Nigeria

Lagos: At least 31 people died in a stampede at the venue of a church programme in Nigeria's southern city of Port Harcourt in Rivers state, police said. Grace Iringe-Koko, police spokesperson in the state, confirmed the casualties and…
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Abuja: More than 23 extremist militants, including a prominent Commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), were killed in counterterrorism operations by the Nigerian military in the country's northeast region in the past…
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As the world is struggling against the deadly virus Covid-19, a new virus has been discovered named Lassa fever. This has reportedly claimed three lives in Britain, where the cases of new viral infection were detected last week. On…
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Lagos: Thirty students and a teacher have regained freedom after being held for more than six months by gunmen who attacked their school in northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state and abducted them in June 2021, according to a state official.…
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Lagos: Nigerian navy troops have killed at least 10 suspected kidnappers in a recent operation aimed at rooting out illegal gunmen groups from their camps in the country's southern region, a navy officer said. On Friday, Suleiman Agabi,…
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Abuja: At least 60 people have been killed by a cholera outbreak since May in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, a government official said. A total of 698 cases of the disease have been recorded since May, Xinhua news agency quoted Ramatu…
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San Francisco: Former US president Donald Trump, banned on all key social media platforms, has welcomes the Nigeria ban on Twitter, saying more countries should do the same. Trump issued a statement late on Tuesday, supporting the Nigerian…
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When 30-year old Ugorji Peace Nkechi first met Odia lad Amiya Ranjan Parida, little did she know that their relation would last a lifetime. She was working as a Quality Control Manager at a pharmaceutical company, where Amiya was hired…
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