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Gross misconduct panel rules against PC Khafilat Kareem, who was told not to appear in reality TV show

The U.N. says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will head to West Africa on Saturday to join Muslims marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan and to highlight the impact of the Ukraine war on the African continent

Days after more than 100 people died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southeast Nigeria, authorities and gravediggers returned to the site in a forest to bury about 50 unclaimed bodies that were burned beyond recognition

Boy who went missing from hospital arrested and held at Gatwick facility after being wrongly recorded as Nigerian

Senate outlaws the paying of ransoms to kidnappers and made abduction punishable by death.

Nigeria's Senate on Wednesday passed a bill imposing jail terms of at least 15 years for paying a ransom to free someone who has been kidnapped, and made abduction punishable by death in cases where victims die.

Mother-of-four Chinyere Ogudoro, who lived in Castlemilk, suffered fatal injuries during a horrific incident when she returned to her native Nigeria to visit family.

Her husband Benjamin Ogudoro, 50, has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is said to have set his wife and brother-in-law alight as they slept.

If there is one musician as commonly associated as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with the West African musical movements Afrobeat and Afrobeats (never mind Afro-Blues and Afro-Soul), this is the preserve of Orlando Julius Ekemode. Given Fela’s immense stature it would seem impossible to speak of another musician from whom he gained…