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Eight students and a security guard were killed during a school shooting in Belgrade, Serbia on Wednesday, officials said. The police accused the detained 13-year-old suspect of plotting the attack for a month and making a kill-list. “Eight children and a security guard were killed, while six children and one...

Human flesh remains found inside two crocodiles in a remote part of northern Queensland in Australia are suspected to be parts of a missing 65-year-old fisherman, Kevin Darmody. Darmody was fishing with friends by the Kennedy River in Rinyirru Lakefield National Park on Saturday afternoon when he suddenly disappeared, SkyNews...

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the senate to confirm Abike Dabiri-Erewa as chair of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) for a second term in office. Buhari’s request was contained in a letter read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the floor of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday. Dabiri-Erewa...

The $10.8 million London mansion. Inset: Seyi Tinubu. (Credit: Bloomberg/Facebook/Seyi Tinubu) Aranda Overseas Corp, a company belonging to Seyi Tinubu, purchased a London mansion which the Nigerian government had tried to seize as property bought with the proceeds of crime, Bloomberg has reported. Seyi, who is the son of the...

A multi-continental crackdown has halted a major “dark web” drugs marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than 50 million euros ($54.8 million) in cash and virtual currency, Europol said Tuesday. The operation called SpecTor by US, British, Brazilian and European law enforcement also netted almost a...

Anne Sheeran, grandmother to singer Ed Sheeran, died at a nursing home in the Republic of Ireland at age 92 on Tuesday. Anne will be laid to rest on Wednesday after a funeral in St Patrick’s Church, Gorey, Daily Mail reports. Nancy, as she was also called, was the inspiration...

The Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations in Uganda, Colonel Charles Okello Engola, was on Tuesday shot dead by one of his military bodyguards as he was entering his vehicle to go to work. The Uganda police, while sharing preliminary information about the killing of the minister,...

Some Ghanaian hair vendors disrupted a Nigerian wig seller’s trade fair because the latter was selling her wares for cheaper prices. In the video and photos that surfaced online on Monday, it was alleged that the group of Ghanaian vendors disrupted the “wig fair” organised by the Nigerian brand, known...

On donkeys or horses, by cart or by foot, hundreds of Sudanese, most of them women and children, each day cross a small, dry stream to find safety in neighbouring Chad. As of Monday, at least 20,000 people had found refuge at a makeshift camp in the Chadian border village...

The National Association of Nigerian Students in Sudan says all stranded students in the war-racked North African country have been evacuated from the country’s capital, Khartoum. The Public Relations Officer of the association, Amal Pantami, made this known in a statement on Sunday. “This is to inform the general public...