Jelena Noura Hadid also known as Gigi Hadid was born in Los Angeles, California on April 23, 1995. She is the daughter of Palestinian real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid and Dutch model , Yolanda Hadid (née Van den Herik). Through her father, she claims to be from Daher Al Omer, Prince of Nazareth. She has a younger sister named Bella, and a younger brother named Anwar, both of whom are models. She also has two older paternal half-sisters named Marielle and Alana. In 2013, Hadid graduated from Malibu High School, where she was captain of the varsity volleyball team as well as a competitive horseback rider. Following high school, Hadid moved to New York City. She studied criminal psychology at The New School beginning in the fall of 2013, but suspended her studies to focus on her modeling career.
Gigi Hadid
Hadid’s modeling career began when she was two years old after being discovered by Paul Marciano of Guess clothing. She started modeling with Baby Guess before stopping to concentrate on school. Hadid eventually returned to modeling in 2011.She resumed working with Marciano, and was named the face of a Guess campaign in 2012. Hadid has shot three campaigns with Guess as an adult.
In November 2014, she made her debut in the Top 50 Models ranking at Models.com. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council. Over the span of four years, Hadid has made 35 appearances on international Vogue magazine covers.
From 2017–present, Hadid has won so many awards and recognition.
Some $5.8m (£4.2m) recovered by UK agencies that was stolen by a Nigerian former governor and laundered in Britain have now been returned to Nigeria, the Nigerian authorities say.
Former Delta state Governor James Ibori was convicted of money laundering in the UK in 2012.
Prosecutors say he stole an estimated $165m (£117m) from the oil-rich state.
A Bombardier Challenger jet is among the items listed in court documents for a confiscation order against Ibori.
The £4.2m has been recovered from Ibori’s wife, sister and fiduciary agent, who were also convicted of money laundering.
Observers expect more money to be retrieved from Ibori himself.
Nigeria’s Attorney General Abubakar Malami hailed the return of the loot as a “demonstration of the recognition of reputation Nigeria earns” for managing recovered money, according to a statement from his spokesperson.
Who is James Ibori?
James Ibori went from petty thief to Nigerian state governor to convicted money launderer.
He went to the UK in the 1980s and worked as a cashier at a DIY shop in London.
Ibori was convicted in 1991 for stealing from the store but then returned to Nigeria and got involved in politics.
When he ran for Delta State governor, he lied about his date of birth to hide his UK conviction – which would have prevented him standing for office.
He became governor in 1999 and soon began taking money from state coffers. Delta state is the source of much of Nigeria’s oil.
Why did the British authorities convict him?
The British police began to take an interest in Ibori again in 2005 after they came across a purchase order for a private jet, made through his solicitor in London.
He evaded capture in Nigeria after a mob of supporters attacked police, but was eventually arrested in Dubai in 2010 and extradited to the UK.
He was convicted on 10 counts of fraud worth a total of nearly £50m in 2012.
After his release in 2016, Ibori was placed straight into immigration detention.
The publication of the court judgement revealed a Home Office email which had recommended keeping him in immigration detention to buy time to work out how to recover at least £57m.
What happened to Ibori?
image captionJames Ibori seen here celebrating in 2009 when he was cleared by a Nigerian court, but he was later convicted in the UK
Once he was eventually released, he returned to Nigeria and sued the Home Office for unlawful detention.
Ibori won the case but was awarded just £1 compensation.
In 2020 prosecutors in a UK court asked a judge to make a confiscation order against Ibori of £117.7m.
Court documents list several bank accounts owned by Ibori, as well as more than 10 properties around the world, ranging from flats on London’s famous Abbey Road to a £5m mansion in Nigeria’s capital Abuja.
The documents also list a Bentley car and a Bombardier Challenger jet valued at just under £17m.
How have Nigerians reacted?
The UK authorities’ announcement in March about how it promised to return the money to Nigeria provoked outrage.
The agreement laid out that the money would be used to contribute towards building a bridge and two roads.
