08:46 24/07/2015
Washington - A shooting in a cinema in the southern US state of
Louisiana left three people dead, late on Thursday, local media
reported.
Police chief Jim Craft in the city of Lafayette said
seven people were injured and three killed after a gunman opened fire in
the Grand Theatre in the city of Lafayette, local newspaper The
Advertiser reported.
The shooter had killed himself after shooting at others in the cinema, the report said.
The
shooting in Louisiana comes as a jury in the state of Colorado
deliberates on the verdict for James Holmes, who killed 12 people at a
cinema in the state in 2012.
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ISIL-linked blast kills troops in Egypt's Sinai
08:46 24/07/2015
Cairo - A roadside bomb has killed four Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, where the army is battling fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), according to the Egyptian military.
One officer and three soldiers died in the attack on their vehicle near the border town of Rafah, a military spokesman said on Facebook on Thursday.
ISIL's affiliate group in Egypt claimed responsibility for the bombing, in a statement posted on one of its Twitter accounts.
The attack came a few days after seven soldiers died in an attack on a checkpoint.
Last week, ISIL-affiliate Sinai Province also claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on an Egyptian naval vessel near the coast of Israel and Gaza, less than a week after claiming a bombing in Cairo that heavily damaged the Italian consulate.
Sinai Province earlier this month assaulted several military checkpoints in North Sinai, in what was the fiercest fighting in the region in years.
Fighters loyal to ISIL have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since the army overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
The military said it has killed more than 1,000 fighters in Sinai, which borders Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said the group poses an existential threat to Egypt, the most populous Arab country.
Cairo - A roadside bomb has killed four Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, where the army is battling fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), according to the Egyptian military.
One officer and three soldiers died in the attack on their vehicle near the border town of Rafah, a military spokesman said on Facebook on Thursday.
ISIL's affiliate group in Egypt claimed responsibility for the bombing, in a statement posted on one of its Twitter accounts.
The attack came a few days after seven soldiers died in an attack on a checkpoint.
Last week, ISIL-affiliate Sinai Province also claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on an Egyptian naval vessel near the coast of Israel and Gaza, less than a week after claiming a bombing in Cairo that heavily damaged the Italian consulate.
Sinai Province earlier this month assaulted several military checkpoints in North Sinai, in what was the fiercest fighting in the region in years.
Fighters loyal to ISIL have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since the army overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
The military said it has killed more than 1,000 fighters in Sinai, which borders Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said the group poses an existential threat to Egypt, the most populous Arab country.
APC, PDP in new war of words over Amaechi
10:04 24/07/2015
Abuja - All Progressives Congress has hit back at the People’s Democratic Party after the latter alleged President Muhammadu Buhari was shielding former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, from prosecution.
PDP made the allegation through a statement by Felix Obua, Rivers State PDP Chairman, signed by his media assistant, Jerry Needam.
“An overview of the eight-paragraph gibberish write-up undeniably offers a pen picture of an unstable state of mind of the writer, his boss and political party. Indeed, it tells of a group of persons who are operating within the horribly pathetic world of full-blown lunacy,” Chris Finebone APC Rivers State Publicity Secretary, said.
He said the APC believed that the “obsession with Amaechi by Jerry Needam and his so-called sponsors was a testimony of a deliberate plot to discredit the former governor at all cost.
“It underscores the real reasons for the so-called judicial commission of inquiry set up by the Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike. The APC is sure that those who are digging ditches for former Governor Chibuike Amaechi will ultimately become victims of their own devices.”
Finebone insisted no amount of blackmail on Amaechi and the ongoing blackmail on President Muhammadu Buhari would stir up ill feelings between the duo.
“As many times as they try shall they fail,” Finebone said.
Abuja - All Progressives Congress has hit back at the People’s Democratic Party after the latter alleged President Muhammadu Buhari was shielding former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, from prosecution.
PDP made the allegation through a statement by Felix Obua, Rivers State PDP Chairman, signed by his media assistant, Jerry Needam.
“An overview of the eight-paragraph gibberish write-up undeniably offers a pen picture of an unstable state of mind of the writer, his boss and political party. Indeed, it tells of a group of persons who are operating within the horribly pathetic world of full-blown lunacy,” Chris Finebone APC Rivers State Publicity Secretary, said.
He said the APC believed that the “obsession with Amaechi by Jerry Needam and his so-called sponsors was a testimony of a deliberate plot to discredit the former governor at all cost.
“It underscores the real reasons for the so-called judicial commission of inquiry set up by the Rivers State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike. The APC is sure that those who are digging ditches for former Governor Chibuike Amaechi will ultimately become victims of their own devices.”
