MTN data subscribers in Abuja, Oyo, Lagos, Rivers, and Delta have expressed rage over the network outage on Thursday during Customer Service Week.
Aggrieved subscribers vented their frustrations, while others lamented their losses caused by the network outage.
@icekied said, “@MTNNG, what you guys did to me yesterday is unforgivable. You guys didn’t even give us any heads-up that there was going to be an issue with our internet service so that we could look for a temporary alternative; that was very bad of you guys.
“I use three different MTN SIMs, and all of them were useless yesterday until this morning. Honestly, you guys should be compensating us for the nonsense we had to go through yesterday. I hope you guys do better.”
However, MTN on Thursday acknowledged the network challenges, announcing that their “services may be temporarily unavailable as a result but assured that “our engineers are working to restore services as soon as possible”.
MTN’s network outage on Thursday coincided with the ongoing annual Customer Service Week, celebrated every first full week of October, with the 2026 edition running from the 5th to the 9th.
“@MTNNG became the weapon fashioned against my success yesterday! Poor broadband service was taken to a new low! If Nigeria were a country, you’d have paid compensation through your noses! We need to get Naija working, folks!” said another subscriber, @AjunamJohn, on Friday.
@36bgmillitary, on Thursday, said, “Dear @MTN180, due to your poor network service, I lost a job of 7 million Naira, because I literally subscribed nonstop to your network, which was the reason why I felt so disappointed when this happened, and I can never forget what this has done to me today. I don’t know if there’s a way I could reseal the deal I lost, but for those few minutes, I regret using MTN at that particular moment.”
@Vincentrate stated that MTN “can kill a living soul with their awful network @MTNNG”.
The subscriber added, “The funniest part is that they won’t feel remorseful for their awful actions, and they lack empathy for us customers @MTNNG. They don’t know how to compensate their customers when their network glitches; this is so bad @MTNNG @NgComCommission.”
“This is getting completely out of hand, and MTN needs to be held accountable for the financial embarrassment and stress their network instability is causing everyday people,” @SHYLOCK142 stated on Thursday. “It is unacceptable that basic services like bank transfers are failing when customers are paying for reliable service.”
Meanwhile, MTN apologised on Friday for the poor service, saying the network issue has been resolved and services fully restored, but urged subscribers still experiencing network difficulties to restart their mobile devices.
Responding to a customer complaint on X, MTN commented, “We’re pleased to inform you that the issue has now been resolved and services have been fully restored. If you’re still experiencing any difficulty, kindly restart your device to refresh your network connection and reconnect to the service.”
Immigration enforcement have made arrests in connection with a suspected criminal network believed to be behind dozens of fake asylum claims from people pretending to be gay.
Those targeted by Home Office immigration enforcement officers on Tuesday morning are accused of charging migrants up to £4,500 for fabricated evidence, including staged photographs and fake documents.
They are thought to have aided dozens of asylum claims from Bangladeshi men, claiming they would be in fear for their lives if they returned home.
Two people were arrested at addresses in London on Tuesday on suspicion of fraud and immigration offences, with Home Office officers also seizing phones, jewellery and thousands of pounds in cash.
A third person was arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally.
Chris Foster, a regional lead for criminal investigations at the Home Office, said Tuesday's arrests were over separate fake claims connected to a Bangladeshi community LGBT organisation called Apanjon, which is based in Whitechapel, east London.
He said asylum caseworkers had initially spotted patterns in suspicious claims, which raised concerns about the group, and that immigration officers had been investigating for several months.
"We've got some intelligence that they can provide fake letters and documents, and they could charge anywhere between £1,000 and £4,500," Foster said.
"It could be letters of support from Apanjon, it could be staged photographs, suggesting that these people are gay, it could be letters from people claiming to be in a friendship or a sexual relationship - [a] same-sex relationship - as the claimants."
More than 100 asylum claims linked to the criminal network are being reviewed by the Home Office. Foster said some of the fake asylum applications would have "undoubtedly" been granted.
Immigration judges have previously criticised evidence from Apanjon as unreliable or not credible and found that an applicant who claimed to have attended the group's events had submitted staged photographs.
The Home Office said the group would often vouch for men who claimed asylum on the basis they were gay only after having initially been refused on political grounds. In one case, a man didn't raise his sexuality until nine years after his original claim.
The group is accused of using the same tactics as those pushed by advisers exposed in the BBC's investigation earlier this year.
