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The world's second-largest gem quality diamond has been discovered in Botswana, the Lucara Diamond firm says. The 1,111-carat stone was recovered from its Karowe mine, about 500km (300 miles) north of the capital, Gaborone. It is the biggest diamond to be discovered in Botswana and the largest find in more than a century. The 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond was found in South Africa in 1905 and cut into nine separate stones, many of which are in the British Crown Jewels.  "The significance of the recovery of a gem quality stone larger than 1,000 carats, the largest for more than a century... cannot be overstated," William Lamb, the CEO of Lucara Diamond, a Canadian diamond producer, said in a statement. Lucara says two other "exceptional" white diamonds - an 813-carat stone and a 374-carat stone - were also found at the Karowe mine. "I am truly at a loss for words. This has been an amazing week for Lucara with the recovery of the second la...

Deji Adeleke , Chancellor of the Adeleke University, and the father of popular artiste, Davido  was present in court on Thursday 19th of November but the estranged wife was not in court when journalists were chased out. Oguntade, the presiding Judge, had on Monday, November 16, prevented journalists who were present at the court by chasing them out of the court room. The judge again on Thursday asked journalists present in the courtroom to go out before the proceedings started. On entering the court, Oguntade said, “Journalists present in this court should go out. I repeat, journalists present in this court should go out now.” The judge asked his orderly to escort the journalists out and the orderly relayed the order to the senior police officer, Adeoye Yekinin, who led a team of armed policemen deployed in the court for the divorce case. The police officer, however, was polite in carrying out the order as he pleaded with the two journalists including our correspondent...

This morning armed robbers stormed a bank in Agbara and engaged the police in a gun battle. One person was killed in the process. Below are some photos  of the incident… … May God order our steps.

Antonire Leiris, a Parisian whose wife, Helene Muyal-Leiris, was among the 89 people killed in the Bataclan concert hall in Paris during last Friday's terror attack, took to his Facebook wall to post an open letter to ISIS. His original letter written in French was posted on Facebook and has been shared nearly 200,000 times since Monday. It has also been translated into several other languages and read by millions.

The international footballer shared his condolence message on his Facebook wall.