The bridge, called the Second Niger Bridge, connects Delta state with neighbouring Anambra State.
But the two roads – the Lagos-Ibadan Express road and the Abuja-Kano road – are more than three hours’ drive from Delta state.
“It is bad news that this money is not going back to the victims,” said David Ugolor the Director African network on Environmental and Economic Justice on Tuesday.
Mr Ugolor is among the critics who argued that this money should have specifically gone to people in Delta state instead
Spain has deployed troops after record numbers of migrants entered its north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco.
Some 8,000 people have reached Ceuta in two days, Spanish officials say.
They say the migrants – who include about 1,500 minors – either swam around the border fences that jut out into the sea or walked across at low tide.
Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez has vowed to restore order. Spain says it has already sent some 2,700 migrants back – but not the minors.
Cancelling a trip to Paris, the prime minister travelled to Ceuta and Melilla to deal with the crisis, seen as the worst diplomatic spat with Morocco for 20 years. Morocco withdrew its ambassador, Karima Benyaich, for consultations after Spain’s foreign minister told the envoy of her “disgust” at what had happened.
Most of the migrants are said to be from Morocco. The Spanish troops have been deployed to the beach to help border police at Ceuta’s main entry point – Tarajal, on the enclave’s south side.
Dramatic scenes were captured offshore as families waded through the water and officers from Spain’s Guardia Civil went into the sea to rescue young children.
image captionSpain’s Guardia Civil posted pictures of a baby and toddlers being rescued from the sea off Ceuta
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said 200 troops, plus 200 extra police were going to assist Ceuta’s normal 1,100-strong border force. The enclave has some 80,000 inhabitants. By evening reports said the number of people trying to enter by sea had decreased.
Spain’s Ceuta and Melilla enclaves have become magnets for African migrants.https://emp.bbc.com/emp/SMPj/2.42.4/iframe.htmlmedia captionMigrants determined to enter Spain’s Ceuta enclave: “Either I’ll die or I’ll cross”
On Tuesday, Moroccan security forces at Fnideq, the adjacent town to Ceuta, fired tear gas to disperse a large crowd of migrants at the border fence, AFP news agency reported.
Mr Sánchez had been due to attend a a French-led summit on financial aid for Africa. Instead, he was focusing on Ceuta, promising “maximum firmness” in restoring normality to the enclave.
He has received support from senior EU officials, with European Council President Charles Michel tweeting: “Spain’s borders are the European Union’s borders.”
EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson described the number of arrivals in Ceuta as “unprecedented” and “worrying”, noting that “a big number of them [are] children”.
At the other enclave, Melilla, 86 sub-Saharan Africans entered on Tuesday via its southern jetty, which marks the border with Morocco.
Melilla has a formidable border fence, and several hundred more migrants were blocked by security forces, Spain’s Efe news agency reports.
Spanish officials quoted by Efe said Moroccan guards had helped the Spanish forces in Melilla. Some migrants threw stones at the Spanish forces, they said.
Spanish media said it was different in Ceuta, where Moroccan border guards stood by and watched as migrants took to the sea to try to reach the enclave.
Most of the migrants were said to be young men, but there were also several families. Many had used inflatable rings and rubber dinghies.
They started arriving in Ceuta at 02:00 (midnight GMT) on Monday, but the number soared during the day. At least one died during the crossing.
Last month, more than 100 migrants arrived at Ceuta’s Tarajal entry point. Most were sent back, except about 30 minors whose ages were confirmed by medical tests.
image captionMigrants entered shallow water at Fnideq, a Moroccan border town, to get to Ceuta
Since the 17th Century both Ceuta and Melilla have been under Spanish rule, though they are long claimed by Morocco. The port cities now form the EU’s only land border with Africa. They have semi-autonomous status, like some regions of mainland Spain.
The influx comes amid renewed tension over Western Sahara, a territory occupied by Spain until 1975, when Morocco annexed it. Since then it has been disputed between Morocco and the indigenous Sahrawi people, led by the Polisario Front.
image captionChristopher Columbus is celebrated by some, and reviled by others in the US
President Joe Biden has revoked a string of proclamations by Donald Trump, including an order to punish vandals who destroy monuments.