A Home Office spokesperson said it was continuing to review asylum claims linked to that reporting, which led to two arrests in May.
In the BBC report, published in April, an adviser called Tanisa Khan told an undercover reporter she could provide a "comprehensive package", including photographs at gay clubs and other supporting evidence.
She was linked to a community group called Worcester LGBT, which she told the reporter they should attend in order to add to evidence for his fake claim.
Men attending one of the group's events at a community centre in Beckton, east London, claimed they were not really gay. One said: "Nobody is a gay here. Not even 1% are gay. Not even 0.01% are gay."
Worcester LGBT has since closed. Its founder previously said the group did not create or support fabricated evidence in asylum claims and it was not up to the organisation to determine whether any individual was actually gay.
Khan blamed communication difficulties for a "misunderstanding" and denied advising the reporter to make a false claim or offering to create fabricated evidence.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said "those faking persecution are beneath contempt and mock real victims who need protection".
"To the gangs profiting from this disgraceful fraud: you will be prosecuted, stripped of your dirty money and shut down," she said.
"And to those cheating the system, your claim will be thrown out, and you will be removed from this country."
A conviction for asylum fraud carries a maximum sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
More than 250 Russian servicemen, including dozens of officers, were captured during Operation Vivaldi, an offensive in northern Donetsk.
Many surrendered as entire units after Ukrainian drones cut off their food, water and ammunition.
A commander in Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps, the unit central to the operation, told The Telegraph that Russian soldiers had been warned they would be tortured and killed if captured.
“They were reluctant to surrender because they were afraid, and they were blowing themselves up, trying to take our soldiers with them,” Olexander Borodin said.
“The Russian army has this propaganda preaching that if they go into Ukrainian captivity, they will be tortured; they will be killed.”
The offensive has resulted in the killing of 3,000 Russian soldiers in a matter of months, and the recovery of 48 square miles of occupied territory, according to the 3rd Army Corps.
Fought in three stages so far, it has relied on drones and robots advancing before infantry, including kamikaze ground vehicles air-dropped behind Russian lines.
The Russians who did surrender have revealed dire conditions during their time in Donetsk, including being forced to drink their own urine and eat tree bark and nettles.
They told the 3rd Army Corps that injured soldiers were not evacuated from their positions and that their only chance of survival was to crawl to an evacuation point on their own.
One of the Russian officers told the corps that his soldiers were dying en masse from exhaustion and starvation.
“Some lost 30 or 40 kilos from their normal weight, and many of them were asking just for one thing, like a sip of water,” said Mr Borodin.
“They were not even thinking about their further situation. All they wanted was just a sip of water.”
Ukrainian commander Olexander Borodin says Russian soldiers had been told they would be tortured and killed if captured He said about half of the prisoners needed medical treatment, many of them for wounds they had been trying to treat themselves while holding their positions.
Russian commanders knew about the conditions but did little to improve them, Mr Borodin claimed, and did not try to evacuate the wounded because it would put pressure on the army’s medical service.
The corps said Ukrainian strikes on Russian supply routes and command posts drove the surrenders, with drones destroying logistics lines and positions cut off by mines dropped from above.
The 3rd Army Corps said the mass detainments resulted in some of the highest numbers of senior officials being detained in the war to date.
Ukraine hopes to use the prisoners, particularly the officers, to secure the release of Azov fighters held in Russia since autumn 2022.
Mr Borodin said there’s “more chance” Moscow will exchange captured Ukrainians for higher-ranked officers “than a random Russian soldier”.
Many of the prisoners also described corruption within their own units.
Some told Mr Borodin their commanders had ordered them to hand over part of their salaries to buy equipment, which never arrived.
“Some of them feel betrayed by their command,” he said.
That sense of betrayal has left many reluctant to go home. Although Ukraine hopes to trade them for its own soldiers, Mr Borodin said a large number of the prisoners did not want to be exchanged.
Russian soldiers who have been captured are seen by their own army as lesser fighters, he said, and the men feared being sent straight back to the front line in even worse conditions than before.
“Russians consider those who went into captivity to be something like worse soldiers, like second-best,” he said. “They are afraid that they would be sent in a much, much worse condition, and they want to remain in Ukrainian captivity for as long as they can.”
