Samsideen Oladiti, a chief executive of the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), was arraigned in court by the Lagos State Police Command.
At the Ebute Metta Magistrate Court 2, he was arraigned on Tuesday for the alleged murder of a dispatched rider.
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Oladiti had been detained in response to assault- and murder-related allegations.
The 55-year-old man allegedly attacked the dispatch rider on Lagos Island while using a helmet and fists to inflict serious injuries, according to a statement from the Command’s Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Babaseyi Oluseyi.
The Impossible Fortune, Robert Osman’s newest book for the Murder Club, is going to be filled with turns and twists.
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Readers can’t get enough of the detective series, so over 10 million copies of the Thursday Murder Club books have sold.
“I love, love, love doing nothing. Doing nothing is, quite absolutely, my state of grace,” says Richard Osman, 54, who, most days, is doing very far from nothing.
He acknowledges that multitasking is not his strong suit. He has just finished recording 110 episodes of Richard Osman’s House of Games, has been hosting The Rest Is Entertainment podcast with Marina Hyde, and has signed 5, 000 copies of his newest book, The Impossible Fortune.
“I do a good job of monotasking.” He wryly replies, “I’m good at focusing on one thing at a time, in extreme depth,” but even when he repeatedly tries to answer questions, he still has an incredible ability to respond quickly, succinctly, without hesitation.
Born in Billericay and growing up in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, for a long time Osman was best known as Alexander Armstrong’s sidekick on BBC One’s Pointless, or for delivering us 8 Out Of 10 Cats on Channel 4. Since 2020 though, he’s the bloke who introduced Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim into our lives. And now the Thursday Murder Club gang are back for a fifth outing.
I’ve given them a year to recover and rest. Osman fondly refers to his characters as “four of his best friends,” noting that “they went through quite a lot.”
He adds that “for all of them, things have slightly changed.”
A distressed guest approaches the depressed detective Elizabeth and says, “Someone is trying to kill me.” The book opens with a wedding scene. “Can you assist me?”
What comes after a “huge amount of money” and “seemingly uncrackable code” intertwined with themes of friendship and loss.
Osman’s focus on the elderly, a group he describes as “incredibly wise but also invisible,” made them ideal detectives when it first appeared, what made the Thursday Murder Club stand out when it first came out. He is still fascinated by his older.
He says, “You are thinking a little bit more deeply about life and what it means, and what grief is and what the point of it all is” as he points out. He doesn’t worry about getting older, which is surprising given the difficulties of getting older.
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He chuckles, “I’m essentially an 80-year-old woman in everything other than my frame,” he says with a smile. No one wants to experience grief, nor do we want to become ill. But we are exactly at that location… However, I like the idea of being older and being less judgmental about what other people think of me.
A Hollywood adaptation of the Thursday Murder Club novels was inevitable given that there were already more than 10 million copies of the books being sold.
Securing British legends Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren to portray the foursome in the Netflix film, helmed by Christopher Columbus, represents phenomenal casting, though Osman wasn’t concerned about having the stars influencing his mind whilst penning the next instalment.
No one, not even the mighty Helen Mirren, can knock Elizabeth out of my head, he retorts jovially, “because those characters are so ridiculously real, I know.” The consistently witty and compelling author, Osman, does have a slight resentment toward labels and imitators who frequently lead to success.
The series’ titles include The Man Who Died Twice, The Bullet That Missed, The Last Devil to Die, and The Impossible Fortune.
Some people may be off course due to such enormous success, but Osman, a father of two, has a work ethic unwavering. He advises, “Anytime someone has a hit is great, but it mustn’t deter you for longer than, say, five minutes.”
“Everything returns to sitting down and writing again, going back upstairs.” Without you writing the following book, nothing happens. I enjoy grafting. I enjoy getting paid, but I enjoy doing my day’s work.
His “really hard work,” he confesses with a chuckle, “really hard work” when his feline companions start hollering at him while hammered out upstairs at home, with the door firmly closed until they start yelling at him. He continues, “That’s a fairly simple job, I’m going to say.”
