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Armed Violence
Police, Commercial Motorcyclists Clash In Lagos Over Motorcycle Ban
Police officers fired tear gas on Tuesday, June 7, to disperse commercial motorcycles popularly known as Okada at Idi Araba…
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Features
Relatives Of Victims, Survivors Recount Ordeal After Owo Church Attack
It was a black Sunday when tears flowed freely after terrorists unleashed havoc on St Francis Catholic Church members, Owa-luwa…
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Armed Violence
Owo Killings: Ondo Police Keep Mum On Number Of Casualties
Police in Ondo State says they have ordered a forensic investigation into the terrorist attack on St Francis Catholic Church,…
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Armed Violence
Catholic Church, Ondo Gov’t, Others React As Eyewitnesses Give Account Of Horrific Killings In Owo
Some persons who witnessed the terrorist attacks on St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, in Owo Local Government Area of…
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Armed Violence
Many Feared Dead As Terrorists Attack Church In Ondo
A yet to be identified number of persons have been feared killed by terrorists in a Sunday morning raid in…
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News
Police Shoot Journalist Covering Protest Against Extrajudicial Killing
A journalist with The Nation newspaper in Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, has been shot by police officers while covering a…
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Features
Displaced And Neglected (3): ‘No Water, No Toilet Facilities,’ Lagos Monkey Village Evictees Cry Out
As the sun rose, three-year-old Taiwo ambled towards his parents’ shack in a slum at Odeniran, a community in Lagos,…
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Features
Banking Made Easy … But Not For People With Disabilities In West Africa
Ibrahim Omotosho, 39, drove into a bank in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria, in July 2020 to pick up his debit card.…
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Gender & SGBV
Sexually Abused Minors Exposed To Future Harm As Abusers Roam Free
On Feb. 5, 2022, 14-year-old Favour was reportedly sexually abused by one 75-year-old Jimoh Ibeh around the Igando axis in…
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Features
Students Help Lagos IDPs Displaced From Libya Eradicate Menstrual Poverty
Chioma Arinze*, 20, would no longer have to use rags as sanitary pads during her monthly menstrual periods. This is…
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