🗺️ KIDNAPPINGS CASES IN NIGERIA BY ZONE — AUGUST 2026
Zone — Number of Cases
North West — 222 North Central — 104 South East — 4 South West — 3 South South — 2 North East — 0
The North West recorded the highest number of kidnapping cases with 222 incidents, accounting for about 66% of the 335 cases reported nationwide. North Central followed with 104 cases, while the North East recorded no cases.
After the fraudulent manner that he manipulated FIFA’S Executive Board to give the World Cup hosting rights to Qatar in 2022 and Saudi Arabia Arabia in 2034, I've been wondering when he will be impeached.
The man is a shady character. Nigeria should sue FIFA at the Court of Arbitration for Sports, but unfortunately I don't think we have the guts to do it.
DiamondsAreFore: My God! What a corrupt and wicked administration Infantino is leading!
The apex world soccer’s governing body, FIFA, knew that the Democratic Republic of Congo fielded an ineligible player in the 2026 World Cup qualifier game played against the Super Eagles of Nigeria, The New York Times has learnt.
The match, which was held in November 2025 in Rabat, Morocco, was the final of the CAF play-offs for a spot in the intercontinental tournament.
DR Congo won 4-3 on penalties after the match ended 1-1.
According to the report published on Tuesday, FIFA’s own legal officials had privately determined that Congo had breached player eligibility rules after goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi failed to complete the required documentation to switch his international affiliation from France, where he had represented youth teams.
Despite the finding, FIFA allowed Mpasi to continue playing, and Congo went on to defeat Jamaica in March to secure its first World Cup appearance in 52 years.
The development has raised fresh questions over FIFA’s handling of Nigeria’s complaint against Congo, which came after the Central African side defeated the Super Eagles on penalties in the African play-off final in November 2025.
The defeat condemned Nigeria to a second consecutive World Cup miss, after also missing out on the 2022 edition in Qatar.
In December 2025, the Nigeria Football Federation lodged a complaint with FIFA alleging that Congo had fielded players who were not properly eligible to represent the country.
The NFF’s complaint questioned the clearance of several foreign-born players, including Mpasi, and alleged that the Congolese federation had misled FIFA in securing their eligibility.
Documents and correspondence reviewed by The New York Times, alongside information from a senior official directly involved in the case, showed that FIFA officials had considered several possible sanctions against Congo, including awarding the match to Nigeria, imposing fines, replacing Congo with Nigeria in the play-off against Jamaica or taking no action on the grounds that Nigeria had filed its complaint late.
Under FIFA rules, fielding an ineligible player can result in a team forfeiting the match in which the player featured, as FIFA had previously taken a more decisive position in similar cases.
In 2016, FIFA sanctioned Greece after it fielded an ineligible player who had previously represented Australia at youth level, awarding a 3-0 defeat in its match against Turkey. Two years later, the governing body changed the results of two Bolivia World Cup qualifying matches after determining that Bolivia had fielded a player who had previously represented Paraguay.
At the time FIFA was reviewing the Congo eligibility case, Véron Mosengo-Omba, an ally of Infantino, was preparing to contest for the presidency of the Congolese football federation.
Two months later, following Congo’s qualification for the World Cup, Mosengo-Omba emerged as the sole candidate and was elected president after eight other contenders had either withdrawn or been disqualified following changes to eligibility rules.
Cameroonian former FIFA official Prince Zelkifli Rahman Ngoufonja, popularly known as Prince Zul, said the relationship between Infantino and Mosengo-Omba raised questions over the potential consequences of FIFA removing Congo from the World Cup.
“If FIFA removed Congo from the World Cup,” he said, Infantino’s ally’s prospects “could have been damaged.”
Mosengo-Omba, however, said he was unaware of FIFA’s findings regarding Mpasi’s eligibility.
North Texas man finds more than $128,000 on top of a bank's ATM — and returns every dollar
A routine trip to a Lewisville ATM could have changed one man's financial life a bit. Instead, it revealed something rich about his character.
Lewisville police say a 37-year-old man found a bag stuffed with $128,514 in cash sitting on top of a Bank of America ATM on West Main Street. There was also a smaller bag containing 19 checks.
Not a dollar of the cash was missing when the police got it.
"I've never had a case like this before, ever," Lewisville Police Detective Gina Miller said.
According to a police report, the man and a 42-year-old woman had gone to the ATM to withdraw money when they spotted the bags. The information on one of the bags pointed to Chick-fil-A.