Mr Trump issued the order amid last year’s social justice protests as statues were being defaced or toppled.
Mr Biden also rescinded Mr Trump’s plans for a sculpture garden to honour American heroes.
And he canned a 2019 proclamation that sought to bar entry to immigrants who could not afford health insurance.
Mr Trump issued an order in June 2020 instructing the federal government “to prosecute to the fullest extent” any person “that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a monument, memorial, or statue”.
The proclamation – which singled out “rioters, arsonists and left-wing extremists” – was a popular talking point for the Republican president at his rallies.
It followed demonstrators targeting statues, many dedicated to figures from the pro-slavery Confederacy, during US-wide protests following the murder of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Also among the Trump orders scrapped on Friday afternoon by Mr Biden, a Democrat, was the former president’s plans for an outdoor park featuring a sculpture garden of American historical figures.
Mr Trump himself chose some of the figures to be included in the project: singer Whitney Houston, 19th Century anti-slavery icon Harriet Tubman, NBA star Kobe Bryant, 18th Century frontiersman Davy Crockett, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and evangelist Billy Graham.
The project was never funded by Congress and no site was ever picked.
Mr Biden also took down Mr Trump’s order in October 2019 that immigrants must prove they could cover medical costs before being allowed into the US, a policy that was quickly blocked by a federal judge.
“My Administration is committed to expanding access to quality, affordable healthcare,” including for non-citizens, Mr Biden said as he revoked that proclamation.
On Friday, Mr Biden also scrapped his predecessor’s orders taking aim at social media “censorship” and for all US foreign aid to be branded with a logo reflecting “the values and generosity of the American people”.
Uduak, according to the state Police Commissioner, Andrew Amiengheme, was paraded today to dispel the rumour that he committed suicide in police custody.
While fielding questions from journalists, the suspect revealed that he invited Umoren over for a fake job and then demanded to have sex with her.
According to him, she agreed to his demand but became furious which made her hit him on the head with a stabiliser, which he in turn used on her before she died.
Uduak said, “I asked her whether she can work on a farm as a secretary, she said she can and that she’s ready to do the job. So, when she came, I revealed to her that this farm doesn’t exist and that it was just a hoax.
“I told her that before she leaves that I’ll like to have sex with her, and she agreed. But she gave a condition that I should use a condom, which I did. When I removed the condom, she became furious, so she took the nearby stabiliser to hit me on my head. Then she bit my left ring finger.”
He continued, “In a bid to stop her, I used the stabiliser to hit her and she fell and started bleeding, thereafter she died.”
When asked to state the number of people he has killed, Uduak said Umoren is the only one but about six other women have fallen victim to his antics.
Meanwhile, Umoren has been laid to rest today in Akwa Ibom amid tears and wailing from family members and friends.
Nollywood actor, Yomi Fabiyi, has narrated his encounter with his colleague, Olanrewaju James also known as Baba Ijesha, after he was alleged of sexually abusing a minor. In a video, Fabiyi said he met Baba Ijesha in the Lagos police custody to hear his own narrative. According to him, Baba Ijesha denied raping any seven-year-old girl. He said, “When I heard about the situation, I was unhappy. It was controversial. When I asked him what happened, did you rape the minor, he (Baba Ijesha) said ‘Yomi, I never did. Princess brought a general to harass me. I didn’t sleep with this girl seven years ago.’ At that time, Princess was also in marriage.” Narrating the first time he met the girl in question, Fabiyi said Baba Ijesha told him that “The first time I met this girl was at a garage and touts were harassing me for money. How could I have slept with her?” Fabiyi clarified that Baba Ijesha is not a paedophile, adding that he never had canal knowledge of the teenager. He said, “The girl never at any time said Baba Ijesha raped her. The girl said she was not raped. What happened is sexual assault. “Pedophiles don’t go for adult teenagers, the majority don’t know what it (Pedophile) is. Not to talk of somebody who is an adult. “You watched a child being molested for 30 minutes, somebody must pay for that. He (Baba Ijesha) said four men beat him to a stupor when they rushed in (in the leaked video). He said he could barely hear anything when they were asking him questions; that all he could hear was ‘molest’, ‘molest’. “He didn’t conceptualise the ‘molest’ in the face of the law. He thought it was the normal way that we play with it. He needed to save his life. Then, he was scared that they could kill him. What if the man died in that process? “A child cannot understand why you will ask her to submit her body and play along with somebody she does not know. I don’t want lies. I want a genuine case to be established.” The police had announced that Baba Ijesha was in their custody for allegedly sexually abusing a minor, adding that there was CCTV footage of the allegation. Fabiyi had staged a protest demanding the bail and release of Baba Ijesha, claiming that his offence is bailable.
