A convicted murderer has been captured in the US state of North Carolina days after escaping from jail, allegedly with the help of a female prison worker, an official told AFP Monday. The case mirrors another US prison breakout making international headlines, in which police conducted a weeks-long manhunt for two escaped killers in the state of New York, shooting one dead on Friday and catching the other alive Sunday.

Six ships laden with petroleum products are waiting to berth and discharge at jetties in Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) disclosed this in its daily publication, `Shipping Position’, made available to newsmen on Monday in Lagos.

Six ships laden with petroleum products are waiting to berth and discharge at jetties in Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos.

Alghassim Khamis, the Chief Prosecutor of the Central African Nation, on Monday said ‎security forces in Chad, had arrested 60 suspected militants and dismantled a cell responsible for two suicide bomb attacks in N’djamena on June 15. He said the two coordinated bomb at the police offices in N’Djamena, killed 34 people, including four suspected Boko Haram militants, and injured dozens.

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on state governors to consider, as a matter of urgency, exploring efficient means of gradually liquidating all unpaid salaries of staff, which have brought untold hardship to thousands of families.

The stereotypical picture of the average Abuja crowd is that of a high maintenance group of people with their noses in the air and their feet slightly off the ground. Abuja is often typified as a cold, unsociable city of people who have no time for each other.

“We have deported 40 preachers of hatred since 2012. Since the beginning of the year we have examined 22 cases, and around 10 imams and preachers of hatred have been expelled,” said Cazeneuve. Yassin Salhi, 35, on Sunday confessed during interrogation to killing his boss and pinning his head to a fence of the Air Products factory near the eastern city of Lyon.

A convicted murderer who escaped from a maximum-security New York prison three weeks ago was shot and captured Sunday, bringing an end to an intense manhunt that saw his fellow escapee shot dead. David Sweat was apprehended just 1.5 miles (three kilometers) south of the Canadian border and later transported to a hospital in the state capital for treatment, where an official said he was in critical condition.

“A signal was sent to us from Ogun State Command and this led to the discovery of the decomposing body of the former VC,” the commissioner said. All attempts to speak with any member of the family of the deceased was not successful as some of them, including two of his children and his wife, were too grieved to speak with journalists.

“With negotiations halted, the Greek situation has rapidly moved to the worst-case scenario and investors who jumped to the conclusion last week that a deal was done will be suffering significant losses this morning,” said strategist Alastair George at Edison Investment Research.

“The debris left by the kamikaze bombers enabled us to determine that the terrorists were wearing specially-made explosive vests in black fabric,” Kassim said. “Fragements (of the bombs) collected at the scenes of the attacks are identical,” he added. The suicide bombings by three people targeted the police headquarters and the police training school in N’Djamena and also wounded 101 people, according to the latest toll from the prosecutor’s office.

The President, who described the terrorists as “cowards who lack any moral inhibition and any iota of humanity to reason compassionately”, said they would not find Nigeria a safe haven, because “they would be hunted down without mercy and compromise.”

The Agip oil company centre in Ebocha in Ogba Egbema Ndoni LGA in Rivers was yesterday gutted by fire.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has expressed possibility for the construction of a 10 -lane expressway that would run from Ikorodu axis in Lagos through Itoikin, Epe to Ijebu Ode in Ogun State.

The Office of the Auditor General for the Federation, AGF, said it has concluded arrangements to collaborate with the National Assembly with a view to providing legal framework for the implementation of performance audit among ministries, department and agencies in order to curb corruption in the public institutions.