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Armoured vehicles are just cool. Sure, to justify one you have to be full of your own importance or actually someone people want to kill. But at the end of the day driving around in something you could practically stroll through a war-zone in does have a certain appeal to it. Enter the Range Rover Sentinel with all the luxury you’d ever need, plus added TNT protection.

 Israeli police say a Jewish man died from wounds sustained when rocks were thrown at his car. Spokeswoman Luba Samri said the man was injured early Monday as his vehicle was attacked while returning from a meal marking the Jewish new year. She said the identity of the attackers is unknown but are likely from a nearby Arab neighborhood.

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has pledged to continue uniting Zambians regardless of regional status as this is the foundation of strengthening his quest to achieve national development. The President has also announced that he will forward to Cabinet a proposal for all Zambians to pray and fast during the period of celebrating the Independence Day.

tired: Teachers protest in the ongoing strike that has crippled learning in schools for two weeks now. I was sitting in a meeting when the newsflash went out, that President Uhuru had stated categorically that much as he understood the teachers’ plight, he simply was not going to honour the wage increase. I gasped. I couldn’t believe he had said it. Let’s be honest, a lot of us know the increment is truly well deserved and well overdue but we also know it can’t be implemented. The reason we haven’t spoken up - me included, is because we don’t want to be trolled.

FILE - Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari gives an interview to Agence France-presse at his hotel during the 25th African Summit. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari begins a three-day visit to France Monday. Femi Adesina, special adviser to Buhari on media and publicity, told VOA the visit is at the invitation of French President Francois Hollande and will focus on further strengthening bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and France in the areas of defense,

According to fiery preacher and pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, can never compare with Obafemi Awolowo, former premier of Western Region. According to Premium Times, Bakare said Tinubu does not belong in the same class with Obafemi Awolowo, and does not deserve to take the place of the late sage as the leader of the Yoruba race.

Scores of children may have been killed as a storey building in an Islamic school collapsed in Jos, the Plateau State capital on Sunday. Though the North Central Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Muhammed Abdulsalami, told our correspondent that only four of the pupils died, residents of the area insisted that the casualty figure was higher going by the number of pupils in the school when the building collapsed.

There are strong indications that the Department of State Service, (DSS) has completed a screening process for some of the ministerial nominees to make up the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari. Among the list of those who were said to have been screened by the DSS are, former presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi, Femi Falana (SAN), a former Governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a former finance commissioner in Lagos State, Mr. Wale Edun and Former Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Limited, Mr. Festus Odimegwu.

Egyptian security forces killed 12 Mexicans and Egyptians and injured 10 "by accident" on Monday, mistaking a tourist convoy for militants they were chasing in the country's western desert, the ministry of interior said. At least two Mexicans were killed, Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement. A joint force from the Egyptian police and military was chasing militants in the country's vast western desert, which borders Libya, when it inadvertently opened fire on the convoy.

Helen Mukoro, a Nigerian-Spanish Lawyer is running for 2015 Presidential election in Spain, which will be held on December 20, 2015. Mukoro hails from Delta state and worked briefly in Delta State Governor’s office before she left Nigeria to Spain in 1992.

 Liverpool winger Jordon Ibe will commit his international future to England rather than Nigeria, according to a tweet from Super Eagles coach and former national skipper Sunday Oliseh. The 19-year-old has represented England at the under-18, under-19, under-20 and under-21 levels but also qualifies to play for Nigeria through his father and has been the subject of an international tug-of-war over his future.