The man, who is a barber in Lewisville, asked not to be identified. He told CBS News Texas he couldn't speak about the incident. Police said he was the person who called 911.
Police say he drove to a nearby Chick-fil-A, believing the money might belong to the restaurant. A manager told him it did not.
Inside the cash bag was a bank receipt showing exactly how much money was supposed to be there: $128,514.
That's exactly how much police counted.
An officer counted the money twice and verified the total with a digital currency counter before the cash was sealed and secured in the Lewisville Police Department property room.
"I think to find that kind of money, or that amount of money, is certainly rare," Lewisville Police Chief Brook Rollins said. "That's very unusual. And then to not find it connected to any criminal activity is certainly unusual."
How $128,514 was left behind at a Lewisville ATM
Police reports show the money belonged to Bank of America and was being handled by its cash vendor, Brinks.
Investigators said a Brinks technician serviced the ATM and was supposed to take the money, but accidentally left the funds on top of the machine.
Police found no indication that the cash was connected to a crime.
"The bag was just sitting there," Miller said. "There was no indication of a crime occurring. It looked like it was just left there by accident."
Bank of America has since recovered the money.
Brinks declined to discuss the specifics of the incident, saying in a statement that, as a general practice, it does not comment on law enforcement matters involving the safety of its employees or others.
Lewisville police want to honor the man who returned the money
Police say they now want to recognize the man whose decision made the unusual case even more remarkable.
Miller has handled cases involving people returning wallets, IDs and other lost property. But six figures in cash?
"I've had cases where good Samaritans have turned in property that they found, wallets, IDs, things like that," Miller said. "But in the case of $128,000, I've never had somebody turn in that kind of money before."
Rollins said the episode also demonstrates how much police departments depend on the communities they serve.
"We are one half of the equation, the police; the other half is the community," Rollins said.
As for why the man handed over a bag containing enough cash to make almost anyone stop and stare, Rollins offered a simple explanation.
"I just think he just thinks it's the right thing to do and doesn't think it goes beyond that," Rollins said.
For Lewisville police, the case came with no robbery, no theft and no missing money. Just $128,514 — and one man who decided every dollar belonged to somebody else.
Miller said there is no "Finders keepers, losers weepers." The detective said people have to do due diligence to return what's discovered or end up in trouble with the law.
The man told CBS News Texas that if the police department honors him, he'll gladly attend a private ceremony.
So wearing a dress and makeup is the same thing as bravery? True bravery would be him acknowledging his repressed sexuality as a transgender woman. He's a man who loves to express himself by cross-dressing.
I've discovered that homosexuality is not really a taboo in the Arabic/Islamic world.
HacheNoire: Yahya Sinwar! A man who fought for his people until this last breath.
Stirred into the eyes of death and was not shaken.
Lead from the front with exceptional bravery and courage.
I am certain that, if the afterlife is real, he definitely in same place with Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu.
Nancy Mace has been very outspoken against the genocide of Christians in Nigeria. I'm pretty sure Chinyere's people are not behind the genocide of Nigerian Christians.
●Russian spies accused of leaving faeces in homes of politicians to intimidate them
Russia has been accused of sending secret agents to defecate in the lavatories of Finnish MPs in a bizarre escalation of its hybrid warfare against the West.
Last week it emerged that some 20 Finnish MPs had reported mysterious break-ins at their homes, with one politician finding faeces left behind in his lavatory.
Ben Zyskowicz, a senior MP for the ruling centre-Right National Coalition Party, believes the behaviour is part of a Russian plot to intimidate Finnish legislators.
“It’s a way for the Russian intelligence service to show that people are being monitored, a way to create confusion or concerns,” Mr Zyskowicz said.
The Russian practice of breaking into the homes of MPs and diplomats has long been a tactic of its intelligence services.
In a method the US state department described as “home intrusions”, agents would move personal items, open windows and set alarms to demoralise and intimidate their targets.
Russian spies, and agents from other countries with feared intelligence services, have also been known to urinate in the toilets of diplomats and journalists to show they are capable of entering their homes.
In perhaps the most notorious example, the Wall Street Journal reported in 2023 that a Russian federal security service (FSB) agent defecated in the suitcase of a senior US official while he was visiting Russia.