However, he claims that writing is “the thing I felt compelled to do.” That’s the thing I started with when I was 15 years old, and it’s what I’ll finish with as well.
The Impossible Fortune, a work by Richard Osman, is now available.
Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards was emotional at a gig following the release of her debut solo album whilst introducing a song said to be about her friendship with Jesy Nelson
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Perrie Edwards was emotional talking about losing a friend recently after previously discussing being estranged from former Little Mix bandmate Jesy Nelson(Image: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images for MTV)
Singer-songwriter Perrie Edwards was emotional whilst introducing a song that’s said to be about the end of her friendship with Jesy Nelson at a gig recently. She spoke about struggling to navigate losing a friend at the concert.
Perrie, 32, has been promoting her self-titled debut solo album at signings and gigs since it was released last week. It’s included the Little Mix member having performed for fans at a concert that was held in Circuit in Kingston on Saturday night.
At the acoustic show, Perrie performed Same Place Different View, which features on her new album. She’s previously mentioned the track whilst discussing her estrangement from former bandmate Jesy, 34, who left Little Mix in 2020 after having been part of the group for almost a decade.
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Videos shared on social media show Perrie becoming emotional whilst introducing the song. She told the audience: “I wrote this next song because I feel like we talk about heartbreak a lot in music, in songs and life, and it’s always romantically.
“And we seem to forget like losing a friend or falling out with a friend or not having them in your life anymore, it’s f***ing hard! And it’s like how do I navigate a life where that person’s been there for years, they’ve seen me cry, they’ve seen my absolute demons, they’ve seen everything, and then poof they’re gone?”
She continued: “It’s like ‘okay’. So I think I really struggled to navigate it.” After appearing to get emotional, Perrie was met with support from the crowd but she said: “Okay, wait! Don’t make me cry because then my vocal chords are gonna go funny and then I’m not gonna sound good.” She then revealed that the song was Same Place Different View.
Perrie has previously spoken about her friendship with Jesy. They were put into Little Mix together on the X Factor in 2011 and it was later announced in 2020 that Jesy was leaving the group.
Jesy said in a statement released at the time: “The truth is recently being in the band has really taken a toll on my mental health. I find the constant pressure of being in a girl group and living up to expectations very hard. There comes a time in life when we need to reinvest in taking care of ourselves rather than focusing on making other people happy, and I feel like now is the time to begin the process.”
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More recently, on Alison Hammond’s Big Weekend, Perrie said that she was no longer in contact with Jesy. She went on to say on her episode of the BBC show, released in May: “I wrote a song about it. Every time I listen to it, I cry.”
Whilst on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, Perrie said about experiencing a loss of friendship: “I wrote a song about it and it’s called Same Place Different View and it’s about a friendship that I had, that I no longer have anymore. I mentioned it in an interview, and so many people reached out to me.”
Perrie added: “It’s not really spoken about. When you hear a heartbreak song, it’s about a relationship or a significant other. […] But when it’s a friend, like you don’t really hear about it that much in music, so I was like ‘I’m gonna write something about it because it’s just as heartbreaking, if not worse’.”
She later added: “It’s really sad, but at the same time, these things sometimes happen and it does makes you think like ‘ahh, do we try and rectify the situation? Do we try this? Do I reach out? It doesn’t feel like I should. I feel like I should just stay away’. It’s a really horrible dynamic to be in.”
Jesy has also spoken about no longer being in contact with her former bandmates. As reported at the time, she said on The Graham Norton Show in 2021: “We’re not talking any more. It is sad but honestly there is no bad blood from my side, and I still love them to pieces and genuinely wish them all the best.”
She added: “I loved my time with them, and we’ve got the most incredible memories together but it’s just one of those things which needs to take time, so who knows. To me they are still the ‘sickest’ girl band in the world.”
More recently, Jesy told the Sun in 2023 that she had no “regrets” about having left Little Mix because it was “right” for her, before saying that she would “always cherish the memories” she made in the group. She then spoke about no longer speaking to her former bandmates.
