A schoolboy was killed on Tuesday in the Alakia–Gbagi neighborhood of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, by a stray bullet allegedly fired by a policeman.
The boy’s father is alleged to have violated a traffic signal during the rush hour, which is when the incident reportedly began.
He was allegedly pursued by some policemen in an attempt to fend off arrest.
One of the policemen apparently fired at the fledgling car to disarm it by aiming at its tires.
On May 20, 2025, a student was killed in Ibadan, Oyo.
The child was allegedly fatally wounded when the bullet struck him while he was driving with his father.
The officer fired and struck the boy instead of trying to stop the car. One witness described how quickly things happened along Gbagi Market Road.
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The victim was immediately taken to a nearby hospital, where she had been declared dead shortly afterward.
A mob allegedly moved the student’s corpse to the Oyo State Secretariat, where they staged a protest demanding that the state government be held accountable.
The police have not yet released an official statement regarding the shooting as of the time of filing this report.
The Nigeria Police Force’s crest can be seen on a police officer’s uniform in this file photo. Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV in photo.
Six of the world’s top 10 men’s players will compete at Queen’s after Taylor Fritz, Lorenzo Musetti, Alex de Minaur and Holger Rune were added to this year’s line up.
They join British number one Jack Draper and two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz, who were confirmed for the grass-court tournament in November.
American Tommy Paul will return to defend his title, while Italy’s two-time winner Matteo Berrettini and Bulgaria’s 2014 champion Grigor Dimitrov are also included.
Italy’s world number eight Musetti will attempt to go one better after losing to Paul in last year’s final, while Australia’s ninth-ranked De Minaur lost to Alcaraz in the 2023 showpiece.
Two rising stars in the men’s game are also set to compete this year in Czech 19-year-old Jakub Mensik – who won the Miami Open in March – and French 21-year-old Giovanni Mpetshi-Perricard.
Queen’s will also host a women’s tournament for the first time since 1973.
That takes place the week before the men’s event and will feature British number one Katie Boulter and former US Open champion Emma Raducanu.
Britain’s leading players including Draper, Boulter, Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Lucy Shuker have written to the UK Prime Minister asking for continued investment into tennis, padel and multi-sport facilities across Britain.
The abuse directed at Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s wife has been “threatening, racist, and misogynistic,” according to Everton.
After sending a message in support of her husband, who won his final game at Goodison Park on Sunday with a score of 2-0, Sandra Calvert-Lewin was abused online.
The 28-year-old forward has scored 30 Premier League goals for the Toffees at home, a record that is onlysurpassed by Romelu Lukaku and Duncan Ferguson.
The English international has had a disappointing campaign, scoring just twice this season at Goodison Park, and some Toffees supporters have criticized her.
The club’s statement read, “Everton Football Club firmly condemns the threatening, racist, and misogynistic abuse directed at the wife of Dominic Calvert-Lewin on social media.
This ominous and intimidating behavior does not fit the values of Everton or the overwhelming majority of our supporters, and it is also deeply repulsive and upsetting.
“The club has a zero tolerance policy against all forms of abusive behavior,” the club said. The Premier League and Merseyside Police are closely monitoring their actions to ensure that those responsible are identified and held accountable.
Threats or other forms of abuse, whether online or in person, are completely unacceptable and have no place in society or our game. The club urges anyone who notices or notices this behavior to immediately report it to the authorities and relevant social media platforms.
“Dominic and his family has our full support,” we vow to keep saying.
Merseyside Police responded, “We are aware of racist and threatening social media posts directed at the wife of Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
We are working with Everton Football Club as part of our initial inquiries because it is “absolutely disgusting” to send such abhorrent messages to anyone online.
“We take these reports very seriously, and we want to remind users of the disclaimer that any notion of online anonymity to commit crimes is false.
Donald Trump made a rare trip to Capitol Hill to persuade Republican leaders to support his “big, beautiful bill,” which would lower taxes, lower programs for the poor, and raise the US’s national debt.
