A truck has crashed into a crowd gathered for France’s Bastille day fireworks on the seafront of the southern city of Nice, according to French media report. It was gathered that dozens of people got injured as a result of the incident. The local police prefect of Alpes-Maritimes had reportedly warned of an attack and asked Nice residents to stay indoors, according to France radio. Commenting on the incident, a local newspaper journalist said: “People are running, it’s panic, there is blood, as well as injuries.” Already,there are reports of several several deaths as a result of the incident.

Theresa May on Wednesday became Britain’s new prime minister, taking over from David Cameron with the task of negotiating Britain’s exit from the EU. Queen Elizabeth II invited Conservative Party leader May, 59, to form a government during a brief meeting at Buckingham Palace in London, less than an hour after Cameron tendered his resignation to the head of state.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone ‘C’, Owerri has continued to beam its torch on smugglers of contraband goods in the country resulting in the seizure of a total of one hundred and sixty-nine (169) items with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of one billion, three hundred and seventy-nine million, seven hundred and seventy-two thousand, five hundred and seventeen naira (#1,379,772,517.00) in the last six months . The FOU C, also within the same period recovered three hundred and ninety-four million, eight hundred and fifteen thousand, and thirty eight naira (#394,815,038.00) as an underpayment in addition to effecting  the arrest of forty-two (42) suspects  in connection with the seizures made . Part of the seized contrabands on display at the Government Warehouse. Out of those arrested, twenty-five (25) cases are now pending in court for possible prosecution of the culprits between January and June this year. The Customs Area Cont...