Trump picks former aide as FBI director
US President-elect Donald Trump has picked a former aide, Kash Patel, to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency Patel has often criticised. A former US defence department chief of staff in the first Trump administration, Patel has been a steadfast supporter of the incoming Republican president. For Patel to take the job, the […]
4 confirmed dead, 18 others injured in Alabama mass shooting
At least four people have been killed and 18 injured in a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, police say. “Multiple shooters fired multiple shots on a group of people” late on Saturday in the Five Points South area of the city, Birmingham police officer Truman Fitzgerald said. Officers found the bodies of two men and […]
14-year-old boy arrested after 4 killed in Georgia school shooting
A 14-year-old boy will be charged with múrder after four péople were killed and nine injured in a shooting at a Georgia high school. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said two pupils and two teachers died in Wednesday’s attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County. Colt Gray, a student at the school, was […]
FBI director Christopher Wray visits EACC offices
The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, paid a courtesy call to the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission (EACC) CEO Twalib Mbarak. Wray, reported to be on a technical and operational working visit to Kenya, was accompanied to EACC by a high-level delegation from the FBI and […]
FBI reveals 1980s plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II faced a potential assassination threat during a 1983 visit to the US, newly released FBI documents show. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a cache of files relating to the late Queen’s travels to the US, following her death last year. They show how the FBI, which helped secure the monarch’s […]
Top FBI officials in Kenya as gov’t intensifies war on terrorism
Two senior officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have arrived in Kenya for consultation with the government on countering transnational crimes. FBI’s Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division Robert R. Wells, based at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C paid a courtesy call to the Director of Criminal Investigations Amid Mohamed on Friday morning. […]
Davido fires his manager for defending police boss implicated in Hushpuppi’s scandal
Nigerian singer David Adedeji Adeleke, alias Davido has reportedly fired his logistics manager for defending a Nigerian police officer implicated in fraudster Hushpuppi’s scandal. Through his Instagram page, Isreal Afeare better known as Isreal DMW begged Nigerians to plead with the musician to reinstate him following the new development. The logistics manager further noted that […]