Sarah Rainsford, the BBC’s former Russia correspondent, recalled in her memoir Goodbye to Russia that spies entered her flat and left “a large unflushed deposit in each toilet” as a calling card
Luke Harding, a Guardian reporter, also claimed FSB officers would often break into his Moscow apartment, including once when agents left behind a sex manual, shortly before he was expelled from Russia in 2011.
US officials in 2014 reported that Soviet-era counterintelligence tactics were again being used against their diplomats, including tyre-slashing and multiple mysterious break-ins.
In some incidents, windows would be left open or personal belongings moved.
‘Operational psychology’
Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Russia, complained at the time of being followed almost everywhere and having his inbox hacked and phones tapped.
The strategy dates back to the Cold War of the 1960s when the KGB developed “operational psychology”, Mr Harding reported in his book Mafia State.
The Soviets were inspired by German Stasi agents, who would target the homes of dissidents to try to make them think they were going mad.
Officers would remove pictures from walls or swap one type of tea for another, leaving their targets largely unaware that the Stasi was behind the disturbances. In one particularly alarming incident, a vibrator was sent to a target’s wife.
Some victims suffered breakdowns or ended up killing themselves as a result.
Jürgen Fuchs, a writer who was targeted by the Stasi, described the “Zersetzung” technique as “an assault on the human soul”.
He was convinced before his death in 1999 that he had been deliberately exposed to radiation by the secret police, causing his terminal cancer, after three dissidents died within a short period from similar rare forms of leukaemia.
The latest spate of incidents appears to be the first time such tactics have been used in Finland, which angered Russia by joining Nato following its invasion of Ukraine.
Jussi Halla-aho, the speaker of the Finnish parliament, said he was launching an investigation into the “significant” series of break-ins.
He said clues were left in politicians’ apartments to indicate someone had been there, despite there being no signs of forced entry and nothing stolen or damaged.
“I cannot comment precisely on the number of suspicious cases known to us, but in any event it is a significant number,” he said, adding that the incidents happened last year.
With Finland’s parliamentary elections six months away, authorities are on high alert for potential Kremlin sabotage or influence campaigns, as tensions remain high along the country’s long border with Russia.
When asked about the incidents, Alexander Stubb, the Finnish president, said: “An attack on a member of parliament is an attack on democracy.
“It should not be allowed or accepted in any form… I stand in support of every member of parliament.”
Ohida? An Igbira name. Thank goodness for the watchful eyes of America which is making Nigerian security personnel to sit up or this would have been swept under the carpet like they've always done before their complicity was exposed.
There's not enough wealth or economic resources in Africa, let alone Nigeria, to enable Dangote to even dream of the kind of networth that would take him into Elon Musk's orbit.
orisa37: UP 20 RICHEST CITIES. NIGERIA HAS DEVALUED LAGOS VERY MISERABLY. DANGOTE NO LONGER THINK IN NAIRA. HE HAS PERFECTED THE DOLLARISATION OF HIS NET WORTH. SOON TO BE SECOND IN COMMAND TO ELON MUSK.
Meanwhile, Nigeria the giant of Africa, a country with a population of 250 million plus has a GDP of $377 billion.
The city of Atlanta which has a population population of less than 600,000 people is the 20th wealthiest city in the world, and it is nearly two and a half times wealthier than the giant of Africa.
Since the stated objective of the Hamas fighters is that they're so eager to meet their 100 virgins in paradise, I think the IDF should be applauded for making it possible for them to fulfill their religious obligations.
●Israel’s push to kill Hamas commanders before Oct 7 anniversary
●Benjamin Netanyahu says assassinations will prevent any future attacks
Israel’s military is ramping up its campaign to kill Hamas commanders ahead of the third anniversary of the Oct 7 attacks.
Israeli strikes have killed more than 100 terrorists in recent weeks, including senior leaders and perpetrators of the massacre, Benjamin Netanyahu has said.
That represents a sharp increase compared with earlier months. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told The Telegraph it had killed 500 members of terrorist groups since the ceasefire took effect last October, most of them from Hamas.
At least 1,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in Israeli strikes since the US-brokered ceasefire, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
An Israeli air strike killed Izz al-Din Al-Beik, the head of Hamas’s armed wing in north Gaza on Tuesday. He was a leader of the Oct 7 attacks and was involved in planning attacks and recruitment, the IDF said.
A day earlier, Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr, who abducted Israeli civilians – including Noa Argamani – from the Nova music festival on a motorbike, was assassinated in an airstrike in Gaza.