Members of a local vigilante team have been stationed at Elele Police Area Command in Rivers state for protection.
According to social media sources, the vigilantes who are part of Elele Security and Peace Advisory Committee (ESPAC) were contracted to protect the station in Emohua, Rivers state from gunmen attack.
Photos of the vigilantes armed with guns and standing outside the station are circulating o social media.
Nigerians have taken to social media to react, as some are surprised that vigilantes are protecting police rather than the opposite.
Portugal is set to host the Champions League final after Uefa failed to receive the guarantees of exemptions it wants if it is to move the game to Wembley.
Uefa, UK government officials and the Football Association met on Monday to discuss moving the game between Chelsea and Manchester City from Istanbul.
Uefa has decided it will be moved after Turkey was put on England’s red travel list meaning fans cannot travel. Portugal is on the green list so fans would be allowed to attend on 29 May.
Porto’s Estadio do Dragao is expected to be named as the venueon Thursday because Uefa would prefer not to stage the match in Lisbon, which hosted last year’s final.
European football’s governing body believes holding the match in Portugal will make it easier to gain access for sponsors and broadcasters, who would need to be compensated if they were unable to attend the game.
However, Uefa is still not in a position to confirm the switch, which would see Istanbul given the 2023 final, having originally been due to host last year before the move to Lisbon.
The match could still be played at Wembley but it would require a major shift from the UK government, which has so far failed to reach an agreement with Uefa.
Travellers from England to green-list countries must follows rules before departure but do not have to quarantine on their return.
Wembley last hosted the Champions League final in 2013 when Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund
UK citizens returning from red-list countries are required to quarantine at a government-approved hotel for 10 days.
Such a quarantine would have an impact on players involved in Euro 2020, which starts on 11 June.
On Friday, transport secretary Grant Shapps said Covid-19 red-list countries “should not be visited except in the most extreme circumstances”.
Uefa had hoped to give both clubs a minimum of 4,000 tickets each for the game at Ataturk Olympic Stadium.
Shapps said that the FA was in talks with Uefa about switching the game, but that it is “ultimately a decision for Uefa”.
Chelsea Supporters Trust has said it will meet Uefa and will request that the final is moved to the UK, while Manchester City fan groups said they will be renewing their calls to move the game from Istanbul.
There is also a fixture issue to resolve, as Wembley is scheduled to stage the Championship play-off final on 29 May. However, it is understood the EFL would consider moving the match if asked by Uefa, and its board would make the final call.
Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader convicted of genocide during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, is to serve the rest of his life sentence in a British jail.
The Foreign Office said he would be transferred to a UK prison from a UN detention unit in the Netherlands.
Karadzic, 75, was also found guilty at his 2016 criminal tribunal of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
His original 40-year sentence was increased at an appeal hearing in 2019.
His conviction for genocide related to his responsibility for the murder of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
It was considered one of the worst massacres in Europe since World War Two.
Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia also held Karadzic responsible for the siege of Sarajevo, a campaign of shelling and sniping which lasted more than three years and led to the deaths of an estimated 10,000 civilians.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: “Radovan Karadzic is one of the few people to have been found guilty of genocide…
“We should take pride in the fact that, from UK support to secure his arrest, to the prison cell he now faces, Britain has supported the 30-year pursuit of justice for these heinous crimes.”
Mr Raab described Srebrenica as “the darkest moment in European history since the Holocaust”.
“I think we have got a moral duty and I think we have a sense of national purpose in trying to hold to account the perpetrators of the very worst crimes,” Mr Raab said.
“Back since Nuremburg [the German city where Nazi leaders were prosecuted after World War Two] we have played that role.”
He added: “If we want to deter these kind of crimes from happening, if we want to give justice to the many thousands of victims, I think it is right we do our bit.”
UN officials confirmed they had asked the UK to “enforce the sentence”.
They did not provide a date for the move but said “all necessary measures” should be taken “to facilitate Karadzic’s transfer… as expeditiously as possible”.
image captionRadovan Karadzic, right, pictured with General Ratko Mladic in 1995
The conflict in the former Yugoslavia stemmed from tensions among ethnic groups, following the death of President Tito in 1980.
Calls for more autonomy led in 1991 to declarations of independence in Croatia and Slovenia and fighting with the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army.
Bosnia, with a complex mix of Serbs, Muslims and Croats, was next to try for independence. Bosnia’s Serbs, backed by Serbs elsewhere in Yugoslavia, resisted.
Karadzic, a former psychiatrist, was president of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.
After the war, he hid for years – masquerading as an expert in alternative medicine – before his eventual arrest in Serbia in 2008.
image captionCrematoriums were overwhelmed in India in recent weeks amid a devastating Covid wave
The Covid-19 pandemic was preventable, an independent review panel has said.
The panel, set up by the World Health Organization, said the combined response of the WHO and global governments was a “toxic cocktail”.
The WHO should have declared a global emergency earlier than it did, its report said, adding that without urgent change the world was vulnerable to another major disease outbreak.
More than 3.3 million people around the world have now died of Covid.
While the US and Europe are beginning to ease restrictions and resume some aspects of pre-pandemic life, the virus is still devastating parts of Asia.
India in particular is seeing record-breaking numbers of new cases and deaths, with severe oxygen shortages in hospitals across the country.
Countries neighbouring India, such as Nepal, are also seeing surges of the virus.
Its aim was to find answers as to how the virus had killed more than 3.3 million people and infected more than 159 million.
“The situation we find ourselves in today could have been prevented,” co-chair Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a former president of Liberia, told reporters.
“It is due to a myriad of failures, gaps and delays in preparedness and response.”
The panel argued that the WHO’s Emergency Committee should have declared the outbreak in China an international emergency a week earlier than it did.
It should have done so at its first meeting on 22 January last year, the report said, instead of waiting until 30 January.
The month following the WHO’s declaration was “lost” as countries failed to take appropriate measures to halt the spread of the virus.
The WHO was then hindered by its own regulations that travel restrictions should be a last resort, the panel said, adding that Europe and the US wasted the entire month of February and acted only when their hospitals began to fill up.
When countries should have been preparing their healthcare systems for an influx of Covid patients, much of the world descended into a “winner takes all” scramble for protective equipment and medicines, the report said.
To prevent another catastrophic pandemic, the report suggests key reforms:
A new global threats council should be created with the power to hold countries accountable
There should be a disease surveillance system to publish information without the approval of countries concerned
Vaccines must be classed as public goods and there should be a pandemic financing facility
There was an immediate request for the wealthy G7 nations to commit $1.9bn (£1.3bn) to the WHO’s Covax programme providing vaccine support to low income countries
Panel co-chair and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said it was “critical to have an empowered WHO”.
“If travel restrictions had been imposed more quickly, more widely, again that would have been a serious inhibition on the rapid transmission of the disease and that remains the same today,” she added.
According to new testimony from a detective involved in the case, Pop, born Bashar Jackson, was fatally shot by a 15-year-old who was one of the five people arrested in connection with the rapper’s slaying, which occurred following a home invasion, reports New York Daily News.