Thousands of children in Gaza are at risk of imminent death after a nearly three-month total Israeli blockade on the besieged enclave, which has spread famine, the United Nations relief chief warns.
That has put 14,000 babies at risk of dying in the next 48 hours, Tom Fletcher said in an interview with the BBC on Tuesday.
“We need to flood the Gaza Strip with humanitarian aid,” the UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs said, describing the situation as “chilling”.
All food, medicine and other life-saving aid had been blocked by Israel from entering Gaza beginning on March 2. As of Monday, a trickle of aid was authorised to enter for the first time since then.
Addressing the European Humanitarian Forum in Brussels on Tuesday, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said relief organisations have run out of words to describe the horrors unfolding in Gaza at Israel’s hands.
“But the worst in all this is that we are confronted with a situation: If there is political will, the war can stop. The siege being imposed on Gaza can be lifted,” Lazzarini said.
Since early March, at least 57 children are reported to have died from malnutrition.
A UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment says more than 93 percent of children in Gaza, or about 930,000, are at risk of famine
UNRWA Director of Health Akihiro Seita added on Tuesday that the situation is getting “exponentially” worse and may soon arrive at a point that is “beyond our control”.
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Israel told the UN on Tuesday that it would allow the entry of 100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid, a day after it said it allowed only nine aid trucks into the enclave for the first time in more than 80 days.
Both moves have been roundly slammed for fulfilling only a “drop in the ocean” of the humanitarian needs in Gaza, which has been largely reduced to rubble by Israeli air strikes and ground operations, which were expanded at the weekend.
Israeli attacks continue to kill dozens of Palestinians, including many children, each day while what’s left of infrastructure and aid supplies is being destroyed.
The municipality of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza announced on Tuesday that a major well, the last remaining source of drinking water in the area, was destroyed along with its generator in an Israeli strike.
This comes as more than 100,000 Palestinians have been driven out of their homes and shelters in the past several days alone, according to the UN, and have nowhere safe to go as they face famine.
The Israeli army on Tuesday bombed the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis as well, hitting life-saving medical supplies and causing widespread destruction across the hospital’s different facilities, including oxygen lines and a laboratory.
“In northern Gaza, the Indonesian Hospital is under siege by the Israeli military with patients unable to enter or get out,” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said, reporting from Deir el-Balah.
“Aside from the Nasser and Indonesian hospitals, two other major hospitals in Gaza, the European and al-Awda, have been bombed and largely put out of service in the past few days,” she added.
Tess Ingram, a UNICEF communications manager, explained to Al Jazeera why a scheme hatched by the United States and Israel to take control of aid distribution in Gaza was unacceptable for the international community.
She said the UN and its international partners had 400 distribution points all over Gaza to help Palestinians whereas now only a “handful” of militarised points in southern Gaza will be used under the US-Israel plan.
“This would mean that people would have to walk a long way to collect a packet that weighs up to 25kg [55lb] and then walk back again,” she said.
Speaking on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasised that only a “minimal” amount of aid will be allowed into Gaza for diplomatic and political reasons as international pressure and condemnation is directed at him and his government.
His far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said allowing any aid into Gaza while some Israeli captives taken during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, are still held inside the enclave is “a grave mistake hindering our victory”.
As the Israeli military and government continue to promise to “defeat” Hamas, devastating military strikes on the Palestinian territory have intensified.
The Israeli army said on Tuesday afternoon that it attacked 100 targets in Gaza in the preceding 24 hours, claiming they were all “terrorist” targets.
In a neighborhood that appeared to be populated by civilians in southern Gaza, Israeli forces launched an invasion. Before snatching his wife and young son, they murdered a Palestinian fighter. Israel’s assault on Gaza, where bombardment, siege, and hunger still exist, became more and more frequent as the raid progressed.