The IDF also killed Adi Adli Abd Al-Aaser, a sniper in Hamas’s military wing, on Sunday, saying that he had “advanced attacks” against Israeli troops and civilians and “operated to restore” Hamas’s capabilities “in systematic violation of the ceasefire”.
The ceasefire, announced by Donald Trump last year, requires Israel to end its strikes and withdraw from Gaza and for Hamas to agree to disarm.
Little progress has been made, with Israel saying everything hinges on Hamas disarming and Hamas accusing Israel of violating the agreement by occupying the strip and continuing to carry out regular strikes on Gaza.
Mr Netanyahu claimed Israel’s enemies could attack before this month’s parliamentary elections as he stood in front of a fighter jet at a military base.
The Israeli prime minister, who is in a close race to retain power according to opinion polls, has said the assassinations of commanders are intended to prevent Hamas from regrouping and carrying out further attacks against Israel.
Giora Eiland, the former head of the Israeli National Security Council, said assassinations are “very effective” as they force Hamas commanders to be more concerned about their own security and less about planning the next attack against Israel.
Others, however, have argued that the assassinated Hamas commanders are often replaced by even more extreme individuals.
Dr Michael Milshtein, the head of the Forum for Palestinian Studies at Tel Aviv University, agreed that assassinations are an effective tool but said it won’t cause a “total collapse”.
The last four senior Hamas commanders killed in recent weeks were lower level just a few years ago but rose quickly through the ranks because Israel killed between 80pc-90pc of the commanders during the war, Dr Milshtein said.
“Hamas is able to immediately nominate the deputy or another figure, but of course they don’t have the same capacities. Those who were killed had a lot of experience and were much more sophisticated and professional from a military point of view,” Dr Milshtein told the Telegraph.
“But organisations like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen are flexible and can adapt quickly to all kinds of new conditions,” he added.
Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, accused Mr Netanyahu of fear-mongering over his claims that Israel’s enemies may attack before the elections on Oct 27.
Mr Netanyahu has issued warnings in recent weeks to Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah and even the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, vowing retaliation in case of an attack.
Mr Lapid, speaking after a security briefing he’d demanded with the prime minister, said he was certain elections will take place on time and that “there is no reason to panic the public”.
He again accused Mr Netanyahu of failing to heed warnings of the Hamas attack on Oct 7, 2023 – the deadliest ever against Israel.
Palestinian authorities say more than 74,000 people have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza following the terror attack.
“Netanyahu ignored every warning before Oct 7 and now, 28 days before the election, he’s suddenly busy fear-mongering,” Mr Lapid said.
“I of course will not violate the confidentiality of the security briefing, but it must be said - security threats must be handled professionally and responsibly.”
Israeli military bases “are not the setting for election videos”, Mr Lapid added.
In addition to targeted killings the IDF has also embarked on a different campaign in the past year: destroying as many Hamas tunnels as possible in the area it controls in Gaza.
The IDF told the Telegraph that it estimates at least 80 per cent of the tunnels have been destroyed on the Israeli-controlled side of the Yellow Line.
But this still leaves dozens of tunnels on the Hamas-controlled side, an estimate the IDF has difficulty making as it is not operating there.
Dr Milshtein claimed Hamas’s lack of response to Israel’s assassination campaign is that they lack proper military capabilities.
“They are trying to buy time,” Dr Milshtein said, adding that Hamas is attempting to rearm and regroup.
“They manufacture weapons, such as explosive devices, by taking apart all kinds of unexploded bombs left by the IDF and creating new devices,” he said.
Another way Hamas is trying to rearm is by smuggling weapons via drones from both the Israeli and Egyptian sides of the border, Dr Milshtein added.
Mr Eiland also believes that Hamas is trying to build its own drones given how inexpensive and relatively easy it is: “You buy the components and you can assemble them yourself. I’m afraid that they are capable of doing it sooner or later.”
So far Israel has assassinated Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza over the past year while arresting numerous members in the West Bank.
But Israel Katz, the defence minister, said on Monday that Hamas leaders abroad “are also in the crosshairs”.
“None of these despicable murderers, who played a central role in the October 7 massacre, may be allowed to die peacefully,” Mr Katz said.
Mr Katz took over as political leader of the IDF in November 2024. He has since advocated hawkish positions, including the widespread demolition of civilian homes in Gaza and southern Lebanon on the basis, he said, of destroying terrorist infrastructure.
