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M any soldiers have been killed while others are missing following an attack by Boko Haram insurgents on a Nigerian Army's convoy in Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State, local sources said. The incident happened Wednesday on the highway between Gubio and Magumeri at 4:15 pm.

Kylie Jenner: reportedly ill Makeup tycoon, Kylie Jenner is ill. She reportedly has ‘severe flu-like symptoms’ which includes nausea and dizziness.   TMZ reported that the 22 year-old, mother of one year-old Stormi has become so ill that she has had to check into a hospital in the Los Angeles area. According to reports, she has been ‘suffering’ for several days with ‘an intense illness’ that forced her to check into a hospital this week.

PRINCESS BEATRICE has announced her engagement to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. This is when the next royal wedding will take place.   Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are engaged, the Palace has confirmed. The happy news was announced today after an official statement was released. Following months of wedding speculation, Edo and Bea will finally tie the knot next year with a spectacular royal wedding.

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has come under attack over its call on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the airing of Big Brother Naija reality TV show.     MURIC had, in a statement sent to DAILY POST, attacked the government of President Muhammadu Buhari for allowing the BBNaija show to go on. The Islamic group labelled the show being aired on national television as immoral, dangerous and Bohemian. However, Nigerians on social media have opposed MURIC’s call for the banning of the reality show, arguing that the show is rated 18. Here are some reactions gathered by DAILY POST from Twitter:

S outh Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, says his country needs to do more “homework” before adding Nigeria, India, and China to its list of countries that can visit the country visa-free.     SaharaReporters obtained the list of countries released by the department on the Home Affairs’ Twitter handle. The following countries will now be able to enter South Africa, visa-free: Qatar, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Ghana, and Sao Tome and Principe. “Out of the 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations, the Department has granted visa-free status to 75 countries. Of these 16 are in our continent and are SADC members and 59 are from all over the world.

MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry reportedly spent taxpayer cash on TWO orangeries and a floating floor as part of their £2.4million home refurb. The Frogmore Cottage residence also boasts a designer kitchen - part of a makeover which will cost nearly £3million when all the costs are added. Harry and Meghan’s refurb of their Frogmore Cottage home has so far cost taxpayers a whopping £2.4million Credit: Alamy

It’s 10 years this week since Michael Jackson died — but explosive recent developments make it a difficult milestone to mark. Sadly, there are some Michael Jackson songs that — 10 years after the King of Pop’s death rocked the world on June 25, 2009 — just don’t sound the same anymore. One of them would be P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) — the bumping, sure-to-start-the-party jam from his 1982 blockbuster LP, Thriller — on which Jackson sings, “Tenderoni, you’ve got to be/Spark my nature, sugar, fly with me” with clenched, crotch-grabbing desire. That song — and, for some, all of MJ’s music — will never have the same pure thrill after Leaving Neverland , the documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and then aired on HBO and locally on Ten in March.

A boy who went missing aged 5 was assumed dead by his parents. He just turned up 11 years later under grim circumstances. Missing person posters were plastered around Houston in 2008 when Anthony Templet went missing. The little boy, aged five when he went missing, was pictured in black and white above a description of his identifying features.

   The heartbroken father of four children who were tragically killed in a car crash alongside their mum, has hit out at his former partner’s actions    The father of four children killed in a fiery Queensland car crash, has slammed the kids’ mother’s alleged actions as a “selfish, pointless act”. Homicide detectives investigating the tragic roadside death of a mother and her four children last month are looking at a handwritten note and other clues that could confirm the fatalities were a deliberate act by the children’s mother, Charmaine McLeod. Ms McLeod, 35, was behind the wheel of her Nissan station wagon on the evening of May 28 when it overtook one truck, before colliding into another on the Bunya Highway, near Kingaroy. The truck flipped before both vehicles burst into flames on the roadside. She died, alongside her four children Aaleyn, 6, Matilda, 5, Wyatt, 4, and Zaidok, 2. Now, her former partner and the father of the children, James ...

Missing YouTuber Desmond Amofah, known as “Etika”, has been found dead in a New York river after an eight-minute video he posted sparked grave fears for his wellbeing. The 29-year-old was found by police overnight a week after he went missing. The New York Police Department confirmed Mr Amofah’s body was discovered in the East River after responding to a public call about a deceased person floating in the water near South Street Seaport. Mr Amofah was reported missing on the night of June 19, some 36 hours after his troubling video message was shared online. Authorities said the investigation was ongoing, and his cause of death was not confirmed.   Mr Amofah first sparked fears among his fans after posting a video titled “I’m sorry” on his YouTube channel TR1Iceman that expressed suicidal thoughts.

Realistically I couldn't so I decided to speak now because it is time to tell the story and to make sure that Yaya Jammeh hears what he has done." She said she also wanted to testify before The Gambia's Truth Fatou Jallow, a 23-year old former beauty queen from The Gambia, told the BBC that she was sodomized by Yaya Jammeh, the country’s former President. After 22 years in power, Jammeh was ousted by fellow leaders in the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), in January 2017, with Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari playing a pivotal role.

More than 1,500 people have died in a nearly 10-month-old outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said on Monday. As of Sunday, 1,506 people have died out of 2,239 recorded cases, it said. Earlier this month, the virus claimed two lives in neighbouring Uganda among a family who had travelled to the DRC.

A Sudanese court Sunday ordered authorities to end a nationwide internet blockade imposed by the ruling generals after a deadly crackdown on protesters earlier this month, a lawyer said. Crowds of protesters were violently dispersed on June 3 by men in military fatigues, who stormed a weeks-long protest camp outside the army headquarters in Khartoum where they had camped to demand that the generals step down.

The death toll from two attacks believed linked to an attempted coup in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara state rose to five on Monday, as flags flew at half-mast on what was declared a national day of mourning. Police were hunting for Amhara’s security chief Asaminew Tsige, accused of masterminding an attack on the leaders of the state and suspected of playing a part in the killing of the country’s army chief in Addis Ababa.

Seven motorcyclists were killed and three others injured when they collided with a pickup truck that was going the opposite direction in New Hampshire, police said. Authorities received a call around 6:30 p.m. Friday about a motor vehicle crash on Route 2 in Randolph, New Hampshire State Police Capt. Chris Vetter said.

Syrian government airstrikes on the rebel-held northwest killed four civilians, two of them children, on Saturday, a war monitor said, as a two-month flare-up showed no let-up. The Idlib region of some three million people is supposed to be protected by a September buffer zone deal, but the jihadist-run enclave has come under mounting bombardment by the government and its ally Russia since late April.

The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has killed 42 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) during a clearance operation on the Lake Chad Island on Friday, while several others escaped with gunshot wound.

Tehran says it will respond firmly to any US threat after Trump warns Iran of 'obliteration' if larger conflict ensues   Iran will respond firmly to any US threat against it, a spokesman of the country's Foreign Ministry has said after President Donald Trump warned it of "obliteration" if a full-scale conflict would ensue.  "We will not allow any violation against Iran's borders. Iran will firmly confront any aggression or threat by America," spokesman Abbas Mousavi told the semiofficial Tasnim news agency on Saturday.