Munich in lockdown in likely terrorist attack - at least 9 people killed

Police forces in Munich, Germany are on a hunt for three gunmen, whom they believe conducted a terrorist attack at a shopping centre and McDonald's restaurant. Nine people have been confirmed dead. Reports say children where also targeted in the attack.

According to CNN report, the shooting broke out at a McDonald's restaurant across from the Olympia shopping mall about 5:50 p.m. (11:50 a.m. ET), police spokeswoman Claudia Küntzel said. Gunfire also broke out inside the mall, which is adjacent to the site of the 1972 Olympics, witnesses said.

Gunman dressed in black firing shots

We didn’t rob; we only collected our dues – Suspects

The suspects

The police have arrested four suspected robbers at a Lagos market who claimed they did not steal from the traders, but only came to collect their dues.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects- Onyenge Osanie, Azuka Eboh, Ezelonwu Michael and Afolabi Shakiru- were nabbed by the police while they were looting some shops and robbing traders at the Alaba International Market, Ojo, Lagos.

Our correspondent gathered that the suspects, who are four members of a ten-man gang, were arrested by operatives of the state Special Anti-Robbery Squad on December 20.

Wreckage of AirAsia jet carrying 162 people is 'spotted' in sea .

The Pilot

An Indonesian official says objects have been spotted in the sea by a search plane hunting for the missing AirAsia jet.

Jakarta's Air Force base commander Rear Marshal Dwi Putranto said he was informed on Monday an Australian Orion aircraft had detected suspicious objects near Nangka island, about 160 kilometres south-west of Pangkalan Bun, near central Kalimantan.

It is 1,120 kilometres from the location where the plane lost contact.

Fire consumed my Bachelor, Master’s degrees – Sambo tells INEC

Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has told the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that his Bachelors and Masters degrees certificates in Architecture from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, were consumed by fire.

The incumbent deputy to President Goodluck Jonathan and well as vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2015 general elections, made the declaration in the documents he filed with INEC. The documents, among others, are displayed at the commission’s office in Abuja. Sambo’s papers were received and stamped in INEC headquarters between December 10 and 18, 2014.

Baby falls off mum’s back on Okada, crushed by truck

A heavy duty truck, conveying crates of soft drinks, yesterday, at the Okorodafe Roundabout in Ughelli, Delta State, crushed a four-month-old baby girl, who had fallen off the back of her mother travelling on a commercial motorcycle, popularly known as Okada.

According to witnesses, the mother of the baby, who is in her 30s and simply identified as Ese, was said to have been struggling to adjust the wrapper with which she strapped the baby to her back, while the Okada was in motion.

One of the witnesses, identified as Efemena Okiemute, told Vanguard that the baby fell on the middle of the road and was immediately crushed by the truck, which was directly behind the Okada.

When Vanguard visited the scene, officials of Ughelli Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, were seen clearing the remains of the dead baby from the road

Police arrest man for abducting friend’s daughter

A suspected abductor, Mathew Alhaji, has been apprehended by policemen attached to Warewa Police Station, Ogun State, for abducting his friend’s daughter (name withheld).

Our correspondent gathered that Alhaji and Mr. Agbotome Denis, who adopted the victim, had been friends for two years.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect abducted the 13-year-year-old girl, around the Arepo area of the state on Sunday, December 14 while she was hawking fura.

SERAP asks UN to stop execution of 54 soldiers

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on the United Nations to help stop the execution of 54 soldiers sentenced to death by the Nigerian Army on December 17.

A General Court Martial set up by the Army authorities had sentenced the 54 soldiers to death by firing squad for alleged offences of mutiny and conspiracy to commit mutiny.

But SERAP, in a petition dated December 23 and addressed to a group of five UN special human rights rapporteurs, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, described the mass death sentences imposed on the soldiers as “unjust and incompatible with fundamental human rights.”