She said: “No, we haven’t talked since then. Never say never, but I honestly wish them the best on their solo journeys now, which is so exciting.” Jesy said that she was “rooting” for them all, adding: “I honestly do wish them all the success as they are all crazy talented.”
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The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary are currently at the end of their third year, making it the most severe humanitarian disaster in history.
According to estimates, thousands of people have died as a result of war-related diseases and hunger, while thousands more have already been killed as a result of combat alone.
As the humanitarian situation continues to worsen, there were a few important military updates this month:
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The Sudanese government, which had relocated to Port Sudan, is awaiting the return of its capital, Khartoum.
Except for El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, where SAF has its final Darfur garrison, the RSF controls the majority of Darfur’s vast western region. According to satellite imagery obtained by the Yale Humanitarian Research Hub, the paramilitary is besieging El-Fasher in an effort to control the entire region. They are erecting massive sand berms around it from the north, west, and east, effectively creating a “kill-box.”
However, according to analysts, the RSF is moving too slowly and the SAF is moving away from El-Fasher, moving from the north to Bakhit (150 kilometers, or 90 miles) in the direction of El-Fasher.
According to Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, who was based in Khartoum, an RSF drone killed more than 70 people on September 19 in El-Fasher, making it one of the “bloodiest days in the city since the RSF began its siege in May last year.”
With the assistance of Abdelaziz al-Hilu’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), RSF also has access to South Sudan via cross-border routes, allowing it to access much of Kordofan to the south.
However, SAF still has control of El-Obeid, North Korea’s most important city, which it needs to hold to prevent the RSF from posing a threat to central Sudan.
After months of tense battles that some analysts called “Mad Max-like,” SAF captured a strategic victory in North Kordofan by taking Umm Sumeima, which is about 60 kilometers (37 miles) west of El-Obeid on September 26 and Bara, which is 62 kilometers (39 miles) north on September 11.
Humanitarian crisis
More than 1, 000 people were reportedly killed in a landslide in Tarasin in the Marrah Mountains in Central Darfur in early September. On September 4, a Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) official said 370 bodies had been found and buried in a video released on September 4.
An estimated 260 000 civilians have been encamped by the RSF, including 130 000 children, in locations like El-Fasher and the nearby Zamzam displacement camp, where the famine has spread.
A total of 24.6 million people, or roughly half of the population, are experiencing acute food shortages, according to the World Food Programme, while 637, 000 are suffering from devastating hunger.
Due to road closures and bureaucratic obstacles, aid convoys from the UN and other non-governmental organizations rarely travel to Darfur. Both sides are accused of using food as weapons by right-wing activists and activists.
Sudan’s infrastructure is in danger of developing cholera, according to the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). More than 5, 000 cases of malaria, typhoid, and dengue fever have been reported in one area of the capital in the past month, according to Hiba Morgan’s report on September 23.
At least 50 people have died in the Mediterranean Sea as a result of a vessel’s fire in the Mediterranean Sea, which was a refugee for Sudanese refugees trying to flee the conflict.
political and diplomatic developments
On September 20, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared that “the parties must return to the negotiating table and find a workable resolution to the conflict.”
Alkhaleej Bank and Red Rock Mining Company, two businesses, were subject to restrictive measures by the European Union. According to the EU Council, Red Rock is “involved in facilitating the production of weapons and vehicles for the SAF,” while Alkhaleej Bank is “owned by companies linked to family members of RSF Commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.”
SAF military commander Abu Aqla Mohamed Kaikal, who defected to the RSF before rejoining it in 2024, and RSF field commander Hussein Barsham, who the council described as “operations that have resulted in mass atrocities, including targeted killings, ethnic violence, forced displacement, and violence against civilians, particularly in Darfur and other conflict-affected regions of Sudan,” were also subject to restrictive measures.
A three-month humanitarian truce, a permanent ceasefire, a nine-month transitional period, and a broad-based civilian-led government would be the subject of a proposal to end the conflict that has been submitted by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
All efforts to put an end to the war have so far failed.