Finebone insisted no amount of blackmail on Amaechi and the ongoing blackmail on President Muhammadu Buhari would stir up ill feelings between the duo.
“As many times as they try shall they fail,” Finebone said.
Navy destroys 12 illegal refineries in Delta communities
10:04 24/07/2015
Warri - Commodore Aliyu Sule, Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Delta, on Thursday said it destroyed 12 illegal refineries in Egbokodo and Kantu communities of Delta.
The commander made this known to newsmen at the Warri Naval Base in Warri Delta.
Egbokodo and Kantu communities are in Warri South and Warri South/West Local Government Areas of Delta State respectively.
"Two of the illegal refineries were destroyed in Egbokodo while others were ruined in Kantu," Sule said.
Sule addede that the command would continue to checkmate perpetrators of illegal bunkering until the criminal act was completely eradicated.
"In Kantu forest, we destroyed 10 illegal refineries and I understand there are more, so, we are going back to the place to destroy them.
"I understand that place is full of illegal refineries, that what we have just done was a tip of the iceberg, so we will not stop as long as they don’t stop," he said.
The commander said intelligence gathering was very vital in winning the war against oil theft.
He urged the public to always supply his personnel with useful information to stop the illegal bunkering in the state.
Sule, who decried the ecological effect of the illicit trade on the environment, said that destruction of the ill-gotten products was part of their regulations.
"We will carry out our mandate such that our environment and the people are winners against oil thieves," Sule said.
One wooden boat laden with a product suspected to be crude oil was burnt in Egbokodo.
Two pumping machines, five tents and over 20 metallic and plastic drums filled with illegally refined diesel and petrol were also destroyed in Kantu.
Sule said the command on Wednesday showed the media four suspected marketers of illegally-refined crude oil apprehended at the old Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) in Warri.
"The suspects, who are middle-aged men, are still under our custody.
"They were alleged to have been in possession of 33 drums and 254 jerry cans filled with diesel and other products.
"We will hand them over to the relevant authority for prosecution as soon as investigation is concluded," he said.
He advised parents to monitor their wards and know the kind of friends they fraternised with to discourage them from indulging in oil theft.
Warri - Commodore Aliyu Sule, Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Delta, on Thursday said it destroyed 12 illegal refineries in Egbokodo and Kantu communities of Delta.
The commander made this known to newsmen at the Warri Naval Base in Warri Delta.
Egbokodo and Kantu communities are in Warri South and Warri South/West Local Government Areas of Delta State respectively.
"Two of the illegal refineries were destroyed in Egbokodo while others were ruined in Kantu," Sule said.
Sule addede that the command would continue to checkmate perpetrators of illegal bunkering until the criminal act was completely eradicated.
"In Kantu forest, we destroyed 10 illegal refineries and I understand there are more, so, we are going back to the place to destroy them.
"I understand that place is full of illegal refineries, that what we have just done was a tip of the iceberg, so we will not stop as long as they don’t stop," he said.
The commander said intelligence gathering was very vital in winning the war against oil theft.
He urged the public to always supply his personnel with useful information to stop the illegal bunkering in the state.
Sule, who decried the ecological effect of the illicit trade on the environment, said that destruction of the ill-gotten products was part of their regulations.
"We will carry out our mandate such that our environment and the people are winners against oil thieves," Sule said.
One wooden boat laden with a product suspected to be crude oil was burnt in Egbokodo.
Two pumping machines, five tents and over 20 metallic and plastic drums filled with illegally refined diesel and petrol were also destroyed in Kantu.
Sule said the command on Wednesday showed the media four suspected marketers of illegally-refined crude oil apprehended at the old Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) in Warri.
"The suspects, who are middle-aged men, are still under our custody.
"They were alleged to have been in possession of 33 drums and 254 jerry cans filled with diesel and other products.
"We will hand them over to the relevant authority for prosecution as soon as investigation is concluded," he said.
He advised parents to monitor their wards and know the kind of friends they fraternised with to discourage them from indulging in oil theft.
Louisiana cinema shooting: Victims were teachers
10:05 24/07/2015
Louisiana - A lone gunman opened fire inside a crowded movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Thursday evening, killing two people and injuring seven others before taking his own life, police said.
The gunfire erupted during a 19:00 showing of the film Trainwreck and took place almost three years to the day after a massacre at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, that killed 12 people.
Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft said two people died in the hail of bullets before the 58-year-old suspect killed himself with a handgun as officers rushed to the scene shortly after 19:30.
