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  Edwin Clark Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Saturday said that any dialogue between the Federal Government and militants in the Niger Delta would not yield result without involvement of Ijaw leaders. Clark stated this at the Ijaw leaders consultative council meeting with Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa and Delta Deputy Governor, Kingsley Otuaro in Warri, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports. The meeting was aimed at reaching common ground on the renewed militancy and its impact on the Niger Delta and Nigeria. Clark in his opening remark, at the meeting held behind close door, said it was not the first time this kind of crisis was happening. “In 2008 and 2009 similar incident happened and Gbaramatu was affected. We elders and leaders intervened and we got Amnesty. “Today we hear that the Federal Government is planning, already talking or negotiating with militants and nobody has consulted us. “That will not work. These children are our children and we cannot fold our ...

 A gunman killed a woman and seriously wounded three others in Austin early on Sunday when he shot into a crowd as people streamed out of nightclubs in the Texas capital's downtown area, police said. The unidentified gunman opened fire at about 2:15 a.m. local time before fleeing, Austin police chief of staff Brian Manley told reporters. The motive for the attack, which occurred just minutes after bars closed, was not immediately clear. "It was a very chaotic scene," Manley said. He described people emerging from clubs and bars running in all directions at the sound of gunfire, as police officers on patrol rushed to the scene. The gunman killed a woman in her 20s and wounded three other women, who were transported to a local hospital with injuries that are serious but not life-threatening, Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services spokesman Mike Benavides told reporters. Manley said police were seeking help from the public, including any video recordings, in an...

Turkish soldiers march during a Republic Day ceremony in Istanbul,  Turkey dismissed nearly 1,400 members of its armed forces and stacked the top military council with government ministers on Sunday, moves designed by President Tayyip Erdogan to put him in full control of the military after a failed coup. The new wave of expulsions and the overhaul of the Supreme Military Council (YAS) were announced in the government's official gazette just hours after Erdogan said late on Saturday he planned to shut down existing military academies and put the armed forces under the command of the Defence Ministry. According to the gazette, 1,389 military personnel were dismissed for suspected links to the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is accused by Turkey of orchestrating the July 15-16 failed putsch. Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in the United States, has denied the charges and condemned the coup. It comes after an announcement last week that more than 1,700 military personnel...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looks at a computer screen during a campaign stop at Atomic Object company in Grand Rapids, A computer network used by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign was hacked as part of a broad cyber attack on Democratic political organizations, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The latest attack, which was disclosed to Reuters on Friday, follows two other hacks on the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, and the party’s fundraising committee for candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives. A Clinton campaign spokesman said in a statement late on Friday that an analytics data program maintained by the DNC and used by the campaign and a number of other entities "was accessed as part of the DNC hack." "Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside cyber security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised," said Cli...

It was just revealed that Justin Bieber turned down a $5 million request from GOP donors to perform in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention. And nowTMZ has reported that Nick Jonas was also approached, with an offer of $2 million to perform at the event. Promoters had wanted the 23-year-old singer to play a free concert in Cleveland on July 24, as a thank you to the city for hosting the RNC at the Quicken Loans Arena. Nick was offered around $2 million to perform and was told that he would be paid by a 'private donor,' but he turned down the request. TMZ reported that Nick was not able to do the show anyway, as he had a prior commitment with Roc Nation. And the former boybander was later seen at the 2016 Roc Nation Summer Classic Charity Basketball Tournament in Brooklyn. This comes after it was revealed that Justin turned down $5 million to perform at a similar event in Ohio. The 22-year-old singer was offered the huge amount for a 45-min...

  The father of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq protecting his base from a vehicle packed with explosives has called on Republican grandees to denounce Donald Trump. Khizr Khan, father of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, said House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have a 'moral imperative' to tell Trump 'enough'. Calling Ryan and McConnell 'decent human beings', he begged through tears for both men to take an 'ethical stand', saying Trump will 'sink the ship of the patriot Republicans.'   Speaking onMSNBC's 'Last Call With Lawrence O'Donnell' on Friday, Khan said: 'If your candidate wins and he governs the way he has campaigned, my country, this country, will have constitutional crises [like] never before. 'There is so much at stake, and I appeal to both of these leaders: This is the time. 'There comes a time in the history of a nation where an ethical, moral stand has to ...

Real Madrid collected their first win of the 2016 International Champions Cup after beating Chelsea 3-2 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Saturday.   Marcelo netted twice for the reigning European champions, but it was youngster Mariano Diaz who stole the headlines with his 30-yard thunderbolt before substitute Eden Hazard pulled back a late brace for the Blues. TONY DING/Associated Press Marcelo scored twice for Real on Saturday. The Spanish titans held a much stronger account of their abilities after losing to Ligue 1 titleholders Paris Saint-Germain in midweek, as manager Antonio Conte's side had been miles off the pace. There was a massive crowd in attendance to take in the five-goal thriller in Michigan—evidence of the growing appeal of the sport in the United States: Scenes at the Big House—105,126 attendance for Real Madrid vs. Chelsea in Michigan 👌 [IG: https://t.co/2eGpFvF3as] pic.twitter.com/QFLxckCbSO — Bleacher Report UK (@br_uk) J...