Most recently, he has suggested that he will order the evacuation of one of the major West Bank refugee camps.
Mr Eiland believes the defence minister’s threat to kill Hamas commanders abroad is just part of the government election campaign. He pointed to how Hamas’s leaders are mainly based in Qatar and Turkey, two countries Israel would be wise not to attack.
“We are very reluctant to operate in these two countries,” he said.
Dr Milshtein is less convinced that this is just election talk as the Israeli government is “not very balanced” these days.
“I will not be totally surprised if, for example, Israel decides to attack again in Doha (Qatar). But of course consequences will be catastrophic, mainly because of the American response,” he said, referring to Israel’s assassination attempt on Hamas leaders in Doha last year, which led to a harsh rebuke from Mr Trump.
FCT recorded the highest security perception score at 52.1, 3.8 points ahead of Lagos. The South West accounts for 6 of the 12 states, followed by the South South with 3, North Central with 2 and South East with 1.
A 19-year-old uk based Nigerian teenager has been arrested and charged in Barbados following the seizure of 23.4 kilogrammes of suspected cocaine valued at approximately BDS$1.17 million.
The suspect, identified as [b]Abdul-Rasheed Anjolaoluwa Oduola[b], is from Dagenham, East London, United Kingdom. He was apprehended by the Narcotics Unit of the Barbados Police Service in connection with the drug seizure.
Oduola is facing multiple charges, including possession of cocaine, trafficking, possession with intent to supply and attempting to export the illegal substance.
According to the police, the seized 23.4kg of suspected cocaine has an estimated street value of one million, one hundred and seventy thousand Barbados dollars.
The teenager is expected to appear before the District ‘B’ Magistrates’ Court on Friday, October 2, 2026, to answer to the charges.
So after her abusive behaviour was reported, she was given an "approved leave of absence" and she was able to use this to get another job in another school.
In the Australian job market, you're supposed to come with references from your former place of employment to assist in evaluating your fitness and ability to do the job you're applying for.
Ordinarily if she had been sacked for professional misconduct and reported to the police like they ought to have done, she would not have been able to get a new job.
My suspicion is that she must have had an ally who was protecting her in her former place of employment.
The only reason why she eventually eneded up in the police net was because people who were monitoring her social media noticed that she was still very active and posting content about her life.
A teacher in Australia faces multiple charges after allegedly sexually assaulting a student on campus and during an overnight field trip.
Deandra Kontou, 32, has been charged with nine child abuse-related offences, including aggravated sexual assault, four counts of sexual assault and using an electronic device to groom the victim, The Sydney Morning Herald and Nine.com.au reported.
Kontou went by her birth name Haralambidis and was teaching at Newington College, a private school in Stanmore, a suburb of Sydney, at the time of the alleged offences. Per Nine.com.au, she was employed at the school in 2017 and is believed to have left in 2019.
The alleged abuse spanned six months, beginning with the teacher allegedly showing the student, a boy, indecent material to make it easier to “procure the child for unlawful sexual activity,” the Herald reported.
It’s claimed that she then began grooming him through messages, twice coerced him to sexually touch and carry out a sex act on her without his consent and twice sexually touched him.
These alleged offences all took place during school hours in or near the school’s campus.
A few months later, the abuse is alleged to have continued at an overnight field trip to Fitzroy Island, in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. There, she was accused of twice sexually touching him during the day before sexually assaulting him between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. that evening, the Herald reported.
Kontou was arrested on Monday, Sept. 21, and appeared at Sutherland Local Court later that day, per the newspaper. She was granted bail on the condition that she would surrender her passport, report to police daily and not contact the alleged victim or witnesses.
She is also banned from entering any school grounds, teaching children or being in the company of any child without their parent or guardian, per the Herald. She is set to appear at Burwood Local Court on Nov. 26, Nine.com.au reported.
Kontou left Newington College shortly after an allegation relating to the field trip was made to other staff members, with parents told she was on an “approved leave of absence” when she failed to return to school after the camp.
She began a permanent role at the Georges River College Senior Campus in Oatley, another Sydney suburb, in 2024, after several casual teaching jobs, per the Herald. None of the charges she faces relate to her time at the school or her time employed by NSW’s Department of Education.