On Friday (May 7), LAPD Det. Carlos Camacho testified during a preliminary hearing for suspect, Corey Walker, 20, that the unnamed 15-year-old male defendant admitted to pulling the trigger during a recorded interview with a cellmate last May at a juvenile detention center. “[The teen] admitted that he shot the victim three times with a Baretta 9 [mm.],” Camacho told the court.
“They got into a fight, and he shot him three times,” Camacho said of the conversation that the 15-year-old boy had. “He said he shot him on the back. He said that when the individuals got inside, the suspects confronted [Pop Smoke], who was in the shower naked.”
Camacho also testified that Walker admitted his role in the slaying to an informant who was placed in his cell following his July 2020 arrest as well. “He said that when the individuals got inside, the suspects confronted [Pop Smoke], who was in the shower naked,” Camacho testified.
Walker was recorded telling the informant they wore ski masks and commanded the rapper to take off his jewelry. Pop reportedly initially started to comply, to which the intruders told him “Thank you.” However, according to Walker, the rapper then fought back. He rushed robbers but was pistol whipped before being shot by the 15-year-old male. The robbers and suspected killer were only able to make off with one of Pop’s expensive watches, which they later sold for $2,000, investigators said.
During the hearing, Walker’s defense attorney, Christopher Darden, argued for murder charges against his client to be dropped, saying Walker only drove the car to the home that Pop was killed in and was not directly involved with the robbery or killing. Judge H. Clay Jacke II denied Darden’s request and Walker pleaded not guilty. Walker is due back in court for rearrangement on June 3.
The new testimony from Det. Camacho aligns with new details revealed during testimony on Thursday (May 6), from LAPD detective Christian Carrasco. He relayed statements from a woman who was in an adjacent room at the home at the time of the shooting. The woman claims the intruders breached the home through a second-floor balcony, put a gun to her head and told her “Shut the fuck up. Do you want to die?”
“She heard a struggle coming from the shower area and heard Mr. Jackson screaming,” Det. Carrasco said. “Mr. Jackson ran out of the bathroom and then she heard a loud pop and [heard] Mr. Jackson fall to the ground.” Carrasco also testified the woman said two of the intruders kicked Pop after he was shot.
The British Royal Navy and Royal Marines may soon be using a kit that would give their officers an aerial advantage during operations.
According to CNN, the British force tested a jet suit that could enable soldiers to elevate themselves high up into the sky.
The gadget developed by Gravity Industries allows individuals wearing it to fly in the air up to 12,000 feet at the speed of 80 mph.
A video showing the trial has a soldier who has the jet pack flying off a ship. According to the media, when in proper use, the body gadget will allow soldiers to be able to quickly board planes in dangerous zones.
During the test operation, the tech company tried out the suits with 42 officers at sea, spending a total number of three days.
The federal government has reintroduced the restriction on mass gatherings after a spike in COVID-19 cases recorded in some countries.
At its briefing on Monday, the presidential steering committee on COVID-19 also announced an immediate nationwide curfew from midnight till 4 am.
Mukhtar Mohammed, the committee’s national incident manager, said event centres and non-essential public places such as night clubs would remain closed till further notice.
Religious gatherings are to be limited to less than 50 percent capacity to ensure physical distancing while social events such as weddings and parties are to be attended by not more than 50 persons.
The committee directed security personnel to enforce the measures while state governments to set up a mobile tribunal for the prosecution of violators.
Mohammed said: “The National Response continues to focus on achieving a balance between preserving lives while working on a long term epidemic control. Effective from 00:01 hours on Tuesday 11th of May 2022, this phase four of restriction of movement shall come into effect.
“We shall maintain restrictions on mass gatherings of sidewalk settings, with a maximum of about 50 people in an enclosed space. Approved gatherings must be held to the physical distancing measures, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in place.Advertisement
“We will continue to maintain restriction on reduction of work of government staff workers from GL-12 and below. We’ll also limited government meetings to virtual platforms as much as possible. While we maintaining restrictions on physical meetings, including official trips, oversight visits and board meetings.
