Shocking: Islamic extremist gang based in the UK 'used aid convoys taking food and medicine to Syrian children as a cover to smuggle cash for guns to terrorists'

A group of UK-based Islamic extremists used charity convoys taking food and medicine to Syria as a cover to smuggle money to terrorists, a court has heard.

The four men allegedly sent £4,500 to a fighter with Al Qaeda-linked group Jabhat al-Nusra so he could buy a sniper rifle and other military equipment.

They also plotted to set up a ‘night team’ of terrorist snipers in the war-torn country, it was claimed.

Syed Hoque, 37, is said to have supplied cash to the terrorist,

Fireworks In Court As Fani-Kayode’s Absence Stalls Trial

Justice Muslim Sule Hassan of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday adjourned the criminal trial of former spokesman for the Goodluck Jonathan campaign organization in the 2015 presidential election, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, and three others to December 12th, 2016, due to the defendant’s absence in court. 

Former Finance Minister Nenadi Esther Usman, Mr. Fani-Kayode and one Danjuma Yusuf Usman, along with a limited liability company, Joint Trust Dimension Nigeria Limited, were arraigned before Justice Hassan by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on a 17-count charge of unlawful retention, unlawful use and unlawful payment of money to the tune of about N4.9 billion. They all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

$30bn loan: Osinbajo, Saraki, Dogara in closed-door meeting

The meeting is being held behind the closed-doors of the vice president's office.
Sakari and Dogara arrived the vice president's office at exactly 2.00pm.
The meeting is believed to be part of the ongoing consultations aimed at reaching a truce over President Muhammadu Buhari's $29.9 billion loan request recently rejected by the Senate. The Senate had

Photos: President MBuhari departs Abuja for Marrakech, Morocco for UN Climate Change Conference

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Melania Trump will become just the second foreign-born first lady in US history

A foreign-born, former supermodel who married an eccentric billionaire is about to become the United States' next first lady.

Melania Trump, who will become just the second foreign-born first lady in US history, will assume the very public role after having spent much of her husband's presidential campaign avoiding the campaign trail and the limelight, saying she preferred to remain home in New York to care for the couple's only son, who is 10.

This is strange. Women use man's chest to pound foodstuff

Women are pounding foodstuff. Heavy pestles land in deep mortars. The "food" should soon be ready.
Except the mortars are sitting on a man's chest.

British tourist, 21, falls to her death from ninth floor of a Benidorm hotel 'after night of heavy drinking with her boyfriend'

The 21-year-old, named today as Danielle Hall from Newcastle, died virtually instantly after falling from her balcony after a night out in the Costa Blanca resort in south eastern Spain.

She was staying at the three-star Bermudas apartment hotel with her 23-year-old boyfriend Jordan Bevan and his grandmother who was sleeping in another room.

Innocent grandfather, 65, wins £35,000 from police after he was arrested when wife's friend found child porn on his computer while searching for proof he was having an affair - but which was actually created by a VIRUS

John Maughan, 65, from County Durham, who was wrongly branded a paedophile after child pornography was found on his laptop, has been awarded £35,000 in damages from police. Mr Maughan (left) was working in Abu Dhabi when he was contacted by detectives ordering him to return home to the UK. Officers

MP Jo Cox 'died after being shot three times and stabbed by an attacker who repeatedly said "Britain First"'

Thomas Mair, 53, allegedly killed the mother-of-two in a 'cowardly attack' outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds. On the opening day of the trial, the court was told the killing was a 'planned murder for a political or ideological cause'. It is alleged Mair shot the politician at point blank range

Married GP who spent six months in jail for groping a teenager's breasts during examination is CLEARED at a retrial after jury hears it was a 'terrible misunderstanding'

Dr Unt Tun Maung (pictured left and right with his wife outside Hull Crown Court), 45, was jailed in April last year for attacking a 19-year-old girl when she visited the centre in Teesside complaining of chest pains.

The devout Buddhist was accused of cupping the woman's breasts after telling her to remove her bra. But

Chinese President Xi has telephone conversation with U.S. President-elect Trump

Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday that cooperation is only

Man, 23, Bags 6 Months Imprisonment For Stealing Phone In Osun

A 23-year-old unemployed man, Omodolapo IyanuOluwa, was on Monday sentenced to six months imprisonment by an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing an Infinix phone.
The Magistrate, Mr Olusola Aluko, ordered that the convict be locked in Ilesa prison after he pleaded guilty to a three-count-charge bordering on stealing.

One killed, many injured as Police move to stop Shiites’ Arbaeen procession in Kano

Many are feared dead as men of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, reportedly blocked the Road and fired teargas at the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the guidance of Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky who were trekking for the annual Arbaeen Symbolic Trekking from Kano to Zaria Kaduna state Nigeria.

According to Ibrahim Musa, President Media Forum of IMN, the attack has led to the death of one trekker while others sustained various degrees of injuries.

Tension in FUNAAB as SSANU protest sack of 23 colleagues

Tension enveloped the crisis – ridden Federal University of Agriculture(FUNAAB), Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday morning as hundreds of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities(SSANU) from universities in Western Zone blocked the access roads to FUNAAB in protest over the sack of 23 of their colleagues by the institution’s management.

Scores of  students, visitors, lecturers and other members of the university community caught unaware

U20 WWC: Japan Put Six Past Falconets In Their First Match

Japan kicked off their FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Papua New Guinea 2016 campaign with a dominant victory against 2014 finalists Nigeria in Group B at Bava Park, Port Moresby. Mami Ueno bagged a hat-trick while Yuka Momiki scored either side of the break as The Young Nadeshiko ran riot in their opening game.

Benue begins construction of N36bn cargo airport

 

Construction process for the N36 billion Makurdi cargo airport in Benue State has been flagged off, the facilitator has said.
The Managing Director of Pureza Investment International Ltd (PIIL) and facilitator of the project, Barr Brian Mbaya, at the project site along Makurdi - Lafia highway during the ground breaking ceremony, recently, said the airport has the potential of boosting agriculture business in the country.

Obaseki appoints SSG, Spokesman

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state on Monday in Benin announced the appointment of Mr Osarodion Ogie as the Secretary to the State Government.
Also appointed were Mr Taiwo Akerele as Chief of Staff and Mr John Mayaki as interim Chief Press Secretary.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Obaseki had before making the announcement, met with

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Fashola, Buhari and an Administration Bereft of Ideas - Reno Omokri

Just two days ago on the 11th of November, 2016, Raji Fashola, Nigeria's super minister of power, works and housing, who is more famous for spending ₦78 million on his website in 2014 (an amount then worth $500,000) said that the 7% GDP growth Nigeria enjoyed under the Jonathan administration was solely the result of high oil prices rather than any policy of that administration.