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Nigeria’s North Benue Crisis: Army Chief says Police have made some arrests

Ebuka Prince June 20, 2025

Nigeria Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Christopher Musa, said police have arrested a number of people and that actions were being taken, following the killings that took place in northcentral Benue state. Musa disclosed this on Thursday while fielding questions on Arise Television’s

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Challenge for Dance4Refugees begins

Howard Mildilton June 20, 2025

Belgin “Wake up, wake up.” That’s the rallying cry at the heart of a powerful new choreography by Belgian dancer Jeny BSG, created for the Dance4Refugees campaign. Speaking to Euronews ahead of World Refugee Day, observed every year on June 20, Jeny described the project as a call to action in support of the world’s […]

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Chinese student who drugged and raped 10 women jailed for life

Chung Fang June 19, 2025

China A Chinese PhD student found guilty of drugging and raping 10 women has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years. Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted of multiple sexual assaults on women in the UK and China in March, where he used drugs to incapacitate his victims before raping them. The trial at […]

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Hotel Attack: Kenya court sentences two to jail

Saad Huzaifa June 19, 2025

Kenya A court in Kenya on Thursday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for aiding al-Shabaab militants in a 2019 attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex. In January that year, gunmen shot their way into the Dusit hotel and office complex, killing 21 people in a siege that lasted 19 hours. All five […]

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Iranian human rights lawyer held in prison begs for release

Ethan Asher June 19, 2025

Iran The daughter of a human rights lawyer held in a prison located in an area targeted by Israeli missile strikes has begged for his release. Mehraveh Khandan’s father, Reza Khandan, has been in Evin prison since December, serving a sentence of four years and one month for charges of “assembly and collusion” and “propaganda […]

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GAZA: Surgeons decry amputations, badly burned bomb victims and lack of medicine

Ethan Asher June 19, 2025

Gaza Doctors are a very special category of people. Doctors who opt to work in war zones are an entirely different level of special. They take their skills and medical experience into the most dangerous of environments, knowing they risk their own lives in their mission to save others. Yet they do this regardless. The […]

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Nigeria’s energy coy involves customers in fight against electricity theft

Jude Owuamannam June 19, 2025

Nigeria The fight against electricity thieves took a new turn on Wednesday when Nigeria’s Jos DisCo appealed to customers to join the company in the fight against energy theft. This was discussed during a quarterly meeting tagged:“Customers Consultative Forum, organised by the northcentral Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JED), to interact with its teeming

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Nigerian president orders shoot at sight on Fulani bandits after 200 killed in Benue north

admin June 19, 2025

Nigeria Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday directed security agencies to hunt down the perpetrators of a weekend attack that killed at least 200 people in the country’s northcentral, as he faces growing pressure over a worsening security crisis. Tinubu visited Benue state, the site of the recent deadly attacks, seeking to calm tensions and promise […]

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Iranian strike damages a hospital in Israel, over 40 wounded

admin June 19, 2025

Israel An Iranian missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel early Thursday, causing “extensive damage” but no serious injuries, according to the medical facility. Other missiles hit a high-rise building and several other residential buildings near Tel Aviv. At least 40 people were wounded in the attacks, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom […]

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Mining coy Elipse, hails Nigeria’s President Tinubu, on Democracy Day

admin June 12, 2025

Nigeria The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Elipse International Limited, Mr Denzel Henry Akogwu, has joined other well-meaning Nigerians to express his goodwill message to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the occasion of the nation’s Democracy Day. In a statement personally signed by the mining top businessmen, he recalled the heroic exploits of President […]