in a mental home. Reports in the Calgary Sun, said the tragic incident took place on early Friday...... more

2,500 unaccounted for in hurricane-hit Bahamas

Some 2,500 people are unaccounted for in the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, the Bahamian National Emergency Management Agency said on Wednesday. NEMA spokesman, Carl Smith, told reporters that some of the missing people may eventually be located. “At this point, there are approximately 2,500 individuals registered on the Bahamian government register...... more

Michigan bans online sale, retail of Electronic Cigarettes

Governor Gretchen Whitme on Wednesday directed the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to impose a ban on the online and retail sale of electronic cigarettes. Whitmer said Michigan has become the first U.S. state to ban flavoured electronic cigarettes in light of the spike in vaping-related illnesses among...... more

West Texas mass shooting leaves 5 dead and 21 wounded

Five people are dead and 21 wounded in western Texas after a shooter opened fire from his vehicle Saturday in the Odessa and Midland area, police said. The shooter was firing at random from his car, hitting multiple people, including several law enforcement officers and a 17-month-old girl, police said. At...... more

Trump to detain migrants for long, mulls ending birthright citizenship

The Trump administration is refusing to show a human, softer face on immigration to the United States as it unveiled new tough rules. The new rule unveiled Wednesday will allow officials to detain migrant families indefinitely while judges consider whether to grant them asylum in the United States, eliminating a previous...... more

Hundreds killed in Sri Lanka Easter attacks

About 207 people have been killed and 450 hurt in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, the police said yesterday. Eight blasts were reported, including at three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo’s Kochchikade district during Easter services. The Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand hotels and one other, all...... more

Multiple fatalities in New Zealand’s mosques shootings

An attack on two crowded mosques during Friday’s prayers left multiple people dead, police said, on what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as “one of New Zealand’s darkest days”. Witnesses spoke of seeing bloodied bodies, with children also believed to be among the dead, and police warned of “extremely distressing footage”...... more

Nnamdi Kanu to write Donald Trump over US Ambassador’s role in sending ‘fake’ Buhari to White House

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has vowed to petition US President Donald Trump over the role his ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, played in sending an impostor to the White House as “dead” President Muhammadu Buhari. Kanu, who made the vow yesterday in a special...... more

Teenager beheads self with chainsaw after losing computer game

A 15-year-old teenager, Pavel Mateev, allegedly beheaded himself with a chainsaw, after he lost a computer game. According to Fox News, Mateev, went into his yard on Monday morning where he “switched on a chainsaw and sawed off his own head.” It was reported that Mateev was addicted to a computer game that his...... more

Nigerian parents arrested in US after son dies during 40-day fasting

NIGERIAN parents, Titilayo and Kehinde Omosebi, have been arrested by the Reedsburg Police in Wisconsin, US, after their son, Ayanfe, starved to death during a religious fast. According to the Facebook page of Reedsburg Police, the father of the deceased, Kehinde walked into the police station to report that his son had...... more

Pope begs for God’s forgiveness for sexual abuse scandal

Pope Francis in Ireland on Sunday “begged for God’s forgiveness” for the child sexual abuse scandal rocking the church, but faced accusations by a former Vatican official that he had personally ignored allegations against senior clergy. Francis is due to speak in front of some 500,000 faithful in Dublin’s Phoenix Park...... more

Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan dies

Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80, his foundation said on Saturday. Annan, a Ghanaian national, died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of Saturday, two of his close associates said. In Geneva, the Kofi Annan Foundation announced...... more

Contractor demolishes five ongoing projects, says he’s being owed

A building contractor has demolished five ongoing buildings whose construction he was supervising. When police arrived the scene, he reportedly told them that he hadn’t been paid and that, that was why he did it. The contractor, who was accused of using a digger to cause up to £4m of damage...... more

Egypt sentences ex-President Morsi’s adviser, 13 others to life jail

A Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced an adviser to ousted Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi and 14 others to life in prison for plotting attacks on security forces and vital sites. Abdallah Shehata, an economic adviser to Morsi, and the other defendants were convicted of plotting attacks on security forces and...... more

Celebrations, tears as Saudi Arabia overturns ban on Women Driving

Saudi women celebrated taking the wheel for the first time in decades Sunday as the kingdom overturned the world’s only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility. The much-trumpeted move is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan to modernise...... more

Nigeria’s environment conducive for business – Saraki woos Russian investors

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has assured the Russian government that Nigeria is conducive for investors, especially in the oil, gas, agriculture, mining and power sectors of the economy. Saraki stated this Thursday during a meeting with the leadership of the Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament –...... more

Central Bank governor dies of heart attack

Sudan’s Central Bank Governor, Hazem Abdelqader, died of heart attack while on a visit to Turkey, his family and the Sudanese presidential palace said yesterday. Born in 1960, Abdelqader served in various departments at the apex bank from 1985 before he was appointed governor in December 2016. Family members said the...... more

FBI arrests 74 in US, Nigeria, others for fraud

The United States Department of Justice has announced the arrest of 74 people in the US and overseas, including 29 in Nigeria, and three in Canada, Mauritius and Poland, for alleged financial fraud. The arrests were as a result of a coordinated effort to disrupt business email compromise schemes that are...... more

Germany to deport 30,000 Nigerians

There is trouble for Nigerians seeking asylum in Germany as the German government is set to deport close to 30,000 of them. The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs, Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa disclosed this at a programme; “Developing a mixed migration strategy for UNHCR...... more

Entire 34 Catholic bishops in Chile resign en-masse

Every Chilean bishop has offered his resignation to Pope Francis after a series of closed-door meetings with all 34 bishops at the Vatican this week, to discuss the abuse crisis in the country. The dramatic announcement followed the leaking of a 10-page letter to television channel T13, reportedly handed to the...... more

Germany ready to repatriate over 30,000 illegal Nigerian migrants

Germany has proposed a new process that will facilitate the smooth repatriation of over 30,000 illegal Nigerian migrants back home. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said this when he received the Security Adviser to the President of Germany, Dr. Jan Hecker, and his team in Abuja. ...... more

Controversy over Pastor who prayed at US Embassy in Jerusalem

A Christian minister who has disparaged Jews, Muslims and gays faced criticism as US President Donald Trump’s administration invited him to lead a prayer Monday at the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem. Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist preacher in Dallas, Texas, has been a staunch Trump supporter since...... more

Sudan arrests suspected killer of Nigerian diplomat

The Sudanese authorities have announced the arrest of a woman accused of killing an Immigration Attaché at the Nigerian embassy in Khartoum. Habibu Almu, Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, was found stabbed to death at his home in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum on Thursday last week. In a very short...... more