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Kidnap victim dies a day after release in Kwara
One of the five abductees, Engineer Ayodele Alabi, who regained freedom from kidnappers on Thursday night is dead. Alabi who was released on Thursday after spending about six days in the den of the Kidnappers was reported dead in the early hours of Friday in a hospital in Ilorin following trauma and injuries he sustained…
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Double amputee at two, orphaned at nine: Kenyan rower’s journey from childhood tragedy to Paralympic hope
When she was just two years old, Asiya Mohammed was hit by a train as she crossed railway tracks near her Kenyan home, an accident that claimed both her legs and several fingers. Seven years later she was orphaned. Rather than crumpling in the face of such adversity, Asiya has gone on to become a…
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Diego Costa joins Brazilian league leaders Atletico Mineiro
Former Atletico Madrid and Chelsea striker Diego Costa has signed for Brazilian league leaders Atletico Mineiro, the Belo Horizonte-based club announced on Sunday. The 32-year-old arrives as a free agent after his contract with Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid ended last June. Costa made just seven appearances last season, scoring twice. His last taste of action…
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Gombe NYSC holds cultural carnival
The Gombe State NYSC Coordinator, Mrs. Ada Imoni, has described the National Youth Service Corps as one of the best tools for the promotion of national unity and integration. Imoni spoke on Saturday during the 2021 Batch B Stream I Cultural carnival at NYSC Temporary Orientation Camp, Amada. The cultural carnival displayed by various platoons…
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Widespread poverty threat to peaceful co-existence -Kukah Centre
The Kukah Centre, founded by the Rev. Fr. Hassan Kukah, has decried widespread poverty, which, it says, is literally an issue in every community. The centre noted that the government cannot be left to tackle it alone The centre regretted that the prevalent and widespread endemic poverty in the country was a threat to peaceful…
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Troops rescue seven more victims of attack on travellers in Jos
Federal troops in Plateau State also known as Operation Safe Haven on Sunday said seven more victims had been rescued following Saturday’s attacks on travellers in Rukuba Road community, Jos North Local Government Area of the state. The PUNCH reports that twelve victims had earlier been rescued by the troops during the attacks which also…
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No petition against Katsina APC ward congress -Appeal committee chair
The All Progressives Congress Appeal Committee for Katsina State’s recently held ward congresses says that it did not receive any petition concerning the congress for the 361 electoral wards in the state. Chairman of the five-member committee, Yakubu Bashir, said this in Katsina on Friday while submitting a copy of the committee’s report to Governor…
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Medvedev dominates Isner to face Opelka for Toronto title
Russian top seed Daniil Medvedev blunted the big serve of American John Isner 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday to set up an ATP Masters 1000 final with Reilly Opelka. Medvedev dominated throughout in a 54-minute rout against Isner, who was held to a miserly four aces. With the major part of his game mis-firing, the 36-year-old…
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Ekiti community gifts FUOYE land for sandwich programme
The Itaji-Ekiti community in Oye Council area of Ekiti State has donated five hectares of land to the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, for the take-off of the sandwich programmes and agriculture factory being proposed by the institution’s Faculty of Education. This was as the university emerged overall best in the recently concluded Committee of Deans of…
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Strike: Pay doctors with N4.8bn budgeted for WhatsApp calls’ monitoring, SERAP tells Buhari
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), “to urgently redirect the proposed spending of N4.8bn of public money to monitor WhatsApp messages, phone calls, and text messages of Nigerians and other people, to pay some of the salaries of striking resident doctors.” In the open letter dated 14…
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