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FOLLOWING the outrage that trailed the arrest and arraignment of minors over the #EndBadGovernance protests held in several parts of the country in August, President Bola Tinubu on Monday directed the immediate release of all the children. News Point Nigeria reports that the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Monday after the President swore in seven newly appointed ministers cleared by the Senate. The minister said the President ordered the immediate release of the minors without prejudice to whatever legal processes that are ongoing. The President also directed the Ministry of…

MOISES Caicedo’s crisp volley gave Chelsea a deserved point against Manchester United at Old Trafford. United’s interim manager Ruud van Nistelrooy, in charge while the Red Devils await the arrival of newly-appointed Ruben Amorim, looked on course for a second successive victory when Bruno Fernandes broke the deadlock from the spot in the 70th minute after Chelsea keeper Robert Sanchez brought down Rasmus Hojlund. Van Nistelrooy celebrated wildly on the touchline but United’s elation lasted only four minutes until Caicedo expertly struck a superb shot past Andre Onana from the edge of the area. It resulted in a share of…

UNICEF says more than 50 children have been killed in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp in the past 48 hours, with the Save the Children charity saying the high number shows “the intensity of this conflict and this war on children”. “Children are under constant bombardment, in constant fear,” Rachel Cummings, Save the Children International’s Humanitarian Director and Team Lead in Gaza, told Al Jazeera on Sunday. More than 16,700 children have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza since October last year, according to Palestinian officials, more than a third of the overall death toll of 43,341 confirmed by health…

HUNDREDS of residents of a Valencia suburb badly hit by last week’s deadly floods have protested during a visit by Spanish King Felipe, Queen Letizia, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with some demonstrators throwing mud at them. Chanting “Murderers, murderers!” on Sunday, they vented anger over what has been widely perceived by local residents as tardy alerts from the authorities about the dangers of Tuesday’s flooding, and then a late response by the emergency services when disaster struck. “Please, the dead are still in the garages, the families are looking for their relatives and friends. Please come, we only ask…

A LIGHTNING strike at a refugee camp in Uganda has killed 13 children and one adult, police say. They say the victims were attending a church service on Saturday evening when the lightning struck. Another 34 people were injured. The incident occurred at Palabek Refugee Settlement in the north-west of the country. The area has recently seen heavy rains with thunder and lightning. Kituuma Rusoke, spokesperson for Uganda Police, told BBC News that the adult killed on Saturday was 21 years old. Mr Rusoke did not reveal the exact ages of the children who died. Palabek Refugee Settlement is home…

POLICE in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this week, security forces blocked deliveries of food and water to the miners in a bid to push them out of the mine. The miners experienced “starvation and dehydration” and were forced to resurface, police say. Individuals have been emerging from the mine, located in the northern town of Orkney, since Saturday, though hundreds are believed to remain in the shaft. On Sunday the national police boss encouraged security forces on the ground “not to back down” and to “ensure the…

NAPOLI coach Antinio Conte is losing sleep on how to stop Ademola Lookman during Sunday’s Serie A clash with Atalanta at Diego Armando Maradona Stadium. The former Chelsea boss looks to detail a player on the Nigerian just like Arsenal did when Mikel Arteta policed him with Thomas Partey throughout their UEFA Champions League fixture that ended goalless at Gewess Stadium on September 19. He warned that the Partenopei shouldn’t underrate the visitors but should be the other way around, being a compact team and the UEFA Europa League champions as he looks to make tactical sacrifices to curtail Lookman…

BOURNEMOUTH stunned Manchester City as goals from Antoine Semenyo and Evanilson gave them their first victory over the Premier League champions. The result ended City’s 32-game unbeaten run in the competition – a record stretching back to 6 December, 2023. It is also a second defeat in four days for Pep Guardiola’s side following their midweek Carabao Cup exit at Tottenham. The Cherries, in good form after picking up four points from their past two games against Aston Villa and Arsenal, started quickly and full of positivity. Ederson was forced into a double save after just two minutes as he…

IRANIAN Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned Israel and the United States of “a crushing response” for actions against Iran and its allies, according to state media. Khamenei, 85, made the remarks on Saturday while addressing students ahead of the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran by hardline students – which cemented the decades-long enmity between Tehran and Washington that persists today. “The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the…

UNITED States presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are touring southern swing states as they try to attract voters with just three days left until Election Day. The Democratic and Republican leaders headed to the southern battleground state of North Carolina on Saturday. It marked the fourth day in a row that Vice President Harris and former president Trump visited the same state on the same day, further emphasising how votes will likely decide the election outcome in a few key states that polls have projected will be close. They were both in North Carolina on Wednesday, Nevada on…

