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Suspected killer of 14-year-old Nigerian Daniel Anjorin in East London sword attack hauled up in court

Following the killing of 14-year-old Nigerian Daniel Anjorin in an east London sword attack, authorities have charged a 36-year-old man with murder. The...

London sword attack on Anjorin: 36-year-old suspect in police net

The 36-year-old suspect in the fatal London sword attack is currently being held by police while he recovers in a hospital. The suspect,...

14-year-old Nigerian-born, Daniel Anjorin named as the victim of a sword attack in London

The 14-year-old boy killed by a sword-wielding man in Hainault, London has been named by Met Police as Daniel Anjorin. Four other people,...

South African Police kill Nigerian in his house, NUSA mourns

The Nigeria Union South Africa (NUSA) has been thrown into grief following the killing of a Nigerian, Mr Chika Aniuno, by the South...

Two years after relocating to UK, abusive Nigerian beats wife to death with son’s skateboard

An abusive husband has beaten his wife fatally using their son’s skateboard while police waited outside for permission to enter from superiors. Officers...

Tinubu to Dutch PM: Nigeria’s lithium deposits can power world’s clean energy future

President Bola Tinubu says Nigeria’s high-grade lithium deposits are a catalyst for a clean energy transition in the world. The Nigerian President made...

Oil prices jump on escalating crises in Middle East

Oil prices jumped on Friday while Asian markets tumbled, with global investors worrying about an escalation in conflict in the Middle East after...

ECOWAS Deploys A Fact-Finding Mission To Togo

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Omar Alieu TOURAY, has deployed a Fact-Finding mission to Togo to interact with key stakeholders on...

Billionaire businesswoman gets lethal injection for embezzling $12bn

A Vietnamese court on Thursday sentenced Truong My Lan, the head of a real estate giant, to death in a fraud case totaling...

New York records 4.8 magnitude earthquake

The earthquake sent tremors from Philadelphia to Boston and jolting buildings in Manhattan and throughout the five boroughs. A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rumbled...

Nigeria’s Sen. Barau emerges acting Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament

Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin emerged on Thursday in Abuja as acting Speaker of the sixth legislature of the Parliament of the Economic...

Tinubu calls for direct elections into ECOWAS parliament

President Bola Tinubu, at the swearing-in of 97 members into the parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), called for...

Senegal: New President names opposition leader, Sonko, Prime Minister

Left-wing pan-Africanist Bassirou Diomaye Faye became Senegal’s youngest president on Tuesday, pledging systemic change after years of deadly turmoil and announcing his mentor,...

Faye, 44, takes office as president of Senegal

The 44-year-old opposition candidate and Senegalese president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, on Tuesday took the oath of office. The inauguration took place at the...

63-year-old woman, teenage girl, two others killed in U.S. stabbing spree

A man armed with a knife went on a stabbing spree in the U.S. state of Illinois, killing four people, including a teenage...

Ex Guinea-Bissau President’s Son Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking

Malam Bacai Sanha Jr, the son of a former president of Guinea-Bissau, has been sentenced to 80 months in prison for his involvement...