A father of three identified as Olafuro Peterside, has died from stray bullet allegedly shot by a policeman attached to the Police Mobile Force, 43 Squadron in Gombe State. According to reports, the officer who is in the state on a special assignment was out with another colleague at a popular bar in Elekahia, Port Harcourt Local Government Area of Rivers State where the deceased was spending quality time with his family. Pandemonium broke out when shouts of …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has broken into the residence of Senator Rochas Okorocha in Abuja after gunshots were fired and teargas released. The operatives of the anti-graft agency stormed the residence of the former Governor of Imo state to arrest him. Channels TV reports that the EFCC insisted that journalists must leave the premises, forcefully ejecting everyone in the residence and also used teargas to disperse people who had gathered at the scene. According to …
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has denied claims of shooting at a passenger boat along the Port Harcourt – Bonny waterway in Rivers State on Thursday August 26. Spokesman for the DHQ, Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr in a statement released on Monday August 30, said operatives of the force did not shoot at “any cargo boat conveying people and food stuff from Port Harcourt to Bonny”. Sawyerr said Air Component of the Joint Task Force Operation DELTA SAFE (OPDS) which was …
One of the Atlanta Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a black man in the parking lot of a Wendy’s restaurant has been fired, while his other colleague was placed on administrative leave. Garrett Rolfe, a six-year veteran of the Atlanta Police Department, was fired, and a second officer, Devin Bronsan, a nearly two-year veteran, was placed on administrative leave for their involvement in the death of Rayshard Brooks, 27, on Friday night, Atlanta Police spokesman Carlos …
Hartley Sawyer who has played Ralph Dibny a.k.a. Elongated Man on ‘The Flash’ for the past three seasons, has been fired from the CW series after his tweets containing misogynist and racist references surfaced few days ago. Though Sawyer’s Twitter account has been deleted, his old tweets however began to circulate at the end of May. In one of the tweets from 2012, the actor wrote; “The only thing keeping me from doing mildly racist tweets is the knowledge that Al Sharpton …
Madagascar’s education minister has been fired for attempted embezzlement over plans to order more than $2.2m worth of sweets for schoolchildren. Rijasoa Andriamanana had explained that pupils would be given three lollipops each to take after they drink the “bitter” COVID-Organics concoction. She said it will help mask the “bitter” aftertaste of the herbal remedy for Coronavirus. Sadly for her, the plan was halted after Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina kicked against it and accused her of planning …