NSW Deputy Premier and Education Minister, Prue Car, ordered an urgent review into the department’s hiring of Kontou, and is expected to look at any correspondence between the department and the police before she was hired, the newspaper reported.
Georges River College Senior Campus principal Anna Girginis called pupil care and wellbeing the school’s “highest priorities” in a letter to parents on Wednesday, Sept. 30, via the Herald, and she encouraged students to seek counseling if they are affected by the news.
PEOPLE reached out to the New South Wales Police, Sutherland Local Court, Burwood Local Court, Newington College and Georges River College Senior Campus for comment but did not immediately hear back.
An Iranian man accused of being part of a hacking scheme that breached more than 150 US universities and companies while targeting data worth over $3 billion has been extradited from Montenegro to the US to face criminal charges, police in the European country and a person familiar with the case said Thursday.
Amir Barati, 40, is expected to face wire and computer fraud charges in the US Southern District of New York, where he and 16 other Iranian nationals were charged in a superseding indictment in August. Montenegrin police arrested Barati, who is also a Turkish citizen, in June at the request of the FBI.
Barati’s extradition is welcome news for US law enforcement as it tries to blunt Iran’s cyber capabilities during the US’ ongoing war with the country Accused Iranian hackers rarely see a US courtroom.
Barati and his co-defendants are accused of participating in a yearslong campaign that began in 2013 to steal data from universities and companies around the world, breaching about 8,000 email accounts belonging to professors in the US, Europe and elsewhere. The academic data and intellectual property the hackers targeted cost the US universities about $3.4 billion to “procure and access,” according to the indictment.
CNN was unable to reach a lawyer for Barati.
One of the companies allegedly victimized included the network HBO, a subsidiary of CNN’s parent company Warner Brothers Discovery.
Barati allegedly helped track the progress of the hacks of universities and helped create “targeting lists” for the private sector, according to US court documents. Among the breached private US companies were 11 tech firms and two defense contractors, according to the Justice Department.
Other members of the conspiracy aside from Barati allegedly hacked the Department of Labor, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the United Nations.
Many of the intrusions were conducted on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to prosecutors.
A spokesperson for the US Southern District of New York declined to comment on Thursday about Barati’s extradition.
Iran’s sizable hacking capabilities have offered Tehran a way to threaten US critical infrastructure during seven months of war with the US and Israel. Over that time, Iran has been a key suspect in cyberattacks on US water systems, tank readers at gas stations, a major medical device maker and FBI Director Kash Patel’s private email account.
A man simply identified as Sikiru was killed while his wife housewife, two children and six others were abducted by bandits who invaded Babban Saura (PW) community, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State in the early hours of Thursday.
The bandits invaded three houses in the community, according to community source.
The source said the attackers first invaded the residence of an elderly man and abducted two of his children.
He said the assailants later proceeded to the residence of the man identified as Sikiru, where they broke through the fence and gained entry into the compound.
According to him, Sikiru attempted to resist the attackers when they entered his parlour and engaged some of them in a struggle.
The source said the bandits eventually shot and killed him before abducting his wife and two children.
He added that the attackers also invaded a neighbouring house, where they abducted a woman and her four children.
The woman, identified as Maman Mubarak, was later rescued by soldiers and local vigilantes, while her four children remained in captivity.
The commander of the local vigilantes, Usman Adamu, confirmed the incident to, saying nine persons were initially abducted.
Adamu said the vigilantes received a distress call about the attack and immediately alerted soldiers, who joined them in pursuing the bandits.
“We received a distress call that bandits had entered Babban Saura PW, and so we informed soldiers who joined us.
“We traced them to the Eastern Bypass area and succeeded in rescuing a woman, Maman Mubarak, whose four children were among those kidnapped,” he said.
He said the security personnel made efforts to rescue the other victims, but the attackers escaped with them.
Another resident, who identified himself as Anas, said Sikiru had called him after the attackers stormed the community.
During a visit to the community, sympathisers were seen gathered at the deceased’s residence, while residents expressed concern over the security situation.
The attack came a few days after suspected bandits invaded a nearby Kadaure community, where a man was reportedly killed and cows rustled.
Efforts to obtain the reaction of the Kaduna State Police Command were unsuccessful as the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Mansur Hassan, could not be reached on phone. Hassan had also not responded to a text message sent to him.
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American voters are eager to put the world out of Trump's misery of genocide, wars and tariffic malignant chaos associated with a dying hegemonic empire.
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