Seven people suffered injuries ranging from non life-threatening to critical, Craft said.
Authorities said they knew the gunman's identity but were not releasing his name during the early stage of the investigation. They offered no immediate motive and did not disclose any clues they might have found.
"The shooter is deceased. We may never know," Craft said, adding that the man appeared to have a criminal history that he described as "pretty old."
Batman
Police officials said that bomb-sniffing dogs had alerted on a backpack inside the theater and that they had also signaled "suspicious" items inside the suspect's car. A robot was being used to probe the vehicle further.
Investigators also headed to the gunman's home. His body remained inside the theater several hours later. None of the victims, who were described as ranging in age from teens to early 60s, were immediately identified by authorities.
Witnesses said the gunman abruptly stood up in the darkness of the theater about 20 minutes into the movie and began shooting.
"He wasn't saying anything. I didn't hear anybody screaming either," Katie Domingue, who was watching the film with her fiance, told the local Advertiser newspaper.
Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal traveled to Lafayette, a city of about 120 000 people roughly 90km southwest of Baton Rouge.
"As governor, as a father and as a husband, whenever we hear about these senseless acts of violence it makes us both furious and sad at the same time," he said at a briefing.
Jindal said that two of the wounded victims were teachers and that one of them managed to pull a fire alarm in the theater after being shot.
The shooting came three years after a gunman opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, killing 12 people and wounding 70 others.
James Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student at the University of Colorado, was convicted last week on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and explosives in the July 20, 2012, rampage.
Jurors in that case were trying to determine if Holmes should face the death penalty or life in prison during a penalty phase of that case.
The United States has witnessed several mass shootings in the last two months.
A gunman is accused of a racially motivated shooting at a black church in South Carolina that killed nine church members in June. More recently, a gunman attacked military offices in Tennessee last week, killing five US servicemen.
Jindal, who last month announced his candidacy for president, said he had ordered National Guard members at offices and other facilities to be armed in the wake of the Tennessee attack.
Louisiana - A lone gunman opened fire inside a crowded movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Thursday evening, killing two people and injuring seven others before taking his own life, police said.
The gunfire erupted during a 19:00 showing of the film Trainwreck and took place almost three years to the day after a massacre at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, that killed 12 people.
Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft said two people died in the hail of bullets before the 58-year-old suspect killed himself with a handgun as officers rushed to the scene shortly after 19:30.
Seven people suffered injuries ranging from non life-threatening to critical, Craft said.
Authorities said they knew the gunman's identity but were not releasing his name during the early stage of the investigation. They offered no immediate motive and did not disclose any clues they might have found.
"The shooter is deceased. We may never know," Craft said, adding that the man appeared to have a criminal history that he described as "pretty old."
Batman
Police officials said that bomb-sniffing dogs had alerted on a backpack inside the theater and that they had also signaled "suspicious" items inside the suspect's car. A robot was being used to probe the vehicle further.
Investigators also headed to the gunman's home. His body remained inside the theater several hours later. None of the victims, who were described as ranging in age from teens to early 60s, were immediately identified by authorities.
Witnesses said the gunman abruptly stood up in the darkness of the theater about 20 minutes into the movie and began shooting.
"He wasn't saying anything. I didn't hear anybody screaming either," Katie Domingue, who was watching the film with her fiance, told the local Advertiser newspaper.
Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal traveled to Lafayette, a city of about 120 000 people roughly 90km southwest of Baton Rouge.
"As governor, as a father and as a husband, whenever we hear about these senseless acts of violence it makes us both furious and sad at the same time," he said at a briefing.
Jindal said that two of the wounded victims were teachers and that one of them managed to pull a fire alarm in the theater after being shot.
The shooting came three years after a gunman opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight screening of the Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, killing 12 people and wounding 70 others.
James Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student at the University of Colorado, was convicted last week on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and explosives in the July 20, 2012, rampage.
Jurors in that case were trying to determine if Holmes should face the death penalty or life in prison during a penalty phase of that case.
The United States has witnessed several mass shootings in the last two months.
A gunman is accused of a racially motivated shooting at a black church in South Carolina that killed nine church members in June. More recently, a gunman attacked military offices in Tennessee last week, killing five US servicemen.
Jindal, who last month announced his candidacy for president, said he had ordered National Guard members at offices and other facilities to be armed in the wake of the Tennessee attack.
Body of teenage migrant found on train in Britain
10:05 24/07/2015
London - The body of a teenage migrant was found on a train that arrived in Britain from France on Thursday, police and a spokeswoman for the cross-Channel rail operator Eurotunnel said.
