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25 Mar 2024
At least five people were killed and an estimated 1,000 homes destroyed when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocked flood-stricken northern Papua New Guinea, officials said Monday as disaster crews poured into the region.
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At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with the pieces which break off the walls. In the course of a day's work he manages to fill three 50-kilo bags which will net him 150,000 nairas ($100), or around double the monthly minimum…
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The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has relocated its meetings from the party’s national secretariat in Abuja for security reasons.
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Police officers at the Zonal Command Headquarters in Onikan, Lagos State, have paraded the managing director and chief executive officer of a Lagos hotel for allegedly sodomising a 16-year-old boy.
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The family of 29-year-old Nkiru Osakweogo is in distress following her disappearance after attending a job interview in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
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A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ifo, Ogun State, has ordered the remand of the suspended traditional ruler of Orile Ifo, Oba Abdulsemiu Ogunjobi, in a correctional facility in Ilaro.
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Thierry Henry has claimed that Pep Guardiola is ‘not mentally well’ amid his split from wife Cristina Serra and Manchester City’s challenging season, reports dailymail.co.uk.
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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday seeking to ban transgender athletes from participating in women's sports, in his latest move targeting transgender people since returning to office. "From now on women's sports will be only for women," Trump said before he signed the order at the White House, surrounded by dozens…
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The Trump administration has deported 6,000 migrants in the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term, Daily Mail reports yesterday. The report disclosed that in the 15 days since Trump has been in office, deportation rate averaged 370 – 400 per day.
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Niger's ruling military junta has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to leave the country immediately, a source told AFP Wednesday. Niger has "terminated its agreements" with the ICRC and some foreign staff have started to leave the west African country, the source said, adding the organisation had closed its office in…
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In a dream, a mysterious voice calls out in the night to King Alantako, warning of "chaos" ahead for the young Nigerian sovereign. He wakes with a start -- and sets out on an adventure that will lead him to his destiny and save the kingdom of Ile Kaaro Oojiire. So begins The Wild Kingdoms…