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At least 120 people are feared to have been killed in a series of devastating attacks across Paris on Friday evening.Eight attackers also died, police say, seven of them by detonating explosive suicide belts. Two hundred people were injured, 80 of them seriously. Shootings and explosions were reported in six locations across the city, including the Stade de France in northern Paris, where two suicide attacks and a bombing took place as the national team played Germany in a friendly football match. The majority of victims died after a mass shooting inside the Bataclan concert venue.Shootings also took place in restaurants and other sites in the centre of the city. His spokeswoman said eight assailants had also died, seven of whom had blown themselves up with explosive belts at various locations, while one had been shot dead by police. Police continue to search for accomplices who might still be at large. UK Guardian

The publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, has released photos of cancer-stricken Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in the inaugural issue of a brand new tabloid titled Boss magazine. Last week, Mr. Momodu devoted his weekly column in Thisday newspaper to relating his experience meeting with the seriously sick former minister for an interview in the UK. The column engendered significant controversy on social media, with many readers accusing the columnist cum celebrity publisher of helping to launder Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s image. Some of the column’s critics fe lt that Mr. Momodu’s brief was to garner public sympathy for the embattled ex-minister, who is the focus of money laundering investigations in the UK as well as Nigeria. Former Nigerian Oil Minister Ovation Magazine/Boss Newspaper Today, Mr. Momodu released the text of an interview with Mrs. Madueke along with photos of the physically ravaged former minister. The shocking photos are...