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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_jist

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