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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...

A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab. “Eleven deaths are confirmed,” Mandeep...

Canadian ambassador’s wife, Mrs Grendel Alvarado, has commended the Founder, Nike Art Gallery, Mrs Nike Okundaye, for promoting Nigeria’s arts and culture. Alvarado said this on Saturday at the Capacity Workshop on Painting and Tying and Dyeing for Ambassadors’ Wives in Nigeria, organised by Nike Art Gallery in Abuja. She...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says it will provide emergency food and nutrition to 2.1 million people affected by conflict and in dire need of humanitarian assistance.  This is contained in a statement released on Saturday in Abuja by Chi Lael, Head of Communications, Advicacy and Marketing of the programme in Nigeria....

The Chairperson of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, visited the President-elect, Bola Tinubu at his residence in Abuja. Dabiri-Erewa shared photos from the meeting via her Twitter handle on Thursday night. Captioning the photos, she wrote, “With ourPresident-elect ⁦#officialABAT⁩ and HRM Emir Ado Bayero at the residence of our...

Prof. Kevin Urama, Chief Economist and Vice President, Economic Governance and Knowledge Management, African Development Bank(AfDB) Group, says Nigeria ranks fourth among African countries with large numbers of diasporans outside the continent. Urama disclosed this in Abuja while speaking on“ Diaspora Funding for Africa’s Development” at the Global African Diaspora...