“All recreational venues, gyms and indoor sports facilities are to close until 11 of June when the situation will be reviewed. Mass political gatherings, gatherings in the open, a large number of people are strictly to o adhere this COVID-19 protocol as issued by INEC.
“Event centres, night clubs shall remain closed until further notice. Restaurants are to provide eat-in at 50% capacity and provide takeaways where available.”
The incident manager also said there will no be restriction of movement within the country, adding: “Only essential travellers are encouraged, and both international and domestic travellers must abide by all existing protocols.”
The new measures come amid concerns over the surge in infections and resultant deaths recorded in some countries particularly Brazil, India and Turkey.
The federal government had earlier announced that foreigners who recently visited the three countries will no longer be allowed to enter Nigeria.
It also reduced the validity period of the pre-boarding COVID-19 PCR test for all Nigeria-bound passengers from 96 to 72 hours.
In India, which has been the worst hit in recent weeks, 366,161 new infections and 3,754 deaths were reported on Monday, taking the country’s tally to 22.66 million with 246,116 deaths as hospitals remain overwhelmed.Advertisement
Nigeria has so far recorded 165,419 cases of the virus out of which 2,065 have died while 156,300 have been discharged.
Efforts are also being made to vaccinate as many Nigerians as possible although at a snail’s pace: 1.7 million shots administered as of Monday, mostly to health workers and other priority groups.
The Chadian Army says it has ended operations and offensives against rebel groups in the country, bringUmg to an end, the insurgency crisis in that country.
The Army Chief of Staff, Abakar Abdelkérim Daoud, stated this on Sunday.
He said the fighting with Front pour l’alternance et la concorde au Tchad (FACT) which led to the killing of President Idriss Déby Itno had been brought to a halt.
Reports say several hundred vehicles and armoured vehicles of the Chadian Army were seen returning to the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, to celebrate the end of operations in the west of the country.
One of UK’s most wanted men, Michael Moogan, has been arrested in Dubai after spending eight years on the run, using a series of false identities to evade arrest.
Moogan, 35, from Croxteth, Liverpool, was arrested on Sunday and is suspected of involvement in an international drug trafficking plot to import cocaine from South America into Europe.
He was one of three British men linked by police to a cafe in the Netherlands that was being used as a front for negotiations between drug smugglers and cartels.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said that the gangs met at the Cafe de Ketel in Rotterdam, which was not open to the public and could only be entered via a security system, to discuss plans to bring hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the UK and other European countries every week.
However, when the business was raided in 2013, only one of the men, Robert Hamilton, 71, from Manchester, could be found. He was jailed for eight years in 2014 after pleading guilty to drug charges.
The other man, Robert Gerard, 57, handed himself in to the NCA after three years on the run, claiming the pressure was too much on him. He pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and was jailed in 2017 for 14 years.
Moogan used several false identities and kept away from CCTV cameras to evade capture, according to the National crime Agency and Dubai Police.
Moogan is the 86th person arrested under the NCA’s Operation Captura, a campaign run with Crimestoppers.
NCA Director of Investigations Nikki Holland said of the arrest:
This arrest is the result of years of investigation involving a range of law enforcement partners in the UK, Europe and Middle East.
“We are extremely grateful to those partners for their assistance in ensuring Moogan now faces justice and particularly, thank the Dubai Police for their efforts to track him down. He will be returned to the United Kingdom to face trial.
“This case should serve as a warning to others on the run from the NCA; we have a global reach, we never give up and they can never rest easy.”
Nigerian pastor and televangelist, Paul Adefarasin, has subtly advised his Church member to start getting a plan B to exit Nigeria.
According to the clergyman, he has faith but he’s also secured an escape route for himself and his family in case things go south.
In his words; ”If you don’t have a plan B, I know you have faith, i have faith too, but i have a plan B. Plus with Technology, i can talk to you from anywhere in the world.
