There was pandemonium in Ibadan, capital of Oyo state, as a young man simply identified as Sola committed suicide after he climbed and jumped down from the peak of a mast belonging to WEMA Bank at Sango area in Ibadan. Confirming the sad incident, Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), Oyo State Command, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, […]
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A policeman has shot dead an election observer in Enugu State on Saturday. The incident happened in Umuida community, Enugu Ezike, Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of the state, some metres away from the residence of Ayogu Eze, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. He was said to have […]
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Ahmed Abdulrahaman, Kaduna state police commissioner, has failed to confirm the casualty figure Nasir el-Rufai, the governor, released on the killings in Kajuru, Kaduna state. El-Rufai had initially said 66 people were killed in the attacks which took place last week. Trouble started on Sunday night when gunmen invaded Angwan Barde, an Adara community, and […]
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At least eight persons were killed in protests across Sudan on Thursday as thousands took to the streets against soaring prices, with some calling for the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, officials and witnesses said. Six died in the eastern city of al-Qadarif and two more in northern Nile River state, officials from those areas […]
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Police said on Saturday that 11 people including two children died and more than 90 were hospitalised after consuming a religious food offering at a temple in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The police said two people have been questioned in connection with the incident on Friday, after devotees fell ill when they ate […]
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Twelve people — including six hostages — were killed in northeast Brazil on Friday after police foiled a gang of armed robbers staging simultaneous predawn assaults on two banks in the town of Milagres, officials said. Five of the dead hostages were members of the same family and included two children, the local mayor, Lielson […]
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The President of Nigeriam Muhammadu Buhari, has broken his silence on the allegation that he had died and one Jubril from Sudan had been impersonating him. The rumour first surfaced when the president returned to the country after spending three months in the UK, treating an undisclosed ailment. Supporters of the president had dismissed it, […]
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Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army, died on Friday night at the age of 94, a family spokesperson said. Mr Bush, the 41st president of the United States, lived longer than any of his predecessors. His death at 10:10 p.m. […]
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No fewer than 22 people are feared dead and 22 others injured in an explosion and fire near a chemical factory on Wednesday in a northern China region. The incident happened near Hebei Shenghua Chemical Co. in Zhangjiakou, a city some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Beijing that will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. […]
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Ogun State police Command has arrested a 23 – year old man, Taiwo Olatokunbo for killing another man simply identified as Christian over N200 beer. In a press release, the spokesperson for the Police Command, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the police at Igbeba Division from […]
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