The armed men used guns and dynamite and also attacked a police facility in the area. Armed men in the early hours of Monday attacked a correctional facility in Owerri, the Imo State capital, freeing some inmates. They also proceeded to the Imo State Police Headquarters where they set ablaze the building and destroyed all…
The attack on the police headquarters was carried out by the same armed group who also attacked a correctional facility in Owerri and freed over 1,800 inmates. The Nigeria Police Force has confirmed that its Imo headquarters in Owerri, the state capital, was attacked by armed men. No police officer was killed in the attack…
An official said the Owerri prison was attacked by ‘unknown gunmen.’ A total of 1,844 prisoners were freed when gunmen attacked a correctional facility in Owerri, an official has said. PREMIUM TIMES reported the attack on the prison by armed men initially suspected to be members of the outlawed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB). The…
An international tribunal for Rwanda has turned down a request for the early release of Theoneste Bagosora, a man some consider the mastermind behind the 1994 genocide that killed some 800,000 people. Judge Carmel Agius denied the application, saying “the extremely high gravity of Bagosora’s crimes weighs very heavily against his early release”, according to…
Khartoum — Commander Mustafa Tambour of the mainstream Sudan Liberation Movement faction led by Abdelwahid El Nur (SLM-AW) arrived in Khartoum on Saturday to meet Suleiman El Debello, chairman of the Sudanese Peace Council. The meeting was brokered by the South Sudanese mediator Tut Galuak. Tambour flew to Khartoum from Juba. In a statement upon…
April 5 (UPI) — Traffic on a Georgia highway was brought to a stand-still by an unusual road hazard: a cow that fell from a livestock trailer and went running in the roadway. The Dunwoody Police Department said the cow fell from a livestock trailer on Interstate 285 and police soon received calls about the…
April 5 (UPI) — Electrical storms are rare at high latitudes, but scientists expect lightning strikes in the Arctic to happen more frequently as the planet warms. In a new study, scientists analyzed trends in the frequency of lightning strikes at latitudes above 65 degrees North over the last decade. In 2010, there were 18,000…
April 5 (UPI) — The majority of respondents to a Japanese poll said they would prefer to see Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resign either immediately or by fall, according to a local press report. The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that a recent survey of more than 1,000 people showed 47% of respondents said they would…
April 5 (UPI) — The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to sharply higher drug overdose deaths and the federal government will continue to take “urgent action” to combat addiction, President Joe Biden said Monday. In a video message delivered during the 10th annual Drug and Heroin Summit, Biden noted that fatal opioid overdoses surged last year…
Odd News // 39 minutes ago Loose cow brings traffic to a halt on Georgia highway April 5 (UPI) — Traffic on a Georgia highway was brought to a stand-still by an unusual road hazard: a cow that fell from a livestock trailer and went running in the roadway.
