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The Nigerian community in South Africa has confirmed the killing of Mr Chibuzo Nwankwo, a 42-year-old member of the community, from Enugu State. The community said that Nwankwo’s death brings to 121 the number of Nigerians killed in South Africa since January 2016. Mr Habib Miller, the Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, confirmed the killing to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. According to him, the victim was shot in the early hours of Friday at a local bar in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, following a disagreement with an unknown person. “The deceased, a patron of the bar, got drunk and started harassing a female worker. “Information available to the union said that Nwankwo was chased out by security personnel, but he kept on coming back; became very aggressive and rude before the ugly incident occurred,’’ he said. Miller said that the South African police later intervened and arrested the murder suspect. “A murder case has been opened and invest...

P-Square was made up of twin brothers Paul and Peter Okoye and managed by Jude, their older brother. They broke up for the third time earlier this year and have been doing their things separately. However, their fans all over the world feel they were better as a unit but Peter, a.k.a Mr. P, explained that it was the disrespect directed towards himself and his family by other members of his extended family that pushed him to quit the group. Peter said “Psquare can only come back if the respect comes 100 percent.” He told Citizen TV, Kenya, “In life what we call family value is important. “The fans want Psquare but how many times do you want Psquare to come back and break up. “We’ve broken up three times and the same issue is still there. So if Psquare is going to come back we need to settle that issue. Psquare might come back, they might not come back.” Peter said he must put his wife and children first because of the vow he made on his wedding day. “I pulled out the...

Mission: Impossible — Fallout  easily took the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office as a udiences turned out this weekend to see Tom Cruise in his sixth run as Ethan Hunt. Studios on Sunday estimate that  Fallout  earned $61.5 million from 4,386 North American theaters. Not accounting for inflation, it’s a best for the series which has grossed over $2.8 billion worldwide and one of Cruise’s biggest too. “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” placed second with $15 million, while  The Equalizer 2  fell to third with $14 million and “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” took fourth with $12.3 million. The animated “Teen Titans Go! To the Movies” was the only film to open against  Fallout . The Warner Bros. release earned $10.5 million and landed in fifth place. [ Time ]

MANCHESTER UNITED have a deal in place for Alex Sandro - but Paris St-Germain are ready to throw a spanner in the works. Jose Mourinho wants the Brazilian on board to help his bolster his defensive options next season. But PSG are also chasing the Juventus left-back. Journalist Duncan Castles explained the situation on the latest episode of  The Transfer Window  podcast. He said: "Alex Sandro - Juventus don't actively want to sell the player. "But they are prepared to sell the player because they see the price is so high that they can cash in.

Canada passed a landmark bill Tuesday legalizing recreational marijuana, becoming the second country to make pot legal nationwide. The  legislation  will allow Canadians to buy and consume weed as soon as September, the BBC reports. It is expected to receive royal assent sometime this week. Canada criminalized pot possession in 1923, but became an early adopter of medical marijuana in 2001. The Cannabis Act was approved by the Senate 52-29 after already passing the House of Commons. The law allows the federal government to license producers and regulate how they grow, sell and distribute marijuana. Under the law, adults 18 and up will be allowed to possess up to ounce of weed for recreational use, and grow a maximum of four plants. Weed-infused edibles will be legal within one year of the law’s implementation, a delay meant to to give the government time to figure out how to regulate the products. The exact timeline for the law depends on when Prime Mini...

Following the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari to honour late Moshood Abiola, the late politician’s daughter, Hafsat Abiola-Costello has expressed her feelings over the development in a write-up. Buhari in a press release on Wednesday conferred on MKO Abiola a posthumous honour of GCFR and also declared June 12 Nigeria’s Democracy Day. Hafsat, who is also the President of Women in Africa expressed her happiness and gratitude to Muhammadu Buhari, while at the same time attacking Obasanjo, a beneficiary of June 12, for ignoring MKO. ”Obasanjo did not even ask for a minute of silence for the Democracy martyrs on his inauguration on May 29, 1999,” she noted. Here is Hafsat’s poem: “Twenty five years after June 12: Our Long Wait for Justice is Ending “I had expected that the handover from military rule to democracy would be held on the 12th of June.That would have signalled the completion of a circle that began with a dream deferred.That became one fulfilled but I wai...

Forty-six Ethiopians drowned and 16 were missing after a human smuggler's boat carrying at least 100 refugees capsized as it approached Yemen. The vessel left the port of Bossasso in Somalia on Tuesday with 83 men and 17 women on board. They were hoping to find work in Yemen and the Gulf, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said in a statement on Wednesday, citing information from survivors. IOM's director of operations and emergencies, Mohammad Abdiker, said the Gulf of Aden's migration tragedy was shameful. "Over 7,000 poor migrants take this perilous journey every month; some 100,000 took it just last year. They are treated appallingly and go through horrendous conditions. This has to end," said  Abdiker . The drownings happened just days after IOM helped 101 Ethiopians - including 51 women and 33 children - to leave Yemen for Djibouti, as fighting closed in around Yemen's key port of  Hudaida. They were stranded in Yemen an...