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Abu Yusuf al-Halab, an ISIS explosives expert was blown to bits along with three accomplices while trying to booby-trap a car in Iraq. The man known as 'al-mohandis', Arabic for engineer, was busy with his small team rigging up the incendiary contraption in his workshop when it exploded killing all four of them. A source said                                                                                                                                                                                    Read more » Follow @cool_jis...

The presidency has reportedly invited three foreign doctors, which includes two Britons to Aso Rock to treat President Buhari of his undisclosed ailment. According to Sahara Reporters, the doctors came in today. Read how Sahara Reporters is reported below                                                                                        Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Thursday paid a visit to the Biafra cenotaph hilltop in Enugu state. While there, he offered some prayers to some of the fallen heroes that fought the Biafran war. Biafra Cenotaph Enugu is the commemorative site of the fallen heroes of Biafra.                                                                             More photos » Follow @cool_jist

Federal High Court in Maiduguri  on Thursday  sentenced two local government officials to one year in prison and N1 million fine each for selling 180 bags of rice meant for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The convicts, Bulama Zangebe, a counsellor and Modu Bulama, a storekeeper, both with Mafa Local Government Council of Borno were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a two-count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy and criminal misappropriation.                                                                           Follow @cool_jist

According to Italy's economic development minister, Carlo Calenda the government of Italy will begin accepting offers for it's struggling national carrier in the next 15 days. The airline, Alitalia has been in a downward spiral for years, and at this stage no rival has stepped forward to publicly express interest in a deal. On Tuesday, Alitalia applied to enter administration after staffers rejected a major cost-cutting plan designed to salvage the carrier.                                                                     Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Despite its crumbling economy, Zimbabwe, a country which has been ranked among the world's worst-performing countries, has been rated  'the most highly developed country in Africa' by it's President Robert Mugabe.                                                                                Read more » Follow @cool_jist

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned one Eucharia Ekezie before Justice Olasumbo Olajumoke Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on a ten-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence.                                                                                                                                                 Read more » Follow @cool_jist

The three-man Presidential Investigative Committee set up by President Buhari under the chairmanship of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, to inquire into the Discovery of Foreign and Local Currencies by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at Osbourne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos and the Allegations of Due Process Violations in the Award of Contracts under the Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE) is completing its assignment today and is scheduled to present its reports to the President on Monday, May 8, 2017.                                                                                                                               Read more » ...

Talk about a narrow escape! A 25-year-old Edmonton man had a brush with death  on Sunday  morning when a pickup truck smashed into his bedroom while he was asleep and stopped just at the edge of his bed. Kyle Roach woke up suddenly that morning to the sound of a crash and debris flying all around him.                                                                                    Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Last month, former stripper and Instagram model Layla Lace claimed she's pregnant with Drake's baby and shared text messages to support her claim but Drake denied the incident ever happened. Now, a former porn star, Sophie Brussaux , who was seen hanging out with Drake in Amsterdam in Jan this year, has accused the rapper of being the father of her unborn baby.                                                                                     Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Last night, May 4, 2017, popular messaging app, WhatsApp had technical issues and was offline for over 2-hours in some parts of the world. It was unprecedented, no one saw it coming and the world panicked. The service has since been restored and WhatsApp is yet to make an official statement as to what led to the sudden crash of the app. Read some more reactions after the cut.                                                                                   Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Former Chief of Air Staff, COAS, Air Chief Marshal Alex S. Badeh (rtd), who is facing trial along Iyalikam Nigeria Limited on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering, was in court Tuesday. At the resumed hearing of the case Tuesday, a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Dalhatu, told Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja how monies were being disbursed from the accounts of the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, on Badeh's order.                                                                                                                                             ...

Few players have come this good in recent memory, but Cristiano Ronaldo...at 32, and still banging in the goals for club and country, the player would forever have his name etched in the sands of time after his heroics  on Tuesday  night, ensured his club side, Real Madrid now have complete control over their destiny in the UEFA Champions league semi-final.                                                                                                                                    Read more » Follow @cool_jist

A 47 year old female New York corrections officer opened fire on her 44 year old ex-boyfriend outside a prison in Queens on Monday. According to an eyewitness account, the former couple were arguing outside the Queensboro Correctional Facility on Van Dam Street when she shot at him early Monday morning.                                                                               Read more » Follow @cool_jist

The White House and State Department on Monday denied a report by CNN alleging the Trump administration planned to end Michelle Obama’s “Let Girls Learn” initiative. On Tuesday, a White House spokesperson said: “The report in CNN yesterday was incorrect.” “There have been no changes to the program and none have been authorized.”                                                                                                                                                      Read more » Follow @cool_jist

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to change California's ban on "gay conversion" therapy aimed at turning youths under age 18 away from homosexuality, rejecting a Christian minister's challenge to the law which he said violates religious rights. The justices, rejected a challenge to the 2012 law for the second time in three years, let stand a lower court's ruling that it was constitutional and neither impinged upon free exercise of religion nor impacted the activities of clergy members.                                                                                             Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Sunday, the Kano state Police command arrested a former governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido, for allegedly inciting some of his supporters to plan towards disrupting the conduct of July 1st local government elections being organised by the incumbent Jigawa state governor, Muhammad Badaru(Read  here ). In a statement released Monday evening, PDP says the arrest of the former governor is an indication that our democracy has nosedived. Read the statement below                                                                         Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Dethroned due to use of cocaine, former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has claimed he'll defeat new WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight champion of the world, Anthony Joshua with one hand behind his back, after Joshua called him out for a possible fight following his sensational 11th-round win of Wladimir Klitschko  on Saturday  night in a packed up Wembley stadium.                                                                             Read more » Follow @cool_jist

  A  Sunday  night rainstorm has destroyed over 40 houses, healthcare centres and rendered 200 people homeless in were destroyed in in Makera village, Maiyama Local Government Area of Kebbi State.The Director of Social Development in the area, Salihu Mohammed, who confirmed the incident on Monday, May 1, in Birnin Kebbi, said that the storm occurred late at night.                                                                                                                                     Read more » Follow @cool_jist

Saturday night, British born boxer with Nigerian descent, Anthony Joshua defeated Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round in a world heavyweight bout. After the match, Joshua during his speech said: 'Tyson Fury where you at, baby? I love fighting. Tyson Fury, I know he's been talking, I want to give 90,000 a chance to see us, I just want to fight."  Tyson responded swiftly on Twitter by tweeting this                                                                                                                                           Read more » Follow @cool_jist