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Hours after meeting Buhari, attending confab on oil OPEC Sec-Gen Barkindo dies suddenly

Just hours after he was declared a worthy ambassador of Nigeria by a grateful President Muhammadu Buhari and another official engagement in which he...

Nigerian ambassador, Otobo, found dead in New York

Eight days after he was declared missing, a Nigerian- born ambassador, Ejeviome Otobo, 70, has been found dead. Tuckahoe police, according to News12, say the...

Afghanistan quake: Many children killed in disaster, doctors say

Doctors in Afghanistan have told the BBC that many children may have been killed in Wednesday's earthquake. More than 1,000 people died in the disaster...

Gunmen behead ex-lawmaker in Anambra

Gunmen have beheaded a former lawmaker in Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east. The victim, Nelson Achukwu, from Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, was...

Three killed in attacks on churches in Kaduna

Two weeks after gunmen struck in Owo, Ondo State, killing 40 worshippers,  two churches in Kaduna State have been attacked with three lives, including...

Owo terror attack: Akeredolu, wife weep at funeral of slain victims, says “we failed to protect these people” 

A tearful Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, and his wife, Betty Anyanwu, could not hold back tears on Friday as they joined...

Customer, friends lynch, burn Lagos sex worker for keeping Quran in room

The Lagos State Police Command has charged three suspects to court for allegedly beating a prostitute, Hannah Saliu, to death and setting her corpse...

Kaduna govt gives own account, figures of casualties in attack on southern Kaduna villages

Bandits raid villages, kill 32 in Kajuru LGA. - KDSG debunks reports of aerial attack by terrorists. - NAF helicopter arrived to engage bandits. The Kaduna State...

Court sentences killers of Fasoranti’s daughter to death

The Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Friday, sentenced three persons to death for killing Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the Afenifere leader,...

FG names ISWAP as Kaduna, Owo Sunday bloodbath figures put at 85

Official figures for the number of deaths in the two Sunday attacks in southern Kaduna and Owo have been pegged at 72. But unofficial...

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