US President Joe Biden and congressional leaders paid their respects to an officer struck by a car and killed while he manned a barricade near the Senate side of the building the invasion of the Capitol Hill in January.
The coffin of slain Police Officer William ‘Billy’ Evans arrived at the Capitol on Tuesday as Biden and other lawmakers lined up to honour the fallen patriot.
Evans’s coffin was placed in the Capitol Rotunda for the second such memorial ceremony this year for a force that has edged close to the crisis in the wake of the January 6 …
The Blues reached the last-four for the first time in seven years after the last playing in the semi-finals of the elite competition in 2014 when they crashed out against Spanish side, Athletico Madrid.
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Substitute Mehdi Taremi scored a sublime overhead kick in injury time, but it was a little too late as Chelsea held on to secure a spot in the semi-finals.
Taremi made history
The person who was discovered dead after being shot at a high school in the US state of Tennessee was a student who started a shoot-out with police, according to federal law enforcement.
According to a statement from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Officers raced to Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville on Monday afternoon after receiving reports of multiple gunshot victims and a person possibly carrying a weapon.
They found the gunman in a restroom and went in when he refused to come out.
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‘As officers entered the restroom, the …
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that over one million people are facing severe hunger in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced following the jihadist insurgency being witnessed in the region.
WEF gave this warning on Tuesday during a news conference in Geneva.
‘As the security situation continues to deteriorate, more than 950,000 people in the north of Mozambique are now facing severe hunger,’ Tomson Phiri, a spokesman for the WFP was quoted to have said.
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Islamic State-linked militants have escalated attacks in Mozambique’s …
No fewer than 34 people have reportedly drowned after a boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said.
According to the IOM, the boat ‘operated by people smugglers’ was carrying about 60 migrants escaping conflict in Yemen and who were on their way to Djibouti.
However, what caused the vessel to capsize is yet to be discovered.
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The organisation has expressed concern over the tens of thousands of young African migrants making the dangerous journey from the Horn of Africa …
Pastor Paul Adefarasin, founder of House on the Rock has said Nigeria is a scam and that the next administration should not be allowed to access power without a brand new constitution.
In a video that has now gone viral, Adefarasin said the faulty nature of the Nigerian constitution had made the whole arrangement a scam as the 1999 document was foisted on Nigerians by a few soldiers and their surrogates a few years ago.
According to him, anything short of a brand new constitution for Nigeria in the next administration is simply a fraud.
‘God will give us …
Youth groups under the auspices of the Coalition of Fulani Youth Groups have urged governments at all levels to end extrajudicial killings while also insisting that Fulani have every right to graze anywhere in Nigeria.
The Convener of the youth coalitions, Mr. Aminu Saleh, made the call at a news briefing on Tuesday in Abuja.
Saleh, who read the communique issued at the end of a two-day meeting on issues affecting Fulani herdsmen in the country, described the extrajudicial killing as senseless and needless.
He said that the groups were worried at the spate of unprovoked attacks on Fulani herdsmen …
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has insinuated that Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has a tender heart.
Adeboye, who disclosed this when he paid a courtesy call on El-Rufai at Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, on Tuesday, told the governor that he is praying for him, Kaduna, and the country at large.
According to Adeboye said many of those criticising El-Rufai do not know the other side of the governor which he has seen.
‘We know that you have a problem that only God can solve. The problem is far …
The Nigerian government through the Federal Ministry of Aviation has warned Nigerians of planned attacks across airports in the country.
This alert coming on the heels of recent attacks on Kaduna Airport by kidnappers during which members of staff of Federal Airport Authority (FAAN) were abducted and the attacks as well as police stations in Owerri,
In a leaked memo sighted by Africa Daily News, New York, dated April 9 signed by the Deputy General Manager of Administration and Logistics of FAAN, S.M. Mamman, and addressed to airport chiefs of security, he said airports top on the list for which …
