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Armed robbers Thursday stormed four banks, bombed the bullet proof doors and shot dead a police officer identified as Atama, in a 30-minute robbery operations in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State. They carted away millions of Naira and injured many. Report says they stormed the banks in three vehicles at about 9.50 a.m, shot sporadically into the air ...

Children aged between 10 and 17 were given a chance to win an AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles as part of a Qu’ran-reading and general knowledge quiz in Somalia. A Somali radio station run by the Shabab, the most powerful Islamist militant group in the war-ravaged country, held an awards ceremony to honor children who were experts at Shabab trivia and ...