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Ogun student beats teacher to coma

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Gunmen in the early hours of Friday stormed Birshin Fulani, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, and kidnapped a nursing mother of three children, Mrs Rukayyat Odedoyin.

Ekiti: Gunmen abduct 8 people, demand N50 million ransom

3 hours ago

The new Head of Delegation for the European Union (EU) and the ECOWAS, Ms Samuela Isopi, has said that over two million people remained displaced from their homes in the northeast of the country.

EU envoy: Over two million people remain displaced in Northeast Nigeria

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Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, a radical Islamist party, chant religious slogans during a protest march toward Islamabad, in Mureedke, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The radical Islamist party agreed on Sunday to suspend for three days its march of thousands toward the capital Islamabad after Pakistan agreed to drop pending charges against the party's leader. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan releases hundreds of TLP activists as protest continues

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The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who disclosed this also stated that the timely, strategic and aggressive approach adopted by the Federal Government at the out break of COVID-19 pandemic last year has been acknowledged as successful strides that have positively impacted on the lives of inmates in Nigeria’s correctional centres.

Minister: We’ll recapture all inmates who escaped from Oyo prison

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Pope Francis looks on during the weekly general audience at the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican, August 25, 2021. REUTERS-Guglielmo Mangiapane

Pope: Don’t send migrants back to Libya and ‘inhumane’ camps

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Relatives carry the coffin of Ecuadorian athlete Alex Quiñonez at a funeral home in southern Guayaquil, Ecuador on October 23, 2021. - Ecuadorian Olympic sprinter Alex Quiñonez, 32, was killed in the port of Guayaquil (southwest), the sports ministry said. (Photo by Fernando Méndez / AFP)

Ecuador’s Olympic sprinter Alex Quinonez shot dead

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Mali's interim President Assimi Goita was the target of an attempted stabbing attack during Eid al-Adha prayers at Bamako's Grand Mosque, the West African nation's presidency said in a statement on Twitter on Tuesday.

UN urged to press Mali junta over summary executions

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FILE - A man stands in front of the gate of a Nigerian Correctional Services facility that was attacked by gunmen, with large numbers of inmates set freed afterwards, in Imo State, Nigeria April 5, 2021.

Official: Dozens of inmates free in latest Nigeria jailbreak

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Members of Amhara special forces stand guard on the Ethiopia-Eritrean border near the town of Humera, Ethiopia July 1, 2021. REUTERS-Stringer

Ethiopia fighting intensifies amid air strikes on Tigray and clashes in Amhara

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Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C-Don Adinuba, has described the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Charles Soludo, as one who possesses all the requisite qualities to be at the helm of affairs when Obiano hands over the office next year.

Chukwuma Soludo: Senator Uba afraid of Anambra people

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Court reinstates Barau Muazu as Emir of Kontagora

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Gunmen in the early hours of Friday stormed Birshin Fulani, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, and kidnapped a nursing mother of three children, Mrs Rukayyat Odedoyin.

Bandits raid ex-Zamfara governor’s hometown, abduct in-law

6 days ago

The Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, on Thursday announced the appointment of Mr Yomi Odunuga as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity.

2023: Senator Omo-Agege vows to sack PDP in Delta

1 week ago

Mystery fire on Sunday afternoon razed some parts of Nkwo Ogbe market in Ihiala, Ihiala Local Government Area, and destroyed goods that worth several millions of Naira.

Fire guts Anambra market

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