DALLAS SHOOTING: 5 POLICE OFFICERS DEAD AND 7 OTHERS INJURED.

MICAH JOHNSON

It all started as a peaceful Rally in downtown Dallas , all of a sudden, a  black U.S. military veteran of the Afghan war who said he wanted to "kill white people" opened fire in a sniper attack in which five police officers were slain at a protest decrying police shootings of black men, officials said on Friday.

Seven other police officers and two civilians were wounded in the ambush in downtown Dallas on Thursday night, officials said. Police killed the gunman, identified by authorities as 25-year-old Micah Johnson, with a bomb-carrying robot after cornering him in a parking lot, ending an hours-long standoff  

In the words of President Obama ‘ Dallas shooting 'vicious, calculated and despicable'  while  Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings  described the incident  as a terrible blow to the city of Dallas. ‘This is a terrible blow to the United States of America," Dallas Police Chief David Brown called the incident "a well-planned, well-thought-out, evil tragedy,"

Dallas crime scene investigators were inside Johnson’s single-family brick home in Mesquite, located about 12 miles outside of Dallas, for several hours Friday morning and the  investigators found a massive cache of weapons — bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics, authorities said. The cold-blooded cop assassinations carried out by Johnson, who had no criminal record or ties to political or terror groups, left his relatives reeling

Before he was killed by a police bomb robot, Johnson told a police negotiator he was targeting white officers because he was angry over the cop-involved killings in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Credits: Additional information from:www.dailymail.com .Photo:www.telegraph.co.uk

SAD NEWS: MAMA BUKKY AJAYI IS DEAD.

The talented and Veteran Nollywood actress, Bukky Ajayi, is dead. According to a reliable source she died on Wednesday morning at the age of 82,  there are indication that she will be buried today according to Islamic rites,  Late Bukky Ajayi  left England and came back to Nigeria after her education in 1965 and started  work  in Nigeria Television Authority(NTA) as a presentation assistant in 1966.

Afterwards, she became a presenter and then a news reader.She presented a couple of children’s programmes and ‘Nigerian’s Sketches,’ a programme which was all about Nigerian culture, and Diran Ajijedidun of blessed memory was her producer.. She was later transferred to Port Harcourt and later back to Lagos, and it was at that time she started her acting career. Bukky  started with the ‘Village Headmaster’ in the 70s, and she later got a role in Amaka Igwe’s ‘Checkmate.’

Over the year She has featured in so many home videos that she has lost count.Shooting of international film ‘Critical Assignment’ in South Africa, is one of the events of her life that she will never forget. It gave her an opportunity to see how it is done elsewhere, other than Nigeria, where a movie is shot in five days. Bukky Ajayi’s popular movies include Mother of George, Indecent Girl, Diamond Ring, Witches, Thunderbolt among others. May her soul rest well. Photo Credit: netnaija.com

JUST IN : PISTORIUS TO SPEND THE NEXT SIX YEARS IN PRISON OVER THE DEATH OF HER GIRLFRIND

• Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.
• Judge Thokozile Masipa said there were “substantial and compelling circumstances” that meant he should not serve the 15-year minimum sentence for murder.
• Masipa said the continuing misperception that Pistorius had intentionally killed Steenkamp was something the court had a duty to correct “to prevent unjustified outrage from the public” 
• On Valentine's Day 2013, Pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria home. He said he had mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder hiding in the bathroom, but he was arrested and charged with murder. At his trial the following year, Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homicide. He received a five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year suspended prison sentence for a separate reckless endangerment conviction
• In November 2014, prosecutors asked the sentencing judge for permission to appeal the verdict. Permission was granted in December, and the case was presented to a five-person panel at the Supreme Court of Appeal. He was released on house arrest, and on 3 December 2015 the Appeal Court overturned the culpable homicide verdict and convicted him of murder.Pistorius appeared in court on 13 June 2016 to start the sentence hearing for the murder conviction; on 6 July 2016 he was sentenced to six years imprisonment for murder.
• Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius  born 22 November 1986) is a South African Sprint  runner and convicted murderer. Both of Pistorius' legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old. He was the first athlete to compete at the Paralympic games and Olympic games, competing in sprint events for below-knee amputees in Paralympic events, and in non-disabled sprint events. Credit: additional information from :wikipedia.Com. and Picture 1 & 2 from :www.cbc.com and www.tmz.com

KIDNAPPED FREETOWN ATTACHE REGAINS FREEDOM .

ALFRED NELSON-WILLIAMS

A Freetown’s defence attache and deputy head of the country’s mission in Abuja,Alfred Nelson-Williams, who was abducted last Friday while travelling to the northern city of Kaduna for a military passing out parade has been released.

At the time of writing this, the circumstances of his release were not immediately available and it was not known whether a ransom was paid, despite unconfirmed local reports that $40m was demanded. Photo Credit: www:thesierraleontelegraph.com

RAMANDAN: FG EXTENDS PUBLIC HOLIDAY TILL THURSDAY 7TH JULY.

The Federal Government has declared Wednesday and Thursday public holidays to mark the eid-il-fitr. Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau in a statement issued Tuesday in Abuja said this followed “the directive by the President General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto, to the effect that the Ramadan fast continues today (Tuesday) as a result of the non-sighting of the moon”. He said the Federal Government has now declared Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th July, 2016 as Public Holiday. The Federal Government had earlier declared Tuesday, 5th and Wednesday, 6th July, 2016 as public holiday to mark the Eid-el Fitri celebrations. 
The statement was signed by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Bassey Akpanyung. Photo Credit: wikinow

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