Death Toll In Czech High Speed Train Crash Reaches 3

Rescue workers are busy at the scene of a collision between a high-speed train and a truck in the city of Studenka, eastern Czech Republic, Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Two people died in the collision and more than a dozen were injured. (AP Photo,CTK/Petr Sznapka)

The death toll in a collision between a high-speed train and a truck in eastern Czech Republic has reached three after a passenger died in a hospital over the night.

Tomas Oborny, spokesman for the University hospital in the city of Ostrava, confirmed the death Wednesday. He said three other people remain in serious condition.

The train hit the truck at a rail crossing in the eastern town of Studenka on Tuesday as it was traveling from Bohumin to the western spa of Frantiskovy Lazne.

The truck driver was unharmed. He was detained by police as investigators believe he entered the crossing despite the warning from flashing red lights.

Boko Haram Burns Down Chief Of Army Staff’s Home

Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have burnt down houses, including the family home of the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai, in his village in Borno State.

At least, two people were killed and eight injured during the attack on Buratai village on Tuesday, sources told our correspondent in Abuja.

Jonathan’s Ministers Behind Oil Theft –Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari

The near future of some former ministers and top government officials appears to be behind bars as President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday confirmed that he had started receiving some documents, which showed that they were thieves.

The President vowed that the ex-ministers would be prosecuted based on the indicting documents while the proceeds of their fraud would be repatriated to government coffers from their multiple foreign accounts, which he said were opened for the purpose of laundering money.

110 Pipeline Vandals Roasted In Arepo Inferno

Sympathizers wept profusely in Arepo area of Ogun State yesterday as no fewer than 110 suspected petroleum pipeline vandals were roasted to death. The incident occurred along the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline.

Leadership newspaper gathered that the vandals were scooping fuel when it ignited the fire, which raged for several hours.

Peru To Make Contact With Isolated Tribe For First Time

Members of the Mashco-Piro tribe observe a group of travelers from across the Alto Madre de Dios river in the Manu National Park in the Amazon basin of southeastern Peru, as photographed through a bird scope October 21, 2011. Reuters/Jean-Paul Van Belle

Peru will try to make contact for the first time with an Amazonian tribe that largely lives isolated in the jungle, part of a bid to ease tensions with nearby villages after a bow-and-arrow attack in May, authorities said on Tuesday. Government anthropologists will try to talk with a clan of Mashco Piro Indians to understand why they have been emerging from the forest, said deputy culture minister Patricia Balbuena.

In recent years the Mashco Piro have increasingly been spotted seeking machetes and food outside their jungle enclaves in the Manu National Park in southeastern Peru. Villagers, Christian proselytizers and tourists have all interacted with the tribe, often giving them clothes and food.

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Death Toll Rises To 37 After Blasts In Nigerian City Of Gombe

Multiple bomb blasts at two bus stations in Gombe on Wednesday

The death toll from multiple bomb blasts at two bus stations in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Wednesday has risen to 37, with 105 others injured, a Red Cross official said on Thursday.

No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people in the last six years as it tried to establish a caliphate in the northeast.

Gunmen Kidnap Bayelsa Monarch

His Royal Highness Christian Atani Okpofaa Otobotekere (Image source: Facebook.com)

The peace of the riverside town of Tombia in the outskirt of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital was violated in the early hours of today (Thursday) by unidentified gunmen who kidnapped the paramount ruler of the community, His Royal Highness, Christian Otobotekere.

Onaiyekan Advises Buhari To Tread Softly On Anti-Graft Probe

John Cardinal Onaiyekan

The Catholic Arch-Bishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, on Tuesday night advised President Muhammadu Buhari to go slowly on his anti-corruption drive so that his actions are not seen as ‘persecution’. He spoke during an evening dinner organized for Catholics in Politics at the Church of the Assumption, Asokoro, Abuja. Pointing out that fighting corruption goes beyond making a ‘few arrests here and there’ he urged President Buhari to carry out his anti-corruption fight in a way that would not be seen as selective.

Buhari: Ex-Ministers, Others Will Face Trial For Oil Theft

President Muhammadu Buhari

Oil thieves, including former ministers and some prominent individuals, have been put on notice – the law is coming after them. President Muhammadu Buhari did not name them, but he spoke of how they plundered Nigeria’s economy by stealing one million barrels of crude oil daily, selling the stuff overseas and lodging the proceeds in their personal accounts.

Buhari spoke on Tuesday at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington D.C., United States (U.S.) at a parley with members of Nigerians In Diaspora Organization (NIDO) as part of his four-day visit to the U.S.

Bombs Kill 29 As Nigerian Leader Says US Hampering Fight

President Muhammadu Buhari

Bomb blasts at two bustling bus stations killed 29 people and wounded 105, officials said Thursday after Nigeria's new president warned that the U.S. refusal to sell his country strategic weapons is "aiding and abetting" Boko Haram.

Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency called Thursday for urgent blood donations to treat 105 wounded people, according to spokesman Sani Datti who said at least 29 bodies have been recovered.

How JAMB Registrar Defrauds UTME Applicants For Benefit Of Private Varsities - ATCO

Prospective Unlag students protested yesterday during their screening for admission for 2015/2016 session

JAMB registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde is being paid to selectively divert candidates to private universities against the wish of applicants, Dotun Sodunke, the President of the Association of Tutorial Center Operators (ATCO), has alleged.

"A series of frauds have been going on in JAMB, and this is the right time to end it because I trust President Muhammadu Buhari to do justice to this," he said at a protest in UNILAG.

US, Cuba Restore Full Diplomatic Ties After 54 Years

More than a half century of Cold War and lingering enmity came to an abrupt but quiet end on Monday as the United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations.

The new era began with little fanfare when an agreement between the two nations to resume normal ties on July 20 came into force just after midnight Sunday and the diplomatic missions of each country were upgraded from interests sections to embassies. When clocks struck 12:00 in Washington and Havana, they tolled a knell for policy approaches spawned and hardened over the five decades since President John F. Kennedy first tangled with youthful revolutionary Fidel Castro over Soviet expansion in the Americas.

President Buhari, 33 Others Arrive US, Meet With Obama Today

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday arrived at the Joint Base Andrews Airport, Washington D.C. to kick-start his official visit to the United States. Buhari’s arrival to the US was announced by the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, who tweeted: Pres.@MBuhari has just arrived at the joint base Andrew’s international airport, Washington D.C. for tomorrow’s meeting with Pres. Obama. #PMBmeetsOBAMA.’’

The president, accompanied by 33 delegates, will be hosted by his US counterpart, Barack Obama, at the White House. The visit is expected to underscore US’ longstanding friendship with Nigeria.