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An Italian football hooligan has been arrested and charged with murder after beating to death a Nigerian asylum seeker, who reacted to racial insults against his partner, ANSA news agency reported yesterday. According to the La Republica newspaper, Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi, 36, got into a fight on Tuesday after the man called his 24-year-old girlfriend, Chinyere, a monkey. He was …

ABUJA—The end may be in sight for the lingering crisis in the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as factional leaders of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Senator Ahmed Makarfi, have commenced negotiations on how to engender peace. The immediate past national vice chairman of the Party, PDP, for South-South, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, who disclosed this at a …

Dallas has been plunged into chaos after five police officers were shot dead and at least seven others were wounded when dozens of shots were fired during an anti-violence protest. It was the deadliest day for law enforcement in the US since 9/11. One suspect died after a protracted standoff in a parking garage in which heavy gunfire was exchanged between …

CNN)  – Five officers in Dallas have been shot dead during a street protest against police violence on Thursday night. Here’s the latest: 3 alleged suspects are in custody Fourth suspect dead after standoff One suspect claimed bombs were planted downtown 2 suspects were snipers, shot from “elevated position” Obama: “Wretched reminder of sacrifice police make” Eyewitness: It looked like …

The National Association of Nigerian Students has rejected kicked the introduction of the admission screening fee of N2,500 by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Education. Mr Gbenga Ayenuro, the NANS Vice President, said this in a statement made available to newsmen in Akure on Friday. “NANS, which has been, and will always be, at the forefront of any …

There is tension and frantic scheming among former army chiefs and other top officers of the Nigerian Army as the Presidential Committee on Defence Equipment Procurement in the Nigerian Armed Forces has concluded its task and is set to submit its report to President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming days. A reliable source close to the committee, which was set …

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has expressed appreciation for the goodwill shown towards his choice of John Yakubu as his running mate and assured women who expected him to have picked a woman that women would not be relegated in his administration. He has also assured youths, saying that youths like women would be given important roles in his administration if he …

Nigerian migrant was beaten to death in a racist attack by a right-wing football fan in a central Italian town, officials said Wednesday. Emmanuel Chidi, 36, was walking with his girlfriend in the heart of the small town of Paolo Calcinora on Tuesday, when they had racial abuse heaped on them by the supporter of a local football club, the …

A black man has been shot dead by police in the US state of Minnesota as protests continued over the police killing of a black man in Louisiana. Philando Castile’s girlfriend live-streamed the St Paul incident’s aftermath, showing him covered in blood as an officer pointed his gun at him. Philando Castile was a school cafeteria supervisor He was shot as …

Abuja—The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led caretaker committee of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, formally took over the national secretariat of the party with representatives of all the party’s major organs in attendance. The take-over, which should have signalled the formal return of peace to the party, however, proved not to be the case as the former national chairman, Senator Ali Modu …