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Cameroon To Send Delegations To Nigeria To Persuade Refugees To Come Back Home
The Cameroon government, within the next few days, would be sending delegations to the various camps and communities hosting mostly…
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Court Martial Jails Soldier 55 Years For Killing WHO Worker In Zamfara
On Wednesday, a General Court martial jailed a soldier 55 years for killing a World Health Organisation (WHO) employee in…
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Crisis Rocks UNILAG As Council Sacks Vice-Chancellor
University of Lagos (UNILAG), a first generation citadel of learning in Nigeria, is enmeshed in a crisis of leadership between…
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Kano Sharia Court Sentences 70-Year-Old Rapist To Death By Stoning For Defilement
An Upper Shari’a court sitting at Kofar Kudu in Kano on Wednesday sentenced Mati Audu, a 70- year-old, to death…
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Kano State Government Warns Health Workers To Stop Charging HIV/AIDS Patients
The Kano State government has warned health workers to desist from charging clients for any HIV and AIDS services ranging…
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Nigerians ‘Tempted To Agree’ With Shekau As He Condemns Kano’s Anti-Blasphemy Judgment
Reacting to an audio clip released by the Boko Haram leader, some Nigerians on Twitter said they bought into Abubakar…
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More Than 100 Killed In South Sudan Clashes
Two days of clashes between security forces and civilians in South Sudan have left at least 118 people dead and…
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SEMA Cautions Kano Residents Of Inevitable Flooding, Says About 20 LGAs At Risk
Kano State Emergency Management Agency has advised residents of no fewer than 20 local government areas to clear their drains…
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Malaria: MSF Partners WHO To Save Children
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international organisation that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict and disasters,…
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Blasphemy: Shekau Faults Kano Death Sentencing, Says Kano is the Land of Infidels
The embattled leader of Jama’atu Ahlussunnah Lid Da’awati Wal Jihad otherwise known as Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has released 11…
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Rural Women and Their Sufferings At The Hands of Katsina Terror Groups
Katsina, the capital of Katsina State, continues to see an influx of refugees fleeing their villages as they continue to…
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COVID-19 Impact Manifests, Oyo State Conducts Internet-Based Recruitment Test
The reality of the COVID-19 pandemic has begun to manifest in Nigeria’s job recruitment process with Oyo State government, Southwest…
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44 Chadians Died In Poor Detention Conditions – Report
Forty-four detainees who were found dead in a gendarmerie detention centre in the Chadian capital N’Djamena on Thursday, April 15,…
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DR Congo: 660,000 Persons Displaced In Ituri Since January 2020
More than 660,000 persons have been internally displaced in Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to armed…
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60% Of Sexual Offences In Lagos State Are On Defilement – DPP
Five hundred and eighty-six or 60 per cent of 981 sexual offence cases in Lagos State involve the defilement of…
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Gunmen Attack Benue Community, Kill 13, Including 3 Siblings ‘As Their Mother Watched’
Thirteen residents of Ukpogo-Edikwu, a community in Apa Local Government Area of Benue, were killed in the wee hours of…
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Somalia: 6 Prisoners Die In Mogadishu Prison Uprising
At least six prisoners were killed and another six injured in an uprising in Mogadishu’s central prison on Monday. Somali…
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12,000 Central African Refugees Face Starvation In Cameroon
About 12,000 refugees from the Central African Republic based in Cameroon’s Eastern Region are at risk of starvation if food…
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UN, Gabon Sign Pact For Peace On Borders With Cameroon And Chad
The United Nations System in Gabon and the Gabonese Ministry of Decentralisation, Cohesion and Territorial Development on August 4 signed…
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Boy Forced To Live With Animals In A Stall Rescued
In the early hours of Sunday, August 9, 2020, a delegation from the Kebbi State Government took over the care…
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‘Terrorists Across Sahel Region Now Targeting Aid Workers’
Terrorist groups operating in the Sahel region, which includes Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Sudan, and a host of other African…
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Number of People Requiring Humanitarian Aid in North-East Nigeria Highest in Five Years
The number of people requiring humanitarian assistance in northeast Nigeria is currently at its highest since a joint humanitarian response…
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Trafficked Nigerian Women Remain Stranded in Saudi Arabia in Dire Conditions – JIFORM
An additional 138 women have been trafficked to Saudi Arabia and are in critical health conditions, according to Journalists International…
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COVID-19: Edo Residents Live Without Precautions Despite Pandemic
While some residents of Lagos and Abuja keenly follow the news to monitor events around the COVID-19 outbreak, majority of…
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5 Killed In Rebel Attack In Ituri, DR Congo
Five persons were, on Sunday, killed in an attack on the village of Liseyi in the Banyali sector, Ituri province…
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Terrorists Kill 8 In Niger Republic
Eight people, including six aid workers, were killed in a giraffe reserve located at Koure about 65 km from Niger…
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Central Africa: UN, US Impose Sanctions On Rebel Leader Abass Sidiki
The United States Treasury Department, following on the heels of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) imposed sanctions against Central African…
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Katsina: Terror Groups Kidnap 3 Girls In Fresh Community Attack
Terror groups, on Sunday night, kidnapped three girls during an attack on Saulawa community of Kurfi Local government area of…
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Suspected Cultists Murder Anti-Cultism Intelligence Officer In Anambra
Azubuike Ekwegbalu, the Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria, was murdered in his home…
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Doctors’ Election: When Life Savers Turned Agents Of Death
From the beginning of the process, there were signs that the August 6, 2020, election of the Enugu chapter of…
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