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The Emir of Tikau in Yobe, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Ibn-Grema, is dead.
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The Police Command in Rivers has explained why it deployed about 30 armed policemen and Armoured Personnel Carriers to the residential quarters of members of the state House of Assembly in Port Harcourt.
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has mandated embassies in Nigeria to start charging in naira, stopping them from transacting in foreign currencies.
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A middle-aged man identified as Khalid Bichi, was reportedly shot dead by unknown gunmen in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday night. Bichi, believed to be a staff member of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), was said to have been surrendered by his assailants shortly before 9 pm after going to get food. He was shot…
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Hundreds of people were evacuated from border areas in Ukraine's Kharkiv region after a surprise Russian offensive as President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday urged Ukrainian forces to wrest back lost ground.
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The Lagos State Government has announced a six month traffic diversion plan along Adeniji through Falomo, including Bourdillon and Queens Drive. The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. Osiyemi said the diversion is necessary to facilitate the repair of failed Asphaltic Sections of the roads. The repair work will…
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A man has been found dead in western Indonesia after a suspected attack by a Sumatran tiger authorities were still hunting, a local official said Saturday, the latest case of conflict between humans and the critically endangered species. There are only several hundred tigers on the western island of Sumatra left in the wild and…
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French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday he hoped star footballer Kylian Mbappe would be freed up by his likely future club Real Madrid to take part in the Paris Olympics for France. "I'm counting on Real Madrid to free up Kylian for the Olympic Games so he can come play with the French team," Macron…
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More than 200 people were killed in flash floods that ripped through multiple Afghan provinces, the United Nations said on Saturday, as authorities declared a state of emergency and rushed to rescue the injured. Heavy rains on Friday sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces,…