Warmbier US student freed by North Korea dies

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Otto Warmbier, the American college student who was freed by North Korea last week after 17 months of detention is dead. The UPI, quoting the family of the 22 year-old American reported. Warmbier was released from North Korea June 12 in a comatose medical state of “unresponsive wakefulness,” according to physicians. He had been receiving intensive care in Cincinnati since then. “It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home. Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20pm,” Warmbier family said.…

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Man killed after threesome turns fatal

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The police have confirmed that a threesome in Park Slope spiraled into a deadly attack with bats and knives after one of the participants began filming the sexcapade. The Brooklyn bloodshed left Manos Ikonomidis, 20, dead of three stab wounds in the chest and back. He collapsed on the first floor of a building at 16th St. and Seventh Ave. just after 4 a.m. Monday. Earlier, he’d been locked in a steamy romp with an unidentified woman and 21-year-old Jack Doherty. “It’s something out of a horror movie,” stunned building…

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Dammy Krane: 7 fake credit cards found in pocket

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Seven fake credit cards were found in the pockets of Dammy Krane on 1 June when he was arrested at  Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami Dade, Florida. A report in New Miami Times said the police have now slammed a nine count felony charge at Miami Dade’s criminal court for credit card forgery and grand theft against the 23 year-old pop artist, whose real name is Oyindamola Emmanuel Johnson-Hunga. Dammy Krane’s trouble began after he used a bogus card to book a private jet flight to Washington, D.C., police said.…

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Lassa fever kills one in Anambra, dozens in surveillance

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Lassa Fever has killed one student and 65 others are being monitored in Anambra State, the state government confirmed on Monday. Dr Emmanuel Okafor, the Director of Public Health, State Ministry of Health, told newsmen in Awka that the deceased was a nursing student in one private nursing school in Nkpor, Idemili North. Okafor said that the lady was admitted at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, on June 11, and was transferred to the General Hospital, Irua, in Edo for diagnosis where she died on June 17. “She…

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Why Nnamdi Kanu Was Not Invited For Osinbajo’s Consultation With South East – Presidency

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Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has explained why the leader of the indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu was not invited for Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s consultation with leaders of the South East. Osinbajo, on Sunday, met with South East leaders in continuation of his consultations with leaders of the region following the quit notice given to Igbos living in the North by some northern youth groups. Following backlash by some groups that the IPOB leader was ignored in the consultation, the Presidency…

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One killed, 10 injured as van strikes crowd near mosques in London

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LONDON — A van plowed into a group of Muslim worshipers as they were leaving prayers at a pair of north London mosques early Monday, witnesses said, in an incident police said had caused “a number of casualties.” The incident occurred when the van sped off the roadway and swerved onto a sidewalk, which was crowded with hundreds of people who had just finished the day’s final prayers for the holy month of Ramadan, witnesses reported. In a statement, police said that one person had been killed and that 10 were…

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Google plans to scrub ‘inflammatory’ and terror vids from youTube

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Google’s revealed its plans to remove terror-related content from YouTube and decided the investment community should hear about it before the rest of us. The plan emerged in a post first published in the Financial Times and later popped online, the company’s revealed a four-point plan. As was the case in Facebook’s anti-terror plan, AI isn’t front and centre because Google says “a video of a terrorist attack may be informative news reporting if broadcast by the BBC, or glorification of violence if uploaded in a different context by a different user.” The…

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Vanuatu president Lonsdale dies of heart attack

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The President of Vanuatu, Baldwin Lonsdale, has died of a heart attack, the Vanuatu Daily Post reported Saturday. He was 67. Lonsdale, who sacked his government two years ago over a massive corruption scandal, passed away in the Pacific island nation’s capital of Port Vila, the AFP reported. “National Flag is at half staff early this morning. His body is reportedly at the Vila Central Hospital,” the newspaper said. Former Vanuatu MP Sela Molisa told Radio New Zealand that “Vanuatu has lost one of its greatest leaders.” Lonsdale, a civil…

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Macron’s party set for sweeping majority

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French voters head to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections set to hand a landslide victory to the Republic On The Move (REM) party of President Emmanuel Macron. The expected victory would complete Macron’s stunning reset of French  politics, the AFP reported. The new assembly is due to be transformed with a new generation of lawmakers — younger, more female and more ethnically diverse — winning seats in the afterglow of Macron’s success in presidential elections last month. The scale of the change is set to be so significant…

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U.S. Signs $469m Nigeria HIV/AIDS COP 2017

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The U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador-at-Large, Deborah L. Birx, on Friday, signed the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Country Operational Plan, COP 2017. The Country Operational Plan is an annual program plan for U.S. government investments in the Nigeria National HIV/AIDS Response through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, PEPFAR. With the signing, the U.S. government will be committing about $469 million including centrally funded initiatives, to support HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs in the country. Speaking at the signing ceremony, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. W. Stuart Symington, described…

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