Officials: ISIS executes 50 in Iraq

Baghdad - Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 Iraqi tribesmen, women and children on Sunday, officials said, the latest mass slaying by militants who have killed some 150 members of the tribe in recent days.

The killings, all committed in public, target the Sunni Al Bu Nimr tribe that the Islamic State group now apparently views as a threat, though previously some Sunnis backed the expansion of the group and other militants into the volatile province in December.

Meanwhile, separate attacks around Baghdad killed at least 19 people, authorities said.

Government declares curfew in Adamawa state

The Adamawa State government today Nov. 1st declared curfew in every part of the state following the increase in insurgency activities in some parts of the state, especially in Mubi. 

Tambuwal: A CALL FOR THE LAW TO TAKE ITS COURSE

Following the defection of former Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to the All Progressives' Congress from the Peoples' Democratic Party in very clear violation of Section 68 (1)(g) of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made by the Nigerian people via their representatives in parliament, the Peoples' Democratic Party National Youth Frontier considers it necessary to advice him to desist from parading himself as a member of the Federal House of Representatives as it shall amount to an act of impersonation and deceit for him to still claim membership of the House he willingly abdicated from following his defection earlier this week.

Buhari Finally Opens Up: I Knew Babangida Was Planning To Overthrow Me

Buhari became head of state on December 31, 1983 after the military overthrew the government of Shehu Shagari. But on August 27, 1985, Buhari himself was overthrown by Babangida, his chief of army staff and key actor in the 1983 coup.

Buhari, a retired major general and presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), told TheCable: "It is true that I learnt he was planning a coup against me. And I sat and discussed it with him in my office.

Weeping South Africans say goodbye to Meyiwa

Durban - South Africans turned out in huge numbers in Durban on Saturday for the funeral of national football captain and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, whose murder last weekend shocked the nation.

The star footballer, who had just turned 27, was gunned down by an intruder at the home of his pop singer girlfriend south of Johannesburg.

Family and friends were joined by government officials and the top names in South African football among a crowd of 30,000 at the ceremony at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium, broadcast live on television.