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Two explosions and gunfire were heard at an upscale hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday afternoon, said a woman working in a neighbouring building. “We are under attack,” another person in an office inside a complex in the Dusit hotel told Reuters, then hung up. Local television showed smoke rising from the area. The Nairobi police commander Philip Ndolo said they had cordoned off the area around Riverside Drive due to…

President Muhammadu Buhari has officially named Mohammed Adamu as acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP. Buhari decorated him with the new rank during his meeting with the outgoing Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris and Adamu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Mohammed had served as the Commissioner of Police in Enugu State. He was one-time director of peacekeeping operations of the Force. He had been the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone Five, in Benin,…

The Ghana Police Service on Monday (January 14) confirmed the arrest in the United Arab Emirates of the country’s most wanted gold fraudster. Nana Appiah Mensah, popularly referred to as NAM 1, has been in the news headlines after his gold trading company, Menzgold, turned out to be a Ponzi scheme. Earlier, media portals had ‘clashed’ over reports of his arrest after it was reported and later contradicted by Dubai police sources.  But a Ghana police statement…

JOHANNESBURG – Norwegian oil exploration company, Aker Energy has announced the discovery of what appears to be the biggest oil find in Ghana’s history to date off the western coast. The discovery occurred in the oil-rich Deepwater Tano area which has already given rise to Ghana’s three oilfields already in production – the Jubilee, TEN, and Sankofa Gyename fields – Ghana Web reported on Monday. The positive news will serve as a major boost to…

The Nigerian military on Tuesday retook Rann, the headquarters of Kala Balge local government area of Borno state in northeast Nigeria, following invasion by suspected ISWAP on Monday night. Troops who tactically retreated when the insurgents overwhelmed them got reinforcement to turn the table against the militants, killing several of them, according to military sources in Maiduguri. According to some Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, who arrived Maiduguri, today (morning), the insurgents had sacked the military…

An Osun State High Court sitting in Iwo, on Monday, passed a guilty verdict on five men for their involvement in armed robbery and sentenced them to death by hanging. The convicts, Ifedayo Adebiyi, Semiu Taofeek, Afolabi Ogunwale, Oyeleke Mukaila and Ogunbayo Joshua, were arraigned before the court on September 23, 2016, on three counts. The charges preferred against them were armed robbery and unlawful possession of firearms contrary to sections 6 (b), 1 (1)…

President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned an emergency Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting today. The meeting tagged, “Extraordinary FEC meeting”, would be presided over by President Buhari himself at the presidential Villa, Abuja, Each week, FEC meeting holds on Wednesdays at the council chamber. Today’s meeting comes a day earlier. Details later…

ANKARA, Turkey — President Donald Trump’s shifting timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Syria has left allies and other players in the region confused and jockeying for influence over a withdrawal strategy that appeared to be a work in progress. One day after White House national security adviser John Bolton announced the U.S. pullout would not be as immediate as Trump had initially declared, U.S. allies on Monday sought clarification from American diplomats. The…

A former male escort who has slept with over 150 men, now has a new resolution and it is becoming straight and dating women. 27-year-old Dominic Hilton who came opened up about being gay to his family he was 14, made a New Year’s resolution to abstain from sex for the whole of 2018 after breaking up with his boyfriend. The former gay man who had no doubt that he would one day marry a…