GUINEA’s junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya has elevated himself to the rank of army general as the coup-hit West African country marked the creation of its all-powerful armed forces. Doumbouya, 43, seized power by force in September 2021 by overthrowing President Alpha Conde, who had placed the then-colonel in charge of an elite force tasked with protecting the head of state from such coups. In a decree on Friday evening, Doumbouya — whose supporters have urged him to run for president when the junta does cede the reins — was likewise also awarded the Grand Cross of the National Order of…

KENYA’s High Court has lifted an order blocking the swearing-in of Kithure Kindiki as deputy president following the impeachment of his predecessor. In an unprecedented political drama that has gripped the nation Rigathi Gachagua was removed from office two weeks ago after parliament overwhelmingly approved an impeachment motion. President William Ruto immediately nominated Kindiki, currently the interior minister, to replace Gachagua. But the impeached deputy president then went to court objecting to his removal calling it politically motivated. Parliament had approved Kindiki’s appointment but a court put his swearing-in on hold pending the legal challenges from Gachagua and others. On…

A FORMER Delta State Deputy Governor Amos Utuama (SAN) is dead. Utuama who was aged 77 died in Warri, Delta State, in the early hours of Saturday after a protracted illness. He was a renowned law teacher who excelled as Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the state from 1999 to 2007. The deceased later became the deputy governor of the state from 2007 to 2015 under the administration of ex-governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. In the wake of his death, Delta Governor Sheriff Oborevwori has sent condolences to the family of the late Utuama His condolence was contained in a…

FORMER Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke was named head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago national team on Friday ahead of 2026 World Cup qualifying. Two days before his 53rd birthday, Yorke was handed the challenge of guiding the Soca Warriors into a World Cup being co-hosted in the region by the United States, Mexico and Canada. “The opportunity to work with this talented, close-knit group of players is something I look forward to,” Yorke said in a statement release by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association. “Having helped Trinidad and Tobago to the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup…

GAZA’s Government Media Office reports that 84 Palestinians, including more than 50 children, were killed in two Israeli air strikes on residential buildings in northern Gaza in attacks described as “brutal massacres”. Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Israeli forces have destroyed residential buildings north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The report of the early morning attacks comes after the Nuseirat area was subjected to 24 hours of nonstop Israeli artillery fire, air raids, drone attacks and bombardment by Israeli naval vessels on Friday, according to UN staff who recounted the terror of civilians trapped by the attacks.…

RESCUERS on Friday raised the death toll in Spain’s worst floods for a generation to 205 as the government deployed more troops in an increasingly desperate search for survivors. The floods that have tossed vehicles, collapsed bridges and covered towns with mud since Tuesday are the European country’s deadliest such disaster in decades. The organisation coordinating emergency services in the hardest-hit eastern Valencia region said 202 people had been confirmed dead there. Officials in neighbouring Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia had already announced a combined three deaths in their regions. Rescuers equipped with drones and sniffer dogs waded through water and…

BOTSWANA’s new president took office Friday in a whirlwind transfer of power following elections that saw a historic defeat handed to the party that had governed the diamond-rich country for nearly 60 years. Human rights lawyer Duma Boko, 54, was sworn in during a closed session at the office of the chief justice three days after elections which booted the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) out of office. Boko later delivered an acceptance speech and press briefing that was broadcast live on state television and touched on some of his campaign pledges, such as more than doubling the minimum wage to…

THE Indian Ocean island of Mauritius blocked access to social media on Friday, just days ahead of a general election, as tensions mounted over a wire-tapping scandal. Mauritius has been gripped by the release of secret recordings of phone calls by politicians, journalists, members of civil society and even foreign diplomats that began to emerge online last month. On Friday, the office of Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth said it had ordered internet service providers to block access to the most widely used social networks. The blockage is due to last until November 11 — the day after the election…

LA LIGA champions Real Madrid’s match against Valencia, which was scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed after the devastating flash floods in Spain. The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has postponed all matches in the Valencia region, where at least 95 people have died and dozens more are missing after torrential rain. On Thursday, Real and the Red Cross donated $1m (£845m) to support those impacted by the flooding. “The donation will go towards helping the numerous families currently dealing with what is a critical situation, and who are in need of all our assistance and solidarity,” Real said in a…

AT least six health workers have been killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon as Israel has bombarded areas around the ancient eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek for a second day after issuing forced evacuation orders. “Enemy aircraft launched four strikes on the village of Douris and the surroundings of the city of Baalbek,” Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Thursday. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said the six medics were killed and four others were wounded in multiple Israeli attacks. It said Israeli forces hit a gathering point for civil defence workers, killing four medics. Two other medics were…