Get yourself a plan B, whether that’s an Okada to Cameroon or Speed Boat to Seme Border, or a hole in the ground, get a Bunker, because these people are crazy.”
See video below:
"Get yourself a plan B. Whether that's an okada to Cameroon or flying boat to Seme Border or a bunker, get a plan B because these people are crazy"
There is an ongoing crisis in Karu, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, as commercial motorcyclists (also known as Okada riders) take to the roads to protest the killing of their colleague by the police.
SaharaReporters learnt that the riot started around 11am on Sunday, forcing some churches in the area to lock their gates and conclude their services abruptly as the rampaging motorcyclists went about destroying vehicles.
The clash between the police and the motorcyclists affected people staying in Karu, Jikwoyi, Kurudu, Orozo, Karshi, among other areas.
The Okada riders embarked on the protest after one of their colleagues was allegedly shot and killed by the police.
As at the time of filing this report, there is restriction of movement and many people who went for church services are still trapped in their various churches.
Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has mocked Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, over the suddwen death of his son, Pastor Dare Adeboye The Yoruba national activist said he would not greet or sympathize with Adeboye over the demise of Dare because the General Overseer does not support Yoruba nation.
Igboho did not mince words when he rained curses on any leader or Pastor who refuse to support the secession agenda, saying God will kill their children and wives.
Some of the children killed outside a secondary school in Kabul on Saturday have been buried – as other relatives are still searching for the missing.
More than 50 people – mostly girls – died in the explosions that occurred as students were leaving the building.
No-one has admitted carrying out the attack in Dasht-e-Barchi – an area often hit by Sunni Islamist militants.
Afghan government officials blamed Taliban militants for the attack, but the group denied any involvement.
Nobel Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai – who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 – posted about the “horrendous attack” on Twitter.
“My heart is with the Kabul school victims’ families,” she wrote.
What happened on Saturday?
The explosions are believed to have been caused by a car bomb and two improvised explosive devices planted in the area.
One survivor, Zahra, told reporters she was leaving the school as the blasts took place.
“My classmate died. A few minutes later there was another explosion, and then another. Everyone was screaming and there was blood everywhere,” she said.
image captionA woman is carried to hospital after the attack
Several witnesses described hearing three separate explosions, while one woman, Reza, told AFP news agency she had seen “many bloodied bodies in dust and smoke”.
“I saw a woman checking the bodies and calling for her daughter,” Reza said. “She then found her daughter’s bloodstained purse after which she fainted and fell to the ground.”
More than 100 people were injured in the attack. Reports from Kabul say the city was busy with shoppers ahead of this year’s celebrations for Eid al-Fitr next week.
Najiba Arian, ministry of education spokeswoman, told Reuters news agency the government-run school was open to boys and girls. Most of the those hurt were girls, who study in the second of three sessions, according to Ms Arian.
Benue State government, has approved the establishment of vigilante groups to combat the high rate of insecurity in the state.
Governor Samuel Ortom disclosed this on Thursday when he briefed pressmen on the outcome of the expanded stakeholders’ meeting held at the new banquet hall of the Government House, Makurdi.
Ortom, who said renewed attacks on the people by armed herdsmen had overstretched security agencies, noted that the state government had decided to enforce “the law to provide for the establishment of community volunteer guards (vigilantes).”
He said the vigilantes would be constituted from the community to local government levels to complement the operations of conventional security agencies across the state.
The governor explained that the recruitment process would commence immediately, adding that those to be recruited would be within the age range of 18 to 50 and mostly ex-service men.
Ortom; “Those to be recruited are ex-service men and people from 18 to 50 years, and they must have stable sources of income and must have lived in their respective communities for a minimum of six years and they must be of impeccable characters and be loyal.
“All the vigilantes must carry weapons that are licensed so that anytime there is external aggression, they must be able to rise up to defend themselves.”
He said the state government has been mandated to support the vigilantes with logistics as provided in the law, adding that the recruitment of personnel should be carried out in the 23 local government areas of the state.
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