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A former Director, Defence Media Operations, Major-General Bernard Onyeuko (rtd) is dead. He died today, Saturday, August 26, in Abuja. Sources said General Onyeuko died at an undisclosed hospital he was rushed to, after complaining of cold. He retired recently as Director of Procurement, Defence Headquarters, following the appointment of a new CDS and Service […]
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The Kremlin on Friday dismissed rumours it orchestrated the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, presumed dead in a plane crash two months after leading a mutiny in Russia. It also announced by decree that Russian paramilitary fighters will be obliged to swear an oath to the Russian flag, part of measures to rein in […]
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Ten people have died after an explosion in a business district in the Dominican Republic, with 11 others still missing and dozens injured, President Luis Abinader said Tuesday. The explosion on Monday shook the commercial area of San Cristobal, less than 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the capital Santo Domingo, sparking a fire that was […]
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Six people were killed when a boat carrying migrants heading to Britain sank in the Channel early Saturday, French maritime officials said, as a search continued to find those still missing. A spokeswoman from the French coastal authority Premar said between five and 10 passengers were still missing, while 55 had been rescued. Four French […]
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, through the Development Research and Projects and the Society for Gynaecologists and Obstetrics in Nigeria under the International Federation of Gynaecologists and Obstetrics, has embarked on a three year advocacy intervention project to reduce the rising cases of maternal and neonatal deaths in Nigeria. The goal of the partnership, […]
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For Mrs Lucy Obasi, a widow whose son, Chikaodili Obasi was stabbed to death by some suspected criminals barely two months ago, over a sharing formula for N1,600 given to them after a business transaction, the world appeared to have turned inside out, upside down for. Mrs Obasi who hails from Umunwagu village, Idembia, Ezza […]
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The Nigeria Police, Ondo State Command, on Tuesday, said it has arrested two suspects who allegedly stoned a 35-year-old man, Ọlọ́run Femi Tope, to death in Akure. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that an angry mob on Monday stoned Tope to death when his allegedly reckless driving caused an accident that resulted in […]
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The Nigeria Football Federations Head of Administration, Mallam Magaji Abdullahi, is dead. Abdullahi died on Thursday night after a brief illness. He was 54. The NFF confirmed his death in a statement on Friday. The statement read, “A native of Bakori, Katsina State, Magaji Abdullahi joined the employ of the Nigeria Football Federation in May […]
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South African health authorities on Thursday announced the country’s first cholera death in more than a decade. Cholera is not endemic in South Africa, which has since early February recorded five cases. The first two of those were imported from Malawi which is buckling under its deadliest cholera outbreak in decades. The victim in South […]
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