The male was "believed to be in his teens" according to Kent Police, who were called to the Folkestone train terminal in south-east England when the body was discovered.
"Enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances behind his death," the police statement said. A Eurotunnel spokesman said he was a migrant.
Earlier, the company blamed delays to train travel through the tunnel on "intensive migrant activity" at its French terminal.
Several migrants have died in recent weeks in desperate attempts to reach England from Calais in northern France, where thousands of people have converged on a makeshift camp after fleeing war and hardship in countries including Eritrea, Libya and Syria.
Authorities stopped more than 8,000 attempts at crossing the Channel over a six-week period in June and July, according to the British interior ministry.
Some have tried to break into lorries, others are believed to have drowned while attempting to swim across, and more have died trying to board trains travelling through the undersea tunnel that connects the two countries.
Eurotunnel have erected posters warning of the dangers of attempting to smuggle into Britain.
The situation has caused friction between British and French authorities.
"This is a reminder, if one were needed, that any attempt to get through is extremely dangerous," the Eurotunnel spokeswoman said.
"We reiterate our call to the authorities to address the situation in Calais."
On Wednesday, Eurotunnel announced it would seek 9.7 million euros ($10.67 million) in compensation from the British and French governments due to the disruption caused by the migrants.
The company said it had run up a security bill of 13 million euros trying to prevent migrants crossing from France to England.
London - The body of a teenage migrant was found on a train that arrived in Britain from France on Thursday, police and a spokeswoman for the cross-Channel rail operator Eurotunnel said.
The male was "believed to be in his teens" according to Kent Police, who were called to the Folkestone train terminal in south-east England when the body was discovered.
"Enquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances behind his death," the police statement said. A Eurotunnel spokesman said he was a migrant.
Earlier, the company blamed delays to train travel through the tunnel on "intensive migrant activity" at its French terminal.
Several migrants have died in recent weeks in desperate attempts to reach England from Calais in northern France, where thousands of people have converged on a makeshift camp after fleeing war and hardship in countries including Eritrea, Libya and Syria.
Authorities stopped more than 8,000 attempts at crossing the Channel over a six-week period in June and July, according to the British interior ministry.
Some have tried to break into lorries, others are believed to have drowned while attempting to swim across, and more have died trying to board trains travelling through the undersea tunnel that connects the two countries.
Eurotunnel have erected posters warning of the dangers of attempting to smuggle into Britain.
The situation has caused friction between British and French authorities.
"This is a reminder, if one were needed, that any attempt to get through is extremely dangerous," the Eurotunnel spokeswoman said.
"We reiterate our call to the authorities to address the situation in Calais."
On Wednesday, Eurotunnel announced it would seek 9.7 million euros ($10.67 million) in compensation from the British and French governments due to the disruption caused by the migrants.
The company said it had run up a security bill of 13 million euros trying to prevent migrants crossing from France to England.
Tribunal summons 2 Perm. Secs. over non-declaration of assets
10:05 24/07/2015
Abuja - The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on Thursday ordered two Permanent Secretaries from Adamawa, Dr Bala Usman and Mamud Abubakar, to appear before it on November 16 over charges on non-declaration assets.
Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar, issued the summon in Abuja at the resumed trial of the duo.
"The accused persons must appear before this tribunal on November 16," Umar said.
Earlier, Aliyu Ahmad, Counsel to the accused persons, urged the tribunal to adjourn to give him time to study an application filed by the prosecutor.
Ahmad explained that he had filed a no case application and served same on the prosecutor.
He said the prosecuting counsel, Peter Danladi, had also filed a reply to his no case application and would need time to respond.
Danladi did not oppose the application for adjournment.
He apologised for the delay in filing and serving the defense counsel with the reply.
Abuja - The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on Thursday ordered two Permanent Secretaries from Adamawa, Dr Bala Usman and Mamud Abubakar, to appear before it on November 16 over charges on non-declaration assets.
Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar, issued the summon in Abuja at the resumed trial of the duo.
"The accused persons must appear before this tribunal on November 16," Umar said.
Earlier, Aliyu Ahmad, Counsel to the accused persons, urged the tribunal to adjourn to give him time to study an application filed by the prosecutor.
Ahmad explained that he had filed a no case application and served same on the prosecutor.
He said the prosecuting counsel, Peter Danladi, had also filed a reply to his no case application and would need time to respond.
Danladi did not oppose the application for adjournment.
He apologised for the delay in filing and serving the defense counsel with the reply.
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