Nigeria
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SPORTS
African Games: Black Princesses defeats Nigeria to secure gold
Ghana’s national Under-20 women’s football team, known as the Black Princesses, orchestrated an impressive comeback, clinching a 2-1 victory against…
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Ivory Coast clinch 3rd AFCON trophy; Haller seals comeback win over Nigeria in final on home soil
Ivory Coast produced a fairytale ending to the most remarkable run at the Africa Cup of Nations as Sebastian Haller’s…
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AFRICA
More than 1,800 prisoners escape in Nigeria
More than 1,800 inmates have escaped from a prison in Nigeria after it was attacked by gunmen, officials say. The…
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AFRICA
Buhari leaves Nigeria for medical check-up UK
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is traveling to London on Tuesday for what his office says is a “routine medical check-up”.…
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AFRICA
Nigeria shuts all secondary schools in Niger state
Authorities in Nigeria’s Niger state have shut all public secondary schools for two weeks from Friday. Hajiya Hannatu Jibrin Salihu…
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AFRICA
Abducted Nigerian schoolgirls released
Schoolgirls kidnapped from a boarding school in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara have been released. The state’s commissioner for…
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AFRICA
Nigeria to receive 3.92 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine on Tuesday
The Federal government has announced that Nigeria is scheduled to take delivery of 3.92 million doses of the COVID19 vaccine on…
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AFRICA
AfCFTA presents Nigeria exceptional lifeline to reboot economy – Official
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has presented Nigeria with an exceptional lifeline to reboot the economy, an official…
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AFRICA
COVID-19: Nigeria’s infection rate ‘higher than thought’
Findings of a survey in Nigeria suggest that rates of infection from Covid-19 in the country are much higher than…
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AFRICA
Nigerian students abducted by ‘armed bandits’: Reports
Armed men have kidnapped an as-yet unconfirmed number of children from a secondary school in central Nigeria’s Niger state, according…
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